Tangent, but there has to be a better way to measure population density than taking total area as the denominator and headcount as the numerator.
Something like 'median density': sort citizens by local density, find the median, and report that. My guess is that California would have a higher number than Florida by that measure. I don't know about Switzerland vs. California, but that's the question I'd like to answer here!
Another approach might be to start by subtracting land not available for most human uses for whatever reason, e.g. up on the Eiger, or in a large national park, or on a military reservation (places like Pendleton and Hunter Liggett immediately come to mind in California).
I'd guess those two approaches converge on a similar number, but using the median density is pure statistics, while removing unused land is more of a judgement call.
The median approach does risk minor artifacts based on the divisions used to calculate density (census tracts in the United States), but since we're looking for a median value, and census tracts are pretty small, it should be reasonably precise.
Better align executive pay with business performance from the beginning. If the business is failing then parting company with the CEO is working as intended.
The biggest threat I see to this though is Apple Pay (for mobile web). When sites integrate with this properly, it enables them to match the Amazon experience. No need to register or enter any details, just one fingerprint, and all done.
That's great for the minority who use Apple devices. It's not going to touch Amazon though.
If there was a cross-platform payment service which integrates with Apple, Google, Samsung (et al) Pay, and then is ubiquitously employed on mobile web, now that could make a dent in Amazon sales.
I doubt an Apple Pay-like solution alone will help much. Even on sites that support Apple Pay, a lot of them still ruin the experience by making you go through several screens, ask for details, etc despite Apple Pay being able to provide them everything they need (name, delivery address and shipping options) and make it a one-click experience.
It would certainly help. I think the push needs to come from banks and their apps, or for an independent payment processor to become popular enough (a la PayPal).
The integration needs to be easy and well implemented. I've lost count of how many sites I've gone through "1-click" pay with PayPal and then still had to enter my address details again because they haven't integrated it correctly with their shopping cart.
Revolut has ~10m customers. Not all in the UK, but Revolut and Monzo both have enough accounts to be inside the top 10 current account providers in the Uk
It's a lot smaller than you think these days with all the effort that has gone into it.
Google reports an average PUE[1] of 1.11 over the past year, 1.09 over the past quarter, and the latest/best data centers are at 1.06 [2]. In simple terms this means that the total power overhead for cooling etc is just 6% of that to power the machines in them.
Google (and others) have gone to great lengths using AI, and radical new ideas for cooling.
Disclaimer: I work at Google, but not in Datacenters. All info public domain
