• Steve
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    2 years ago

    how embarrassment

    they can waste energy in analog too

  • froztbyte
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    2 years ago

    So good it’s absolutely lying off the shelves!

      • selfA
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        2 years ago

        each page of this book is statistically more likely to become a paper airplane than it is to be read

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          2 years ago

          YC funding novel flight application technology!

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    2 years ago

    now I’m wondering if there’s a hall of shame for all the scams, woo, and garbage that’s been caught buying its way onto the NYT bestseller list. it doesn’t even take a lot of money to game the damn thing — I vaguely remember a couple of D-tier fanfic authors breaking into writing novels by throwing money away to get on the list

    • David GerardOPMA
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      2 years ago

      there’s no list in wikipedia, but it’d be a great project

    • Sonori@beehaw.org
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      I believe the way it’s weighted you just need 1k to 2k sales a week for a few weeks.