Do you seriously think that ? My experience is so dissociated that I think it unbelievable. I don't remember ever seeing an ad for a small business on the web, even less discovered one through them.
I discovered most small businesses that I use through word of month, seeing them while traveling or active search through google or google maps. The ones that I may have discovered through ad where through local physical add such as any box fliers or fliers/posters in other local businesses.
in order for to see small business ads you really have to have your browser fully exposed in order to be targeted - small business are local and feeding ads for a massage parlour in sam diego to me 3,000 miles away is not a good allocation of marketing money. I am 50 and have never, not once discovered a small business through an online ad
Also, a 24 hour detainment in reasonable conditions is very different from an indefinite detention with a possibility of torture (solitary confinement) or being sent off to an El Savadorian prison with no hope of being returned.
In the US you need probable cause to get pull over or temporary detain you.
In France, you don't need probably cause for temporary detaining you, but if they suspect you of something they can also send you to jail. You can't be sent to jail in the US just on them just suspecting something.
I don't think moderate deflation after a period of hyper-inflation is much of an argument. It's just a weird little gotcha that someone who doesn't want to abandon their priors will whip out. Not compelling at all. It's like claiming a failed medical intervention is the cause of a death because it had some negative effects that might have even made things worse, but the patient was already sick and dying. Many cancer patients die from the effects of chemotherapy before the cancer itself gets them, it doesn't mean cancer is actually good.
Minor by comparison to the hyperinflation experienced? Yeah. No I don't need a mirror, I can see myself clearly.
This whole thing is just a distraction that I didn't even bring up though, it has nothing to do with my original points. I wouldn't want to experience prolonged deflation at that rate either, markets rely on a certain level of stability and predictability to function well, everybody benefits from that and I would not argue otherwise.
There is two aspects to a company :
- one that benefits a few private people, mainly the share holders and high level manager/executives
- one that benefits the society as a whole, mainly through the company production/services and the salaries of its employes
There is an option to punish the first aspect while limiting the damage on the second one : the nationalisation of the company, with limited compasation to its shareholder.
Strangely it seems to only be done or considered to save "to big to fail" business, such as bank, in time of crisis, not as a tool of law enforcement.
I was able to formaly state a "nogo" when I worked in banks. The management could bypass it, but it was then a formalized decision of their part and it discharged me of any liability for the problem that lead to my "nogo".
> This is a noble goal but unrealistic and unfair at scale.
It is in the current organisation of software development because it doesn't allow that.
In the building sector you can't build without your design being signed of by an engineering office and the engineer and its office take the responsability for it, both at the criminal and civil level.
If the same rule existed for the software industry, the organisation would adapt itself around it.
That it's due to the corporate regulation has to be proven.
Being an european, I would say that the first cause is cultural. Innovation for the sack of innovation isn't particurlaly viewed as positive as in the US. In many circle it's even seen as negative. Same thing for entrepreneurship, as there is a good chunk of people that see Businesses, especialy big ones, as an ennemy.
> Being an european, I would say that the first cause is cultural. Innovation for the sack of innovation isn't particurlaly viewed as positive as in the US. In many circle it's even seen as negative. Same thing for entrepreneurship, as there is a good chunk of people that see Businesses, especialy big ones, as an ennemy.
Don't be revisionist, Europe is a continent full of innovations, both industrial, scientific, and artistic
This negative mindset only appeared recently, and it seems to be spreading, so what has changed? Perhaps WW I/II, the Marshal Plan and propaganda? Looks like it's very well documented
"The Americans insisted that the German coal sales monopoly, the Deutscher Kohlenverkauf (DKV), should lose its monopoly, and that the steel industries should no longer own the coalmines.[12]: 351 It was agreed that the DKV would be broken up into four independent sales agencies."
It's like if Europe asked the US to break Microsoft into multiple small companies because it is too big lol
This is what affected Europe's ability to innovate, loosing its big industries and its ability to form big and global companies, instead was forced to open its market to the US which could expand its giants as they wish..
Oh and this one is interesting too:
"The loan was followed in 1948 by a free grant of $2.3 billion from the Marshall Plan, with no repayment. In exchange, French cinemas would replace the numerical quota with a "screen quota". This meant that French cinemas were required to show French-made films for four weeks out of every thirteen and leave the other nine weeks of every quarter open to free competition, namely from American films.[5]"
I have used Jira at several place, and every time that it worked fine Jira was the source of thruth for the project. There was no shadow tracking beside it. So everybody updated it happily and used it.
You can't do that based of the code because the code is limited to its content. How do you track everything that isn't in it ? (requirements, relation with other teams, delivery to customer, customer tickets,...)
It really depends of your business. Sure if your are a SaaS company, SAP, Google,... that's the case.
But if you are a small shop that build software for other companies, it isn't. You write the software, get a one off paiement and you'll not be able to get more revenue from it in the future outside of a possible maintenance contract. You can't resale it to someone else.
To summarise, the work of many software companies is akind to the work of design office : you do R&D for someone else. The amortization will have to be done by your customer, not by you.
I discovered most small businesses that I use through word of month, seeing them while traveling or active search through google or google maps. The ones that I may have discovered through ad where through local physical add such as any box fliers or fliers/posters in other local businesses.