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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. We’ll see more innovation if emerging AI tools are accessible to everyone, such that a dispersed ecosystem of new firms, start-ups, and AI tools can arise. But not all rents are bad.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure. Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. Promote feedback from individual contributors and give them time to create innovative prototypes and POCs.

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The Best In Performance Interview Series – Episode #2: Recap with Alla Gringaus

Rigor

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. The Internet was built for resilience, not for performance.