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- Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise … So things might get not cheaper but more accessible, anyway they all live in the world of "not costing as much as their true cost because externalized or …
- Judge social networks not by their DAUs but by the content of their CEO’s character … The report, Cost of a Child in 2018 , is a PDF. (The report is not in the “Latest Publications” section of the homepage, but it is the top …
- There Was No User Need … Nearly a year after after California launched their digital vaccine record website, the State of Oregon, where I live, launched theirs in April 2022. The Oregonian news-thing …
- Trinity … dollar cost. The whole thing is underpinned by subsidized tokens and subsidized access. My interpretation of that or synthesis of that is this: Be aware of the token …
- First Rule In Government Spending … What's the cost there? A whole bunch of previously visible costs have just been externalised into packets of EM radiation in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz range …
- Video games are broken; Spotify is less broken; More people have been to Russia...; We actually have an alien? … She lives in Toronto with her family, their dog, and a veritable zoo of stuffed animals. And then after that we’ve got: Friday 9 October: HPW, Live …
- Disintermediation & Externalisation; Housing; Odds … The other side of this is the fantastic one for businesses that get to externalise formerly internal costs under the guise of consumer choice. So instead of having …
- Shattered … I am appreciative of all we've gained. I am also tired because of all the costs we didn't measure, the tiny papercuts because who is there …
- News and Religion … a small number of gatekeepered sources due to the cost of distribution, either by paper or different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. I think that the internet additionally …
- Cities; Disruptive; Still Brittle … to drive up the standard of living of everyone, not just the middle class? Find a way to reduce the cost of childcare. If having women working in …
- Policy is strategy, mumble videogames … You could argue that Minecraft has a community of haves and have-nots already, but when it comes down to it, that's because we live in a …
- You Broke It, We (Should) Own It … that we live in a world where we can just, like, make up rules if we want to? Certainly we’re seeing the effects of an U.S …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation, Netflix/Everyone Else Edition … chops to look into the procurement budget of a $54m tech project and neglects to mention that $5m of those costs are to AWS , well, seriously. Nice blatant …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … Do you have a business case? Because this either lives in a cost center, or... Me: Well... I can think of only two reasons to do this, one …
- What Is It Like To Be A PlayStation? … whatever giant collection of stuff Sony is. Is it hardware? I'm not entirely sure? PS VR2 is coming out next year, and say it costs another $400 …
- Standards; The Bird in the Room … Mass social media public squares above a critical size of, say, hundreds of millions of useres, right now cost too much in terms of implementing quality of experience …
- What’s the target? … By producing a (somewhat) fair playing field of low-cost digital distribution (significantly lower cost than the previous practice of having to actually print out copies of scores …
- Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch … What does it mean to get decisions wrong? Because the cost of getting moderation decisions wrong -- like, what happens when a person of color has their account suspended …
- PARC THOR LASER AKL-IX AOaS CFPB … Be aware that doctors and hospitals are required to give good faith estimates of patients’ expected costs before planned procedures under the No Surprises Act, which took effect …
- This Generation's Commodore 64 … the living room most likely (if you were British), I remember that by the late 1980s, us British youngsters were dimly aware of the concept of American kids …
- Solid 1 of 2; Requests: Cities and Technology … So - and as friends at the conference pointed out - you have Cisco's Cisco Live internet-of-things style conference down in the city proper, and out here …
- Cursed Takes; Multiplayer Figma and Low Ping Bastards; Digital Isn’t Better Than Paper … Plus it’s cheaper to live here.” and then smushing it all together: “More tech workers are planning line-of-sight microwave links to the data centers hosting …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … Combined with the exit rights issue, Alexander also raises that there need to be things to exit *to* - this is pretty linked to the transaction cost of leaving …
- The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum Viable Whimsy … Finding problems to change the world, right? It makes me think of Amazon. One of their major costs right now for the part of their business that is …
- Domestication … What does "helpful" mean? What kind of house or living situation do you have where robots can easily roll around? "I need you to clean up a mess …