Gruber recommends this
overview of what happened in NYC w/ Amazon HQ2. And while the deal might have been a net good for the city, the author is in suport of a bigger scale picture, with this as a blow against a kind of crony capitalism that emerges when businesses pit city against city. (Like they do for sports franchises.) It feels akin to unionization; that local politics need to be bolder in not being such suck ups, and that cities presenting a more unified front of "look, we'll be accomodating, but we're not going to suck up to you to an enormous degree" would be a huge improvement. (Ritholtz points to Apple and Google as companies that have done well for themselves moving into NYC w/o big ol' sweetheart deals.)
where have all the music visualizers gone - ? I'd love one for my phone (when it's sitting perched on its wireless charger, at least)... I found one app that did ok at it, ProjectM Music Visualizer, but the UI was rough in terms of picking playlists and preview and now it seems pretty crashy... Visualizers were such a nice artform.
facebook is doing to boomers what working in a mercury-vapored hat factory did to 19th-century laborers
