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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 boat is gonna sail one way or another. So it has to be sold.

Advertisers might choose to let Facebook arbitrage those impressions into a cost per click model — at pennies per click instead of hundredths per view. Tradeoffs galore in that model.

When you aggregate these numbers into a $600b industry, you start to see how sweating some of the finer details just doesn’t matter.

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. Does anyone agree on the actual mechanics? No. Is the data wildly inaccurate? Sure. Is there grift? Totally.

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 types of plants and growth stages...

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 system" -- a few nearby friends who we can split bags of limes or onions with. Huge savings on produce this way.

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 up against the glass panes of one of the habitats. Ants streamed in and out from the desert outside through a crack in a glass panel.

If you check it out (http://biosphere2.org/visit/tour-schedule-hours), you can have a full post-apocalypse vacation by adding a tour of the ICBM museum south of Tucson, the AMARC plane graveyard, Cosanti in Scottsdale and Arcosanti (where you can stay) north of Phoenix.

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 lawsuit. Maybe with a jury that includes someone your grandmother's age. And maybe not as a result of this particular conversation, but the next time it happens.

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 knowledge and low-productivity service jobs.

Not even bothering with parallel construction in this one

Well put. When a hammer requires endless accessories to drive a nail, is it the right tool for the job?

Really important point as this gets to the supreme court.

You're treating the public case the FBI made earlier as if it reflects its actual beliefs and motivations. Looking at the pattern of actions, rather than the rhetoric, suggests something else to me.

And it's a little early to say that it's not working. It's not working as well as they'd like. It's certainly not working for the echo chamber of HN and tech nerds, but what we think is irrelevant. It's not over 'til the fat lady sings, as they say....

Appreciate your informative commentary.

Mind was blown first time I learned that gluing wood together along the grain is often as strong a bond as the wood itself.