Sure you do. Two mediocre programmers working as a pair might get 100k each. One elite programmer can clear 7 figures easily. The elite programmer will also have much more control over the IP they create and be able to negotiate much more stringent terms for how it is used.
If you think pair programming is a good idea you are just at the bottom of the industry.
> I think we have to have a conversation over what part of the infrastructure stack is right to police content
how about no part of it? if the founders of the united states were able to create the world's most powerful nation without giving themselves the right to censor speech then why should any private company need the right to censor speech?
when wealth and income disparity are at an all time high then for the ruling class paralysis is the best policy.
the only voice that matters is the voice of wall street and the voice of the corporate elite.
as long as politically irrelevant people on the left and right are busy yelling at each other about irrelevant issues that have no effect of wealth and income distribution then everything is going according to plan.
i am not sure what that article is supposed to prove. it doesn't contain any study results on the accuracy of meteorological predictions.
I don't have the data handy but to the best of my recollection weather forecasting for high/low temperature and precipitation does pretty well for the range of 24-48 hours but declines steadily in accuracy, and is no better than random guess around 2 weeks out.
That said, you are not addressing my other point, which is that "weather prediction" is just saying "things are going to stay the same." You are always starting with a set of conditions and then looking at your records and seeing what happened in similar conditions and predicting that the same thing will happen again.
Predicting that things will stay the same may come out as better than random guess in many cases but it will still be 100% wrong in cases where something novel happens.
don't forget that producing all this content costs 10's of billions per year so someone has to pay for it. both the cost of production and the amount produced keeps increasing so prices need to go up to.
i am not sure that it is directly tied to monopoly. paying for a subscription reduces friction for watching individual shows/channels so it increased total viewership and total consumption. every pay point you add adds more friction so will reduce consumption. that is true whether you have monopolies or not. you could have 5 competitors and they would all maximize profit by selling bundles.
word. unlicensed content delivery platforms still vastly superior in terms of quality and depth of content after over a decade and billions spent by netflix, hulu, etc. if you really want people to pay for a product you should offer better quality than the people who give it away.
is that a joke? weather predictions are notoriously unreliable even though they are given with extreme granularity.
that aside you are missing a larger point. if you predict the future based on past data all you are saying is "the future will be the same as the past." you aren't predicting anything. you will be wrong every single time something novel occurs, which is pretty frequently in the real world.
the statue of liberty would be a great investment if the government was planning to tear it down and sell it for scrap and you could buy it cheap before the word got out.
It is an unfortunate misconception that statistical probability can be used to predict the future.
Any time you extend a statistical model temporally it immediately becomes mathematically invalid since probabilistic statistics are only valid for a fixed population at a fixed moment in time.
Unfortunately business and government is rife with people predicting the future based on statistical models that have no more mathematical validity than reading tea leaves.
economics: as market share for electric cars grows demand for gasoline goes down and the price for gasoline (already low) goes down thus exacerbating the already large gap in cost between electric and gas.
electric will always be a victim of its own success unless it can actually become competitive with ice on cost and energy density.
remember that the baseline cost for an ice car is about $1000 (used) and $5000 (new). there is a world outside of california (shock) and it has billions of potential customers.
careful with the libel there. that would be allegedly defrauded. the case was settled and it is highly unlikely that the plaintiffs would have succeeded at trial.
tl;dr group of founders at epinions gets conned by the ceo, their partner - and they sue that guy (who has a dubious reputation on many counts) as well as everyone who touched the deal including benchmark. they got a settlement. they probably would have lost at trial. i don't see how that reflects negatively on benchmark.
nervous about working with competent investors who aren't complete marks? somehow I doubt benchmark will have difficulty finding people to take their money.
If you think pair programming is a good idea you are just at the bottom of the industry.