Polymathematician on nostr

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alp · 2w

As long as Big Tech ignores us, but we don’t ignore them, we’ll lose in the long run.

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How can you ignore "big tech"?

alp · 2w

By not using and not building on or with it.

nomadred · 2w

Brave new world by Aldous Huxley is a terrfying book. It pertains more to our current reality than 1984

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Huxley was associated with the occult.

abu ruqayyah · 3w

I've noticed that everyone on Nostr is like 40 years old Where did the rest of the age demographic go bro

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A lot of the people here used to do blogging before corporates took over.

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Subscription pricing models are popular since once a consumer has subscribed, they rarely leave or think its too "small" to matter and so the business receive multiple payments of $15 per month.

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Automation usually does two things:
- Abolishes jobs.
- Rapidly increases workload because more could be done

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Reducing the pensions of old people is a double edged sword in the sense that yes more money could be allocated to younger people but this reintroduces more old people back in the workforce making it harder for young people to compete.

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There is a difference between capex (capital expenditure) and opex (operating expenditure).

Capital expenditure refers to the purchase of capital goods that are usually for "long term".

Operating expenses refers to day to day expenses or routine expenses.

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Whilst abundance economics reduces scarcity when it comes to commodities and manufactured goods.

When it comes to the labour market, it starts new abstract ideas of scarcity.

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Since data has become so lucrative and so intertwined with the global economy especially after the rise of A.I., data has become the new factor of production.

We possibly might see the utilisation of analogue computing which takes data in "continuous" form rather than discrete.

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