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Having many keys, means that you can preform thousands of asynchronous requests for small pieces of data and then piece it together on the client side.
Super low latency is just something else to optimize for.
1. Existing user base
2. Subscription price
3. Churn rate
4. Growth rate
Maybe the content ranks somewhere in there, but I doubt it. Primarily, because objectively you should be able to judge the content based on the metrics above.
I did this with added sugars. I could definitely feel the cravings to not only eat more as you added it back in but also the baseline cravings to just have some amount of sugar in your body. It is very eye opening.
You also become very aware of how much sugar is in everything.
However, I would argue that it's the same answer to the hardware problem. You start small, by offering a limited product to a segment of the population that believes in the same features that you care about. As you grow, you then become a target for Facebook to develop a native app for your OS.
I'm not saying it's easy, but the Apple/Android market was built over decades. The iPhone was terrible when it started, but it could call, message and email people. Seems like a good starting point.
You're talking about features, of which a company can also develop themselves. There is no app so pervasive on either platform that makes owning an Android or iPhone such a requirement that automatically disqualifies any competitor. Unless of course you mean the UX provided by the OS.
It may be a pain to switch to some new phone or start up, but thats the job of a business. To convince me that their product is worth paying them money for.
Love the username :)
Creating a video game is probably as close as you can get in the software space to art. It's the culmination of hundreds of different skills into a single package that has the off chance to shift and affect culture across the globe. Its exciting, and has the potential to fill someone who works on it with an intense amount of pride. That, in my opinion is not addiction.
Unless you consider artists, musicians, designers, actors and hundreds of others who work in purely creative mediums, addicts.
There is a lot to be proud of by shipping something that is used by hundreds of thousands if not millions of people and especially more so if it makes people happy. It's that intangible feeling of creating and seeing it successful that keeps people working in the video game industry despite the very obvious downsides.
For a lot of people, it's attempting to create something for players that fills them with as much emotion as they once experienced playing another game.
I definitely understand the worry when it comes to high profile discoveries, but surely the work a graduate student is working on, isn't usually that high profile?
And to be clear, I'm not downplaying the importance of anyones contributions, but rather why the focus isn't shifted onto where data is sourced from? If someone used your data, shouldn't it be immediately obvious if they also have data publishing requirements? And if thats true, why isn't it a bigger faux pas to use another labs data before that lab has even published their paper on it?
This reduction in spending will largely affect non core spending like services and luxury-ish/luxury goods like electronics, cars, houses, etc. This happens to be where the bulk of the US economy is focused which means a slow down in spending there will effect workers in those industries.
Couple that with higher core good costs and just natural momentum in regards to spending. You're left with large parts of the economy that experience a flywheel effect that make it harder to purchase things and further reduce the ability to spend on other non-essential goods and even when things start to change, peoples mindset on spending takes years to shift with it.
All of this leads to reduced demand and ultimately a recession.
Capital intensive projects like Refineries, Storage and Shipment are inelastic, but actual drilling is relatively elastic. To the point where they leave wells sitting, pre-drilled ready to turn on in the event that they become profitable at some point. I'm assuming there is also excess capacity available in the inelastic parts of the system given that a lot of these infrastructure was built during times when the US was a larger extractor of oil.
Who do you expect to use this product day in and day out? And then make it even smaller and go look for those people on LinkedIn, Reddit, HackerNews, Twitter, etc.
Then just hit them up. You don't have to be selling necessarily, you can simply be asking about the problems they might have or looking for feedback on something.
Obviously this depends a lot on B2C or B2B, but there exists a community of people somewhere with the problem you're trying to solve or a company which is kind of a community :D.
If you can't find an audience, then I think that also answers your question.
So in essence, they're selling limited time exploits to load malware and I guess having to constantly find new exploits to sell. Hell of a business model for sure.
https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pegasus-project/how-does-pegasu...
It might be worth reading through it to view a mindset that has developed around pharmaceutical companies and doctors in places that were hit the hardest by the opioid epidemic such as mining towns, old industry towns and other rural areas that are predominately Republican.
They may vote Republican, but I think its fair to say that its likely not the image that first comes to your mind when talking about pro-business, well off Republicans.
Contrast this with a salary band which does have a fixed maximum.
If anything, those are some of the most repressed wages in the economy…
I'll agree that society has normalized some price discrimination in terms of interest rates being based on credit scores and we can debate the merits in relation to loaning someone money. And there are actually a lot of laws in place around how high an interest rate can be, who can be loaned money, etc.
However, first class tickets are not price discrimination because the offered service is in fact different which means it's not comparable to coach or business. In fact, I'm not aware of a service in which they ask you for your income statement when you walk in the door and then change the price accordingly.
Lastly, I find your rhetoric that a wealthy person should just become poor if they want equal treatment to be odd. Who classifies as wealthy? Will it be up to a judge every time? How will that change as the standard of lower, middle and upper class changes within a country?
It extends to the buildings that are built, shops that are run and overall feeling of the neighborhoods.
They're not all in the city for sure, and none of them are as big or as connected as areas you would find in say Orange County but still quite strong and really add to the cities themselves.
Which relies on investment and users to fund its growth.
It’s not just flying but also meat, cars, plastic, etc. I get that useless consumption is bad, but abstinence is hardly a solution for most problems.
In fact you can actually see that the rate of legislation has been steadily increasing over the years.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics
I won't make a statement about parliamentary systems, but believe it or not, the US system doesn't grind to a halt when the President's party is not in power, because the President doesn't just magically veto everything like a child might.
As a result, it seems like late night sessions are more about show that anything else?
As for checks and balances. Typically that refers to the Executive branch (Presidency and agencies), Legislative (House and Senate which have committees), and Judicial.
I’m not sure how this would be any different under a parliamentary system where you still have to work with various groups to form a coalition with enough votes?
You're free to obtain a subscription to any of those media companies personally and simply follow the link without Twitter Blue.
Most people likely aren't going to want to manage multiple subscriptions and will instead opt to not read the article. At least with Twitter Blue the user doesn't have to worry about multiple subscriptions and can simply read the story when they want to.
Additionally, they now have a notification that indicates that they won't immediately hit a paywall when they click on the link.
Ultimately, media companies need to be compensated, and this doesn't seem to be disadvantaging anyone...
It'll be interesting to see what this town looks like in 20 years as residents have a chance to add their unique style and the strong colors fade a bit.
Just if everyone wanted to live in a small town, there would be a ton of medium size towns instead.
Honda and Toyota built an absolutely massive market building low cost, reliable cars that have sold by the millions. Low end cars get more complex, because we find ways to make them safer which requires more technology.
You won't find an argument from me on education. I'm a firm believer in public education and that education is a cornerstone to providing economic mobility in any society. I wish our public universities were the crown jewels of the country and provided a low cost tuition to any student.
My only push back on the first two, is that it's not just growth in terms of the absolute size or quantity. It's just growth in terms of the monetary system which results in "growth" of the asset price.
Growth is natural, given that there are more people born, more money is printed and the economy expands to add jobs to meet those needs.
So yes, if tomorrow, no one else was born, a lot of systems would fall apart. Because growth would stall and liquidity would soon disappear as the last sellers find the last buyers.
There are disincentives around divesting your retirement funds because at that age you probably won’t have the physical capacity to work anymore. So encouraging investment into a vehicle that has shown generational abilities to generate growth and returns and beat deflationary effects seems only logical. The government creates this behavior by agreeing not to tax some income if you invest in your retirement.
However, this isn’t scarcity, stock markets are probably one of the most liquid assets on the planet besides literal cash.
If an economy is inherently inflationary then asset prices will literally always have to increase. In my mind this is less about house prices rising and more about the centralization of well paying jobs within specific economic hubs. There are millions of homes and hundreds of thousands of acres of lands that are practically worthless, but aren’t actually viable candidates because until recently you had to commute and the land lacked investment into the necessary infrastructure to support those jobs.
I’ve seen some arguments that no one wants live in small towns. And I don’t necessarily disagree, because the centralization of talent, competition and investment is often what makes large cities attractive. However, I would be remiss if I didn’t recognize the fundamental aspect that all large cities were once small towns.
If companies or individuals aren’t willing to take a risk and move to underdeveloped areas, then it seems only logical that scarcity will be created in centralized pockets and prices will be driven up doesn’t it?
Lastly, this idea that an object that for most people will be the most expensive purchase they ever make should be a static or deflationary asset is not something I understand. Home ownership isn’t cheap between maintenance and property taxes. Ideally those costs should be recouped somehow.
I know rendering can be quite heavy on a CPU, but it sounds like you're running a series of commands to generate a model instead