We moved from HTST flash-pasteurization to UP ultra-pasteurization before I stopped drinking milk. Trickling Springs Creamery is still HTST, which I have since found tastes much better than UP. I can't imagine how bad UHT must be.
that ultra-pasteurized crap is vastly inferior to the old pasteurized stuff, which is very much less good than raw milk. Similarly, reduced fat milk is inferior to whole milk--most of the nutrients are fat-soluble, and mostly HDL cholesterol is removed and what's left is mainly LDL, so you get a lot less calcium and a lot less good cholesteral and basically the same amount of unhealthy fat for "reduced fat". Terribly unhealthy.
Simplistic starch that provides a high sugar load. Meats and vegetables are easy to eat; grains not so much, yet we refine grains and consume them en masse. Even whole grain wheat and brown rice is more of a "less bad" thing.
A reduction of simple starches gives major gains in health, though I still think this is irrelevant if you're moderately active (I used to bicycle 7 miles each way to work every day, that's moderately active). Whole wheat just adds vitamins and fiber, which is like eating your unhealthy bullshit bowl-of-sugar with a side of metamucil and centrum silver. We're so horrible in the US we even feed babies refined white wheat--cream of wheat--which is basically a big bowl of sugar with some iron mixed in; pushing steamed sweet potatoes (not white potatoes--except maybe Japanese red sweet potatoes), carrots, peas, or whatnot through a food mill and feeding them that mush would be a hell of a lot healthier.
I'm not really sure why I'm explaining all this as this is naught but common sense.
No, it's more like naught but bullshit. The proper way to store bread in the freezer is in a freezer bag that retains the moisture. Ice crystals form inside the back--that's moisture that's leaving the bread. You bring the bread out of the freezer and allow it to sit at room temperature in the bag until the crystals have disappeared, re-absorbing the water. Then you place it in a 350F degree oven for about 15 minutes to re-distribute the water.
Taken from an 80 year old man who has baked over six thousand different styles of bread and routinely freezes whole loaves, even if they're to be served in just a few days.
False. Bread gets hard because the starches move to a lower-energy state. Bread keeps well frozen; but in the refrigerator it goes stale faster because the starches change their physical structure. This change occurs more slowly at room temperature. It ceases at extremely low temperatures, and reverses at elevated temperatures.
Yes but Hadoop and such solve specific problems. "Big Data" is a buzzword that is being explained as, "You have all this data. People use your service and you're not even COLLECTING the data. You could do something with that!" Which is people being horse shit morons. No shit there's data there. We could do lots of analysis. We could analyze the major hot spots where birds shit all over cars the most. For what purpose, and with what methodology?
Its been a long time since this country had a depression lasting 5 years, (with another 4 years on the horizon).
Uh, what are you smoking? We've been in a depression for nearly 80 years. After the last economic downturn, we all got major credit cards and have been riding on that since. Seriously, how do you think money comes about under FDR's New Deal? It's LOANED into existence. Loaned to the banks, who loan it to people to buy houses and cars, or businesses to expand and pay employees. You're not in any debt? But the guy that shops at your boss' shop is buying shit with money paid to him from a loan his employer has, which they got from a bank who borrowed the money from the Federal Treasury. The money in your bank accounts is owed to someone else by someone else, but they gave it to you instead.
It's like losing your job, having $5000 in the bank, taking a $250,000 credit card with a $50 minimum monthly payment, and living like a king. Then 9 years later, you cry that you're suddenly broke, and you haven't been broke for almost a decade... uh, you've been broke as a motherfucker for 9 years, you moron.
Also 4 more years because Obama? When Gary Johnson gets elected in 2016 it's not going to magically get better. It's gonna be a lot more than 4 years....
It's an economic bubble. Our country is based on debt, which is based on inflation, which is based on population expansion. More hands out means more hands to put money into which means more debt which means more money in the money system which means you can keep collecting interest. Issued debt grows and grows, but work gets done.
Now when people start working their way out of debt and paying on assets, stop taking loans, etc, that fails. Stop taking mortgages? Credit crunch, recession, depression. Stop taking student loans? Credit crunch. With a credit crunch, we don't have as much money in the system. That means less money flowing around to pay off loans, making it harder for people to get high-paying jobs to pay down their debt, meaning defaults on debt, meaning people are foreclosed on and banks are left with worthless assets and lose money. Loss of money means the federal government doesn't get paid back, and banks fold, and the taxes go up--or the banks raise interest rates and add fees to take more money away from people. Economic damage.
The whole system is based on population expansion. More population, more credit issue, more debt, more money flow. Stable population means suddenly a lot of things don't work. Thing is the population is basically an economic bubble--it grows, it shrinks. It can't grow and grow and grow any more than the spot price of AAPL.
The GP was proposing that his Dell support experience was different because they fixed his hardware. "Install your screen fresh" ~= "Install your OS fresh," they didn't fix the screen. Fixing the screen would be hard. Fixing the OS is also hard, they just instruct you to install a new one--granted you can make a new one easily by copying an old one from an installation image, but it's the same deal. No difference between these two things.
In essence, they treat misbehaving software as a problem that can't be fixed. They treat broken hardware as a problem that can't be fixed. The only difference is this approach makes sense for hardware, but not software.
Yerba mate, green tea, and black tea are all highly anti-cancer. Mate is actually awesome for this; steamed green tea is pretty close; black tea less so, but it has its own strengths over the others. It's worth having a pot of Earl Grey or Irish Breakfast Tea in the morning, and a pot of green tea (gunpowder, any of the various $15-$200 Sencha greens, etc) in the afternoon.
Meanwhile people cry about HFCS, which is an abomination but relatively harmless; look at all the wheat we eat, and our response is to eat whole grains because they're less bad. People figure this out and go Atkins, instead of just eating less than 3000 calories from wheat every day. Over-salted, fumigated crap gets pureed, strained, cooked, then mixed with benzoates and sorbates and parabeens for us to eat or rub onto our skin. All that's bad, but removing it all won't really help if you keep eating crap--like tons of wheat, tons of rice, tons of greasy fatty shit, all things that are good for you but not so god damn much with so little else--and keep sitting on your ass all the time.
Those toxic chemicals will go away if you bike to work every day. Live 5 miles from work? That's 10 miles a day. Suck down potassium and magnesium and sodium out of a CamelBak, chomping on Clif bars if you need it, and shove a greasy full English down your throat in the morning cooked in a ton of lard. Hell, use the canned sorbated bullshit, your body will just shove it out your lymph system while you burn through all that crap.
The problem with scanning for genetic change is some of us are variatic in nature. Human genetic physiology is interesting...human cellular proteins include receptors that allow for stress signals to encode useful genetic changes. In response to environmental pressure, humans are actually capable of rewriting their own DNA to adapt. Pretty much any animal immune system--including the human immune system itself--functions similarly, but internally: T4 cells sample a pathogen and then modify their own DNA to recognize it, while passing that information to other cells which modify their DNA to produce things like antibodies.
Even better, the false positive rate is important. Regular testing for ovarian cancer in women is something you simply should not do; an ovarian cancer test should only be done if your doctor thinks you have ovarian cancer. Because of the rate of false positives, the rate of false positives in follow-up tests, the rate of complications, and the rate of death in complications, it turns out that roughly 1 in 1000 women who don't get regular testing would die of ovarian cancer, whereas if every woman over age 50 got regular ovarian cancer testing once a year we'd see a death rate of 3 in 1000 due to complications from unnecessary surgery to treat the non-existent cancer in false-positive cases.
If this leads to people looking for cancer that doesn't exist or isn't important, a lot of false positives will start occurring. Even if it's highly accurate at detecting cancer, it won't tell you anything about the cancer. Now you have to look for it. So many cancer tests, so much false positive... you might find several cancers that don't actually exist, because the tests raise false positives occasionally and you're running tests for everything. False positives lead to unnecessary treatment, which is expensive and harmful. You're better off playing cancer roulette.
My graphics is on the Intel CPU. Sound is on-board. Controllers are whatever came with the Shuttle case I bought. I spent $800 to build an SSD computer with a big Momentus XT 750GB as the data drive, Intel 2405S 3.3GHz 4 core, SATA DVD burner, 16GB RAM. All that shit just works. Intel wireless isn't expensive--though it's historically a $10 option on some Dell laptops, and it's a better chipset than Broadcom's cheap crap. Broadcom works out of the box on Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, and Fedora because they bring the firmware, but it's still as crappy as it is in Windows.
"The right parts" work with Windows too. Mostly you can google this stuff in five minutes to see what laptop chipsets work best with Linux. I spec out my PCs basically mindlessly, picking between specs I like, reliability ratings of the parts, user experiences... the last thing I care about is if it works with Linux. Verifying that in the end takes about 2 minutes.
The hardest one was a Brother printer, which took me 3 sites from Google to make a decision on--it works well, but you need to download their driver, need to modify it if you're using 64-bit, and... you can just use the driver for the closest version (which is included) and that actually works, so don't bother with all that, just plug it in and hit "Print test page" and it's already auto-configured because it does in fact work out-of-the-box with all features fully functional. That's five minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Dell did a lot of work to make sure drivers were solid. Its not cheap to make a laptop have a perfect out of the box experience.
Exactly. What people don't realize is that to provide a good experience for end users, putting Linux (any distro) on a computer entails more work for the manufacturer than just installing Windows and letting Microsoft sort out the hardware compatibility issues.
Really? Because if you just pick chipsets that tend to work out of the box--AMD or Intel graphics, Intel wireless (Broadcom too, with firmware), most on-board sound and ethernet, etc etc etc... basically, anything fairly common--it JUST FUCKING WORKS. People have been installing Linux on Linux-doesn't-work-on-this-says-the-manufacturer hardware for years and it just works.
The last time I had a hardware problem with a laptop, it was an old 1999 HP laptop that had a bad BIOS with an incorrect ACPI table; I patched the Linux kernel driver to carry the correct table (Microsoft's driver did this too), but eventually just found the (erroneous) table in a BIOS dump and hex-edited it to the correct value, then flashed it onto my bios. Those days are long gone; things just work these days.
Why would you ever get out of the "OSS phase"? Everything I've seen that's big and complex and needs a real database runs on MariaDB or PGS. The only things I've seen on Oracle were tiny shit beancounter apps that you could run on top of Notepad.
The whole thing sounds like a nebulous solution looking for a problem. The problem seems to be "we want to know stuff," which is the same as the business problem "We want to make money." Essentially you know there's something (data, consumers) out there and you want a strategy to leverage it. Which means you have nothing and are just being a horse shit moron.
My CPU is a hell of a lot faster than the 300MHz clock in the nVidia GeForce FX5400 too, yet when I had a 2GHz CPU the GeForce was a billion times faster... bus was a lot closer to the RAM I guess. RAID controllers also can cache with battery/capacitor back-up, so in the event of a system fault or a power drop your RAID array isn't scrambled and inconsistent.
"Your community" has a bookstore that has more money and orders in more books to fill its shelves to sell, and then can expand its chain. If it expands locally, you get more bookstores, more people hired... a few more. Mainly, the money goes into the bookstore, which expands--eventually, out of the local community, taking the money elsewhere--and which buys supplies from outside the local community. The local community gets a few local jobs and a bookstore in exchange.
The problem with this exchange is the community doesn't need a bookstore if people are just buying to support the local community. The local community doesn't need bookstore jobs because some other business will appear in place of the bookstore, eventually. The local community is better suited sending its cash directly out somewhere else, instead of sending it to the bookstore who sends part of it somewhere out else, and retaining some of the cash they would spend at the bookstore to spend elsewhere (thanks to books ordered from somewhere else being cheaper).
If the local consumers spend less money on books by ordering online, then the local consumers have more money, which they can spend on other things, for example at farmer's markets, at local martial arts dojos, at ethnic supermarkets that sell Japanese or Indian or Mexican food ingredients and utensils that are hard to get. Eventually the bookstore folds, but then somebody locally opens up another ethnic market because the single ethnic market the community has is over-packed. Maybe they bring in a different ethnic focus, adding Indian cuisine to a community that's got only East Asian cuisine. Even if it's a big chain like H-Mart, it still supplies local jobs that the bookstore would have supplied, while also bringing in goods and services that were previously less available but more desirable for the community than a local bookstore.
Because the thing the community cared little for--locally purchased books at a brick-and-mortar mark-up--went away and was replaced with something that the community cared more for--local produce, imported goods, exotic services, whatever--the community is more wealthy. Because the community's consumers spend less money on a given good, they are more wealthy--they get the same goods for less money, and retain more money to spend on other services--which itself is what leads to other services becoming available--consumer purchasing power is available, all you need to do is find something that the consumers demand. Thus some businesses close, and others open, and the community changes for the better.
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We moved from HTST flash-pasteurization to UP ultra-pasteurization before I stopped drinking milk. Trickling Springs Creamery is still HTST, which I have since found tastes much better than UP. I can't imagine how bad UHT must be.
that ultra-pasteurized crap is vastly inferior to the old pasteurized stuff, which is very much less good than raw milk. Similarly, reduced fat milk is inferior to whole milk--most of the nutrients are fat-soluble, and mostly HDL cholesterol is removed and what's left is mainly LDL, so you get a lot less calcium and a lot less good cholesteral and basically the same amount of unhealthy fat for "reduced fat". Terribly unhealthy.
Simplistic starch that provides a high sugar load. Meats and vegetables are easy to eat; grains not so much, yet we refine grains and consume them en masse. Even whole grain wheat and brown rice is more of a "less bad" thing.
A reduction of simple starches gives major gains in health, though I still think this is irrelevant if you're moderately active (I used to bicycle 7 miles each way to work every day, that's moderately active). Whole wheat just adds vitamins and fiber, which is like eating your unhealthy bullshit bowl-of-sugar with a side of metamucil and centrum silver. We're so horrible in the US we even feed babies refined white wheat--cream of wheat--which is basically a big bowl of sugar with some iron mixed in; pushing steamed sweet potatoes (not white potatoes--except maybe Japanese red sweet potatoes), carrots, peas, or whatnot through a food mill and feeding them that mush would be a hell of a lot healthier.
I'm not really sure why I'm explaining all this as this is naught but common sense.
No, it's more like naught but bullshit. The proper way to store bread in the freezer is in a freezer bag that retains the moisture. Ice crystals form inside the back--that's moisture that's leaving the bread. You bring the bread out of the freezer and allow it to sit at room temperature in the bag until the crystals have disappeared, re-absorbing the water. Then you place it in a 350F degree oven for about 15 minutes to re-distribute the water.
Taken from an 80 year old man who has baked over six thousand different styles of bread and routinely freezes whole loaves, even if they're to be served in just a few days.
Bakery? I went with a proofing oven and sear plate.
Honey is not milk! Milk increases mucous production. Honey thins out mucous and is a demulcent.
False. Bread gets hard because the starches move to a lower-energy state. Bread keeps well frozen; but in the refrigerator it goes stale faster because the starches change their physical structure. This change occurs more slowly at room temperature. It ceases at extremely low temperatures, and reverses at elevated temperatures.
Yes but Hadoop and such solve specific problems. "Big Data" is a buzzword that is being explained as, "You have all this data. People use your service and you're not even COLLECTING the data. You could do something with that!" Which is people being horse shit morons. No shit there's data there. We could do lots of analysis. We could analyze the major hot spots where birds shit all over cars the most. For what purpose, and with what methodology?
Its been a long time since this country had a depression lasting 5 years, (with another 4 years on the horizon).
Uh, what are you smoking? We've been in a depression for nearly 80 years. After the last economic downturn, we all got major credit cards and have been riding on that since. Seriously, how do you think money comes about under FDR's New Deal? It's LOANED into existence. Loaned to the banks, who loan it to people to buy houses and cars, or businesses to expand and pay employees. You're not in any debt? But the guy that shops at your boss' shop is buying shit with money paid to him from a loan his employer has, which they got from a bank who borrowed the money from the Federal Treasury. The money in your bank accounts is owed to someone else by someone else, but they gave it to you instead.
It's like losing your job, having $5000 in the bank, taking a $250,000 credit card with a $50 minimum monthly payment, and living like a king. Then 9 years later, you cry that you're suddenly broke, and you haven't been broke for almost a decade... uh, you've been broke as a motherfucker for 9 years, you moron.
Also 4 more years because Obama? When Gary Johnson gets elected in 2016 it's not going to magically get better. It's gonna be a lot more than 4 years....
Seriously? This is an issue?
It's an economic bubble. Our country is based on debt, which is based on inflation, which is based on population expansion. More hands out means more hands to put money into which means more debt which means more money in the money system which means you can keep collecting interest. Issued debt grows and grows, but work gets done.
Now when people start working their way out of debt and paying on assets, stop taking loans, etc, that fails. Stop taking mortgages? Credit crunch, recession, depression. Stop taking student loans? Credit crunch. With a credit crunch, we don't have as much money in the system. That means less money flowing around to pay off loans, making it harder for people to get high-paying jobs to pay down their debt, meaning defaults on debt, meaning people are foreclosed on and banks are left with worthless assets and lose money. Loss of money means the federal government doesn't get paid back, and banks fold, and the taxes go up--or the banks raise interest rates and add fees to take more money away from people. Economic damage.
The whole system is based on population expansion. More population, more credit issue, more debt, more money flow. Stable population means suddenly a lot of things don't work. Thing is the population is basically an economic bubble--it grows, it shrinks. It can't grow and grow and grow any more than the spot price of AAPL.
The GP was proposing that his Dell support experience was different because they fixed his hardware. "Install your screen fresh" ~= "Install your OS fresh," they didn't fix the screen. Fixing the screen would be hard. Fixing the OS is also hard, they just instruct you to install a new one--granted you can make a new one easily by copying an old one from an installation image, but it's the same deal. No difference between these two things.
In essence, they treat misbehaving software as a problem that can't be fixed. They treat broken hardware as a problem that can't be fixed. The only difference is this approach makes sense for hardware, but not software.
Yerba mate, green tea, and black tea are all highly anti-cancer. Mate is actually awesome for this; steamed green tea is pretty close; black tea less so, but it has its own strengths over the others. It's worth having a pot of Earl Grey or Irish Breakfast Tea in the morning, and a pot of green tea (gunpowder, any of the various $15-$200 Sencha greens, etc) in the afternoon.
Meanwhile people cry about HFCS, which is an abomination but relatively harmless; look at all the wheat we eat, and our response is to eat whole grains because they're less bad. People figure this out and go Atkins, instead of just eating less than 3000 calories from wheat every day. Over-salted, fumigated crap gets pureed, strained, cooked, then mixed with benzoates and sorbates and parabeens for us to eat or rub onto our skin. All that's bad, but removing it all won't really help if you keep eating crap--like tons of wheat, tons of rice, tons of greasy fatty shit, all things that are good for you but not so god damn much with so little else--and keep sitting on your ass all the time.
Those toxic chemicals will go away if you bike to work every day. Live 5 miles from work? That's 10 miles a day. Suck down potassium and magnesium and sodium out of a CamelBak, chomping on Clif bars if you need it, and shove a greasy full English down your throat in the morning cooked in a ton of lard. Hell, use the canned sorbated bullshit, your body will just shove it out your lymph system while you burn through all that crap.
The problem with scanning for genetic change is some of us are variatic in nature. Human genetic physiology is interesting.. .human cellular proteins include receptors that allow for stress signals to encode useful genetic changes. In response to environmental pressure, humans are actually capable of rewriting their own DNA to adapt. Pretty much any animal immune system--including the human immune system itself--functions similarly, but internally: T4 cells sample a pathogen and then modify their own DNA to recognize it, while passing that information to other cells which modify their DNA to produce things like antibodies.
Even better, the false positive rate is important. Regular testing for ovarian cancer in women is something you simply should not do; an ovarian cancer test should only be done if your doctor thinks you have ovarian cancer. Because of the rate of false positives, the rate of false positives in follow-up tests, the rate of complications, and the rate of death in complications, it turns out that roughly 1 in 1000 women who don't get regular testing would die of ovarian cancer, whereas if every woman over age 50 got regular ovarian cancer testing once a year we'd see a death rate of 3 in 1000 due to complications from unnecessary surgery to treat the non-existent cancer in false-positive cases.
If this leads to people looking for cancer that doesn't exist or isn't important, a lot of false positives will start occurring. Even if it's highly accurate at detecting cancer, it won't tell you anything about the cancer. Now you have to look for it. So many cancer tests, so much false positive... you might find several cancers that don't actually exist, because the tests raise false positives occasionally and you're running tests for everything. False positives lead to unnecessary treatment, which is expensive and harmful. You're better off playing cancer roulette.
My graphics is on the Intel CPU. Sound is on-board. Controllers are whatever came with the Shuttle case I bought. I spent $800 to build an SSD computer with a big Momentus XT 750GB as the data drive, Intel 2405S 3.3GHz 4 core, SATA DVD burner, 16GB RAM. All that shit just works. Intel wireless isn't expensive--though it's historically a $10 option on some Dell laptops, and it's a better chipset than Broadcom's cheap crap. Broadcom works out of the box on Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, and Fedora because they bring the firmware, but it's still as crappy as it is in Windows.
When the kernel panics, it will necessarily help you to have damn battery-backed consistency.
So, "My laptop has a broken part" = "Well buy a new part!" Whereas "My laptop acts funny" = "Reinstall the OS!" ( = brand new software). Same shit.
"The right parts" work with Windows too. Mostly you can google this stuff in five minutes to see what laptop chipsets work best with Linux. I spec out my PCs basically mindlessly, picking between specs I like, reliability ratings of the parts, user experiences... the last thing I care about is if it works with Linux. Verifying that in the end takes about 2 minutes.
The hardest one was a Brother printer, which took me 3 sites from Google to make a decision on--it works well, but you need to download their driver, need to modify it if you're using 64-bit, and ... you can just use the driver for the closest version (which is included) and that actually works, so don't bother with all that, just plug it in and hit "Print test page" and it's already auto-configured because it does in fact work out-of-the-box with all features fully functional. That's five minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Dell did a lot of work to make sure drivers were solid. Its not cheap to make a laptop have a perfect out of the box experience.
Exactly. What people don't realize is that to provide a good experience for end users, putting Linux (any distro) on a computer entails more work for the manufacturer than just installing Windows and letting Microsoft sort out the hardware compatibility issues.
Really? Because if you just pick chipsets that tend to work out of the box--AMD or Intel graphics, Intel wireless (Broadcom too, with firmware), most on-board sound and ethernet, etc etc etc... basically, anything fairly common--it JUST FUCKING WORKS. People have been installing Linux on Linux-doesn't-work-on-this-says-the-manufacturer hardware for years and it just works.
The last time I had a hardware problem with a laptop, it was an old 1999 HP laptop that had a bad BIOS with an incorrect ACPI table; I patched the Linux kernel driver to carry the correct table (Microsoft's driver did this too), but eventually just found the (erroneous) table in a BIOS dump and hex-edited it to the correct value, then flashed it onto my bios. Those days are long gone; things just work these days.
Why would you ever get out of the "OSS phase"? Everything I've seen that's big and complex and needs a real database runs on MariaDB or PGS. The only things I've seen on Oracle were tiny shit beancounter apps that you could run on top of Notepad.
The whole thing sounds like a nebulous solution looking for a problem. The problem seems to be "we want to know stuff," which is the same as the business problem "We want to make money." Essentially you know there's something (data, consumers) out there and you want a strategy to leverage it. Which means you have nothing and are just being a horse shit moron.
As someone else mentioned, MariaDB and Percona are definite directions to go. You can replace MySQL directly with them--same protocol.
Maria and Percona fix a lot of MySQL's fundamental flaws, yeah. Came here for this.
My CPU is a hell of a lot faster than the 300MHz clock in the nVidia GeForce FX5400 too, yet when I had a 2GHz CPU the GeForce was a billion times faster... bus was a lot closer to the RAM I guess. RAID controllers also can cache with battery/capacitor back-up, so in the event of a system fault or a power drop your RAID array isn't scrambled and inconsistent.
"Your community" has a bookstore that has more money and orders in more books to fill its shelves to sell, and then can expand its chain. If it expands locally, you get more bookstores, more people hired... a few more. Mainly, the money goes into the bookstore, which expands--eventually, out of the local community, taking the money elsewhere--and which buys supplies from outside the local community. The local community gets a few local jobs and a bookstore in exchange.
The problem with this exchange is the community doesn't need a bookstore if people are just buying to support the local community. The local community doesn't need bookstore jobs because some other business will appear in place of the bookstore, eventually. The local community is better suited sending its cash directly out somewhere else, instead of sending it to the bookstore who sends part of it somewhere out else, and retaining some of the cash they would spend at the bookstore to spend elsewhere (thanks to books ordered from somewhere else being cheaper).
If the local consumers spend less money on books by ordering online, then the local consumers have more money, which they can spend on other things, for example at farmer's markets, at local martial arts dojos, at ethnic supermarkets that sell Japanese or Indian or Mexican food ingredients and utensils that are hard to get. Eventually the bookstore folds, but then somebody locally opens up another ethnic market because the single ethnic market the community has is over-packed. Maybe they bring in a different ethnic focus, adding Indian cuisine to a community that's got only East Asian cuisine. Even if it's a big chain like H-Mart, it still supplies local jobs that the bookstore would have supplied, while also bringing in goods and services that were previously less available but more desirable for the community than a local bookstore.
Because the thing the community cared little for--locally purchased books at a brick-and-mortar mark-up--went away and was replaced with something that the community cared more for--local produce, imported goods, exotic services, whatever--the community is more wealthy. Because the community's consumers spend less money on a given good, they are more wealthy--they get the same goods for less money, and retain more money to spend on other services--which itself is what leads to other services becoming available--consumer purchasing power is available, all you need to do is find something that the consumers demand. Thus some businesses close, and others open, and the community changes for the better.
Unless they get a Wal-Mart.