Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Checking in on MoviePass

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MoviePass Hikes Subscription Fees, Limits Access to Films The company is strapped for cash and has introduced a series of measures that i...

Understanding Netflix – – children's programming isn't child's play

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Whenever an extraordinarily high.value for a company appears to be based primarily on a good narrative, you should always examine the b...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Light rail versus self-driving cars

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This is Joseph Consider : “We are definitely going to have pushback,” said Brad Templeton, a longtime Silicon Valley software architect...
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Friday, July 27, 2018

This is how you cultivate IP.

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Since we're in the middle of a thread about the business of television, content libraries, and intellectual property, I thought it would...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Tech industry approaches in other fields

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This is Joseph I found this twitter thread by Dr. Sarah Taber to be pretty thought provoking.  The real interesting part is at the top: ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Disney, Fox and Netflix

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I apologize for this, but the only really good summary I've found of the impact of the Disney Fox merger (particularly on Netflix) is th...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Jonathan and Huell

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When I first moved to LA about 15 years ago, I did what countless others had done and started working my way through the cheap half of Jona...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Libraries versus Amazon

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This is Joseph, talking about something Mark Palko tweeted. There is an article suggesting we replace libraries with Amazon : Amazon ha...
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Friday, July 20, 2018

When Bell Labs got funky

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Leafing through Internet Archive's If magazine collection looking for public domain art I could appropriate (sooner or later I will need...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

You thought I was exaggerating with the Muskmas line, didn't you?

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This amusing thread from Gizmodo's Matt Novak beautifully illustrates some points we've been making for a long time. The language an...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Deficits

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This is Joseph. This is an interesting tweet thread by Jeffery Brown .  Here is an image of a few tweets: What is really interesting ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

More on health care costs

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This is Joseph. As projections go, this one is shocking : Medical services are expensive. There is no getting around it. The average fam...
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Monday, July 16, 2018

What next for health care costs?

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This is Joseph I read with great interest this article by Edward Murphy on US health care costs.  The bottom line was quite interesting: ...
Friday, July 13, 2018

A follow-up to yesterday's post

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This is Joseph In yesterday's post we talked about employer monopsony.  Relevant to this post is today's news about Washington st...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Jodi Beggs on employer monopsony power and mimumum wage

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This is Joseph Jodi Beggs has a great post on the minimum wage in the presence of employer monopsonies .  If there is only one buyer of ma...