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Linkbait title on the newspapers' part. This is the summary and the extent of the "how":

'The 186-page judgement, unsealed on Tuesday, shows the tribunal rejected the claim at the first hurdle, finding Philip Morris had moved its Australian and Asian headquarters to Hong Kong for the express purpose of making the claim.'

Personally, I have a great number of everyday interactions that I need to have, but do not have any semblance of humanity connected with them. I also highly doubt that people in days of yore actually received a benefit from connecting over the voiceline with their pizza delivery guy.

I'm not worried that my intimate conversations will be replaced by bots. I am interested in automating my "yep" and "haha" responses to things I couldn't care two shakes about.

I would consider that an inexpensive cost to learning about negative characteristics of my friends.

Or I would just not worry about it. We all have our issues; a friend worrying about $4 probably means there's something behind it. I can either accept that person along with all their issues or I can find new friends.

As would the people who lent him money...

They tell their own story pretty well. Informative and interesting, pretty decent advice in there. Of course, no secret sauce, but that's overblown anyhow.

I find their articles very interesting, almost every time. Really high signal to noise, even if their content isn't always about weighty matters. I rather liked this one about breakfast, for instance: it taught me a lot about the historical development of breakfast.

Anyhow, not to tout these guys too much, but I do respect them for what they've done.

http://priceonomics.com/the-content-marketing-handbook/

One consideration is the user experience is not connectable to a purchase.

If I went to a friends house and saw this, I would never remember the name. If you could combine "making the purchaser look cool" with timing-relevancy, I think your packaging improvement would pay dividends.

Put another way, I believe your A/B ratio test is actually X*Y/Z where X/Z and Y/Z are both < 1. Synergy.

Terrible idea, (possibly) useful for analogy: Instead of optimizing the unboxing experience alone, if you also included cards with QR codes, where every QR code immediately triggers a free candy bar (with user data entry on a mobile app). It should also provide social value to the host in realtime; maybe they also receive an immediate notification that their guest scanned their card plus some other bonus I can't think of.

The point is to get closer to the conversion/churn decision, or provide more value to your consumer.

Probably something like, "we took a survey. Here's what our customers / prospects said is important to them."

If a company has poor customer service, byzantine purchase process, etc., that stuff will crop up.

Then again, so will all the standard things -- trust, etc.

> If nothing else, you would increase your self-discipline

If you subscribe to the theory of ego depletion, it could also weaken your resolve for some time.

Hi, just a quick bit of feedback -- 1k API calls / month is so low as to be a nonstarter. Of the half dozen hobby (non-commercial) projects I am currently working on, this amount is tragically low. Per day would give me pause.

I don't mean to rain on your efforts, but I would personally never consider using an API with such limits, even for trivial hobby projects.