Always intrigued by this idea. But the thing that I never see addressed in these discussions: what's the plan for schooling? just do small local rural schools? do online supplementation? This is the sticking point that…
so you are arguing that many small insurers, with insurance not bound to employment, would create a healthy price-quality structure in us health care? akin to the german model? i think that has some merit, but its hard…
I think you are making a more articulate defense of private/market based health care than i usually hear. but i think fundamentally health care has too many forces that make it untenable for a market. there is no real…
Quibi seems like a neat idea but is being run very strangely for what it is: its being run like old media when the point is that it's new media. -where is the trial option for a new media format? -where are the samples…
Agreed, and that should be illegal. Having companies pay for data of non-users as part of Yang's proposal doesn't change anything.
Yeh, this seems backwards, the users pay the companies for free products with their data and their attention. That's the business model. Why would Facebook and Google run those servers if they couldn't have profitably…
You could argue that, but in that case my inclination would be that you are arguing in bad faith or we live in different realities. There was nothing about that speech which suggested a didactic presentation to me. Like…
I dont think he suggested people inject themselves with disinfectant. That summary is what allows people to say that headlines are blown out of proportion and allows glossing over the real and only slightly more nuanced…
The political discussion in this thread is fascinating. There are people advancing intelligent arguments about how the presidents podium remarks were flippant but basically on topic and that he wasn't telling people to…
we use azure data explorer for a lot of data storage. It is a terribly boring name but it highly performant at a large range of data sizes, stores rectangular (table) data with clear schematization, and uses the piping…
I dont really know how to change the economics of the web without changing the laws around financial transactions. The various anti money laundering laws and anti terrorism laws make it basically impossible to transact…
Yeh, my research had basically dead ended in MSB regulations as well. I get the money laundering concern but also strongly feel that absence of micro-transactions has destroyed the internet and is now doing terrible…
Say i have a platform (like a game) and I would like users to be able to exchange tokens of some kind, like kudos. But i would like those tokens to have actual value. So a user might buy 50 tokens for a dollar, gift…
Does anyone know if anything in the space can allow for P2P microtransactions? Maybe in batches: people send each other a few pennies at time and cash out at the end of the month? From my review it seemed like this is…
Agree in principle. But in practice, what is the alternative business model you propose? Also, changing the business model away from surveillance capitalism, in my eyes, is not a first step but a massive and complicated…
This reads like an amazing work of fiction.
No, its toxic by design. All the big social networks exist to serve advertisers. They sell users attention to marketers. This means that their profit is directly dependent on how much attention they can harvest. So the…
Yeh, this is one of the reasons network effects are so powerful and so effective market capture. Anybody who wants to push against that is going to have to spend a lot of time and resource getting enough users to create…
Fear of uncertainty makes sense and something I haven't thought about too much in this project. Sad that the modern net has created such a 'gotchya' impression. I would think that this comes from everyone promising free…
I really like her commentary and glad she is getting more attention. I think the issue is the magic of free and the irrationality of humans. Free creates irrational responses. People will use a lot of a thing if its…
well now the video was released. she was walking from the median. So yes, that seems like a colossal failure of the system.
I think the police are incorrect in saying that the woman walked out the median. If you look at the photo (in the NYT) with the bike and car, its shows (and is captioned as) the car damaged on the right side and the…
Always intrigued by this idea. But the thing that I never see addressed in these discussions: what's the plan for schooling? just do small local rural schools? do online supplementation? This is the sticking point that…
so you are arguing that many small insurers, with insurance not bound to employment, would create a healthy price-quality structure in us health care? akin to the german model? i think that has some merit, but its hard…
I think you are making a more articulate defense of private/market based health care than i usually hear. but i think fundamentally health care has too many forces that make it untenable for a market. there is no real…
Quibi seems like a neat idea but is being run very strangely for what it is: its being run like old media when the point is that it's new media. -where is the trial option for a new media format? -where are the samples…
Agreed, and that should be illegal. Having companies pay for data of non-users as part of Yang's proposal doesn't change anything.
Yeh, this seems backwards, the users pay the companies for free products with their data and their attention. That's the business model. Why would Facebook and Google run those servers if they couldn't have profitably…
You could argue that, but in that case my inclination would be that you are arguing in bad faith or we live in different realities. There was nothing about that speech which suggested a didactic presentation to me. Like…
I dont think he suggested people inject themselves with disinfectant. That summary is what allows people to say that headlines are blown out of proportion and allows glossing over the real and only slightly more nuanced…
The political discussion in this thread is fascinating. There are people advancing intelligent arguments about how the presidents podium remarks were flippant but basically on topic and that he wasn't telling people to…
we use azure data explorer for a lot of data storage. It is a terribly boring name but it highly performant at a large range of data sizes, stores rectangular (table) data with clear schematization, and uses the piping…
I dont really know how to change the economics of the web without changing the laws around financial transactions. The various anti money laundering laws and anti terrorism laws make it basically impossible to transact…
Yeh, my research had basically dead ended in MSB regulations as well. I get the money laundering concern but also strongly feel that absence of micro-transactions has destroyed the internet and is now doing terrible…
Say i have a platform (like a game) and I would like users to be able to exchange tokens of some kind, like kudos. But i would like those tokens to have actual value. So a user might buy 50 tokens for a dollar, gift…
Does anyone know if anything in the space can allow for P2P microtransactions? Maybe in batches: people send each other a few pennies at time and cash out at the end of the month? From my review it seemed like this is…
Agree in principle. But in practice, what is the alternative business model you propose? Also, changing the business model away from surveillance capitalism, in my eyes, is not a first step but a massive and complicated…
This reads like an amazing work of fiction.
No, its toxic by design. All the big social networks exist to serve advertisers. They sell users attention to marketers. This means that their profit is directly dependent on how much attention they can harvest. So the…
Yeh, this is one of the reasons network effects are so powerful and so effective market capture. Anybody who wants to push against that is going to have to spend a lot of time and resource getting enough users to create…
Fear of uncertainty makes sense and something I haven't thought about too much in this project. Sad that the modern net has created such a 'gotchya' impression. I would think that this comes from everyone promising free…
I really like her commentary and glad she is getting more attention. I think the issue is the magic of free and the irrationality of humans. Free creates irrational responses. People will use a lot of a thing if its…
well now the video was released. she was walking from the median. So yes, that seems like a colossal failure of the system.
I think the police are incorrect in saying that the woman walked out the median. If you look at the photo (in the NYT) with the bike and car, its shows (and is captioned as) the car damaged on the right side and the…