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Burn After Wearing 2 years ago

If the margins are high enough, then it's optimal to overproduce and then sell to everyone who will buy at a certain price point. If discounts will reduce your ability to sell the same brand in the future at that price point, it can be financially optimal to destroy it instead.

THIS IS INTENTIONAL.

Business epistemology is not about knowing Truth, it is about knowing currently useful information and practices, and it is expensive to validate or generate this knowledge.

Hence we get the same thing over and over again until someone convinces people there is a better way, or simply does something different and makes more money.

And PowerApps is slow as balls.

Power Automate is great, but PowerApps is just a mess where every click in the dev interface takes like 5 seconds. On paper it looks so good, but in practice it is so painful to get that on paper performance and functionality.

Omegle 2009-2023 3 years ago

Good for them!

Knowing when to call it quits is very wise. I mourn the end of a characteristic internet site, but I respect the founder.

Open Data Is Dead 3 years ago

Indeed, the trend in corporations is to be actively hostile to web scrapers as well. Programmatic access is not encouraged so they can sell more ads.

It's the classic data nerd trap.

"I'm pretty good at statistics and can predict things using software... I bet I could make money in the stock market"

And then they realize just how hard it is.

"The proprietary and for-profit nature of Zoom also has made it subject to multiple cases of algorithmic bias. The once esoteric seeming issues are now a stark reality."

As a huge fan of FOSS, I gotta say this is ridiculous to include here.

Except that requirements cost time to develop, so perfect requirements have significantly more cost than good enough requirements.

Also, requirements tend to evolve as customers grow, so requirements will change over time and become less perfect, causing that investment to depreciate.

Create a view in the database that takes the transactions and returns the data in the format that you want.

It will probably have a bunch of JOIN client.id on transaction.client_id etc etc, but it's the easiest way to get started.

When the view stops running fast enough, switch to a scheduled materialized view.