keebEz

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by keebEz 8y ago
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 watched and retention.
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by keebEz 8y ago
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 investments over a long horizon. Other types of tech have much
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by keebEz 9y ago
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 it to upsell, etc.? Their recommendation system.
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by keebEz 9y ago
Customer LTV applied to Retail. Amazon can already do it, so this is just catch up.
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by keebEz 9y ago
Minimizes the time employees are willing to spend evaluating the return.
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by keebEz 9y ago
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 surged in the last few years) not by a decrease of the numerato
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by keebEz 9y ago
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 pays the same but gets a different product. The same i
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by keebEz 9y ago
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...
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Stitch Fix Files for IPO(bloomberg.com)
5 points by keebEz 9y ago|0 comments
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by keebEz 9y ago
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 service rep desk after the flight. First thing he said af
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by keebEz 9y ago
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 number asking me to reactivate. Spamming me from a 2 f
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by keebEz 9y ago
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 (since its income, and not wealth, and income*growth
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by keebEz 9y ago
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 a cooler coastal climate (such as the Bay Area) AC is n
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by keebEz 9y ago
Or they want to get ahead of the messaging...
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by keebEz 9y ago
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.
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by keebEz 9y ago
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 more valuable 10-20 years down the line.
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by keebEz 9y ago
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. 2) Growing as technology improves - the cost of creating&#x
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by keebEz 9y ago
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 it should last. Marketed: 120mg over 12 hours or 80mg over 8
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by keebEz 9y ago
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 are bad. This seems like a way to raise awareness in a more re
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by keebEz 9y ago
Maybe fully autonomous ships should have maintenance performing robots then?
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by keebEz 9y ago
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.. not sure if this is an improvement, but the lack of progr
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by keebEz 9y ago
Maybe they did?
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by keebEz 9y ago
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 direct transfer of money to southern states as well as a
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by keebEz 9y ago
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.
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by keebEz 9y ago
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, the quality of child care has been getting worse. On top of
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by keebEz 10y ago
Because the best lobbyists play both sides of the aisle.
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by keebEz 10y ago
Should you have not been born?
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by keebEz 10y ago
Flexport did a great blog post on the situation: https://www.flexport.com/blog/on-hanjin/ Also of interest, they also did a game theory analysis of ocean liners: https://www.flexport.com/blog/
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Google to Open Youth Education Center in Oakland(sfist.com)
1 points by keebEz 10y ago|0 comments
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by keebEz 10y ago
The clearest way to think of AI and automation is in terms of a person, or multiple people, but it can also take the form of partial people. AI is already helping middle and upper management make better decisions. Instead of removing the ne

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