Http://marginalrevolution.com - lots of interesting links and commentary.
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Previously: DARPA Grand Challenge, US Naval Research Lab, co-founder Kinsail Corp (acquired '14), and Cancer Treatment Centers of America and Co-founder Superconductive Health. hello at jacob dot vi
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Glad to hear others have garden / yard side projects as well. best of luck with the harvest.
Snowball - biography of Warren Buffet
The Good Earth - novel about Chinese farmer
Fortune’s Children - the rise and fall of the Vanderbilts
Edit: My question is what caused these corporate customers to churn? Did they maintain spend levels with One Medical while the other customers grew spend? Did they decrease spend below reporting thresholds? Did they stop using (or sponsoring) these services entirely?
From a quick google, looks like this is the the norm throughout Hawaii:
https://www.hawaii-aloha.com/blog/2014/01/08/one-lane-bridge...
https://vacations.hawaiilife.com/blog/misc/one-lane-bridge-e...
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/ho...
>In August of 2010, Purdue Pharma replaced old OxyContin with a new, anti-abuse version of OxyContin. The new version was just as good at reducing pain as the old but it was more difficult to turn it into an injectable to produce a high. If physicians are altruists who balance treating their patient’s pain against their fear of patient addiction and downstream abuse then they should increase their prescriptions of new Oxy. From the point of view of health, the new Oxy is simply a better drug and with less abuse to worry about altruistic physicians should be more willing on the margin to prescribe Oxy to reduce pain. So what happened? Prescriptions for Oxy fell immediately and dramatically when the better version was released.
My roof surface area to consumption ratio is such that this system works pretty well for me (big roof, small human). However with a farm the roof surface area to consumption ratio is flipped - big fields needing water and little to no roof (maybe a tool shed or garage). And you can’t increase roof surface area since that would block sun from the plants. Industrial uses also have a poor ratio. Dense usage of water in a limited size building.
A couple of years ago, I read Medieval Technology and Social Change, by Lynn White (https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Technology-Social-Change-Whi...) as recommended by PG. Technically a textbook, it was a dry and drab look at the history of various innovations during Midlevel times - the stirrup, the windmill, etc. The 30,000ft view is that when innovations are introduced it takes a long time both for them to spread and for someone to finally exploit them to their greatest contributive state. While the steam engine was not invented until 1712, all of the components had been available since Roman times. It took quite a long time to find one of the greatest uses of those innovations. At least, it used to take a long time -
Now, information and innovation spread much faster. Society moves much faster. The innovation of the stirrup took a thousands years to propagate. The innovation of the internet took less than 50 years; Smartphones took 5. The pace of global change is increasing exponentially. A modern entrepreneur must have line of sight to the latest innovations in order to anticipate their impact on his or her society, industry, business, and personal well being. No one wanted to be the new Nokia, Borders Books, or Woolworths.
But, let's take a step back from specific innovations, and look at global mega-shifts in society. From the agricultural revolution, to the various metal ages, through the industrial revolution we are now being lapped by the waves of the Information Age.
As humans we quickly absorb each individual change brought forth in the information age - email, cellular connections, the world wide web, the smart phone, etc. Can you imagine running your business without your iPhone? We very quickly adapt to the here and now and forget the way it was (Thank you evolution!). However, what we are not good at perceiving is the systematic, second-order changes that the Information Age will bring. The Agricultural Age brought these changes over thousands of years. The Industrial Age brought them over generations. The Information Age will bring them with alarming speed that we may not be prepared for:
* Retailer's monopoly on local distribution was destroyed by Amazon.com + UPS
* Newspapers have been shattered by the internet's ability to breakdown their stranglehold on the distribution of information.
* The telecom world was turned upside down by the introduction of the cell phones, the internet, and the disruption of their monopoly on land-lines (Note that AT&T is a mere brand name, which was purchased on the cheap by SBC).
* The traditional media world felt this shock earlier this year when a man with a twitter account was able to upend their distribution monopoly on the news and they were left reacting and pandering instead of dictating.
But these are a number of examples in the commercial world. What about society itself? What about the global financial systems? What about governments?
Note: this was part of a letter I sent out with a Christmas gift a few years ago. Full letter here: https://blog.jacob.vi/the-sovereign-individual/
https://blog.jacob.vi/an-80s-throwback-artificial-intelligen...
In response to the above blog - Watson's early small-scale success clearly hasn't scaled to bigger and broader applications.
https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photos...
I believe they used to have a viewer for the model available on the web, but I can't seem to find it at the moment (maybe it died when Microsoft killed their PhotoSynth product).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_merchandise_volume
eBay states there's here: https://ebayadvertising.com
The question is what is the GMV for Amazon's entire marketplace vs. their first-party Sales.
1) I may not need to see the data itself during most (or all) of my dev loop, but just see any errors that are thrown.
2) Taken as risk mitigation, data temporarily cached in your browser is less risk than data permanently stored on your laptop, esp. when the threat you are mitigating is lost / stolen laptop.
>The origin of UTC lies with the company formed in 1928 by William E. Boeing as Boeing Airplane & Transport Corporation, which held controlling interests in Boeing Airplane Company, Boeing Air Transport Inc., and Pacific Air Transport (see Boeing Company). Within a year the company was renamed United Aircraft and Transport Corporation and acquired a number of aircraft- and aircraft-component-manufacturing companies including Sikorsky Aviation, Stearman Aircraft, Avion (later Northrop Aircraft), Chance Vought (aircraft), Hamilton (propellers and aircraft), and Pratt & Whitney (engines). In another two years it consolidated four smaller airlines into United Airlines and made it a subsidiary. In response to legislation prohibiting the affiliation of airlines with aviation manufacturers, United Aircraft and Transport Corporation was dissolved in 1934, resulting in three separate companies. Manufacturing facilities west of the Mississippi River became Boeing Airplane Company, those east of it became United Aircraft Corporation, and all transportation services were unified as United Airlines. United Aircraft Corporation retained, among other companies, Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, Hamilton Standard (later Hamilton Sundstrand), and Chance Vought. The first three companies remained core units of United Aircraft and then UTC until the early 21st century.
from: https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Technologies-Corpora...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...
For example when the intent is "list of place where the USPS ships" or "list of state-level political jurisdictions where US residents live"