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Comment · 4 years ago
Spending more time outdoors makes it less likely the child will end up needing glasses. Learned that one too late.

Also, people carry their childhood experiences with them for the rest of their lives, and these experiences are shaping a lot of their adult behaviors. It’s sobering to think that we as parents are responsible not only for a slice of someone’s life but for its entire trajectory.

Comment · 6 years ago
Little Caesar was a co-founder’s nickname.
Comment · 7 years ago
Logitech has (or had) a Skype camera that you’d clip to a TV to do a similar thing; it’s been around for years.
Comment · 7 years ago
Maybe residents would place beacons where they want the drones to land?
Comment · 7 years ago
Since WSJ didn't bother to link to the study, its title is "Online Tracking and Publishers’ Revenues: An Empirical Analysis," you can see it on Google's Scholar.

It's not about whether the cookie is "enabled", but whether the cookie for a particular impression is available for matching.

The experiment looked at ad transactions of a single media company.

Comment · 7 years ago
Probably child care / private schooling for the two children. Don't see it itemized in the table.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'd select 10 random users who abandoned the app and offered them $10 in Amazon ecards for 10 minutes on the phone with me. Then, I'd ask them what they had hoped for when they signed up, and what went wrong.
Comment · 8 years ago
Romanian
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
I work in one of the data-related verticals that has a fair number of startups selling to companies like ours.
Comment · 9 years ago
When talking to startups as their prospective client, I feel I can often tell which ones are from a Y-combinator batch; they are nice, responsive, and thoughtful.
Comment · 9 years ago
Looks like you don't need to pay to unlock the emails. Click on the YouTubers' usernames, their contact info is on the About tab.
Comment · 9 years ago
I think he is implying (correctly) that in the absense of a robust secondary market for cars, the prices for new cars would drop -- there would be less demand for new cars people knew they couldn't resell. It's a bad analogy, though, especially for an economics professor. By suppressing the secondary market for his book, he secures his monopoly on a mandated good, ensuring the higher price.
Comment · 9 years ago
Makes sense. The clickstream data that ISPs are now free to sell would be a goldmine then.
Comment · 9 years ago

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