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How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant
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#12Added (small) side-effect from this post, as a keto person who loves Patrick’s advice: now I know never to give the Kiss My Keto assholes a dime, via your site or anyone else’s.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a non-vi user, I feel very excluded :( ^H means backspace guys. And probably the same type of CEO that wants to make money by not paying out affiliates
Off-topic, but why map a function to a multi-key combination when it already has a key dedicated to it?
caret notation just maps all ASCII control characters to ^ + letter, many of which do not always have keys. "Backspace" is 0x08 = 8th letter is H = ^H
it's also not just used as an input, but also what a terminal that can't do or doesn't understand a backspace as "delete character, step to the left" prints instead.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a non-vi user, I feel very excluded :( ^H means backspace guys. And probably the same type of CEO that wants to make money by not paying out affiliates
Off-topic, but why map a function to a multi-key combination when it already has a key dedicated to it?
^H is the ASCII control character for "backspace".
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#15The numbers are small but I can see the satisfaction in picking an approach and sticking to it. Thanks for the write-up.
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#16Tough numbers to make work. A hundred referrals and 88 bucks owed is... not a life changing number. Far more interesting is the revenue inflection point, going from an ongoing relationship worth zero to one worth 700 bucks a year.
But... apparently still not worth keeping:
> I’ve since removed all mention of Kiss My Keto, as I no longer have any interest in helping them earn money, regardless of what they pay me.
To me, it seems like the real story here might be that someone is selling bread for a 20 percent markup. Or maybe they aren't, but have been able to make ends meet by stiffing referrals. The margins on groceries are typically small, which is borne out by Amazon's 1 percent comission rate for the Grocery category. If someone comes along offering to 20x your income, skepticism is in order.
You can formalize that skepticism with a multi-armed bandit algorithm. Basically, put affiliate commissions into the feedback loop, picking which affiliate links to use by expected value. But it may take a while with low click through volumes.
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#17Tough numbers to make work. A hundred referrals and 88 bucks owed is... not a life changing number. Far more interesting is the revenue inflection point, going from an ongoing relationship worth zero to one worth 700 bucks a year. But... apparently still not worth keeping: > I’ve since removed all mention of Kiss My Keto, as I no longer have any interest in helping them earn money, regardless of what they pay me. To…
I learned an important thing over time: recurring payment services always pay much higher commissions. One time purchases pay very little, even for big ticket items.
A 3€ per month liability insurance might have a 40€ commission, while a 400€ product might have a 10€ commission.
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#18I appreciate you actually naming the scumbags. It's tiresome how people are overly diplomatic these days.
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#19Looks like KMK just tried to cheat hoping that nobody would make much of a fuss over a hundred bucks or so. And they are probably right in enough cases to make it worth it. If occasionally somebody does make a fuss, they just pay up the hundred bucks and still aren't worse than before.
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#20I wonder if the merchant is sneaking any gluten into their “bread”. Edit: extra carbs I mean. Getting my diets confused here.
This made me think of [1] this discussion here about subway and their fake whole wheat bread. It looks like Subway was forced to change their recipe but honestly I don't have faith in any many companies. Instead of offering good food it always ends up "return to share holders" mode and the product turns to crap. {1| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24646755
I had a subway chicken teriyaki last year (probably didn’t have a Subway Sandwich for 10 years before that).
It seems their chicken is a chicken-soy-mix. At least taste and texture are that way