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…if you don’t want to have a functioning immune system

They cut advertising by 40% and lost a boatload of market share https://www.forbes.com/sites/avidan/2019/03/06/the-kraft-hei...

People also forget how inexpensive and ephemeral individual ads are. A display banner on a quality site costs less than a tenth of a penny. And it’s like a room on a cruise ship — …

The ads are so inexpensive that just one repeat buyer pays for all the waste. Think of it — some people have a second home. Or a short term rental. Or a guest bedroom.

There’s one thing that advertisers agree on: ads work in the aggregate. You can tell by turning them all off. Ask Kraft Heinz. Beyond that it gets fuzzy. Is it inefficient? Yes. Do…

I appear to be alone in the sentiment of "I'd totally overpay like this to have someone coordinate food for my remote team"

Yeah, seems to assume you're going to put protectors around the 'good' plants or something at first. Still, I could see some interesting swarm behavior opportunities for the right …

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Re the weeding robot -- you may be thinking of https://tertill.com iRobot founders' new thing. Small, and undercapitalized, but promising.

Article makes me want to have lunch with Bjork

I love Costco as a customer and a shareholder. High quality products. Less frequent shopping. Ethical practices. Protip: for perishable items like produce, we have a "Costco buddy …

The ostriches are vicious! They had that pail of feed ripped out of my hand and spread on the ground before I could even flinch.

I toured the facility around 2005-6 (iirc). Looks like you still can. It had a futuristic and lightly post-apocalyptic vibe. The jungle plants were growing out of control, pressing…

It's practically incoherent

Statements like this always bring me back to Goedel's incompleteness theorem...

Weigh that privacy consideration against the value of CPGs looking to spend shopper marketing advertising dollars in-store, just sayin'...

Is it me, or does the title not match the argument put forth in the article? I guess "Political currents affecting US education funding" didn't have a good ring to it...

They keep going.

Or in a snowstorm.

> He's stable That's a novel argument

Picture yourself, as an owner of the company, explaining to a jury how "Mother I'd Like to Fuck" doesn't constitute a hostile environment in the course of a sexual harassment lawsu…

Ironic that the "smaller government" party implemented this system after 9/11 then, no?

Regression to the mean...

Amen. Further, I think there's a lot of evidence of actual "productivity" concentrating in fewer and fewer workers as the labor force continues to segment into high-productivity kn…

Not even bothering with parallel construction in this one