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One possibility, because increased rates could result in your user base using your service less often?

While transportation is something everyone needs, I'm (as priviledged as I am in my salary) not going to pay $20 for an uber if it's $2 on the bus.

I'll take uber when it's $10, compared to $2.

They could possibly raise their rates some, but to answer your question specifically: because there are other factors involved in their price/demand/profit/market share equation, besides just competition.

I think more appropriate would be to limit the scope of belief to the complainant. Treat them as a person; acknowledge they have experienced something traumatic.

Do not believe every word anyone says as the absolute truth of an event. Evidence, corroboration, attempts to be objective -- these are all the rights of the accused.

Believe the complainant but do not assume they are correct. Our memories are the movies based on real events.

The dickbar, by far. The spiel is a momentary interruption, usually delivered w/in the flow.

Neil Patel is a good first place to start to learn. Then you realize all his (vanity) metrics are just measures of your competition. So I went to Warriorforum.com to read what my competition was saying.

After that, I realized it was all about the basics + a niche. you need to know the fundamentals of "buy traffic, convert traffic to business goal, collect money for successful business outcome", but that was table stakes.

Once you know the mechanics of the game, it's up to you to niche/exploit. You're not going to make money doing what everyone else does, so if you're asking for advice instead of trying your own thing, you're already losing.

Over the last couple years, I've been exploring this. I can't provide any answers, but I've found all the usual recommendations useful. CBT, Watts, Stoicism, yoga, mindfulness.

Of those, the last -- mindfulness -- has been the most crucial.

I cannot usually control my reaction to stimulus, but the hardest part for me (and in others, now that I observe them) is the identification of the event trigger.

Once you identify what causes things to happen[0], it's much much much easier to adjust the behavior. The event notifier pattern has been most useful for me.

[0] after all, it's kind of ridiculous that a bad incident in traffic will affect my interaction with a colleague.

These are all the secret sauce that very few affiliates will tell you. As OP said, you have to find your own unique niche.

If you write convertible copy, you can find an existing affiliate chain and try to use that to leverage your advantage. Otherwise, I recommend trying something that's out there, realize you won't be able to compete in your first niche (too much competition), then use that to learn.

Your first ROI might be 25%. Try again, find another niche, until you find the right one. This is classic explore/exploit game theory (every well publicized channel, e.g. the "Bingo Card Creator" of affiliate world) will be Red Queen'd to death.

note - not "great" copy, but copy that converts! (Or maybe you make landers that convert like crazy, or you have enough money to buy a ton of traffic and conversion optimize like crazy)

Don't get down on yourself, you did nothing wrong. Sometimes things don't work out.

Just look for another position. There's another one out there, you found two, you'll find another.

Flint situation is so visible because generally the gov't does a great job at regulating water quality.

We are not there on greenhouse gas pollution, but the EPA has done some wonderful work on particulate pollution. Also, remember that the old ozone hole is healing? That was helped by a consortium of governments.

"Gov't" can mean so many things. This meme ("the Government can and does fuck up pretty much everything you hire them to do") is inaccurate and heavily influenced by the high profile failures that lead to availability bias.

Richer insurees have more assets to go after if they are involved in a the 2-sigma events (eg killed someone while drunk driving; insurance can come after a wealthy person's assets).

It wouldn't be shocking that tesla drivers are expected to make fewer claims, based on the halo bias towards wealthy people.

Doesn't insurance segment by model? Or are you saying that 10% of a $10k tesla repair is $1k in overhead, and that gets amortized across the customer base?

Agreed, but now we are talking political problems. And when we talk political problems, it's important to consider the base economic cost, all included.

Flying is a lot more time spend on overhead.

They must be given every opportunity to criticize. They don't need to be given the same attention, but have to be allowed to criticize or else we create sacred cows.

Forgery is reverse engineering, an art in itself.

>Both seem related. Cheap and easy firing produces careless recruiting. And that is more expensive that people realizes.

Well put but doesn't address context.

If I just got gas-fire funding, intending to blow up my company, I will need to hire a dozen people a month.

It is a risk. But so is taking 200 hours to hire 1 person.

We are in the business of balancing many risks with many rewards.

Not OP, but I believe this because if there is no evidence, we should assume there is no effect.

Gendered issues are highly problematic to bias, so it is imperative to redouble the value of force of science.

If you read this, I want to say, "it's OK". seriously.

I have depression episodes, had one while my company sold.

Today isn't tomorrow, tomorrow isn't yesterday. Accept how you feel and make the best decisions, holistically, that you can.

If that means letting your partners negotiate because you're unable to? In spite of you building much of the value? Then giving you a dime on your dollar of equity?

That's fine. Seriously. I went through that literal situation, and it was the most important thing I've ever experienced.

Guns, ammo, and whiskey. I don't expect humanity to stay civilized or play by the same rules.

The whiskey gives you something to trade. Guns & ammo make sure the trade isn't a robbery.

For the latter, because that indicates a criminal enterprise. The idea of a coordinated group of people all breaking the law is deemed worse than one individual.

I can reconcile this with my own values.

Practically, an enterprise of criminals is more likely to be effective, and thus would create more negative costs.

Legally, it allows prosecution of the organizers of a crime group, who are likely the most dangerous and more difficult to catch in the act, as they contract others to do their work.

Given the reported strictness of the Uber rating system, are the actual drivers good? Isn't that what the rating system is supposed to solve?

Nautilus' print edition is a beautiful magazine, definitely can't be compared to a typical print mag. It's the quality of a National Geo mag, I think.

After seeing this, I was reminded I forgot and let my sub lapse.

I go to their site to subscribe, and they are selling a year of the print & digital for $29. That's insane -- they don't even add on postage fees anywhere in the checkout process. It's literally $29, out the door.

I signed up for 2 years and just hope they are around for that time. I can't believe the direct costs of printing and shipping such a beautiful magazine don't exceed $5 per issue (12 issues over 2 years for $60).

Maybe they have found how price sensitive consumers are for their content, or maybe they know they can get higher ad rates with more print, but I don't see how they're even covering their costs for printing and shipping this to me, much less content or editorial staff, etc.

You confuse inalienable rights with contractual rights. The passenger had a contractual right to be on the plane.

This isn't a problem, but hiring people you don't trust is a problem. Part of that is setting expectations with a contract. Most of that is accepting that it's going to be a risk, no matter what you do (there's no DRM that will protect your code from your own engineers).

I recommend you don't worry too much about this in particular. Have some basic legal protection with a contract, that should prevent another company from forming. Someone running off with your code and dominating your company without a legal entity of their own... would be unexpected.

Also, your code is unlikely to be so particularly novel that the specific implementation is your secret sauce. (Not trying to insult you -- maybe I'm wrong -- but generally the idea of the source as a trade secret, unless we're talking Carmak's inverse sqrt, it's not that big a deal)

My preferred technique is to mentally baseline my current total comp, then shoot for that as my base at my next position.

You really shouldn't compare salaries, since benefits can vary so much.

So if I'm making $100k in base now, but have a good bonus structure, a good vacation package, health, retirement, etc., could make that total comp closer to $150. So that's what I say is my current compensation -- most people will anchor to that in salary negotiations.