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Sorry, I revised the question -- I'm basically asking, what you'd pay on top of the premium. To boil it down, I want to know what you are willing to pay to acquire a random user.

Thanks for sharing this! I wrote it! I assume you subscribe to Now I Know?

HUGELY interested. Thanks!

This article is so poorly written it's hard for me to figure out what it's talking about.

"The problem today with the world economy, according to Peter Thiel, is that we are not moving forward[.]"

"The problem seems to be regulations. "

"The biggest problem for the US and Europe is how to restart growth."

"The problem is that the current US government doesn't have a five-year plan as the socialist governments had - it has no plan whatsoever!"

"The biggest problem against restarting growth is the high energy prices."

99 Problems and Good Writing Ain't One.

Heh.

Thanks, I'm going to pass though :)

Should I resubmit it?

There's no technical content because it was me sharing a marketing strategy which worked for me (and besides, I'm not a dev). I don't want to come off as a spammer and resub something which already got nuked, but on the other hand, I find it mind boggling that it got nuked in the first place.

Good managers realize that it's their job to make those people reporting to them happy.

Bad managers believe that it's their job to make the people they report to happy.

There are many more bad managers than good ones.

NB that the article is not about "doing your best" but about "doing what you are best at doing."

I wrote this! Sweet! It's from my email newsletter, http://dlewis.net/nik -- GOOD republished it w/my permission :) Love seeing it discussed here!

Accidentally put an Amazon Associates affiliate link in a reddit comment. Thread made it to the front page, comment was near the top, I made about $100.

By and large, the law firms shouldn't be on the list. Some lawyers wrote a letter arguing that the Constitutional concerns around SOPA are non-issues; Rep. Lamar Smith and co. used that letter as a basis for including many of the firms on the official list of SOPA supporters.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111223/09051617180/law-fi...

This is a classic brand practice. It's not limited to Microsoft, and... they're right.

I've been a small-time publisher for over a decade now, on and off, and I have been approached by brand advertisers a number of times in different capacities with exactly this argument. The first few times, I reacted the same way. But one time, the pitch came from a friend, who took me aside and told me that this isn't just some line brands use to get free ads -- it's actually true, and I should do it. So I did. Figured my friend wasn't trying to screw me.

He was right. I made a few big sales soon thereafter, using the free-run brand in my pitch.

That's traffic from a reddit comment to a page of mine. I'm sharing it to demonstrate the sickeningly huge potential of such a link -- scary stuff. 1000s of views, probably.

Or even text messaging. Text "M15 AT 53" to "311411" and you find out when the next bus is going to be at your stop. That'd work.

Yeah -- the $40k is there so you can build the product pre-launch.

And I'd LOVE to get a link from their homepage, even once.

This is also noted in the submitted link

No, he's saying that Kenneth Cole was a spammer. Just a brick-and-mortar one.

... and he embraces it. I learned this from one of his trucks (see http://i.imgur.com/UClZP.jpg) which told the story.

FLSA also isn't a "class action" statute -- it's "collective action." The distinction is that you have to opt-in to be a plaintiff under the FLSA, while most class actions are opt-out.

wtf?

Here's a video of the plane's arrival in Ireland and its landing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KEIq76JE7o

It was RC controlled on takeoff and landing, and switched to/from GPS-navigation over the Atlantic.

I use Mailchimp for http://dlewis.net/nik and all the emails I send have both "unsubscribe from this list" and "update subscription preferences" on every email. Clicking the former will unsubscribe you -- no log-in required. (Comically, I once forwarded a copy to someone who clicked it, to see what would happen, and blammo, I was unsubscribed from my own list.)

The second is used for changing your email address or your name. That's it.

As a publisher, I actually prefer it this way. If you do not want to get my emails, I don't want you getting them. I'm not writing for people who don't want to read.

It's also a perfectly reasonable justification for making (correct!) decisions in many, many situations.

I live in NYC. My garage will revoke my spot license if I were to do this.

This is true, but what the states are trying to do is patent nonsense.

True: "[W]hat these states are trying to do is consider Amazon's independent affiliates a physical presence for Amazon in that state."

Also true: "[H]ow [a customer] found their way to Amazon and made their purchase isn't relevant."

The problem: The two statements are directly at odds with each other.

Blackberries should:

(a) Be awesome at email (and therefore have keyboards.)

(b) Take phone calls.

(c) Integrate with your calendar.

(d) Have awesome instant messaging (BBM?).

(e) Be able to survive a 20 foot drop.

(f) Have excellent battery life.

(g) Be much cheaper than the iPhone/Android.

If you're a business, you want to be able to give everyone this type of device on their first day of work, all set up with everything. There should be no expectation of personal use and there should be every expectation that everyone in the company has and uses one.

You're focusing way too much on the outcome here and not at all on the process. If you want Amazon to be taxed (which I'm fine with), it should be done federally or consistent with how every other company is treated. Amazon is being singled out here because they're so big. There are two possible paths here: (1) Amazon continues to be singled out and/or (2) Other companies also get dinged (wrongly) in this way.

Option (2) is really, really bad, especially for small businesses and startups. You don't want to all of a sudden have a successful brick and mortar spice business in New Hampshire and find out, holy cow, you're in arrears for lack of tax payments in California! That'd be a business-killer.

The process matters.

This is incredibly unlikely.

Bringing people to a store, virtual or otherwise, is incredibly valuable for that store. Amazon has literally 1000s of people doing that, constantly. Instead of finding a good/best price on an iPod, I send people to Amazon, etc. Don't underestimate that value.

Amazon's doing the right thing here.

California has no way of charging them sales tax, nor should they, without a nexus. Imagine if you, living in CA, ordered something from a brick-and-mortar store in New York. If that store had to charge you sales tax and remit it to California, they'd simply say "no thanks" to your business. It's just not worth it for them to have to do all that work so you can get a $10 item (and so California can get their 82.5 cents).

Amazon shouldn't be treated any differently simply because they do a lot of business in the state. California knows this, so they come up with (well, Illinois came up with it) the idea that if some third party runs ads on their website for products on Amazon, that third party (an "affiliate") is actually an agent of Amazon. That's preposterous.

Amazon doesn't really have a choice, though. If they sue and lose, the entire affiliate program goes away. So they instead just drop the affiliates. They have to -- they're paying affiliates 6% of all qualified sales and paying the state 8.25%. And they are then open to audits and other nonsense from the state. It's just not worth the leads any more.