my favorite idea from the article: "Markets are a function of law."
that's an under appreciated sentiment by lots of people that think economic markets as natural. in reality they're constructs from our politics. antitrust laws used to be enforced to prevent this type of consolidation of capital. i'm glad antitrust enforcements are coming back to decentralize the American economy
> Asset control and power in America is centered among old people with lots of assets. And they associate protecting the stock market with protecting America.
> The “number go up” rule is not a story of greed or economics, it’s a story of how we make decisions as a society.
my favorite quote from the article is from Lina Khan:
"we don’t need to protect our monopolies from innovation—we need to protect innovation from our monopolies. We need to choose competition over national champions"
> For example you could almost build a new kind of Job Search Service that matches job descriptions to job candidates based on nothing but a vector similarity between resume and job description. That's probably so obvious it's being done, already.
Literally the next item on my roadmap for employbl dot com lol. we're calling it a "personalized job board" and using PGVector for storing the embeddings. I've also heard good things about Typesense though.
One thing I've found to be important when creating the embeddings is to not do an embedding of the whole job description. Instead use an LLM to make a concise summary of the job listing (location, skills etc.) in a structured format. Then store that store as the embedding. It reduces noise and increases accuracy for vector search.
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