MaxScheiber

I'm not sure if you're a fan of HPMOR. I personally am, and I think that this parody would lose a lot of appeal were non-Canon potter not a Mary Sue.

I also don't read fan-fiction at all (this is the only fan-fiction I've ever read), but I definitely don't go around saying it's good fan-fiction. I go around saying it's a good read that makes me laugh and makes me think.

Interestingly enough, Yudkowsky probably uses these tropes deliberately. He himself is a reader of tvtropes.org[1], he's made explicit reference to using tropes before[2], and it makes senes that someone like Yudkowsky would know exactly which tropes he was and wasn't including.

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/EliezerYudkows... [2] http://hpmor.com/chapter/7

Tucker argues that his books teach important lessons and are deeper than just "got drunk, had sex." A common theme in a lot of his stories is that he almost always came out the loser — did something incredibly stupid, or lost a friend, or went to jail, etc. Tucker points out multiple times how immature of a person he was when these stories took place. In the end, he is the one hurt the most by his actions. He's matured and learned from his own mistakes.

They're good for a cheap laugh if you're into that sort of thing, but having read I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, I can agree that his book isn't vapid. There is a bit more to it than one would think.

I find this particularly tingling because Tucker himself is a perfect example of doing things. He gets a lot of flak from people calling him a poor writer and lambasting him for writing about some of the "finer" topics in life. Yet, he is a New York Times bestselling author, and his detractors are not.

Don't forget that Instagram wanted to achieve this goal by no longer permitting Twitter to display their images, only a link to their images.

To be fair, it's really not like Instagram had never considered doing video up until Vine came out. Hell, I'm sure every high schooler had the idea of "Instagram for video"; it's a very accessible, logical progression from Instagram-style photos.

Two words: Bayes' theorem. I think I learned this in the fourth or fifth week of my first probability course. Thought it was a bit more commonly known.

This could easily be a solid example in years to come of how a business should handle a negative event such as a recall.

For another really great example of this sort of thing, watch the Domino's pizza prank response (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dem6eA7-A2I).