4 years ago he sold his company to FB. Which means he's been waiting 4 years to finish collecting those billions/unloading the FB stock he got. Now that he's no longer financially/contractually tied to FB, he's speaking his mind.
He's the CEO of Square. Decentralized transactions destroy his business model. However, Bitcoin still requires third-parties like Square. TL;DR, from his POV, the limited number of transactions is a feature, not a bug.
Why should my phone "track" less satellites than a commercial specialized GPS?
To save money on hardware, physical size and battery life. If you don't need the precision, you don't need the cost to get it.
You only need 3 satellites anyway to get a precise enough position.
Geometircally, only 3. In reality 4 is considered the minimum. But that's true enough for turn-by-turn directions moving at a car. That's probably not enough for Delta to use to broadcast their plane's position. More satellites add precision, speed and altitude degrade precision.
While blocking tracking is much, much harder, Ad blocking seems solved. Facebook only serves ads on their own site (I believe) and Google seems to serve ads from a few well known domains.
All the major streaming services offer their own speedtest. There's an Apple App (yes, it was approved. It was only delayed while apple confirmed it wasn't snakeoil) that will check all the video services speedtest sites. I don't know if it's open source, but there was a slashdot article on it a while ago. Or you can build your own script.
Except for number of satellites it can track simultaneously, legal limits on altitude and speed, access to the decoded (incredibly precise) data vs. slightly fuzzed commercial version, refresh rate (as you point out), etc.
With the exception of decryption, they are all limitations built into the receiver. But you think Apple/Google/Samsung are going to violate the laws just to sell to the one person in the world who wants a superaccurate GPS?
Big Data, in the abstract, has value. CA hasn't proven that they can analyze the data and produce the value.
I refer you to the Iced Tea company that added Blockchain to their company name. Blockchain has value. And Iced Tea manufacturer is no likely to deliver that value.
CA claims to be able to do XYZ, but there's no evidence they can... other than pointing to their raw data.
used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box..exploited Facebook to harvest millions of people's profiles. And built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons. That was the basis the entire company was built on.
While they may have gathered the data, there's no reason to believe their analysis had any actual value. Like Theranos's blood tests. Or Mrs. Reagan's psychic.
And that should be pointed out every time they get free advertising.
Oh, yeah, complete information is not going to realistically happen. I just find the tradeoffs there fascinating. I mean, companies need secret information to function (I think. I'm not sure. 100% public disclosure of defects would be nice, but lead to them not getting entered into the system. The finance world would get turned upside down, but I htink I'm okay with that.)
GPS is probably off for a couple of reasons. Consumer-grade GPS in a cellphone is (or at least was last time I looked) unable to handle either the elevation or speed of a plane. It's super powerhungry, which is a problem on a plane where USB charging is not guaranteed. Someone also probably decided there was a security reason.
If 6 people died while we were inventing a new technique that improves construction for a decade, it's a sad growing pain. If 6 people died because of a fuckup in traditional design, it's horrific.
One group may throw an advertisement at you for 30 seconds even if you don't want the product. The other group may throw you in jail for 30 years even if you didn't do the crime.
The advert group requires your cooperation. The government can arrest you regardless.
AFAIK that only counts the days actively golfing. Not the number of days Trump spends on a golf course (for example, in the clubhouse.) Also note, the white house is saying that Trump goes to a golf course without confirming he actually played golf there. I don't know if those count either.
Well, party officials loyal to Xi never lie. And ones not loyal are going to get arrested for anticorruption charges. Why let them get on the train and make a scene?
What if the creator(s) of Bitcoin and so forth can pull hundreds of millions of dollars out of the blockchain they have created, but the blockchain appears "intact" when examined?
The creator(s) of Bitcoin mined the coins when it was easy/cheap. They have billions of USD worth of bitcoin. They don't need to cheat, they can just start cashing it out.
I don't believe anyone suggests that there be no baseload power. The only question is can renewables take care of it (geothermal/hydroelectric) or can we store enough on peak production in batteries/flywheels to get us through the downtime.
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If FB kept the friend's list from you, there would be no point in developers making FB apps. Theat's the secret sauce they have.
4 years ago he sold his company to FB. Which means he's been waiting 4 years to finish collecting those billions/unloading the FB stock he got. Now that he's no longer financially/contractually tied to FB, he's speaking his mind.
He's the CEO of Square. Decentralized transactions destroy his business model. However, Bitcoin still requires third-parties like Square. TL;DR, from his POV, the limited number of transactions is a feature, not a bug.
To save money on hardware, physical size and battery life. If you don't need the precision, you don't need the cost to get it.
Geometircally, only 3. In reality 4 is considered the minimum. But that's true enough for turn-by-turn directions moving at a car. That's probably not enough for Delta to use to broadcast their plane's position. More satellites add precision, speed and altitude degrade precision.
Dude, is your friend: Note, while these limits are high, being able to handle that much speed (or altitude) requires more expensive hardware. And while it's not that your phone is less precise than your Garmin, it's that neither is as precise as what Delta's using.
While blocking tracking is much, much harder, Ad blocking seems solved. Facebook only serves ads on their own site (I believe) and Google seems to serve ads from a few well known domains.
All the major streaming services offer their own speedtest. There's an Apple App (yes, it was approved. It was only delayed while apple confirmed it wasn't snakeoil) that will check all the video services speedtest sites. I don't know if it's open source, but there was a slashdot article on it a while ago. Or you can build your own script.
Except for number of satellites it can track simultaneously, legal limits on altitude and speed, access to the decoded (incredibly precise) data vs. slightly fuzzed commercial version, refresh rate (as you point out), etc.
With the exception of decryption, they are all limitations built into the receiver. But you think Apple/Google/Samsung are going to violate the laws just to sell to the one person in the world who wants a superaccurate GPS?
Big Data, in the abstract, has value. CA hasn't proven that they can analyze the data and produce the value.
I refer you to the Iced Tea company that added Blockchain to their company name. Blockchain has value. And Iced Tea manufacturer is no likely to deliver that value.
CA claims to be able to do XYZ, but there's no evidence they can... other than pointing to their raw data.
I'm talking about this from the summary:
While they may have gathered the data, there's no reason to believe their analysis had any actual value. Like Theranos's blood tests. Or Mrs. Reagan's psychic.
And that should be pointed out every time they get free advertising.
Do you have a source for that exchange? I'm looking for the original
There's little evidence that CA did anything better than guessing. These stories just burnish the reputation of a scam company.
Hell, where's the story on Theranos getting pulled out of Walgreen's because they're cutting too much into their profit margin.
They explicitly mention jewelry, papers and keepsakes/heirlooms. Apparently the residents were consulted before the items were removed.
While the residents weren't able to get any belongings, the FBI bomb squad did retrieve high value items for them.
And if all his neighbors weren't unable to retrieve any of they possessions and now homeless, people would care less that he blew himself up.
Not everyone was born in a 1960's farmhouse.
Oh, yeah, complete information is not going to realistically happen. I just find the tradeoffs there fascinating. I mean, companies need secret information to function (I think. I'm not sure. 100% public disclosure of defects would be nice, but lead to them not getting entered into the system. The finance world would get turned upside down, but I htink I'm okay with that.)
GPS is probably off for a couple of reasons. Consumer-grade GPS in a cellphone is (or at least was last time I looked) unable to handle either the elevation or speed of a plane. It's super powerhungry, which is a problem on a plane where USB charging is not guaranteed. Someone also probably decided there was a security reason.
If 6 people died while we were inventing a new technique that improves construction for a decade, it's a sad growing pain. If 6 people died because of a fuckup in traditional design, it's horrific.
Not if they're not aware of what they're choosing. It's called informed consent.
The advert group requires your cooperation. The government can arrest you regardless.
AFAIK that only counts the days actively golfing. Not the number of days Trump spends on a golf course (for example, in the clubhouse.) Also note, the white house is saying that Trump goes to a golf course without confirming he actually played golf there. I don't know if those count either.
Isn't that because other risks of death go down? Like, once we have eliminated all disease, the risk of death by gunshot will rise.
Well, party officials loyal to Xi never lie. And ones not loyal are going to get arrested for anticorruption charges. Why let them get on the train and make a scene?
Well, if companies are in the PR phase, they reward leakers.
The creator(s) of Bitcoin mined the coins when it was easy/cheap. They have billions of USD worth of bitcoin. They don't need to cheat, they can just start cashing it out.
I don't believe anyone suggests that there be no baseload power. The only question is can renewables take care of it (geothermal/hydroelectric) or can we store enough on peak production in batteries/flywheels to get us through the downtime.