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		eroded on May 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nothing succeeds like success I fail to see the difference between "real life" and "the Internet". Surely they're the same thing these days?

gd1 on May 7, 2014 [–]

Didn't I just explain it? I can't do a descending sort of every store on my local high street based on their success so far. These things snowball on the internet because the sorting and quantifying process lends itself to viral snowballing.

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