Well, if you define "drawing eyeballs" broadly enough, then yes. If publish a print newspaper, my goal is to sell papers; to convince people that what is in the newspaper (on the whole) is worth shelling out money. Merely "drawing eyeballs" is not enough. If I produce bad content, people won't pay for it. Here,…

Let me rephrase: "The economic model upon which Gawker Media is constructed is designed to draw eyeballs. Thus, the incentives are strongly in favor of creating articles that draw eyeballs." I would imagine that authors who don't consistently draw eyeballs won't be around long. I also imagine that GM sometimes lets…

Because there are things that aren't journalism that also aren't clickbait and maybe that's what they wanted? Because they like the journalism side of Gawker Media and don't like the non-journalism side? I don't know because I don't complain about click bait. I just acknowledge it, reconsider whether I should…

1. Gawker Media does not engage in journalism as a general rule.

I don't disagree with much of what you've said (other than anything Lemond has to say about Armstrong's physiology). My point is simple: the problem was that everyone was doping, not that Lance was doping. Cycling, as a sport, appears to have moved past the everyone is doping phase, for which I am very pleased. …

Good point re: insurance; that should have been included in my example. I am glad for the info regarding leases. Leasing is one of those options that I grew up thinking was a terrible idea, but am now seeing the virtues of.

As I have noted elsewhere, cars that require little maintenance do not depreciate much. The cars that are depreciating 50 percent in 3 years are not those cars. If I buy a car new for 30K and drive it 200,000 miles, I will have spent fifteen cents per mile on the car plus X in maintenance. If I buy the same car 3…

All I am supplementing is the fact that one might value the lack of required maintenance over the first 30-some thousand or so miles regardless of what the history of the car was. After 40K miles or so, you begin needing certain maintenance regardless of how well the car was treated or whether you know its history.

There are other options besides the extremes of buying used on the one hand and leasing for the rest of your life on the other. I tend to buy cars I expect to get about 200,000 miles or so out of. I spend significantly less than if I leased for 200,000 miles worth of driving, and still get to enjoy some…

That, or you simply value the first few relatively-maintenance-free years highly (if you don't buy a new platform).

The issue of rapid depreciation during the first few years of a new car's life is separate from the issue of new cars being more expensive due to the fact that used cars have already significantly depreciated. If I am driving the car into the ground, the resale price of the car at any given time is irrelevant to me…

I agree with much of this w/r/t most folks' buying habits with new cars. For me, the premium I pay on new cars in the form of increased depreciation is totally worth it; I do not have the skills for a lot of repairs and don't have the inclination to learn or do them even if I could. I would much rather outsource car…

The gap between renting and purchasing a rapidly-depreciating asset is often pretty small.

Most (not all) cars that depreciate quickly are also not reliable cars. If you want to get a reliable late model used car, you're not going to get a severe discount over new, but you are going to miss out on a chunk of the most maintenance-free miles/years of that car's life. My opinion is likely tainted by the fact…

Advice about what?

Yes, all the time. I am surprised the number is as low as 61%! I don't discuss politics or religion, I don't divulge most personal tragedies unless it directly effects my work, I maintain a professional demeanor with people who report to me and therefore do not make jokes that I do in "real life" or discuss their…

When I hear the word "bossy," I hear a connotation of "bosses people around without any real claim to any authority to do so." I think that's the objectionable part, connected to an ingrained notion that (some) men have the gravitas to pull off telling people what to do that (most) women lack. I think that women…

I'm glad you feel that this was worthwhile; I felt as though folks were talking past eachother.

1. I'm not trolling; I am genuinely sorry that I seem to have made a controversial statement that distressed people. I simply wanted to say that I think that age is a factor in evaluating experience, and that if someone is offering advice it is worthwhile to evaluate that advice based on the person who gave it,…

Largely it was the all-caps "SOCIETY."