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by Digory 9y ago
For several years before Prime, Amazon offered free two-day shipping on most $25 orders, no extra fees or membership. Maybe it started out at $50.
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by Digory 9y ago
Others have said it, but Amazon's free two-day shipping with $25 (or was it $50?) purchase felt nearly magical. As a student, I could take a $40 cab ride, or spend all day Saturday on train schlepping a shower curtain from Bed Bath, mu
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by Digory 9y ago
About the time Target began its long decline, James Lileks wrote about how he'd welcome a Target-alternative with short lines and clean, well-stocked stores ... IIRC, he suggested it could be called Samuels.
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by Digory 9y ago
This is a prime(!) example of a really powerful kind of first-mover advantage. It will be difficult to overcome with communication or advertising. I remember Amazon's policy, like millions of others, because of a little shot of dopamin
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by Digory 9y ago
This is pretty typical of professional regulation language. Go look at your state's definition of "counseling" or "practice of law." At the limits, it covers almost any advice to anyone. It's usually more diffi
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by Digory 9y ago
I noticed it was increasingly easy to get memberships; I saw several groups promoting free AL memberships as a side benefit last year. Now it's free to join, apparently. Not sure if these numbers capture that shift, but loss of subsc
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by Digory 9y ago
If the Russians had a virtual monopoly until the late 1700s, it's interesting that the plant spread so fast. My grandparents told stories about their parents enjoying rhubarb, and they were certainly not wealthy. So rhubarb went from s
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by Digory 9y ago
Yes. I think it's fair to say Unroll.me wasn't being honest about data use. The service was supposed to identify spammy e-mail by address or subject, and file them away. It's part of the business model to screen e-mail addre
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by Digory 9y ago
You're telling me that benefitting 33,000 people by $125 isn't worth $1.25m? If we started paying founders based on per-customer benefits, it gets ugly, fast. Amazingly, people here seem to think it's a grievance that gets
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by Digory 10y ago
If you read between the lines, it seems odd to me that the district superintendent "encouraged" the investigation prior to publication. Sounds like a turf war. So if this decision was made by the Board without staff assistance, I
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by Digory 10y ago
It's not just kids, is it? That's too middle brow at these firms. It's perfectly acceptable for a woman to graduate from the firm to be a full-time "socialite" or join the charity circuit. "Playboy" is
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by Digory 10y ago
A reminder: LLCs aren't one tax status. You can have an LLC taxed as an S-Corp, an LLC taxed as a C-Corp, or an LLC taxed a pass through. Anyone who says an LLC is taxed in a particular way is way over simplifying to the point of conf
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by Digory 10y ago
Delaware law reliably protects shareholders.
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by Digory 10y ago
We can get most of the way around problems like that, can't we? If there's no payment, you get an immediately collectable judgment against debtor, or trigger a transfer in other payment streams (from an employer, etc.) or transfer
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by Digory 10y ago
Oh, it's clever, just not particularly evil.
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by Digory 10y ago
Yes, the ethics at the level of "should I sell a device that lets (usually) minor law breakers avoid surprise enforcement." Uber here seems to be in the same league as radar detector manufacturers, Waze's "Police" a
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by Digory 10y ago
Of all the things Uber is accused of this week, I'm pretty sure this one is the least concerning. It seems to involve the ethical dilemma of a radar detector. Speed limits are about public safety, too, but speed traps are usually abou
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by Digory 10y ago
I've used Uberconference (pro) over fiber for a couple of years, and it's been rock solid. In cases where one caller is bad, the web interface will show you who is killing the call quality and lets you mute them. Except in rare ca
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by Digory 10y ago
In civil litigation, my professor used to say you needed three experts: one who actually knows what they're talking about, one that the jury will like, and one to translate between the two.
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by Digory 10y ago
I suppose many weird things happen in $500m cases, but it'd be really unusual to have trial testimony sealed against the agreement of the parties. Pretrial reports and depositions, sure. Media was apparently there reporting during t
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by Digory 10y ago
Powerline ethernet, where it's available (and it normally will be near a TV) can be great.
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by Digory 10y ago
Everyone knew it was a close election, and that the system we have is the system we have. It's not like the DNC was surprised by the electoral college last week. People were blindsided because polling scientists treated the states disc
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by Digory 10y ago
Alphabet has access to better capital rates than most local governments, I bet, and they could go decades without a dividend. But, yeah, government can decide there's no need for a return. Businesses mostly don't get rewarded for
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by Digory 10y ago
I bet that's what Google thought, too. My understanding, though, is that Google only went to cities that agreed to clear all the red tape, in advance. So this project should have had most of the 'power of government' efficien
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by Digory 10y ago
Not surprising to see a shift to wireless, but it is interesting to see them 'pause' fiber before getting a wireless tech in place. It would have to be a heck of a difference to justify a full stop. Getting cables run in the real
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by Digory 10y ago
In addition to the other theories, this seems to be the rare, submissible case of tortious abuse of process. With wide-open punitive damages, I would think.
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by Digory 10y ago
The problem is the second assumption of Elo's system, per wikipedia: "if a player wins a game, he is assumed to have performed at a higher level than his opponent for that game. Conversely, if he loses, he is assumed to have perfo
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by Digory 10y ago
Right. The post links to slideshow "model" for counterfactuals given at Hulu. And I won't pretend to analyze it scientifically, but it's hard to shake the feeling that it's circular in this application. We want to
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by Digory 10y ago
One attorney I know pursued several claims against scam schools a few years ago. Of the schools he had investigated, he said DeVry was unusual because it was trying to operate like a real educational institution. Federal loan money has dist
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by Digory 10y ago
America finds it acceptable to flaunt wealth in a few places: Vegas. LA. Miami. SV, some. New York, kind of. But what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. In day-to-day America, claimed frugality wins. Most Americans will tell you their hous

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