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Ideal maybe, but if they want to maximize revenue they need to optimize around the marginal customer. Marginal customers most likely exhibit strong correlation between hours watche…

For new technologies, adoption curves can vary wildly, and for different reasons. When it comes to clean tech, PV and wind specifically, the adoption is dominated by sunsetting inv…

They know all your purchases, home location, work location (most likely as people deliver to work all the time), and all your returns, as starters. How do they actually make use of…

Customer LTV applied to Retail. Amazon can already do it, so this is just catch up.

Minimizes the time employees are willing to spend evaluating the return.

VIX attempts to measure volatility but it is not volatility itself. The lowness of VIX has been driven by the relative increase of the denominator (total asset value, which has sur…

It's actually worse than that. Cities have different water districts and often wealthier areas will receive better water than no-wealth areas. Instead of different prices, everyone…

Flexport wrote a blog post on this a few weeks ago as the first waves it were happening: https://www.flexport.com/blog/massive-factory-closures-china...

I had a stewardess dump a tray full of water on me and my laptop about an hour into a 5 hour flight. She couldn't give me more than a $50 credit, and I had to go to the customer se…

I haven't used Facebook in a long time, deactivated my account. I had 2 factor auth on with my phone and they just pinged me twice, back to back, yesterday from their 2 factor auth…

With the 1980 chart: if we should be ensuring high income growth to people according to their income percentile alone then gradually you'd assume they'd move up along the curve (si…

The main divergence between California and the rest of the US is around the time of Rosenfeld's work... but also the same time as mass adoption of AC. Since half of California has …

Or they want to get ahead of the messaging...

Or easy. When you reduce your options to the beef jerky, or maybe the nuts, you often realize you aren't that hungry and actually are just bored.

If you can't choose a good start up to join then most likely a b school is the better option. If you choose a good start up, then the start up (and payout) will most likely be much…

There are two types of growth, one that should irk, and the other that should not: 1) Growing for the sake of growth - buying users, anti-user lock-in features, dark patterns, etc.…

Re: How this forms addiction - the levels prescribed are for a 12 hour period, but since the drug only lasts 8 hours, a patient is getting a dose above the recommended level that i…

Not sure but the media during the crack epidemic sure focused on non-white people... And that just further perpetrated the idea and image that non-white people do drugs and thus ar…

Maybe fully autonomous ships should have maintenance performing robots then?

Game theory wise though, this is a sound statement. Science and scientists have shown that they are beholden to the powers of self-interest. Public choice theory[0] goes a long way…

Maybe they did?

Same could be said for solar? The sunbelt is/was heavy on coal for energy production. Solar is a great fit for the sunbelt. The federal government subsidizing solar adoption is a d…

A fact has no truth value. Truth only comes from reason, and reason only exists in each person's head. This is reducing the demand for reason, and thus destroying truth.

As incomes rise in the US (mostly in high productivity sectors), child care costs increase even though the productivity of child care stays stagnant. As a result, per dollar spent,…