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by qp11 2y ago
On TV and Radio (ie Broadcast Media) in most countries in the world, there are rules on how many ads (or limit on total duration) broadcasters can show per period of time. Big tech bypassed those rules claiming the internet has so much choi
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by qp11 2y ago
SV and Wall St still top the chart in number of Millionaires and Billionaires https://www.henleyglobal.com/publications/wealthiest-cities-... Then you sort the table by Growth and you get a different list.
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Shenzen tops the global charts in growth of Millionaires over the last decade(cnbc.com)
4 points by qp11 2y ago|3 comments
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by qp11 2y ago
Just based on current energy usage never going to happen. You just have to ask them to show you their energy bills alongside their demos.
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by qp11 2y ago
Link to paper - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07512-y
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2023 summer warmth unparalleled over the past 2000 years(arstechnica.com)
6 points by qp11 2y ago|2 comments
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by qp11 2y ago
We could just nuke the marketing and advertising industry. Without them no one would be craving 90% of the garbage they crave.
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by qp11 2y ago
Its not going to be achieved by 2025. There are lots of issues piling up. Like a giant mountain range in fact, if you talk to people behind the curtain. The hype machine is not going to advertise these things, and they do the opposite to st
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by qp11 2y ago
Herbert Simon - "The criticism of practice (called "drill and kill") and the emphasis on sparking interest is very common. But all evidence, from the lab and studies of professionals, indicate that real competence comes with
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Melinda Gates leaving Gates Foundation after more than 20 years(forbes.com)
21 points by qp11 2y ago|1 comments
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by qp11 2y ago
Microsoft is looking like the next Boeing for anyone paying attention to the attacks in the last couple years. End result of limitless greed. No TikTok or Snowden required, just the fantastic Microsoft software stack. They can't even p
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Disney and Walmart combine their data exploring a closed loop advertising model(fool.com)
2 points by qp11 2y ago|0 comments
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by qp11 2y ago
Also my strategy includes fucking with or cutting ties with "mindlessly ambitious" people. Just raise their cost of existing and drawing others into their vortex. In today's environment, technical, design and financial tools
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by qp11 2y ago
Freedom is not possible if everyone is given a mic connected to the same sound system. It only works if there is a sharing and coordination mechanism that the majority agrees too. As is the case when it comes to Broadcasting on Radio Spectr
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by qp11 2y ago
Rationality has nothing to do with it. Look at US reaction to China.
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by qp11 2y ago
"censorship resistance and free speech" are delusional goals if you give everyone a mic connected to the same sound system. Social media is an extremely abnormal (and therefore unfixable) system because it tries to give everyone B
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by qp11 2y ago
Depends what ideas they have for search. They could do a Group feature or social/community formation feature around people with similar questions close by etc.
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by qp11 2y ago
Can be applied to Ad Blockers too. We need new Laws clarifying what is Attention Theft, treating Attention as a finite resource and specifying rules for Attention Allocation. Just like with Spectrum Allocation. Taking too long for this to h
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by qp11 2y ago
The Theory of Bounded Rationality tells us super humans are over rated. There will always be problems you throw in the lap of a super human, that they wont be able to solve cause of lack of time, or cash, or personality or missing info, or
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by qp11 2y ago
We already got a glimpse during covid. Sky is not going to fall. Looks like they are making noise so China makes some sort of deal with industry, that the spice shall flow come what may.
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by qp11 2y ago
Real creative bankruptcy at Apple. It shows you can have all the cash in the world and it wont buy you imagination. The Explore-Exploit Dilemma tells us running a Gold Mine requires a very different set of skills, than the skills required t
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by qp11 2y ago
We were using the compass for navigation for thousands of years, without any clue about what it was doing or why. Ofcourse lot of people got lost cause compasses are not perfect. And the same will happen here. Theory of Bounded Rationality
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by qp11 2y ago
After the invention of the sewing machine, Corporate robots told us, everyone would have one at home and make their own clothes. Turned out most people don't want to or need to make their own clothes. There are better things to do in l
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by qp11 2y ago
This is old news - https://www.voanews.com/a/efforts-by-us-to-crack-down-on-tik... Has to be seen in larger context of the Attention Wars. There is now more content then eyeballs by a massive margin. The UN report on t
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by qp11 2y ago
More like it gets hard to achieve anything else because all other heavy duty sectors of the economy are already monopolized. When Google entered the telco space you would think they would easily take down the ancient parasites that are AT&a
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by qp11 2y ago
Well its old news how the NYT works, maybe not to next gen, so here you go - https://web.archive.org/web/20131025035711/http://www.carlbe...
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by qp11 2y ago
If you aren't learning anything much or growing, then no brainer to jump ship. For Long Term growth more than company rep or salary, its the kind of people around you that will shape you. So decide based on people you are going to be a
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by qp11 2y ago
Cause we all want to quit corporate wonderland.
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by qp11 2y ago
The more airlines competing the better the service quality. But these days thanks to consolidation, they can raise prices/drop quality and customers have to deal with it cause they have fewer alternatives - https://www.axios
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by qp11 2y ago
Agree it creates misunderstanding of the relationship between Technology and Politics. How certain tools are used fully depends on the Politics of the person using the tool.

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