And it would be less lucrative if there were more doctors, because you need there to be a significant demand in order to be paid a lot.
The problem is at both ends. We need more doctors, and we need more of them to stay here. It's not an either/or issue.
Leave me alone! You already took the kids! What more do you want?
Federated means you shoulder the cost of hosting the bits users care about, while they harvest all the value in what you post!
I like open back cans, personally.
I hate the feeling of having earbuds stuffed in my ears. I find the big circumaural headphones just disappear on my head, so I don't get distracted by the sensation of wearing them.
I like the open backs because I can hear anything I need to hear - cars, cyclists, etc. - but can more or less crush general background noise by playing music.
Pathfinder 2e has a lot of 4e DNA in it, and I routinely see people treating significant swaths of it as if it's a video game. Which, as a PF2e GM and player, is bizarre to me. People talk about playing it as if they're just exposing the mechanics to the air.
But if I was going to make a video game, 4e/PF2e are absolutely what I'd base the mechanics around. They're pretty tight systems, mechanically.
Have you seen the profits reported by grocery stores and residential REITs? The economy's banging!
Average people? Who? What? Eww, get away from me with that!
It doesn't look like it's worth the bandwidth
Eh.
The examples Doctorow user when coining the term were two sided markets, but if you actually read the original article for understanding, rather than to "well actually" on the internet, that the process being described is much more general than that, and is one of products or services becoming worse over time so that whatever value they provided becomes increasingly shifted toward shareholders.
This may seem weird in this case, still, because the only shareholder of Mozilla Corp is the Mozilla Foundation, but the principle still stands.
Moreover, you sound like a ridiculous pendant, because what's actually happening here is that Mozilla is turning Firefox into a vehicle for advertising, which means it's fucking entering a two-sided market... You're arguing that the sky isn't blue because it's night time at fucking sunrise.
Doom II remains my favorite in the series, and I still play the original pair regularly. I never really ever quit playing them. They remain comfort games from my childhood.
The mod scene has become absolutely crazy. The things modders put out these days blow my mind.
I never really got into the new games. 2016 was fun, but it didn't really stick for me. Once I played it for a few days, I had my fill and returned to the originals.
I think you may have confused capitalism with commerce.
Capitalism is about leveraging capital to generate wealth for the capital owner. The purist form of this is a subscription basedbsales model, where you always maintain ownership of assets, but everyone else pays you for access to them.
Capitalism is rent seeking. It will always devolve to this, given the opportunity, because this is the most efficient way of accruing more wealth, and that is what capitalism optimizes for.
Commerce exists separately from capitalism. It's just a form of trade.
South America was robbed blind by Europe and North America.
Part of what makes Twitter, Reddit, etc. such easy targets for bot spammers is that they're single-point-of-entry. You join, you have access to everyone, and then you exhaust an account before spinning up 10 more.
The Fediverse has some advantages and disadvantages here. One significant advantage is that -- particularly if, when the dust finally settles, it's a big network of a large number of small sites -- it's relatively easy to cut off nodes that aren't keeping the bots out. One disadvantage, though, is that it can create a ton of parallel work if spam botters target a large number of sites to sign up on.
A big advantage, though, is that most Fediverse sites are manually moderated and administered. By and large, sites aren't looking to offload this responsibility to automated systems, so what needs to get beaten is not some algorithmic puzzle, but human intuition. Though, the downside to this is that mods and admins can become burned out dealing with an unending stream of scammers.