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AAPL 165.300 1.650 1.008% : Apple Inc. - Yahoo Finance

AAPL 165.300 1.650 1.008% : Apple Inc. - Yahoo Finance : The headphone jack could still have a future in an iPhone. These leaked pics show an iPhone SE 2 with a glass back and headphone jack. Like the current iPhone SE, the design seems to be a take on the classic iPhone 5. I dig it.
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Consumers Don't Want a Personalized Experience | Inc.com

Consumers Don't Want a Personalized Experience | Inc.com : The negative effect--remembering that you were creeped out and sharing that you were creeped out--is intensified when creepy ads become intrusive or annoying. As a recent joint study�conducted by Microsoft and Northeastern University concluded:
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The Massive Privacy Failings Aren't Even the Scariest Thing About Facebook | Inc.com

The Massive Privacy Failings Aren't Even the Scariest Thing About Facebook | Inc.com : Every product changes�its users' behavior in some way; that's practically what it means to be a product. But while Facebook is very good at engineering behaviors that are good for its business--adding more friends, sharing more information with them, spending more time interacting with their content--it doesn't stop there. The company has also induced users to vote who otherwise wouldn't have. It got people to become organ donors.�Now it's trying to get people to become more active in their local organizations and support their local newspapers. None of these things sounds terribly sinister. Rather, they're expressions of a vaguely utopian worldview that infects much of Zuckerberg's thinking. Because he thinks "human nature is basically positive," if more people express their ideas or vote or volunteer, the results will ipso facto be basically positive. But
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How Toxic Is Your Company Exactly? Pretty Toxic if You Experience These 6 Things Daily | Thrive Global

How Toxic Is Your Company Exactly? Pretty Toxic if You Experience These 6 Things Daily | Thrive Global : “ People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills . . . There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind. . . . So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself. ” — MARCUS AURELIUS
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Guardian on track to break even as company halves its losses | Media | The Guardian

Guardian on track to break even as company halves its losses | Media | The Guardian : Guardian News & Media (GNM) reported a �19m loss in the year to the end of March, half the �38m loss recorded in the previous financial year. The publisher, which is now in the final year of a three-year plan to break even, has cut losses to a third of the �57m reported when the drive to reshape the business began. GNM’s �19m loss is 25% better than its internal target of �25m, due to a combination of better-than-expected revenue growth and almost �20m removed from the group’s cost base. Sign up to the Media Briefing: news for the news-makers Read more The publisher cut costs by 7% year-on-year, from �252m to �235m. The reduction includes the first savings from the shift to a tabloid format in January. “We are well on track with our three-year strategy to make the Guardian sustainable and break even at operating level by 2018-2019,” said editor-in-chief Katharine Viner and David Pemsel
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BuzzFeed News: A 72-Year-Old Former Cop Is The Golden State Killer Responsible For 51 Rapes And 12 Murders, Officials Say

A 72-Year-Old Former Cop Is The Golden State Killer Responsible For 51 Rapes And 12 Murders, Officials Say BuzzFeed News Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, is facing capital murder charges after being identified as the suspected serial killer and rapist responsible for 51 rapes and 12 murders in California between 1974 and 1986. Read the full story Shared from Apple News Igor Masnjak igormasnjak@me.com +41 79 328 39 05 Rue de l'Epondaz 17 St-Prex  1162 Switzerland
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"Gmail's biggest redesign is now live" - via Nuzzel

Gmail's biggest redesign is now live The Verge – Vlad Savov – Apr 25, 9:00 am Sent via Nuzzel
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Meet the Man Behind Marcel, Publicis' New AI Platform | Special: Cannes Lions - AdAge

Meet the Man Behind Marcel, Publicis' New AI Platform | Special: Cannes Lions - AdAge : Register is nonplussed by the reaction to the announcement, which has included trolling by rival agencies on Twitter and sneering that Marcel is nothing more than an amped-up Alexa or publicity stunt executed by a newbie CEO trying to improve the bottom line. "I expect and expected the skeptics," said Register, who works out of Arlington, Va., but lives in New Orleans. "That is always the case whenever you've got the idea and nerve to step out like this. My only comment to them is, 'See you at VivaTech.' " VivaTech is Publicis' annual technology conference in Paris and where the company plans to debut Marcel next year. Here's how Register describes what Marcel, named after Publicis founder Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, will be able to ferret out. "In a group of 80,000 people that have 200 capabilities across 130 countries, where is the best talent to
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Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience | Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience | Nature Reviews Neuroscience : A study with low statistical power has a reduced chance of detecting a true effect, but it is less well appreciated that low power also reduces the likelihood that a statistically significant result reflects a true effect. Here, we show that the average statistical power of studies in the neurosciences is very low. The consequences of this include overestimates of effect size and low reproducibility of results. There are also ethical dimensions to this problem, as unreliable research is inefficient and wasteful. Improving reproducibility in neuroscience is a key priority and requires attention to well-established but often ignored methodological principles.
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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False : There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in each scientific field. In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller; when there is a greater number and lesser preselection of tested relationships; where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes; when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance. Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true. Moreover, for many curr
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Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science | Science

Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science | Science : We conducted replications of 100 experimental and correlational studies published in three psychology journals using high-powered designs and original materials when available. There is no single standard for evaluating replication success. Here, we evaluated reproducibility using significance and P values, effect sizes, subjective assessments of replication teams, and meta-analysis of effect sizes. The mean effect size (r) of the replication effects (Mr = 0.197, SD = 0.257) was half the magnitude of the mean effect size of the original effects (Mr = 0.403, SD = 0.188), representing a substantial decline. Ninety-seven percent of original studies had significant results (P < .05). Thirty-six percent of replications had significant results; 47% of original effect sizes were in the 95% confidence interval of the replication effect size; 39% of effects were subjectively rated to have replicated the original result; and
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Wikipedia co-founder's 8,000-word essay on how to build a better Wikipedia

Wikipedia co-founder's 8,000-word essay on how to build a better Wikipedia : p and down. Knol’s writers were still writing for one organization, Google, and — I remember trying it out and having this thought — if you don’t come out on top according to the single Knol community, then what’s the point? And who wants to write to benefit Google, anyway? This train of thought led me to a conclusion a few years ago: Maybe, just maybe, there is no single community that could possibly satisfy all the would-be encyclopedists out there. This insight seems obvious, in retrospect. Knowledgeable writers come in many varieties. It is unlikely that any one community could appeal to them all. But even that isn’t strong enough; surely, you can’t start an encyclopedia-writing community and secure the interest of more than a fraction of all the available writers. It just isn’t possible. If you want to leverage the brainpower of humanity, you have to do it some other way.
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107 Profound Warren Buffett Quotes: Learn To Build Wealth - Sure Dividend Sure Dividend

107 Profound Warren Buffett Quotes: Learn To Build Wealth - Sure Dividend Sure Dividend : Out of the 107 quotes in this article, 1 sums up Buffett’s investment philosophy succinctly. This quote is below: “We select such investments on a long-term basis, weighing the same factors as would be involved in the purchase of 100% of an operating business: (1) favorable long-term economic characteristics; (2) competent and honest management; (3) purchase price attractive when measured against the yardstick of value to a private owner; and (4) an industry with which we are familiar and whose long-term business characteristics we feel competent to judge.” That’s it. That’s the basic ‘secret formula’ to Warren Buffett’s $60 billion fortune. There is much more detail to Warren Buffett’s investment philosophy than the quote above provides. The 106 remaining Warren Buffett quotes in this article paint a clearer picture of Buffett’s thinking.
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FULL TRANSCRIPT: BILLIONAIRE INVESTOR WARREN BUFFETT SPEAKS WITH CNBC’S BECKY QUICK ON "SQUAWK BOX" TODAY

FULL TRANSCRIPT: BILLIONAIRE INVESTOR WARREN BUFFETT SPEAKS WITH CNBC’S BECKY QUICK ON "SQUAWK BOX" TODAY : WARREN BUFFETT: Yeah, selling a stock because it goes down. I mean, you know, if you buy your house at $20,000 and somebody comes along the next day and says, "I'll pay you $15,000," you don't sell it because the quote's $15,000. You look at the house or whatever it may be. But some people are not actually emotionally or psychologically fit to own stocks. But I think more of them would be if you get educated on what you're really buying, which is part of a business. And the longer you hold stocks, the less risky they become, whereas the longer the maturity of a bond, the more risky it becomes.
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How an Obscure Conservative Theory Became the Trump Era’s Go-to Nerd Phrase - POLITICO Magazine

How an Obscure Conservative Theory Became the Trump Era’s Go-to Nerd Phrase - POLITICO Magazine : “Honestly, we needed a way to explain to regular donors why they should support a think tank in the first place if they care about ideas,” Lehman told me. “The Overton window began literally as a way to solve a little bit of a fundraising and communications challenge. And Joe Overton, my colleague, was busy trying to work this into a brochure, but he died before that was complete.” He went on to say, “It fell to us who worked with him to put it together.” For the first few years of its existence, the concept was mostly the domain of conservative wonks, a typical example being Ross Douthat’s invoking it in a 2007 argument with leftist historian Rick Perlstein. Through the Bush era its use in the national press was scant, but in the right-wing ferment of Obama’s first term a particularly influential pseudo-libertarian became so infatuated with the concept that he named an entire novel afte
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Public Speaking, Persuasion Through Cognitive Dissonance | Christopher Babson - Breakout Success

Public Speaking, Persuasion Through Cognitive Dissonance | Christopher Babson - Breakout Success : Cognitive dissonance is a powerful argument structure to use in persuading an audience. Cognitive dissonance occurs when you are presented with information that is inconsistent with your attitudes, values or beliefs. This causes an uncomfortable emotional feeling as you consider or hold two contradictory ideas. Cognitive dissonance theory states that people are motivated to reduce dissonance by changing or rationalizing their attitudes, beliefs or behaviors when presented with a facts or a situation that violates their current attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. Dissonance in Argument Structure Creating dissonance in a speech can be an effective way to persuade your audience to change their attitudes, beliefs and/or behaviors. Illustrate Audience Pain -> Then Introduce Safety or Relief To use cognitive dissonance in an argument, first introduce a problem or need that you know is p
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Cognitive Dissonance and Persuasion | Online Behavior

Cognitive Dissonance and Persuasion | Online Behavior When there’s a mismatch between our beliefs and behavior we experience what Leon Festinger calls a ‘cognitive dissonance’. And we have a strong motivational drive to reduce this dissonance. We can’t change the displayed behavior anymore, but we can change our beliefs and cognitions. In order to reduce dissonance we simply alter our beliefs, which we actually do a lot. There are 3 ways to do so: We lower the importance of the dissonant elements, we add new consonant beliefs to create a consistent belief system, or we change an existing cognition. Cognitive Dissonance is strongly related to ‘ self-consistency ‘ and is sometimes referred to as “adaptive preference formation”.
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mmm COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATIONS* | Public Opinion Quarterly | Oxford Academic

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATIONS* | Public Opinion Quarterly | Oxford Academic : One who tries to change public opinion may wish to know whether the advocacy of a policy slightly different or one greatly different from the existing views of the public will produce the maximum change. Professor Whittaker's research tends to show that maximum change usually comes, not when the discrepancy is greatest or smallest between policy advocated and public opinion, but at some intermediate point, dependent upon the position of the audience.
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Reducing obesity stigma: the effectiveness of cognitive dissonance and social consensus interventions. - PubMed - NCBI

Reducing obesity stigma: the effectiveness of cognitive dissonance and social consensus interventions. - PubMed - NCBI : Obese individuals experience pervasive stigmatization. Interventions attempting to reduce obesity stigma by targeting its origins have yielded mixed results. This randomized, controlled study examined the effectiveness of two interventions to reduce obesity stigma: cognitive dissonance and social consensus. Participants were college undergraduate students (N = 64, 78% women, mean age = 21.2 years, mean BMI = 23.1 kg/m2) of diverse ethnicities. Obesity stigma (assessed with the Antifat Attitudes Test (AFAT)) was assessed at baseline (Visit 1) and 1 week later, immediately following the intervention (Visit 2). Participants were randomly assigned to one of three intervention groups where they received standardized written feedback on their obesity stigma levels. Cognitive dissonance participants (N = 21) were told that their AFAT scores were discrepant from their values
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mmm Use the power of Cognitive Dissonance to convince your audience - authorSTREAM Blog

Use the power of Cognitive Dissonance to convince your audience - authorSTREAM Blog 3. Resolve dissonance by giving them a solution:   Don’t leave the audience suspended in a state of discomfort. Show them what they need to do now in place of their past behaviors. Here’s where you as a presenter can highlight the potential benefits of adopting your proposal and convince them to try it out.  Cognitive Dissonance can be used in any presentation that seeks to bring about a change in audience’s lifestyle. A motivational speaker can motivate audience to adopt a new lifestyle to actualize their potential; a policy maker can convince government officials to bring out new policies, a marketer can convince clients to try out their proposal, etc.  It’s a win, win situation for you as a presenter as well as your audience. Have you ever used this theory in your speech? Share with us how you did it in the comments below. 
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Wheel of Persuasion – over 200 Online Persuasion Techniques (by Bart Schutz) – Self-Consistency

Wheel of Persuasion – over 200 Online Persuasion Techniques (by Bart Schutz) – Self-Consistency : Online Questionnaires can be used for 2 purposes: Acquiring customer insights, and boosting conversions. Visitors entering the website either have to close the questionnaire popup, or answer the questionnaire in order to proceed.�This forced click might subconsciously activate a self-consistency process: ‘I am someone who interacts with this website’.
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Flickr has been sold after 13 years at Yahoo. Can Flickr be relevant again? - Recode

Flickr has been sold after 13 years at Yahoo. Can Flickr be relevant again? - Recode : Verizon, its current owner via its Oath subsidiary, has sold Flickr to SmugMug, an even older, subscription-based photo sharing service, as reported first by USA Today’s Jessica Guynn. SmugMug’s founder and CEO Don MacAskill has taken to Twitter to talk up his hopes for the deal. “We will move heaven and earth to thrill you and photographers everywhere,” he told one Flickr Pro user. If MacAskill can engage the most serious of remaining Flickr users — the site reportedly has “more than 100 million unique users who post tens of billions of photos” — it’s easy to see how the deal could be lucrative for SmugMug, which has long successfully operated in the small-but-profitable model. And long-time Flickr fans sound excited at the news. Yahoo, to be sure, was a mostly bad owner; it’s sort of a miracle Flickr still exists.
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[1804.03056v1] Automated Discovery of Internet Censorship by Web Crawling

[1804.03056v1] Automated Discovery of Internet Censorship by Web Crawling : Censorship of the Internet is widespread around the world. As access to the web becomes increasingly ubiquitous, filtering of this resource becomes more pervasive. Transparency about specific content that citizens are denied access to is atypical. To counter this, numerous techniques for maintaining URL filter lists have been proposed by various individuals and organisations that aim to empirical data on censorship for benefit of the public and wider censorship research community. We present a new approach for discovering filtered domains in different countries. This method is fully automated and requires no human interaction. The system uses web crawling techniques to traverse between filtered sites and implements a robust method for determining if a domain is filtered. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach by running experiments to search for filtered content in four different censorship regimes.
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STATE OF GLOBAL AIR /2018 A SPECIAL REPORT ON GLOBAL EXPOSURE TO AIR POLLUTION AND ITS DISEASE BURDEN

The State of Global Air report brings into one place the most recent information available on levels and trends in air quality and health for countries around the globe. This year we focus not only on ambient (outdoor) air pollution but also, for the first time, on household air pollution from the burning of solid fuels for cooking and heating, a major contributor to pollution both inside and outside the home. https://www.stateofglobalair.org/sites/default/files/soga-2018-report.pdf
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Science's "Reproducibility Crisis" Is Now Political Ammunition | WIRED

Science's "Reproducibility Crisis" Is Now Political Ammunition | WIRED : But when a report the two men wrote, “The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science,” was published by the National Association of Scholars on Tuesday afternoon, it received a Congressional reception. The launch took place in a House office building on Capitol Hill. The Texas Republican Lamar Smith, chairman of the House science committee and one of the most powerful science policymakers in Washington, spoke at the event. In a statement to Undark, he described the NAS report as an “important study.”
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Science's 'irreproducibility crisis' is a public policy crisis too | TheHill

Science's 'irreproducibility crisis' is a public policy crisis too | TheHill : How much of a crisis? In 2005, Dr. John Ioannidis, now of Stanford, estimated that as much as half of published research findings in biomedicine are probably false. In some other fields it may be worse. The research on which concepts such as “stereotype threat,” “power poses,” and “implicit bias,” for example, reproduce badly if at all. The scientific community is not lacking for those who tut-tut these findings. Skeptics say that just because someone tried to reproduce an experiment and failed doesn’t mean the original results were wrong. That’s a reasonable point, but evidence keeps mounting that the reproducibility crisis is real. My colleagues and I at the National Association of Scholars think we know one of the deep causes of the crisis: bad statistics. Nearly all science these days depends on assessing the likelihood of a hypothesis. Mess up the connection between hypothesis and data,
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mmm Your Flaws Are My Pain: Linking Empathy To Vicarious Embarrassment

Your Flaws Are My Pain: Linking Empathy To Vicarious Embarrassment People vicariously experience embarrassment when observing others' public pratfalls or etiquette violations. In two consecutive studies we investigated the subjective experience and the neural correlates of vicarious embarrassment for others in a broad range of situations. We demonstrated, first, that vicarious embarrassment was experienced regardless of whether the observed protagonist acted accidentally or intentionally and was aware or unaware that he/she was in an embarrassing situation. Second, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we showed that the anterior cingulate cortex and the left anterior insula, two cortical structures typically involved in vicarious feelings of others' pain, are also strongly implicated in experiencing the ‘social pain’ for others' flaws and pratfalls. This holds true even for situations that engage protagonists not aware of their current predicament. Importan
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MMM Why do we cringe when others embarrass themselves? — Quartzy

Why do we cringe when others embarrass themselves? — Quartzy : “You need an audience to feel embarrassed,” says Frieder Paulus, a psychologist at the L�beck University in Germany. The emotion is social: It tells us when we have violated a social norm and makes us feel bad for doing so.  We have to actually know what these norms are to know we’ve violated them. Tripping is more or less universally embarrassing; we all know humans are meant to be upright creatures. But years ago, Paulus and his lab director S�ren Krach attended a presentation by someone who bragged unabashedly about his work, clearly unaware of what a fool he looked like in front of his peers, Melissa Dahl writes in her new book Cringeworthy. The two realized that watching their colleague humiliate himself was painful, even though they knew they had done nothing themselves that was outside of social norms. They decided to explore this phenomenon further in their lab. Their research team conducted two studies on the
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Apple considers cheaper HomePod in face of lackluster sales

Apple considers cheaper HomePod in face of lackluster sales : In a note seen by AppleInsider, Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities sees lackluster demand through the supply chain for the HomePod. As a result of market forces, and strong competition in the sector, he suspects that Apple is considering building a lower-cost model for a future release — but has not as of yet started any serious work on the concept. It isn't clear how accurate the HomePod sales figures that Kuo is predicting are. Initial HomePod sales reports derived from a questionable source that has historically underestimated sales suggested that Apple stores were selling 10 HomePods per day per retail location, meaning that Apple is still selling around 21,000 per week in the three countries that it is available. If the numbers are accurate, and stay at 10 units per day, this would lead to 630,000 sold just through Apple Stores through the end of the year not including what's already been sold, units sold by ret
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What are some examples of products or services that are priced by value rather than by cost? - Quora

What are some examples of products or services that are priced by value rather than by cost? - Quora : Customers highly value and will pay more for products with these attributes: Urgency - example ... Fedex "When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight" or the 1hr photo processing being twice the price of the 24hour processing. Self-esteem - example ... brand name bags like Prada and Louis Vuitton or products aligned with the latest fashion, the latest social cause or the latest tech. innovation. Pain relief - example ... road side vehicle breakdown service like RACQ in Queensland Australia or the locksmith that opens the door for a person that has locked themselves out of their apartment at 11:00pm at night. Fear mitigation - example ... the 'stock in trade' product for most legal services.� Scarcity - example ... Hot chips or beer at the football where there is only one outlet selling inside the stadium and it would be too inconvenient to leave the
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MMM 9 Ways To Create an Information Product With ZERO Expertise - StartupBros

9 Ways To Create an Information Product With ZERO Expertise - StartupBros Pick one (or more) of these nine methods for creating an information product below and  make the damn thing! Interview experts.  Record the interviews (audio or video) and then transcribe them. You can also hire someone to transcribe them cheaply using a service like  Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.  Now take everything and organize it into a useful product! You will want to extensively interview each person to get specific action-steps that will make the core of your product. Be brave in seeking out your experts – you would be  amazed  at the people that would be grateful to give an interview. Doctors, college professors, PhDs, businesspeople, authors are all flattered when somebody is interested in what they have to say. Especially authors! They need to sell more books, they need their idea to spread, so help them! Buy Private Label Rights (PLR) products and revamp them.   These are all products that you can buy,
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9to5Mac | Apple News & Mac Rumors Breaking All Day

9to5Mac | Apple News & Mac Rumors Breaking All Day : We are aware of the investigation into GSMA’s process for developing eSIM standards that provide a better experience for consumers. Along with other GSMA members, we have provided information to the government in response to their requests and will continue to work proactively within GSMA, including with those who might disagree with the proposed standards, to move this issue forward. News has broke this afternoon that the US Department of Justice has opened an investigation over antitrust concerns and potential collusion between Verizon and AT&T in efforts to prevent eSIM adoption and progress. Apple Watch and iPad both use eSIM technology and Apple is reportedly one of multiple manufacturers who has raised concerns with the DOJ.�
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(14) Forbidden psychology and its eight taboos: a conversation about psyche, soul, and the new physics - YouTube

(14) Forbidden psychology and its eight taboos: a conversation about psyche, soul, and the new physics - YouTube : Physics confronted these mysteries head on despite the fact that experimental outcomes contradicted deterministic, reductionistic, mechanistic, Newtonian clockwork cosmology, but it handled its anomalies with openness and full disclosure.
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Do corporations have minds of their own?: Philosophical Psychology: Vol 30, No 3

Do corporations have minds of their own?: Philosophical Psychology: Vol 30, No Corporations have often been taken to be the paradigm of an organization whose agency is autonomous from that of the successive waves of people who occupy the pattern of roles that define its structure, which licenses saying that the corporation has attitudes, interests, goals, and beliefs which are not those of the role occupants. In this essay, I sketch a deflationary account of agency-discourse about corporations. I identify institutional roles with a special type of status function, a status role, in which the collectively accepted function is expressed in part through its occupier’s intentional expression of her agency in that role (where the occupier is part of the group whose collective acceptance underwrites her having the relevant function in social transactions). I identify institutions as systems of status roles and show how this is compatible with seeing the agency of institutions generally, ev
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The Psychology of Corporate Rights

Relying on the corporate personhood doctrine, the U.S. Supreme Court has increasingly expanded the scope of rights granted to corporations and other forms of collective entities. While this trend has received widespread attention in legal scholarship and the media, there is no empirical research examining how people think about the rights of corporations. We investigated this issue in a series of three studies, each exploring a different constitutional right (religious liberty, privacy, and freedom of speech). In each study, we examined people’s willingness to grant rights in several types of business contexts (i.e., a ‘closely held’ family business, a large national corporation, for-profit and non-for-profit companies) and to different types of targets (i.e., employees, owners, and the company as a separate entity). We also looked at whether perceptions of corporate (versus individual) rights are affected by political ideology. Our results demonstrate that people are significantly and
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CORPORATION: HOW IDENTITY INFLUENCES BUSINESS | Journal of Business Strategy | Vol 5, No 1

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CORPORATION: HOW IDENTITY INFLUENCES BUSINESS | Journal of Business Strategy | Vol 5, No 1 : Understanding the fundamental identity of one's company—the source of its traditions and shared values—can help explain and foreshadow success and failure in business. In fact, it may be the principal internal influence on the company
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Corey Pein ‘Live Work Work Work Die’ Excerpt on Web Fraud

Corey Pein ‘Live Work Work Work Die’ Excerpt on Web Fraud : “There’s one more thing I’d like to discuss: the morality of manipulation,” Eyal went on. “I know what that nervous laughter is about … I know some of you were thinking, ‘Is this kosher?’ If you had that response, bravo.” Eyal conceded that digital gadgets may be “the cigarettes of this century,” but said he was optimistic that these addictive products could be used for “good” and to “help people live healthier, happier, more productive” lives.
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Corey Pein ‘Live Work Work Work Die’ Excerpt on Web Fraud

Corey Pein ‘Live Work Work Work Die’ Excerpt on Web Fraud : Eyal presented several categories of virtual tchotchkes companies might offer in exchange for people’s money or attention. One category he called “rewards of the tribe,” which he described as “things that feel good, have an element of variability, and come from other people” — like Likes. Another category: “rewards of the hunt,” which involved “the search for resources” such as food. “In our modern society, we buy these things with money,” Eyal said. The addictive power of slot machines offered one example of how marketers could manipulate people’s animal instincts. Video-game companies like Zynga had taken those Pavlovian processes to a new level, bringing players to the peak of excitement and then hitting them up for cash, which is sort of like a mystery movie that pauses itself mid-plot-twist and demands that you insert a coin.
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MMM Corey Pein ‘Live Work Work Work Die’ Excerpt on Web Fraud

Corey Pein ‘Live Work Work Work Die’ Excerpt on Web Fraud : There was a surreal quality to this semi-voluntary online advertising experience. How had I come to this place? What time was it? Was Brad a real person? Or a Fiverr actor? He swore up and down that he hadn’t hijacked my web browser in order to dupe me into some kind of scam. His secret society’s system was “one hundred percent legal and ethical,” he said. “Our software works. We have nothing to hide.” He kept repeating that: “We have nothing to hide.” Then why was it a secret society? The pitch moved so relentlessly it was impossible to hold on to such thoughts.
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Tech Luminary Peter Thiel Parts Ways With Silicon Valley - WSJ

Tech Luminary Peter Thiel Parts Ways With Silicon Valley - WSJ : Mr. Thiel has recently said tech culture has become increasingly intolerant of conservative political views since Mr. Trump’s election, an attitude he has said is intellectually and politically fraught. “Silicon Valley is a one-party state,” Mr. Thiel said last month at a debate about tech and politics at Stanford University. “That’s when you get in trouble politically in our society, when you’re all in one side.” His concerns are echoed by other conservatives in tech who say they feel alienated by the industry’s broad embrace of liberal values. A majority of the tech workers who responded to a recent survey by Lincoln Network, an advocacy group for conservatives and libertarians in the tech sector, described the cultural norms of their workplace as liberal. More than one-third of workers who identified themselves as conservative said the clash between their views and those of colleagues kept them from doing their bes
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TED 2018: Netflix Sees Itself as the Anti-Apple | WIRED

TED 2018: Netflix Sees Itself as the Anti-Apple | WIRED : Hastings could leave Facebook’s board for another reason. As Facebook has moved deeper into original content, including acquiring rights to stream sporting events, speculation has swirled that Hastings could step down for competitive reasons. Indeed, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg resigned from Walt Disney Co.’s board in March, citing conflicts of interest. Last spring, Hastings said his board seat had not created a "big conflict, yet" because Facebook was acquiring different types of content than Netflix.
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