The CA thing was a mess because not only was there privacy concerns but there was the stink of corrupt American politics all over it.
Yeah, the CA thing was entirely different. The issue at stake was that because FB was really lax on security they effectively let CA pull the whole graph down on everyone even though those people may not have fallen for CA's dirty tricks directly. That information was then weaponized to create deepfake videos and radicalize the population.
This is more along the lines of the usual "Google doesn't understand humans" policy intersected with pedos being pedos.
If comments were turned off on YouTube would anything of value be lost? If Google had a policy where kids couldn't be the only people in a video (ML can figure that out), would that be enough?
but TFA makes it clear that in California the big corps are making "Company Towns" with their own kitchens. This is especially galling since those corps often get massive tax breaks with the assumption that they'll be lots and low skill service sector jobs to support them. Those jobs exist, but not directly inside the community proper. Instead they're clustered in the suburb where the company set up shop.
They fixed this in France (when I was working there in y2k) by having a government subsidized meals program that (all) employers could opt-into where employees get coupons that subsidize their meals for local restaurants (naturally employees paid for these coupon books but it was more or less mandatory). Company/client where I worked also had a cantina, but it didn't qualify for the coupons... they were only for restaurants.
The food ecosystem was maintained, the local farms had produce clients and "centralized/outsourcing" food producution wasn't promoted. They had a vibrant restaurant scene in a smaller metro that way.
There are 1266 people in that town as of the last census. This contract was supposed to be for 15 years. Assuming the interest cost for both infrastructures was the same, there was a cost difference of ~940K. Averaging that cost per month over 15 years amongst the 1266 people yields a monthly cost of 4.12$. I find it hard to believe that comcast was going to provide service cheaper than the municipal would. And I find it very easy to believe they can do it for less than 5$ a month cheaper than comcast.
That's assuming a few things:
You trust Comcast to have the same level of service as your community needs
Community sees local Fiber as a selling point (ie, why would you live here?)
Local = jobs.
This is highly appealing to city councils and communities in general.
So the equation has a few more factors involved - not just: Comcast vs. Fiber (but $1M more). To wit:
Tax revenues for infrastructure build
Tax revenues for jobs created with infrastructure
Future attractiveness of community for high-profile mobile workers.
What's the truth here, that Russia hacked the DNC? You know what else is factual? Your personal contact information, SSN and banking details. Do you want that thrown up on pastebin with a "someone should do something" advisory?
Apple isn't insecure about it's phone/computer image. People there probably wouldn't even give you a 2nd look. You might not be able to get on their wifi network though.
We need to diversify our energy portfolio, and coal is dirtier than all of them (coal puts out more radioactives - in the air where you will breathe them - than nuclear reactors per MW).
I've had to replace the battery in my Honda Insight 3 times in 180,000 miles
I'll counter your anecdote with my anecdata: My family has owned 3 HEVs (Prius) and they lasted 5, 7 and 13 years. One had it's battery replaced (for free) at 9 years. It seemed to be doing great, I suspect Toyota wanted test data for their battery program.
All of our Priuses died due to being totaled in a crash (mom was never a good driver) None had MPG lower than 48 avg (and that's because the usage pattern was for short, local trips).
I now own an EV (Ford Focus EV 2017) which accelerates faster than a Boxter, and has had near-zero battery degradation in the ~2 years I've owned it. Oh and it cost me $17k out the door with discounts, state and federal incentives. Oh and no oil changes, smog tests, or even going to the dirty-as-sin gas station. I just plug in @home.
If the usage pattern is light, a used EV can be had for $6k. These make great grocery grabbers, and with the reduced usage you can just plug them into your an unmodified 110v charger.
About the only problem I see is that while EVs are on the cusp of dominating, the parking garages / carports/etc often don't even have the 110v (ie, level1) chargers. We need a wave of renewed interest in mass-charging (not free, to make it sustainable) to spur the revolution.
Or are the scammers just trying to get our voiceprint to bypass the new "your voice patterns are stored to secure your account details" BS that credit card companies are now rolling out?
The stats lie by omission. Most of the 1% make their billions on passive and unreported income, sheltered in corporations or other vehicles so they don't have to say they earned 10-100M that year. We found out in 2012 that Mitt Romney has a $100M 401k. No normal person gets to even 1/10 of that value without a LOT of tax-deferred income (457 plan). That isn't reported as income.
I support a micro-cent financial transaction tax that would could rake in billions and virtually eliminate HFT and front-running. Now that'd be a tax that actually taxes the rich.
American consumers have benefited significantly from this
It's a faustian bargain. American consumers have benefitted in the short term with slightly lower prices, but production capacity in the US is depressed or in some cases, gone.
I'm not fan of Trump, but how does this postal deal benefit US consumers when the local options cost so much so they can't compete?
I read a long time about about a town that was banning cars and legalizing electric golf carts. In down town Memphis we have these electric scooters everywhere.
Golf carts are great, scooters not so much. Unless all your daycare/groceries/parks were really close the need to shuttle your kids & stuff around is a big problem.
Though to be honest if scooters existed and our culture was more like Japan with respect to school-age kids free to roam, we might just have a sustainable revolution on our hands.
While there are many more, and more important, things to consider; Pontevedra just made my list of cities that I might like to call home one day.
Not to take away anything from the city, but we have suburbs larger than Pontevedra (which makes its social experiment possible.)
If you can afford to move and live there, by all means. I just hope you are paying attention to job prospects in such a small city with double digit unemployment rate, with the Spaniard economy experiencing a lot of hurting.
It would be a nice place for retirement (though not necessarily the cheapest.)
No need to go that far away - probably most of the benefits of going car free can be had via superblocks - https://www.theguardian.com/ci... I always thought being able to drive directly into my house garage was a massive luxury with clear exernalities like road noise, traffic danger and increased pollution, and honestly if I could instead park away from my house and had to walk there to take my parked car (or more likely, public transit or taxi), I'd consider it a good tradeoff (esp. considering kids would be safe from traffic in that superblock)
The Catalan capital’s radical new strategy will restrict traffic to a number of big roads, drastically reducing pollution and turning secondary streets into ‘citizen spaces’ for culture, leisure and the community
Very hard, since it's a lie and does not save daylight at all.
That's why you use phrases like "so-called" or "quaintly referred to as" to note your usage of inaccurate terminology that somehow happens to be what everyone calls it.
As it's titled it's bizarre since lots of folks know what "daylight savings" "spring forward" and "fall back" means but are confused about what "changing the clocks" may indicate - is it upgrade time?
Next up, we must eliminated the electoral college, which is a remnant of the founders' deep-seated fear of democracy.
Agreed this is a good start. Disagree about electoral college (which does need to be fixed), the next more important step is ensuring the paper trail is audited, as part of the election process, not some vague "recount" territory.
Why is it that gambling machines have more audits and checks than voting machines? It's not like the process isn't clear. We just have to hold people and systems accountable.
The thing with Alex Jones is that it's fairly obvious that he's off his nut. Do we really need Facebook to protect us from him? Are you incapable of listening to people and coming to the determination as to whether or not they're full of crap? And if not, who would the appropriate party be? Facebook? The government? Some agency? All have potential for abuse. I'd rather hear and see everything and make up my own mind.
Propaganda works. Tell something untrue long enough and someone will believe it. Repeat ad-infitum. The issue is that Alex is well backed and has harmed people (he literally hounded parents of shooting victims who are already dealing with massive grief and his followers sent them death threats).
Alex Jones should rightfully be thrown in jail for his actions, the least that FB/etc can do is to ban him from their PRIVATE platforms.
That is a fundamental requirement of a Free Society.
Of course you realize that almost every nation has laws against certain types of speech. A great example is threats of violence - that's considered illegal in almost any jurisdiction.
If Facebook is basically fighting a flood with a broom then perhaps they should just not allow anyone in Myanmar to use Facebook for a while. Assuming, that is, that Facebook is actually serious about prohibiting "violent or dehumanizing" attacks on ethnic groups, as they say.
Or at least, just start suspending accounts. Of course, that would mean "reduced engagement" and FB can't get off that drug.
$20k rollex shows time the same way $20 timex does. To some people it is disposable income to some it is a choice what to do with it (invest, travel, etc.).
People who buy Rolexes usually see it as an investment - in 10 years it's easy to recoup most of the $20k you spent, if not have a gain to show for it. Also it's used as a way to move large amounts of money using fake invoices to launder money: https://thevelvetrocket.com/20...
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Hey at least it wasn't a link to breitbart or 8chan.
You know, Fox is respectable fake news.
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And don't link to fake news sites, please.
how they're all Democrats. Ok, it's not that funny. In fact, it's not funny at all. It's more than a little messed up actually.
GOP must just love the idea of rigging elections. I mean, why do none of them speak out against these situations?
The CA thing was a mess because not only was there privacy concerns but there was the stink of corrupt American politics all over it.
Yeah, the CA thing was entirely different. The issue at stake was that because FB was really lax on security they effectively let CA pull the whole graph down on everyone even though those people may not have fallen for CA's dirty tricks directly. That information was then weaponized to create deepfake videos and radicalize the population.
This is more along the lines of the usual "Google doesn't understand humans" policy intersected with pedos being pedos.
If comments were turned off on YouTube would anything of value be lost? If Google had a policy where kids couldn't be the only people in a video (ML can figure that out), would that be enough?
They're all the same fucking party.
That's bullshit. It's been bullshit for a long time. There is no comity in the congress. It's open warfare now, and you better pick a side.
btw, one side is funded by Russians and Saudis.
but TFA makes it clear that in California the big corps are making "Company Towns" with their own kitchens. This is especially galling since those corps often get massive tax breaks with the assumption that they'll be lots and low skill service sector jobs to support them. Those jobs exist, but not directly inside the community proper. Instead they're clustered in the suburb where the company set up shop.
They fixed this in France (when I was working there in y2k) by having a government subsidized meals program that (all) employers could opt-into where employees get coupons that subsidize their meals for local restaurants (naturally employees paid for these coupon books but it was more or less mandatory). Company/client where I worked also had a cantina, but it didn't qualify for the coupons... they were only for restaurants.
The food ecosystem was maintained, the local farms had produce clients and "centralized/outsourcing" food producution wasn't promoted. They had a vibrant restaurant scene in a smaller metro that way.
There are 1266 people in that town as of the last census. This contract was supposed to be for 15 years. Assuming the interest cost for both infrastructures was the same, there was a cost difference of ~940K. Averaging that cost per month over 15 years amongst the 1266 people yields a monthly cost of 4.12$. I find it hard to believe that comcast was going to provide service cheaper than the municipal would. And I find it very easy to believe they can do it for less than 5$ a month cheaper than comcast.
That's assuming a few things:
This is highly appealing to city councils and communities in general.
So the equation has a few more factors involved - not just: Comcast vs. Fiber (but $1M more). To wit:
Mark has realized his idea-child's growth may be malignant instead of benign.
As an aside, I'm wondering if the new content rules in the EU may have influenced this at all.
What's the truth here, that Russia hacked the DNC? You know what else is factual? Your personal contact information, SSN and banking details. Do you want that thrown up on pastebin with a "someone should do something" advisory?
Yeah, it's like (but not as good as) Google, but without the tracking. Figure that, it's popular that service.
Apple isn't insecure about it's phone/computer image. People there probably wouldn't even give you a 2nd look.
You might not be able to get on their wifi network though.
That's what I do. I answer in my gringo Spanish with a fake Mexican accent. Sometimes the recordings don't even play.
However, I'd be better to simply know not to answer, and even better to not be interrupted in meetings or while I'm having quality time with the fam.
AI desperately seeking your data...
Hey I support Nuclear and Solar and Wind.
We need to diversify our energy portfolio, and coal is dirtier than all of them (coal puts out more radioactives - in the air where you will breathe them - than nuclear reactors per MW).
I've had to replace the battery in my Honda Insight 3 times in 180,000 miles
I'll counter your anecdote with my anecdata: My family has owned 3 HEVs (Prius) and they lasted 5, 7 and 13 years. One had it's battery replaced (for free) at 9 years. It seemed to be doing great, I suspect Toyota wanted test data for their battery program.
All of our Priuses died due to being totaled in a crash (mom was never a good driver) None had MPG lower than 48 avg (and that's because the usage pattern was for short, local trips).
I now own an EV (Ford Focus EV 2017) which accelerates faster than a Boxter, and has had near-zero battery degradation in the ~2 years I've owned it. Oh and it cost me $17k out the door with discounts, state and federal incentives. Oh and no oil changes, smog tests, or even going to the dirty-as-sin gas station. I just plug in @home.
If the usage pattern is light, a used EV can be had for $6k. These make great grocery grabbers, and with the reduced usage you can just plug them into your an unmodified 110v charger.
About the only problem I see is that while EVs are on the cusp of dominating, the parking garages / carports /etc often don't even have the 110v (ie, level1) chargers. We need a wave of renewed interest in mass-charging (not free, to make it sustainable) to spur the revolution.
Or are the scammers just trying to get our voiceprint to bypass the new "your voice patterns are stored to secure your account details" BS that credit card companies are now rolling out?
The stats lie by omission. Most of the 1% make their billions on passive and unreported income, sheltered in corporations or other vehicles so they don't have to say they earned 10-100M that year. We found out in 2012 that Mitt Romney has a $100M 401k. No normal person gets to even 1/10 of that value without a LOT of tax-deferred income (457 plan). That isn't reported as income.
I support a micro-cent financial transaction tax that would could rake in billions and virtually eliminate HFT and front-running. Now that'd be a tax that actually taxes the rich.
American consumers have benefited significantly from this
It's a faustian bargain. American consumers have benefitted in the short term with slightly lower prices, but production capacity in the US is depressed or in some cases, gone.
I'm not fan of Trump, but how does this postal deal benefit US consumers when the local options cost so much so they can't compete?
I read a long time about about a town that was banning cars and legalizing electric golf carts. In down town Memphis we have these electric scooters everywhere.
Golf carts are great, scooters not so much. Unless all your daycare/groceries/parks were really close the need to shuttle your kids & stuff around is a big problem.
Though to be honest if scooters existed and our culture was more like Japan with respect to school-age kids free to roam, we might just have a sustainable revolution on our hands.
While there are many more, and more important, things to consider; Pontevedra just made my list of cities that I might like to call home one day.
Not to take away anything from the city, but we have suburbs larger than Pontevedra (which makes its social experiment possible.)
If you can afford to move and live there, by all means. I just hope you are paying attention to job prospects in such a small city with double digit unemployment rate, with the Spaniard economy experiencing a lot of hurting.
It would be a nice place for retirement (though not necessarily the cheapest.)
No need to go that far away - probably most of the benefits of going car free can be had via superblocks - https://www.theguardian.com/ci...
I always thought being able to drive directly into my house garage was a massive luxury with clear exernalities like road noise, traffic danger and increased pollution, and honestly if I could instead park away from my house and had to walk there to take my parked car (or more likely, public transit or taxi), I'd consider it a good tradeoff (esp. considering kids would be safe from traffic in that superblock)
Very hard, since it's a lie and does not save daylight at all.
That's why you use phrases like "so-called" or "quaintly referred to as" to note your usage of inaccurate terminology that somehow happens to be what everyone calls it.
As it's titled it's bizarre since lots of folks know what "daylight savings" "spring forward" and "fall back" means but are confused about what "changing the clocks" may indicate - is it upgrade time?
Next up, we must eliminated the electoral college, which is a remnant of the founders' deep-seated fear of democracy.
Agreed this is a good start. Disagree about electoral college (which does need to be fixed), the next more important step is ensuring the paper trail is audited, as part of the election process, not some vague "recount" territory.
Why is it that gambling machines have more audits and checks than voting machines? It's not like the process isn't clear. We just have to hold people and systems accountable.
The thing with Alex Jones is that it's fairly obvious that he's off his nut. Do we really need Facebook to protect us from him? Are you incapable of listening to people and coming to the determination as to whether or not they're full of crap? And if not, who would the appropriate party be? Facebook? The government? Some agency? All have potential for abuse. I'd rather hear and see everything and make up my own mind.
Propaganda works. Tell something untrue long enough and someone will believe it. Repeat ad-infitum. The issue is that Alex is well backed and has harmed people (he literally hounded parents of shooting victims who are already dealing with massive grief and his followers sent them death threats).
Alex Jones should rightfully be thrown in jail for his actions, the least that FB/etc can do is to ban him from their PRIVATE platforms.
The only thing which can be criminal is action.
That is a fundamental requirement of a Free Society.
Of course you realize that almost every nation has laws against certain types of speech. A great example is threats of violence - that's considered illegal in almost any jurisdiction.
If Facebook is basically fighting a flood with a broom then perhaps they should just not allow anyone in Myanmar to use Facebook for a while. Assuming, that is, that Facebook is actually serious about prohibiting "violent or dehumanizing" attacks on ethnic groups, as they say.
Or at least, just start suspending accounts. Of course, that would mean "reduced engagement" and FB can't get off that drug.
$20k rollex shows time the same way $20 timex does. To some people it is disposable income to some it is a choice what to do with it (invest, travel, etc.).
People who buy Rolexes usually see it as an investment - in 10 years it's easy to recoup most of the $20k you spent, if not have a gain to show for it. Also it's used as a way to move large amounts of money using fake invoices to launder money: https://thevelvetrocket.com/20...