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by dilemma 11y ago
This marks the day when Instagram switched from providing a service for their users to providing a service for advertisers. With this algorithm in place, they can also sell premium positions in people's feeds. For this reason it also m
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Is your medication amphetamine-based?
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Computers follow instructions written for them. Humans write their own instructions (and can even disregard instructions).
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You're right. My comment went a bit far.
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The much hated, not much understood, legal obligation for CEOs to always act in the interest of shareholders comes as a result of just the situation you describe. It's called the Principal-Agent problem IIRC.
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"Once it reaches a certain threshold, the process of institutionalization becomes counter-productive." - Ivan Illich This is an example of why planning doesn't work. And the unforeseen side-effect of any policy is an example
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PageRank isn't transparent and objective, it is opaque and arbitrary.
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I've been referring to Obama as George Bush III for years.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/07/10/a-jud...
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No. MFN in combination with the five-publisher collusion orchestrated by Apple let them negotiate to increase prices. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/07/10/a-jud...
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Their power to negotiate came from the collusion that Apple orchestrated. This makes it very clear: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/07/10/a-jud...
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Amazon uses MFN to be able to match the lowest price available. Apple uses MFN to fix prices so that nobody sells the same titles for less than they do.
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Apple used MFN to ensure that nobody sold the same books for less, fixing prices at a higher level.
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If you really want to know, there's enough articles available on Google from the past several years to make it crystal clear. My above is the condensed version. None of the things you bring up are correct.
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Apple set a specific price ($16.99 or so) for iBooks, then used MFN to make sure that that was the "lowest" price, effectively increasing prices elsewhere from say $9.99 to the same $16.99. That is, they fixes the price at a highe
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True. In practice, power in Zappos and holacracy is probably much more centralized, more arbitrary and less transparent than that of a hierarchical organization because there is no explicit structure. There is nothing protecting the lower r
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The agency model has something called "most favored nation" which forces the same retail price on all channels and retailers.
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The Frontiers of Management, and The Practice of Management, both by Drucker, are excellent and inspiring. Especially the former.
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Your dismissal of what the parent brought up is arbitrary. All of these lawsuits are due to Google's business model, which it needs to keep the search engine running.
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Readers may be interested in knowing where the legal requirement to maximize shareholder value comes from. Then it won't seem quite as evil anymore. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_prob...
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Standard Work is an incredibly interesting concept that I've just started looking into for organizational design.
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>It is against common understanding why Canada's more numerous bachelors degree holders seemingly doesn't contribute to a more productive labour force. If investments in education do not increase labour productivity (as predict
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I just had my YouTube account effectively closed for login in from Tokyo.
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Newborns like their mothers.
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Excellent. Saved to my Management notebook as a reminder to my future self.
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This is just hand waving. It's impossible to replace editors with computers, you even say so yourself. Netflix is a studio; you're trying to change the meaning words because the facts don't fit you.
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A computer can process text, it cannot read and it cannot write because it cant think. There is no automating taste. Publishers' function will be close to exactly the same, just built on top of a digital infrastructure and organization
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And then successful dedicated marketing outfits starts vertically integrate to beat out competition, offering editorial services, distribution, etc.... becoming a publisher. What will happen is that some publishers fail to adapt to a digita
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I have some insight into the industry and while some details may be slightly off, I believe your outline is very accurate. Thank you!
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I used to think so, but in industries where supply is abundant, publishers provide not only "post-production", but distribution and more importantly marketing and branding - social proof. The biggest benefit may be setting oneself

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