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the invisible logic deciding who goes first, last, and never at all.
means The act of arranging things in a particular sequence, or of requesting goods or services be supplied to you.
from From 'order,' which entered English through Old French 'ordre,' from Latin 'ordo' — a word that originally meant a row of threads on a loom, the warp lined up taut and parallel before the weaving begins. From that image of threads in their proper rank came the wider senses of arrangement, rank, command, and request. The '-ing' simply makes the noun-of-action: the ongoing work of putting things, or people, or dinner, in line.
- chaos toll
- Disorder always increases unless energy is spent fighting it
- alphabet bias
- A-named authors get cited and hired more
- menu trick
- First and last items get ordered most often
- queue math
- Single lines beat parallel ones for fairness
- sorting feat
- Computers spend vast effort just arranging things
amazon prime day — annual 48-hour shopping event where amazon processes over 300 million items ordered in 2023
black friday cyber monday — thanksgiving weekend shopping event where consumers ordered $12.2 billion online in the us in 2023
alibaba singles day — november 11 shopping festival in china where $74.1 billion in orders were placed in 2021