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By: adana evden eve

adana evden eve — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:06:30 +0000

thank you

By: lumenis

lumenis — Tue, 12 May 2015 15:47:44 +0000

Hi Leonard, if you want to start a discussion about “I Can Tolerate…” I’m sure there will be a lot more people seeing what you have to say and engaging with your ideas in one of the semi-monthly Open Threads. The most recent one was on 4/26 so the next one should be posted no later than Friday!

This is not the right place to start that conversation. These are comments related to the post above about Amazon affiliate links.

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By: lumenis

lumenis — Tue, 12 May 2015 15:34:17 +0000

Not to mention that every time Scott now links back to an old post which contains one of those Amazon links to medical products, he’s drawing marginal eyeballs to it beyond the background level of people stumbling through the archives on their own.

Kickbacks. They’re a real nightmare for the overly scrupulous.

Did you know that, in Washington state at least, Groupons for massage are considered kickbacks for medical treatment because (a) massage is licensed by the Dept of Health and (b) Groupon gets paid per client rather than a flat rate in exchange for marketing? Totally not enforced, FWIW.

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By: leonard Feingold

leonard Feingold — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 07:49:38 +0000

Comment on “I can tolerate…..”. There is much to comment on; however, I restrict myself to your use of the word “racism” and your citation of studies. You don’t define it; without doing so it becomes a catch all term that is meaningless. I define racism as denying someone theeir their civil or constitutional rights and secondly denying them common courtesy. So when Jesse Jackson uttered the words to the effect that when hears footsteps behind him and turns around, he is relieved to see a white face. He is reflecting his awareness of the probabilities of criminal behavior that he is exposed either from personal experience of reading the newspapers. We are probabilistic creatures and only God knows everything .

I would add something to the definition. And that is when one has lower standards for certain groups. For example, Obama spent 20 years hearing “God damn Jews” from his minister. No white person running for president who attended a church where weekly such comments were made about blacks would be given a pass. We see the be same thing in admission to medical schools where the most highly qualified, happens to Asians are rejected in favor of blacks. On a personal level, I was once faced with a decision who should do my hip replacement. There were 2 people doing the operation. One was black; the other Jewish. The black saw patients once a week in a suburb of Philadelphia where parking was snap and little walking; the other at the main hospital–the Univ of PA. where parking was a problem and a lot of walking. If I did not have the problem of walking, I would chosen the Jewish Dr. But given this was university hospital, it was less likely they would hire anything but the best; and secondly, I did some inquiries and chose the black one. But the point is that if I decided not to choose the black Dr because of my general awareness of medical school admission, I chose the non-black Dr, I have not denied anyone of civil rights or common courtesy. Anyway, the term “racism” has now become meaningless since it means everything and hence meaningless except in the narrow sense which I defined it.

Obama’s comment that Travyon Martin could have been is son was detrimental to Zimmerman’s rights to common courtesy of having a fair trial; and yet, the liberal class finds no problem with it; similar to the nasty business of the Duke rape trial. I read the liberal and conservative websites(National Review, PJ Media, Commentary–and I have not seen on these sites the abuse of language that one finds in so called respectable liberal publications including the NYTIMES(“white hispanic”). So if we leave out the kooks on both left and right, we are left the so called reasonable left with worst abuse of language.

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By: xerxes

xerxes — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 07:12:27 +0000

True, you cannot corrupt your past behavior. But now present-day-you knows that future-you is likely to go back and hook up amazon links to items you talk about. So, back to ethical minefield.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:01:05 +0000

Yes, affiliate links are compatible with smile. see here

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By: Joe from London

Joe from London — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:53:15 +0000

Are we allowed to ask how much this is making you? I would be very happy to know you are making money from writing a blog I very much enjoy.

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By: Douglas Knight

Douglas Knight — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:22 +0000

No, it won’t work. Joy is quite right that amazon.ca is different from amazon.com. You cannot get referral fees from amazon.ca unless you create a separate referral account and separate link.

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By: Scott Alexander

Scott Alexander — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:19:08 +0000

You don’t need special links. All you have to do is go to Amazon via the general link above (or on the sidebar) and everything you purchase for the next 24 hours will be automatically credited to me.

(thank you!)

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By: Joy

Joy — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:57:42 +0000

I’d like to make a ~$60 purchase off amazon Canada sometime within the next month of TCG-related stuff. Is there a quick and painless way for you to give affiliate-linked versions of those items so I could give you a pseudo-donation in exchange for the years of content you’ve posted? If relevant, the items are a Magic 2015 Fatpack, and 100 card sleeves.

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