“Wow this seems like a policy designed to work spectacularly well for the class that wrote it and blow up terribly for other people.” More of the first half of that; the second is a side effect. It’s a known side effect, in the literature, but was not considered a blocker.
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Building Exceptional Internet Value Without Shortcuts
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Nobody was bitten by a radioactive spider. Nobody was born into royalty. Nobody married a Kardashian. People just produced outstanding amounts of value on the Internet over a long period of time.
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AI Transforms Finance: Real-Time Fraud Detection and Risk Management
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The finance industry is a frontrunner in AI adoption. Used to manage complex risk challenges, AI algorithms can analyze vast amounts of data in real-time, enabling early detection of fraud and market fluctuations. Source @VisualCap Link https://
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California Raises Software Employee Pay Minimums Overtime Exemption
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California Raises Software Employee Pay Minimums for Overtime Exemption https://
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Kitchen Work Hours: Industry Labor Conditions and Burnout
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If you think 9am to 8pm is hard. Try working in a kitchen. This reminds me of my first few jobs in the service industry, mainly working in a kitchen. We “burnt the candle on both ends” or “pulled a double”. Meaning going in 07:30 for prep. Then you left at midnight after you
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YouTube’s Market Power: Ad-Blocking Users Accept Uninstallation
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Agreed, it's very well run. My point was that it's such an integral product that the Adblock audience (a very fervent audience) is willing to uninstall to keep using it. I think YouTube is great, not a lot of products could pull that off.
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YouTube Creator Program and Premium Subscription Value
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I've heard good things about their creator program – YouTube seems to be doing a bunch of things right. I happily pay for Premium.
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UK Deputy PM Endorses Open-Source Code as Global Economic Benefit
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Releasing good open-source code is giving a wonderful gift to the world. I'm thrilled the UK deputy PM @OliverDowden gets it, and just made a strong statement in support of open-source: “It's not just economies like the U.K. and other European countries that benefit from open
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YouTube’s Unmatched Market Defensibility and User Lock-in
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YouTube’s defensibility as a business is wild. People would rather uninstall software that makes their computer more convenient than stop using YouTube.
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Money doesn’t guarantee better quality of life perspectives
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personally i don’t think that having more money would significantly improve my quality of life