nobody_nowhere

…if you don’t want to have a functioning immune system

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!

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.

It's practically incoherent

Statements like this always bring me back to Goedel's incompleteness theorem...