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The Crisis in Child Care: A Tri-Sector Solution?

UVA Darden

This matter — which particularly affects women and girls — touches issues of health, income, crime, IQ, costs to families and the public, and an individual’s ability to maintain steady employment. Once you add fixed costs to those wages, it gets very expensive to run a quality program with skilled providers. Economist James J.

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The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

High Scalability

Where's the incentive unless you derive a benefit from optimizing the whole stack? The global cloud computing industry was valued at $371 billion in 2020. A Cloud Provider Absorbs Huge Fixed and Sunk Costs. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. So, the cloud is not a monopoly.