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But as 'Railway Economy', it does align with the ancient meaning.
Like the word is used today in 'modern' subjects, Green Economy, Circular Economy (which is not Circular Flow), etc.
BTW, welcome, new user.
The article's about Duolingo. Mainly about whether Duolingo's sending aggressive notifications leading it to getting pageviews (engagement in today's parlance) can be replicated by other apps sending aggressive notifications too in a sick zero sum game of garnering your attention.
Meta: Link is an approx 6 minute video that I found to the point. It's about reading more to expand one's self.
Much of the rest is about creating nostalgia and reliving a past trip through these.
Is there a paradox, or contradiction, in these themes?
* identify you across devices;
* actively scan your device for identification;
* create profiles about you;
* combine data to measure how much revenue you generate for them even before paying...
...blurs a boundary with requiring to pay them for the pleasure of doing to.
Who's paying, and how?
I'd [] the above, but even the expanded cookie banner doesn't have a canonical url to these demands.
And no, it was not a thing.
Not that I disagree with it being dystopian. And then there's hardware encoding of codecs. In the end, this all stops with Apple and Microsoft.
But I love the photos. A certain 1970s feel to the exposure, colors.
Generally, I'd agree.
You don't need to scrape sites if you dictate your truth.
Therefore read some psychology papers about how people create their realities. Then make stuff up; what gets believed is going to be mostly correct in your audience's reality, which should feed back into your model. The cost of getting stuff wrong is profit if you exploit it. Let your audience filter do it for you, and who are you to dictate what's correct for someone else anyway? Make it sound catchy and convincing for a variety of tastes. Generate a few short video creators with different personas like Street Fighter characters from yesteryear that viewers can project themselves on to.
I do all my best work on it.
Would the USA if a terrorist group in Mexico had attacked and retreated with hostages to Mexico? A wall would not be on the agenda.
If companies insist on filling in a web template, my experience is they have inflexible ERP systems and I'd rather not work there so I don't demand that either.
A CV's fine. I also print them. It costs less than $0.10 per page. How 1993.
Short username the equivalent of a low /. number. Unfortunately, -1 Insightful isn't possible in the more groupthinky HN.