goodhacker

I think we forget the hidden cost of not being able to run well targeted ads. If we remove the ability to advertise this way, it increases the barriers to entry for new business. Right now, due to highly effective targeting any small startup (and big firm) can go pretty niche and launch a product with a small amount of budget.

If we rely on old pre digital tactics with no targeting, it's like going back 50 years and using a machine gun in the dark.

Combine the Google cookie depreciation, Apple's recent changes in 14.5 and the general mood around 3rd party data sharing which makes effective outbound lead gen more difficult. I think we are witnessing death by a thousand cuts in terms of increasing the barriers to entry for smaller business.

The only sensible comment here

Isn't abstraction of any sorts essentially creating a 'black box' I.e the higher level system doesn't need to understand the lower level system as it's not need or isn't relevant.

My thoughts are it's scary for engineers to feel like they are abstracting themselves away from a lower level systems, a bit like how it's hard for managers of people to let go the tasks they used to do themselves...

Feels like a shrewd purchase. Build your own from scratch for 3 billion or take a stake in one already built for 500 million.

Interesting it's only 20% though

I would tend to agree with this. Except in the UK it isn't purely based on colour but based on class. White working class kids who come from coastal towns are some of the most deprived and underrepresented segments of the UK population as a whole.

Not really applicable to the situation. A pro business centrist Conservative won with a large majority.

Labour is the only party along with the BNP (white supremacists) to be Investigated by the human rights commission for racism.

The talk of people of colour wanting to leave is over blown. Look at the cabinet and junior ministers, it's one of the most diverse there has been.

Yes, but this is to be expected. I think we are nearing the 'trough of disillutionment' in the Gartner hype cycle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

K'nex is a great one!