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901.
by sib 8y ago
I guess for (4) you mean, "repeat if [attributable] _profit_ increase [vs control] > $1,000"? Not much point in driving $1,000 in _revenue_ with $1,000 in marketing spend unless your margins are 100%.
902.
by sib 8y ago
You visited them and you didn't turn off your browser's cookie requests; therefore you decided to accept the files that the site offer to your browser.
903.
by sib 8y ago
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." -Pericles (or maybe Trotsky)
904.
by sib 8y ago
Agreed, this is annoying. Little things like this make a big difference in voice UIs. But not quite as bad as the old Hertz Neverlost (r) system, which would tell you, in a huffy voice, "Please return to the highlighted route!" Ra
905.
by sib 8y ago
As a note, Amazon's one-click patent expired in September of 2017.
906.
by sib 8y ago
It's highly likely (see what happened with Disney removing content from Netflix) that, as consolidation continues, other major studios will also remove their content from Netflix. Once that happens, Netflix may find it harder to keep
907.
by sib 8y ago
While Netflix does have great technology and a lot of expertise in this area, Disney now effectively owns BAMtech ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAMTech ), once known as MLB Advanced Media. That's the organization
908.
by sib 8y ago
I'm trying to figure out whether there are actually a meaningful fraction of pedestrians who would be detected...
909.
by sib 8y ago
Part of it stems from the meaning of the term, "city." While they may be incorporated as cities, three names that jumped out at me from your list are Lawrence (KS?), Santa Fe, NM, and Bend, OR, each of which has a population of &l
910.
by sib 8y ago
Simple economics and public choice theory would say that, if parents are willing to spend lots of money to send their kids to a private school, rather than sending them to public school for free, then they believe (and most likely with good
911.
by sib 8y ago
I think the idea is that, since RH hasn't been acquired or gone public, they haven't yet "ended up" with a high valuation. It could all go away before the investors can get liquid (e.g., Theranos for a pathological examp
912.
by sib 9y ago
Nothing I can share, unfortunately.
913.
by sib 9y ago
There's such a difference, and it's so hard to find really high-performing ones, that you would be constantly telling customers, "that won't work well"... We considered literally thousands of potential words. We als
914.
by sib 9y ago
Yes. In this case, the selection of a wake word ("Alexa") or phrase ("Hey Siri" or "OK Google") is driven primarily by performance (i.e., reduction of false accepts & false rejects). The folks designing the
915.
by sib 9y ago
There is no such thing as "public money." There is only money that the government has taken from people via taxes. So, if the government takes money from me, under threat of force, and then spends it on a candidate with whose view
916.
by sib 9y ago
Just a quick note that you probably mean "conflates" (combine two or more texts, ideas, etc. into one) rather than "conflagrates" (a conflagration is 'an extensive fire that destroys a great deal of land or property
917.
by sib 9y ago
They are registering the fact that you knew it and used it to ship to a specific address in a previous transaction in order to reduce fraud risk. They aren't submitting it with every transaction. (Assuming they are following the rules.
918.
by sib 9y ago
I'm a hobbyist photographer who gets to shoot significantly about 4-5 weeks per year. In each such week, I typically shoot 2,500 - 3,500 images. My current DSLR camera produces images that are in the range of 50MB each. That means abou
919.
by sib 9y ago
Exactly, thanks for clarifying. And also why I was shooting with single shots to try to time the ball close to the bat. Given a camera that took about 5 frames per second (200msec between frames), the ball would move about 29 feet (8.8m) in
920.
by sib 9y ago
Things move a lot in a millisecond, although it's certainly easier to see that in small-scale images rather than this lighthouse one. https://sib.smugmug.com/Sports/Baseball/SEA-DET/i-jhrMkC3/A This
921.
by sib 9y ago
I think you are making the mistake of comparing Australia's "Greater Capital City Statistical Areas" [0] with United States cities , when the GCCSAs are better compared to US Metropolitan Statistical Areas [1]. The top US MS
922.
by sib 9y ago
1) So? There are many German-speakers who live in the US and in other countries outside of Germany. There is a huge difference between "targeting" people who speak German and those who live in Germany. 2) So they should sue to blo
923.
by sib 9y ago
In the country where I live (the US), I have every right to take a picture in a public place with you in it, even if you are the primary subject. I can even publish such a picture on a blog, Facebook, Instagram, etc., pretty much anywhere a
924.
by sib 9y ago
If you "told me" to delete a picture that included you that I had taken in a public place, I would "tell you" no. If you politely asked, I would generally delete the picture, depending on whether or not there was a reaso
925.
by sib 9y ago
I used to work at Amazon (in a different area, but collaborated with people in the video business) and I now work for a company that competes with Amazon's transactional video service. The world of physical rental - at least in the US,
926.
by sib 9y ago
As a note, it's not Amazon deciding to make the rental price "obnoxious" to take high margins - it's driven by the wholesale prices that they are charged by content licensors for digital rentals. (I know, this fact doesn
927.
by sib 9y ago
Sure Walmart carries Criterion series films: https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=criterion%20collection...
928.
by sib 9y ago
From the bgr article: > Dubbed “Shipping with Amazon” (SWA), the service will pick up packages from businesses and deliver them to customers. > Sources claims that Amazon will begin rolling out the service in Los Angeles within the ne
929.
by sib 9y ago
It's important to note that Apple had 13 weeks in the quarter that they just reported on, while, in the year-before quarter, they had 14 weeks. This is a difference of just over 7%. That means that Apple sold more Macs per day (and gen
930.
by sib 9y ago
Earnings == profit. You may be thinking of gross margin. "Earnings are the amount of profit that a company produces during a specific period, which is usually defined as a quarter (three calendar months) or a year."

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