"Pretty much everybody on Earth has a threshold for how much to indulge an idiot who doesn't know how to conduct herself," Steve Albini wrote, "and I think Ms Palmer has found her audience's threshold".
Fannie and Freddie also recently set a threshold for how many loans they will purchase with "misrepresentations or data inaccuracies" before they will force the originator to buy them back.
It seems that there's a minimum threshold for how long a route must be active before the app saves it.
Most countries have a pretty clear threshold for how long you have to be physically present to become a subject to different laws and regulations.
If there is a threshold for how many digital devices and services we want in our lives, we don't seem to have reached it yet.
Tech stocks took a beating toward the end of the year, and although Apple seems to have weathered the storm better than most companies, it may have reached a threshold for how much it can innovate on its high-end hardware.
"Spouses usually have a threshold for how much time they can tolerate away from their partner so when a husband starts spending more and more time and energy on work, they're devoting less time and energy to their marriage," she said.
