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From the following description of a business model can you tell what business it is. Provide eyeballs to advertisers who pay them for the service. It is the intention of the service provider to make the aggregated cost of providing the eyeballs to be less than the total price paid by all of the adv...

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Some cool research out of Sweden, who after a terrible start is arguably doing well with Covid in 2021. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210 ... chers.aspx There’s enough in this to give partisans of every argument something to prove their immovable opinion. Like oil to a fire. Sweden is to covi...

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Some cool research out of Sweden, who after a terrible start is arguably doing well with Covid in 2021. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210 ... chers.aspx There’s enough in this to give partisans of every argument something to prove their immovable opinion. Like oil to a fire. Sweden is to covi...

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This is a very good article that is specifically relevant by a dude who’s generally considered the best on the planet with this stuff - it even describes Google as a monopoly :shock: https://stratechery.com/2019/regulating-demand-ad-targeting-and-unintended-consequences-expedia-ceo-out/Yeah Follow ...

towny

From the following description of a business model can you tell what business it is. Provide eyeballs to advertisers who pay them for the service. It is the intention of the service provider to make the aggregated cost of providing the eyeballs to be less than the total price paid by all of the adv...

towny

Some cool research out of Sweden, who after a terrible start is arguably doing well with Covid in 2021.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210 ... chers.aspx

There’s enough in this to give partisans of every argument something to prove their immovable opinion.

towny

Some cool research out of Sweden, who after a terrible start is arguably doing well with Covid in 2021. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210714/e2809cHerd-immunitye2809d-not-responsible-for-Swedene28099s-control-of-COVID-19-say-researchers.aspx There’s enough in this to give partisans of every a...

towny

Some cool research out of Sweden, who after a terrible start is arguably doing well with Covid in 2021. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210714/e2809cHerd-immunitye2809d-not-responsible-for-Swedene28099s-control-of-COVID-19-say-researchers.aspx There’s enough in this to give partisans of every ar...

towny

From the following description of a business model can you tell what business it is. Provide eyeballs to advertisers who pay them for the service. It is the intention of the service provider to make the aggregated cost of providing the eyeballs to be less than the total price paid by all of the adv...

towny

Pat the Ex Mat wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 8:31 am On Facebook no less

Facebook is for old people. Well, older than me anyway.

towny

Pat the Ex Mat wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:10 am
towny wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 9:46 am High school economics is irrelevant. University economics is irrelevant.

The internet is a different world and those that use pre-internet concepts to understand it don’t get it and never will.

I'm loving the TAFE Course you've done - remote?

University of Life

towny

Frizell slapped on the wrist with a one game ban. In conjunction with Reece, I think that's a really sh i t look. The no dickheads policy was always a bit of a myth, but it's clearly dead in the water now. Yes it's disgusting and I'm very disappointed. Should be a 12 month ban atleast imo. Folau, r...

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This is a very good article that is specifically relevant by a dude who’s generally considered the best on the planet with this stuff - it even describes Google as a monopoly :shock: https://stratechery.com/2019/regulating-demand-ad-targeting-and-unintended-consequences-expedia-ceo-out/Yeah Follow ...

towny

I guess Scandinavia has achieved herd immunity. Good news!!

towny

This is a very good article that is specifically relevant by a dude who’s generally considered the best on the planet with this stuff - it even describes Google as a monopoly :shock: https://stratechery.com/2019/regulating-demand-ad-targeting-and-unintended-consequences-expedia-ceo-out/Yeah Follow t...

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I think I get it now. Suncorp Stadium controls the supply of Wallaby fans in Qld and this harms the Wallabies because they aren’t able to play at other stadiums and make less money. :thumbup: When you look at it, there are thousand of similar antitrust violators that control the supply of people. Al...

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Sweden made plenty of mistakes, though it didn’t have the luxury of locking down. Nothing Sweden has or hasn’t done has impact on the pisspoor it performance of NZ’s vaccination program, which is the second worst on earth. Closing the country was a big call but piss easy to coordinate. Rolling out a...

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What supply is Google controlling and who is harmed by this? These are the only questions that matter. The answers are: - nothing. Supply on the internet is infinite - no one. All Google users benefit from their overwhelming dominance. If you can disprove any of this I’ll send you a good bottle of ...

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:thumbup: Also, evidence of group-think isn’t evidence. If you don’t understand a topic, and you must realise you don’t, why would you be so passionate that you’re correct? I understand the topic. I feel I understand this topic better than you from this conversation. I understand your point. Google...

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NZ has the second worst vaccination rate in the developed world. That’s disgraceful imo.

Being better than Australia is like coming second last on the Biggest Loser.

towny

What supply is Google controlling and who is harmed by this? These are the only questions that matter. The answers are: - nothing. Supply on the internet is infinite - no one. All Google users benefit from their overwhelming dominance. If you can disprove any of this I’ll send you a good bottle of C...

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Sweden is pretty close to normal life. 1 death in weeks and transmission is 10% of what it was at peak. Don’t get me wrong, I am not suggesting NZ and Oz open up in any way. I think both are going the right way; however neither government should escape accountability for the disastrous roll-out of t...

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At current growth rates (1.1%) all the baryonic matter in the observable universe will be used up in the construction of future humans within 8500 years. This figure will be 8023 years if we can isolate what causes small calf muscles. Does that number take into effect any future efficiency gains or...

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Also, evidence of group-think isn’t evidence. If you don’t understand a topic, and you must realise you don’t, why would you be so passionate that you’re correct?

towny

Why not use countries that didn’t have massive street parties as an example? How’s Scandinavia going?

towny

:(( People Towny knows more about monopolies than: The authors of investopedia (who are Wall Street fund managers and university professors) University Professors writing text books Jeffrey Sachs US Congress Academics Fortune 500 CEOs So your argument is to lump authorities in a bundle and make a bi...

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The FTC kicked off this case after the US Congressional Report. It didn’t last until lunch time. Although the Court does not agree with all of Facebook’s contentions here, it ultimately concurs that the agency’s Complaint is legally insufficient and must therefore be dismissed. The FTC has failed to...

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People Towny knows more about monopolies than: The authors of investopedia (who are Wall Street fund managers and university professors) University Professors writing text books Jeffrey Sachs US Congress Academics Fortune 500 CEOs So your argument is to lump authorities in a bundle and make a binar...

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If you do t want to believe me, how about the US Congress investigation that found Google and other tech companies wield monopolistic powers? https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/tech/congress-big-tech-antitrust-report/index.html I know heaps about that as I’ve been following it closely. 1. They’re polit...

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This is counterintuitive and I’ve been deep into this for a few years. What I should do is stop prancing like a know-all and give you stuff from experts. But I’ve done that and no one except GS read it. So get farked! I guess I can continue to hold court like I’m a professor talking to kiddies. :lo...

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This is counterintuitive and I’ve been deep into this for a few years. What I should do is stop prancing like a know-all and give you stuff from experts. But I’ve done that and no one except GS read it. So get farked! I guess I can continue to hold court like I’m a professor talking to kiddies. :lo...

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Overrated: NZ lamb Underrated: Australian wine Who the hell rates NZ lamb? Bargain basement mutton. The same people who like Australian wine. The Oz wine at Tesco is rancid so I know what you mean. Kiwi lamb is alright though. Yes, but the local salt marsh lamb I get here is the absolute bomb. Not ...

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Those countries have been in lockdown? Wembley Stadium was packed. We were still in Lockdown then. Wembley was given special dispensation,,, not saying it isn't a clusterfuck here, it is... but it is also a good test of vaccines. So far it has shown they are extremely good at stopping serious infec...

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You’re using Google right now and every time you’re on the net. https://static-asset-delivery.hasbroapps.com/9688c1ee284bc3452ba52dce87d8c97a4c2b948c/0db41409c10b46ae99b710427a1d7913.png What is the product you’re using? Who’s paying for it? Irrelevant. I don't want Google to control it. Whatever i...

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This is counterintuitive and I’ve been deep into this for a few years. What I should do is stop prancing like a know-all and give you stuff from experts.

But I’ve done that and no one except GS read it. So get farked! I guess I can continue to hold court like I’m a professor talking to kiddies.

towny

guy smiley wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 9:45 am
You’re using Google right now and every time you’re on the net.

What is the product you’re using? Who’s paying for it?

towny

High school economics is irrelevant. University economics is irrelevant. The internet is a different world and those that use pre-internet concepts to understand it don’t get it and never will. Supply on the internet is infinite. Having supply means nothing. You’ve got news? Great - I’m not paying b...

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Here is an economic textbook definition. https://openstax.org/books/principles-economics-2e/pages/9-introduction-to-a-monopoly Nice one. What ‘supply’ does Google control? The supply of what? They utilise a search function to create a product for advertisers. They control the supply of search? Ther...

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They control the sale of being promoted in a search function. They control the search function to the tune of 90% of the market. It’s a position where they can control the price. Whoah! Big pivot. But 99.9% of sites don’t pay to be promoted. Also, now tell me how they control the price, which is my...

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If Google chrome didn’t allow the user to go to bing.com you’d have a case. But there is no such control.

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