Quick Notes

Johannes Ernst

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2021-01-05

Roaring 20s?

Seeing another prediction. I’m having some difficulties envisioning this for anybody than the, say, top-10% of the population in countries such as the US. Family balance sheets are wiped out across the board. How can you roar?
2021-01-04

Making a list of data tracked about us on-line

Clearly, I should have bought more stickies.
2021-01-03

When Uber spent $100 million on fraudulent ads

Rather incredible story. Also highly interesting to see how aggressive, high-growth companies look at advertising and conversion.
2020-12-31

Facebook doesn't believe in its own ads either

“…internal Facebook communications … major flaws in ad targeting capabilities, including that ads reached the intended audience less than half of the time and that data behind a targeting criterion was ‘all crap.'” From The Intercept.
2020-12-28

Idea: a pandemic transportation tax

When a pandemic is declared, all transportation costs double. The money raised is used to support patients and essential workers. What’s not to like? Prompted by the horrible TSA transportation numbers for this Christmas week.
2020-12-19

How much time should I spend fixing a $10 keyboard?

Capitalism says: just few minutes, up to $10 worth of your time. The finite planet says: oh, you’d like to run out of resources even earlier? The result: a functioning-again keyboard after a while of fiddling.

Roaring 20s?