The time you'd need to compare products also has value. Saving that time by buying a trusted brand is not inefficiency. You'd be poorer if you actually went out of your way comparing thousands of products.
If your model of an ideal market suggests that the realistic and practical approach is inefficient, i.e. your model fails when confronted by reality, your model is horseshit.
Also brand recognition and trust has real value because clearly people are willing to pay for it. Value isn't something intrinsic in an object. Value derives from what people are willing to pay. If people pay more for a rock with an Apple logo on it, then the rock with the Apple logo is more valuable. It's a quality other rocks don't have.
And what does "non-economic reasons" even mean? Should we all only drink tap water because it's cheaper and keeps us alive just as well? Or are we allowed to have some pleasure in life as well?
The time you need to find out competitor pricing (quote) is also inefficiency. Ideally (unachievable of course) all the options and prices (and fair comparison based on product utility only) is immediately available for any customer upon demand, with zero time spent on research.
Irrational behavior is when customers choose a product not for its utility divided by price (but note that pleasure is a type of utility).
Now, exactly how to calculate aforementioned utility is a big pandora box, the whole schools of economists grew up on that question.
> American institutions were set-up prima facie to be racially-motivated
the history of the United States is a collection of States and territories, forming under very different legal conditions over 100+ years or so.. that blanket statement is without context or detail aka insufficient.
I think you should market specifically to people and orgs that already have registered identity and location tracking of their movements, purchases and personal actions while on duty. Then you can practice your ambitious tech, but also not pull innocent people into more detailed tracking and analytics. Many occupations and orgs have already made this bargain, so stick with them instead of trying to get naive people to have their detailed movements and actions tracked. Also probably large parts of East Asia are doing this.
Appreciate thinking about it, but I think there's some misunderstanding - we don't track people or movements. VOYGR validates places - for instance, we are able to answer a question if this business still open?
FAANG colleague writes this week -- "I am currently being eaten alive by AI stuff for my non-(foss-project) work. I spend most of my day slogging through AI generated comments and code trying to figure out what is good, not good, or needs my help to become good. Or I'm trying to figure out how to prompt the tools to do what I want them to do"
This fellow is one of the few mature software engineers I have ever met who is rigorously and consistently productive in a very challenging mature code base year in and year out. or WAS .. yes this is from coughgooglecough in California
that's great, but when you have a networking issue, you have to deal with two stacks for troubleshooting. it would be much less effort to use just ipv4.
You're not paying for IPv4 addresses I'm sure, so did ipv6 solve anything for you? This is why i meant by zealots keeping it alive. you use ipv6 for the principle of it, but tech is suppose to solve problems, not facilitate ideologies.
But that's slow, and it's one more thing you have to setup and that could fail. What is the benefit to me if I used ipv6 and those nat services? what if I run into a service that blocks those nat IPs because they generate lots of noise/spam since they allow anyone to proxy through their IP? Not only does it not benefit me, if this was commercial activity I was engaging in, it could lead to serious loss of money.
At the risk of more downvotes, I again ask, why? am I supposed to endure all this trouble so that IPv4 is cheaper for some corporation? even then, we've hit the plateau as far as end user adaption goes. and I'll continue to argue that using IPv6 is a serious security risk, if you just flip it on and forget about it. you have to actually learn how it works, and secure it properly. These are precious minutes of people's lives we're talking about, for the sake of some techno ideology. The billions and billions spent on ipv4 and no one in 2026 is claiming ipv4 shortage will cause outages anytime within the next decade or two.
My suggestion is to come up with a solution that doesn't require any changes to the IP stack or layer3 by end users. CGNAT is one approach, but there are spare fields in the IPv4 Header that could be used to indicate some other address extension to ipv4 (not an entire freaking replacement of the stack), or just a minor addition/octet that will solve the problem for the next century or so by adding an "area code" like value (ASN?).
please recall that 8bit color was the common capability for CRT displays at that time. Simple one bit display was also common. Any smooth transitions in gray or color had to use dithering, or be very clever in the way they chose the palate.
Certainly some historic credit goes to Motif, but, there are "levels to this game" .. Motif did not jump out as "wow that looks good" IMHO. Obviously NeXT was extreme in a different way.. sort of like a symphony orchestra more than an office machine.
It is genuinely entertaining to see people defend the dull and pedestrian UI in Windows 95.
some people discuss these dynamics as sheep versus goats. Social stability was more precious due to scarcity, while goat behavior included 40 armed men killing their rivals with swords (and better if the rivals do not have their own swords). Many, many parallels exist in mammals that live in groups. You might be surprised at the details of how some mammals actually behave in real life!
no, that is a commodity market. Brand recognition and other kinds of markets are not like that.
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