Baseball started it, but then Daryl Morey and the basketball world quickly took the baton and beat the living hell out of a dead horse. There’s a famous boxing quote that says “styles make fights”. Well, the NBA used to have a bunch of different stylistic ways to play the game and everyone leaned into the specific strengths of their roster. But... See more
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The study evaluates the effects of vote swapping in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, finding significant increases in support for Hillary Clinton among third-party voters using a field experimental design.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, airlines used their loyalty programs as collateral for loans they took out to remain afloat during the downturn in travel.
In the future, advances in AI will make most things we care about too cheap to meter. I expect most goods, services, and web content will be available without friction, cost, or ads. In order to create that abundance, I think the field as a whole has to do this.