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You can combine the phone tree with literal runners -- so basically, someone takes their burner and calls suburbs A,B,C and D and then the runners go out and pass the word about the protest or action.
Because OF models are models... so I wonder if model management companies are upset about folks selling content directly to consumers without abusive middle management and drumming up outrage to protect their shitty business model.
Say what you want about sites like OF, but at least the performers get a huge chunk of the earnings.
I had to apply for exemptions often in grad school. You must do so before performing the research -- it is not ethical to wait for outcry then apply after the fact. Any well run CS department trains it's incoming students on IRB procedures during orientation, and Minnesota risks all federal funding if they continue to allow researchers to operate in this manner.
(Also "exempt" usually refers to exempt from the more rigorous level of review used for medical experiments -- you still need to articulate why your experiment is exempt to avoid people just doing whatever they want then asking for forgiveness after the fact)
I assure you that it falls under IRB's purview -- I came into the thread intending to make grandparent's comment. When using deception in a human subjects experiment, there is an additional level of rigor -- you usually need to debrief the participant about said deception, not wait for them to read about it in the press.
(And if a human is reviewing these patches, then yes, it is human subjects research.)
I think the key is you need to watch for a person's play style.
There's a two axis system: tight/agressive and passive/active.
An active player sees more flops, and an aggressive player will call and raise more than a tight player.
So a tight, aggressive player sees few flows but bets strongly when they have a good hand -- this is considered "good" strategy.
Others might play a "tight-passive" strategy -- they'll play few hands but fold easily. They won't lose large amounts of money but they'll slowly bleed chips.
A loose, aggeessive player is the type you want at the table -- they're making a lot of bets, and often bluffing, and you can sit and wait to catch them.
Now, this is "reading" someone, but it's not the Rounders style "oh he just ate an oreo so he's bluffing" level reading of a player that movies
For context, I'm an OK player. I can make a few hundred playing 1/3 per session -- I'm not in Vegas so I can't move to the next tier without sinking a lot of money on a flight and hotel.
If your goal is a bit of beer money, it can be a fun hobby, but I wouldn't go into it expecting it to become a full time career.
Are you talking about Bush, or Trump? Because the logic goes both ways -- when Blair bent over over when Bush wanted to go gallivanting into Iraq, we were set upon this path, one that started before I was old enough to vote... so maybe don't show up at the finish line to tut after literal decades of inaction?
Despite all the talk from libertarians about how private donations are the solution to the world's ills, open source software very rarely gets substantial donations.
https://web.archive.org/web/20251227181428if_/https://lr0.or...
Why does the page 404 when opening the image? Bandwidth issue? Firefox issue? (Yes, the username is a joke - I don't work for Firefox I just use it and thought this would be a funny name)
they wayback machine doesn't have a copy of https://lr0.org/i/2025-12-27_18-21-51_screenshot.png or i was going to link to it in the post here usually, i'd try to balance a blunt reply like this with they wayback version
cheers!
Edit: https://web.archive.org/web/20251227181428if_/https://lr0.or...
Like, you want to call up a company and get them to buy your software? To pay you to make them software?
Because while either way I'd say be more targeted -- try to network IRL and have linkedin (retching noise) just the place you go to get their email... and then make a targeted pitch to a smaller number of people you've met IRL. Budget to go to a few conferences.
But that's a strategy I think works best if you have good product and want to get businesses to pay to use it, and is less effective in selling "consulting" (sarcastic finger quotes).
Either way though, going to conferences where people will be legitimately interested in your product (Think going to HOPE instead of Blackhat)... offer to take people out to dinner, expense it as marketing.
Also I don't reccomend buying people alcohol, just food. For whatever reason, people will overdrink and turn into asshole reasons when alcohol is free... by all means point them to a decent dive bar.
(For example there's one behind Bally's that's attached to a convenience store. They used to let folks buy shit in the store and eat it in the bar if they weren't entitled about it.)
If you're selling that you can make cool stuff, software wise? Try more academic conferences. A lot of people would kill for a decent software engineer, it can be extremely hit or miss with academic CS types, they often would love people who can do stuff like set up a limesurvey server or whip up a nice looking static site for their lab or do really basic stuff like make R scripts to automate stuff done in the opendocument equivalent of excel...
But no course, book, or framework for outbound sales will ever Trump face to face interaction. A lot of companies discount who being the "cool guy at the conference" can lead to sales... especially as people age (because again, I said go for authentic gatherings, not sport coat fests).
Over time, if you combine being friendly with having something of value, sales will happen -- those in person leads will be your most valuable IMHO.
I was an undergrad, not in high school, but I basically designed and ran a project that led to a major publication that a useless postdoc who was foisted onto the lab leader for political reasons took credit for an "kindly" gave me last author on.
Later, when I was in my own PhD, my adviser wouldn't let me continue MY OWN RESEARCH because it might "look like" I was stealing his work, so I had to invent a different thesis topic.
The above was in CS, this is more STEM BTW -- it's perfectly possible to develop a new computational technique to "discover" 1.5m new interesting things in an existing data set -- it's impressive, but it's not on par with say, a botanist cataloging 1.5 million new flowers.
I use protonmail now -- I think the "free" model enables providers to shrug and go "hey you don't pay us" (if there is support at all -- I've never been able to speak to a human about this issue)
Lost a decade and a half of correspondence dating back to my teenage years. I had imported my phone number I'd had since I was 16 into voice, and it doubled as my Signal number. I even had a Gsuite subscription so I could use their (admittedly decently) UI to power my firstname @ lastname dot com email address.
I will never use their services again, I was really digusted by this failure.
Gonna watch Die Hard, eat a beef chow fun, and try to teach my bird some new curse words.
Do you work for Google? Maybe I hit a nerve by mentioning my boundaries.
(For the younger hackers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mozilla_Phoenix_logo_vect...)
What if I told you that you don't need javascript?
No need to be snarky.