TIL: smartphone market in India

In China, Apple’s market share is roughly 8% now from 13% in 2015, research firm Canalys says. In India—which last year overtook the U.S. to become the world’s second-biggest smartphone market...

It's hard to imagine a population of billion+ people.

"Guns don't kill people" for dummies

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/tours-events/

Prohibited Items
Prohibited items include, but are not limited to, the following:

Video Recorders
Handbags, book bags, backpacks or purses
Food or beverages, tobacco products, personal grooming items (i.e. makeup, lotion, etc.)
Strollers
Any pointed objects
Aerosol containers
Guns, ammunition, fireworks, electric stun guns, mace, martial arts weapons/devices, or knives of any size

TIL: Structuration Theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuration_theory

"The theory of structuration is a social theory of the creation and reproduction of social systems that is based in the analysis of both structure and agents (see structure and agency), without giving primacy to either."

Quote of the Day: Sense-making

“This is the nature of sense-making. It is not about accounting for everything that plays a role, but rather it is about accounting for as little as possible to deal reasonably with phenomena of interest, given some purpose.”

Robert F. Lusch. “Service-Dominant Logic: Premises, Perspectives, Possibilities.”

Is purpose the limit of a model?


https://youtu.be/9Qt664lfDRE?t=8m29s

Топос гордыни

Пару дней назад Влад дал ссылку на пост о гордыне.

To summarize, if one's purpose is the terminal object, then "гордыня" has the topos structure because it rejects activities that don't fit the truth table.

Quote of the Day: a non-existing model

“after over 200 years of formal economic thought and 40-plus years of academic work focused on service, the concepts and models for understanding and dealing with service exchange do not exist.”

Robert F. Lusch. “Service-Dominant Logic: Premises, Perspectives, Possibilities.”

Thinking aloud

Steve Bannon deserves some intellectual respect. He was one of the fist among the conservatives who articulated an important problem in the contemporary American society: as a result of economic, technological and social changes, a large portion of citizens got worse off. Moreover, under the circumstances — globalization, services economy, automation, inclusiveness, etc. — they have limited (if any) paths to become better off. In the administration, he was the only one who cared about those unfortunate people, aka the Deplorables. When he resigned the plutocrats took over and used the opportunity to borrow against the future and give themselves nice tax breaks.

During the next business cycle we as a society will have to figure out how to solve the problem. Unfortunately, we'll be radically divided and have less money to spend on social issues.