It's not that they can't afford a $3 toothpaste, it is the environment they are in that makes it hard to prioritize things like this. It is the education and the overall life quality (or the lack there of) that causes this problem.
All the countries above US have less than 1M population and generally poor countries. Saying that obesity is not related to the underlying social problems in the US showing this data is ridiculous.
> Rates of overweight and obesity increased at the global and regional levels, and in all nations, between 1990 and 2021. In 2021, an estimated 1·00 billion (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 0·989–1·01) adult males and 1·11 billion (1·10–1·12) adult females had overweight and obesity. China had the largest population of adults with overweight and obesity (402 million [397–407] individuals), followed by India (180 million [167–194]) and the USA (172 million [169–174]). The highest age-standardised prevalence of overweight and obesity was observed in countries in Oceania and north Africa and the Middle East, with many of these countries reporting prevalence of more than 80% in adults. Compared with 1990, the global prevalence of obesity had increased by 155·1% (149·8–160·3) in males and 104·9% (95% UI 100·9–108·8) in females. The most rapid rise in obesity prevalence was observed in the north Africa and the Middle East super-region, where age-standardised prevalence rates in males more than tripled and in females more than doubled. Assuming the continuation of historical trends, by 2050, we forecast that the total number of adults living with overweight and obesity will reach 3·80 billion (95% UI 3·39–4·04), over half of the likely global adult population at that time. While China, India, and the USA will continue to constitute a large proportion of the global population with overweight and obesity, the number in the sub-Saharan Africa super-region is forecasted to increase by 254·8% (234·4–269·5). In Nigeria specifically, the number of adults with overweight and obesity is forecasted to rise to 141 million (121–162) by 2050, making it the country with the fourth-largest population with overweight and obesity.
Listing fees for AWS Marketplace are marginal compared to the overall margins of Enterprise SaaS, as 90% are the expected target margins in Enterprise SaaS - hence why 80% discounts are fairly common in enterprise sales.
More tactically, excessive charging on marketplace pushes vendors away from selling on AWS Marketplace and makes them develop alternative deployment methods, which reduce the stickiness of AWS, as hyperscalers are commodified nowadays.
Motorola learned that the hard way 40 years ago when pushing excessively restrictive OEM and Partnership rules compared to IBM.
AWS is only as strong as it's Partnership ecosystem, as companies that are purchasing tend to use 80-90 different apps along with their cloud.
Basically, Enteprise Sales shows hallmarks of a Stag Hunt Game, so a mutually beneficial pricing strategy amongst vendors (AWS, AWS Partners such as Nvidia, MSP) is ideal.
I just finished reading Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson’s book “Power and Progress” where they talk about how the leaders in the technology space is (unfortunately) able to set the direction of the technology according to their goals, not humanity’s goals. This is an excellent example of such power. NVIDIA wants to expand its business and pushes the industry to use more and more AI, which highly depends on their cards. Now all the VCs put billions of dollars towards this goal, thousands of Phds spend all their time, and companies change direction of business to catch the AI hype. Not necessarily because we decided this is the best for humanity, just because it’s the best for NVIDIA.
People seem pissed in that Reddit thread, kind of shocking for them to take such a big risk and say “we don’t discriminate based on geopolitical issues”. Yandex is clearly not an independent startup in Russia.
I'm working on a new project and wanted to test the idea with a list on Black Friday deals. The purpose of the website is to create a community to create ranked lists. The problem today is that most of the "top 10 x" lists online are affiliate blogs which are ranking lists based on either their commissions or their personal preference. I think a crowd-sourced list website could create much better ranked lists in the long run. The main target is software engineers/tech people for now.
Feel free to sign up with 2 clicks and add any items to the lists!
Feel free to comment on the idea and the missing features on the website.
