The fact that people can choose not to use a product has nothing to do with whether it is a monopoly or not.
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yeah but the organization she is suing was the cause of revealing her identity, leading to her being targeted, ostracized and fired.
actually maybe the targeted is in reference to Nieman.
I guess I see not a legal connection, but the kind of connection that people often make in informal speech.
I think the takeaway was actually Roger Sterling was mistaken there, and it later came back to bite him.
At any rate one question I have had in the last few years (maybe due to age) is how do you keep up on latest technologies - I then have side projects and articles I can point to as a way to learn new things.
exactly, but unfortunately the way to get out of a prisoner's dilemma situation is to communicate with the other prisoners and to trust each other - communication about prices is illegal and who trusts their competitor anyway?
>by not even trying to go open you have already lost.
sorry, I thought the store was open until it closed down and posted its reasons?
The problem with following the don't raise wages strategy and wait for your competitor to do it is if they outlast you - you reach the have to close position first.
>By not raising wages, keeping your employees and staying open you will definitely go under.
unless something changes that will make it profitable to raise wages.
>There is always convenience customers, loyal customers and opportunity customers who do not care about the 2-3% difference in price.
In a small margins business this might not be enough to keep you afloat.
>I think some businesses are going out of businesses because they stubbornly refuse to raise their wages.
That would mean the people running those businesses were in need of psychological help, it is pretty much crazy to close your business because you refuse to raise wages.
I propose a counter explanation - your business has a very tight margin - if you raise wages you cannot afford to continue in business unless you raise prices. If there is a competing business nearby and you raise prices you lose customers to competitor and you will have to go out of business - unless of course competitor also raises prices.
You and competitor(s) sit around waiting to see who will raise prices first, probably one of you closes up because they don't have enough workers.
The one who remains open gets customers, because of extra income from customers they might be able to raise wages. At any rate they can probably raise wages because competitor that closed can't just reopen without any down time.
well I guess it is barriers, as per the article -
2.1 People lie
2.2 People are lazy
2.3 People are stupid
well, we had to make the superior system of cash inferior - as just described.
Teaching Tech Together (2019)
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>So now we have a situation where the pendulum is now at the other extreme, where machine-generated classification barely intersects with human-generated meta-data at all.
The problem is that human metadata has a pretty solid barrier, but the barriers of what machine metadata can do keeps shifting due to increases in technology, therefore people keep investing in machine processes because they do not yet seem to have reached their limit.
In all literature there are strong themes of mistaking the blessing for a curse, and vice versa.
Euler Spiral
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Luckily the AIs we will be able to build now that P = NP means that this kind of error can be caught by the machines in the future.
Math and the Art of M.C. Escher
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4. You need to have a relatively small number of humans who are specialists in some domain edit some large structured format that will be consumed by a computer. Thus you probably need an XML editor and the validation tools XML supports, rather than trying to roll your own.
>Facebook should be forced to show me the feeds I choose to subscribe to.
What about constantly manipulating you to become aligned to the more extreme versions of your ideals, so you will subscribe to more extreme feeds?
>A more repeatable study designed today might partner with smartphone megacorps and/or also use in home microphones like Alexa, etc.
and would be done by Facebook or Google to sell the data that you need money to loan companies.
>Baking images and deploying new ASG makes production deployments take around ~ 15 min.
>Docker based solution could probably cut it down to 5 mins.
this reminds me of when I was working on the Danish government electronic invoicing project.
The political driver of the project had made some statement along the line that a minute was going to be saved on every invoice sent (which I mean there would be millions and millions of minutes saved every month), and someone else made the observation in my hearing that he doubted that time saved would be monetizable. Which I took to mean that when small amounts of time are saved those are likely just swallowed by meaningless other tasks and not used effectively.
I doubt the 10 minutes saved per deploy by using Docker would be monetizable.
I suppose in periods of anti-intellectualism there must still be pockets of intellectualism bucking the trends of the majority culture.
NASA reaches for graph DB to find people, skills for Moon and Mars missions
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