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Yeah, these bozos make telephone sanitizers look downright useful.
I thought the moral was that telephone sanitizers ended up being the most important people in the world.
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Their product is also simply better. More people prefer it. The best mousetrap is still a big lever.
Double blind tests say otherwise.
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Yeah, these bozos make telephone sanitizers look downright useful.
I thought the moral was that telephone sanitizers ended up being the most important people in the world.
but most of other people there really were pretty bad.e.g use leaves as money then burn down all forests to increase scarcity and drive up the value of their leaves.
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I much prefer the Pepsi Parsec as a unit of measurement.
In all seriousness, parsec is a horrific unit of measurement. It's really annoying how many non-SI units are used in Astrophysics literature. For me the most insane one is that some Asteroseismologists (study of variability in stars) use cycles per day as a unit of measurement as opposed to uHz (the conversion factor is around 11).
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Double blind tests say otherwise.
The double blind tests rely on the fact that a small dose of extra sweetness is more palatable. However, a large dose is cloying. Also, they both taste like garbage. Drink coffee, instead.
And now i'm anxious and sitting on the toilet.
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In all seriousness, parsec is a horrific unit of measurement. It's really annoying how many non-SI units are used in Astrophysics literature. For me the most insane one is that some Asteroseismologists (study of variability in stars) use cycles per day as a unit of measurement as opposed to uHz (the conversion factor is around 11).
I think most of it arose from the idea that astronomy is about logging as much of the sky as you can in the most efficient way you can(there's a lot of it), and everyone else can put in the work to use their measurements in other disciplines. Sadly, that mindset went on to astrophysics where it's not too helpful.
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> All of this may appear incredibly douchy, but they had a viable business model. Where, exactly, did the viability of their business model get demonstrated?
How about by the fact that it the marketing plan worked, the hype was there, and the tickets sold out?