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Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair by wizzwizz4 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:20PM (#25735947)
Have you tried asking pe— sorry, “market research”? If you can make something that people want to pay for, that goes down a lot better than trying to make them buy what you're selling via an elaborate multi-agent optimisation algorithm.
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Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair by BurningFrog on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:44PM (#25739891)
My job is writing software, so I never have reason to do market research.

My strong impression is it's hard to do. People may say the want kale, but end up buying donuts.

They weren't lying about wanting to be the kind of person who buys kale. But at the moment of truth, they got donuts "just this once".

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Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:34AM (#25744400)
This suggests that they'd pay for the opportunity to be the kind of person who buys kale.
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