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In Hirschman’s view, people “typically” underestimate the costs and difficulties of big projects, leading to budget overruns and blown schedules.[9] But these negatives are dwarfed by the projects’ larger-than-expected benefits. He suggested a name for this principle: “Since we are apparently on the trail here of some sort of Invisible or Hidden Hand that beneficially hides difficulties from us, I propose ‘the Hiding Hand.’ ”
How Big Things Get Done
Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
Copying others doesn’t work because success without substance doesn’t last.
You can read specific details about the new “relevance and measurement” APIs on the Chrome Developers blog for Chrome 115. These include the Topics API that categorizes a user’s interests based on their web usage without sharing the information directly with advertisers, the Attribution Reporting API that measures when ad clicks or views lead to conversions, and the Protected Audience API (previously called FLEDGE), which allows relevant ads to be displayed to users based on their previous interactions with the advertiser.
Google Starts the Next Phase of Its Plan to Kill Third-Party Cookies
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