I don't think I could have found it without that description. It seems like a stealthy feature. To be honest I don't see any major difference between what YouTube does and what Facebook is trying to do. I have no love for either of those businesses.
And I've never heard of "Facebook Watch". I am their target demographic and I didn't know about it until today. For a company built on advertising and market research, they seem to fail at it a lot.
And Infowars advertises quack medicine to susceptible anti-science viewers. Must be great to have an army of low-information followers to lead around like sheep.
I have no problem with gambling. But when I want to go gambling I can go to a casino and do it.
As for corporate profits, there was a time when game companies existed before online services and in-game currency. Of course the game industry was a fraction of the size it is now.
Cutting an industry down to a smaller size isn't the end of humanity or even the end of gaming. Definitely would transform it into a different sort of business, hopefully a better sort.
I complain and get it moved. Technically I'm lower in the ORG chart, but I'm at headquarters and they are not so I (usually) win.
I'm pretty reasonable about it. I get a lot of 9pm-10pm meetings followed by 8:30 am meetings the next day. Syncing up between teams in India, China, and Europe is a pain. Our East coast teams are happy when the West coast has late morning meetings, and are the least likely to complain.
If your company gets bought out by a firm based on the East Coast, you'd better get used to 6:30 am meetings. And that has nothing to do with a change in DST schedules.
The CEO and board chairman has a poison pill, so that won't happen in my case. Also I can't do 6:30 am meetings in person, no matter how badly management wants them. If they try to terminate me over it, then I can send ADA lawyers on them. My inflexibility is not a personal preference but due to a family member with a legitimate disability.
I'm originally from Michigan and I don't particularly care for Wisconsin cheese. There are a few California cheeses that I buy out of convenience, and my family occasionally sends me Michigan cheese, often of a non-commercial regional variety. There is a brand of Oregon cheese popular in California supermarkets that is pretty good as well, not amazing, but serviceable.
Most of the cheese in the USA is industrial grade. It's designed to be a consistent product with a predictable shelf life. It works fine as an ingredient or a very simple table cheese. That $5/pound cheddar at the supermarket isn't claiming to be gourmet.
I go to a 9:30a meeting once a month, but suddenly it becomes an 8:30a meeting because one organizer doesn't follow the same DST schedule. The computer knows exactly when it happens, and shows it correctly on my calendar. But I may not be able to agree to attend such an early meeting.
And 71% of the lettuce. And 18% of the milk (making California the U.S.'s largest dairy state, beating Wisconsin). And 49% of Peaches (sorry Georgia!). And nearly the sole producer in the US for raisins, plums, figs, artichokes, walnuts, pistachios, and more. Face it, California is an agricultural power house.
Water rights are a complicated issue here. The Sacramento Valley's water comes from sources within California, not from other states. Because of this conservation is pretty important because there are no adjacent states near there that have water to share/sell. Southern California's water is taken either from other states by trading allocations of water from the Colorado River, or from local sources (including California's own allocations of the Colorado River). Geography factoid: the Colorado River defines part of the border between Arizona and California starting at around Needles, CA and down to Mexico.
I'm originally from a rural state that isn't even worth flying over, it's too far out of the way of the usual flight paths. I've got no problem with so-called fly-over states. I do have a problem with inaccurate claims that imply "coastal elites" have much dependence on the South and Mid-west other than free market forces driving prices down through competition. My California beef is cheaper than it otherwise would be because Texas, Nebraska and Kansas produce so much of it and deliver it to satisfy demand elsewhere in the US.
but finding out that a lot of tasks humans are (so far) needed for do not actually require intelligence.
My hope is people don't figure this out before I retire. A lot of what goes on in software engineering is repetitive, formulaic, and un-creative.
I predict that as soon as self-driving cars become generally available, insurance premiums will do the rest very fast, because on average these will cause far less and far less costly accidents.
There is a curious dance going on right now between car manufacturers, self-driving car systems developers, and insurance companies on how to lobby the government for where to assign responsibility for self-driving car accidents. Individuals don't have any lobbyist so they'll probably get the short end of the stick on this one.
Looking forward to that, because I am not a good driver and sometimes a car is useful even in a large city.
You're a rare breed, most people insist they are above average drivers. (heh)
"Flyover states" provide the bulk of the food in this country. Without food, what will the coastal elites eat?
"In 2017, the top 10 agricultural producing States in terms of cash receipts were (in descending order): California, Iowa, Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Indiana. " -- USDA ERS FAQs
California's state receipts for all commodities is larger than Iowa and Texas combined. (Farm Income and Wealth Statistics, 2017)
The calendaring apps make reoccurring meetings across time zones a bit weird when one region goes into a daylight savings change and another does not. It usually ends up following the organizer's own time zone, which isn't always obvious to attendees.
Perfect timing with the demise of Sears!! Amazon will take over the world!
Feels a bit more like Amazon is dancing on Sears' grave. If anyone was primed to establish and dominate the online delivery industry, it was Sears. It was a real missed opportunity and something that will likely be decomposed and discussed in business schools for decades. (hindsight being 20/20 and all). We kind of knew it was too late for Sears once Kmart bought/merged it.
Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) is the same as Mountain Standard Time (MST). (not to be confused with MT which generically refers to both MST and MDT)
Seems to make sense to me. Disadvantage is now tech workers in California will have phone meetings to the East Coast that will be an hour off sometimes. Advantage is the harder to schedule meetings with India will be more consistent, as India does not use daily savings (and has a weird half-hour adjustment, UTC +5:30). Frankly the disadvantage is insignificant in my case I do more business with India, China, Taiwan, Japan, Europe, and Washington state than I do with the rest of the US.
It's an old dream, that every person would live a life of leisure with an army of servants.
Technology has significantly reduced the amount of labor we have to do, especially labor at home. This preference makes sense in a way, we don't earn money when we wash our own cloths. But a washing machine manufacturer can to a profit, so they build the machines. We buy the machines because our time can be spent on other things, hopefully more leisure, in practice we end up with households where both husband and wife work outside of the home. The amount of time we save from technology doesn't translate perfectly into an equivalent amount of leisure time.
I think the self-driving car thing is a done deal. It may not be A.I. in the strictest sense. But it does replace a human driver for that narrowly defined task of driving a car. We'll probably accept an incomplete and slightly dangerous implementation rather than wait for a perfectly executed self driving car. Arguments against scenarios where self-driving won't work are already being ignored. We'd need multi-car Uber pile-ups every day for the next few years for the industry to put the brakes on this.
The asphalt lobbyists don't want us to have flying cars. "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."
But more seriously, there is a real desire for fast travel that isn't limited by long waits like in a train schedule or unpredictable travel time like in heavy traffic. If you take the whole "flying car" thing from mid-20th century Popular Science magazines overly literal, we're probably very far away from that. But we are moving towards technology that addresses similar demands for convenience and will have some of the same advantages of the theoretical flying car.
How much would gold be worth if only priced in intrinsic value?
It's not that useful of question, and difficult to answer. Chemically gold is extremely useful. If there were no scarcity we'd use a lot more of it. It was discovered fairly recently that gold is a good catalyst for converting carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. (effectively a different way to burn "wood gas")
Having instant access to comprehensive patient histories gets in the way of "winging it".
But more seriously we have a top down development of software in the medical records industry. It creates sweetheart deals for a few big contractors, and prevents free market forces that evolve and improve software.
Having supported an office that is using 30 year old medical billing software (Medisoft for DOS), I can say that there is little that has changed over the years other than the size of the organizations writing the software. The newer software is easier to train on, but gives people repetitive strain injury, functionally it is equivalent. (that oldie moldie software is HIPAA compliant)
Then they didn't understand the kinds of messes that customers of a convenience store leave behind. I often wondered how people grew up barely house trained, but then I remembered there is little difference between a drunk and a toddler.
Certainly depends on your point of view, for example you could be a piece of shit and substituted "we" for "I". But I won't take your dysfunction personally.
there is no need to wait in line or even speak to another human being.
Having worked at 7-Eleven for four months, I can attest that most customers don't think we're human beings. Or at least that awareness is not terribly high on their priorities.
The job has its perks though, I can casually ignore customers after the 10 seconds it takes to complete the transaction. Third shift has its drama, but it also has a long peaceful period after the midnight drunks are gone and some generally nice people in the A.M. Money-wise it sucks, but you can get a lot of O.T. taking the third shift and covering for other shifts once in a while, nobody wants to cover for third shifters but first and second need to be covered all the time.
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I don't think I could have found it without that description. It seems like a stealthy feature. To be honest I don't see any major difference between what YouTube does and what Facebook is trying to do. I have no love for either of those businesses.
And I've never heard of "Facebook Watch". I am their target demographic and I didn't know about it until today. For a company built on advertising and market research, they seem to fail at it a lot.
And Infowars advertises quack medicine to susceptible anti-science viewers. Must be great to have an army of low-information followers to lead around like sheep.
Would our society collapse if we ceased with the aggressive marketing tactics? Would I still buy potato chips and beer if not reminded to do so daily?
I have no problem with gambling. But when I want to go gambling I can go to a casino and do it.
As for corporate profits, there was a time when game companies existed before online services and in-game currency. Of course the game industry was a fraction of the size it is now.
Cutting an industry down to a smaller size isn't the end of humanity or even the end of gaming. Definitely would transform it into a different sort of business, hopefully a better sort.
I guess they'll have to go back to making normal games.
you either show up or lose your job.
I complain and get it moved. Technically I'm lower in the ORG chart, but I'm at headquarters and they are not so I (usually) win.
I'm pretty reasonable about it. I get a lot of 9pm-10pm meetings followed by 8:30 am meetings the next day. Syncing up between teams in India, China, and Europe is a pain. Our East coast teams are happy when the West coast has late morning meetings, and are the least likely to complain.
If your company gets bought out by a firm based on the East Coast, you'd better get used to 6:30 am meetings. And that has nothing to do with a change in DST schedules.
The CEO and board chairman has a poison pill, so that won't happen in my case. Also I can't do 6:30 am meetings in person, no matter how badly management wants them. If they try to terminate me over it, then I can send ADA lawyers on them. My inflexibility is not a personal preference but due to a family member with a legitimate disability.
I'm originally from Michigan and I don't particularly care for Wisconsin cheese. There are a few California cheeses that I buy out of convenience, and my family occasionally sends me Michigan cheese, often of a non-commercial regional variety. There is a brand of Oregon cheese popular in California supermarkets that is pretty good as well, not amazing, but serviceable.
Most of the cheese in the USA is industrial grade. It's designed to be a consistent product with a predictable shelf life. It works fine as an ingredient or a very simple table cheese. That $5/pound cheddar at the supermarket isn't claiming to be gourmet.
I don't think you understand the problem.
I go to a 9:30a meeting once a month, but suddenly it becomes an 8:30a meeting because one organizer doesn't follow the same DST schedule. The computer knows exactly when it happens, and shows it correctly on my calendar. But I may not be able to agree to attend such an early meeting.
And 71% of the lettuce. And 18% of the milk (making California the U.S.'s largest dairy state, beating Wisconsin). And 49% of Peaches (sorry Georgia!). And nearly the sole producer in the US for raisins, plums, figs, artichokes, walnuts, pistachios, and more. Face it, California is an agricultural power house.
Water rights are a complicated issue here. The Sacramento Valley's water comes from sources within California, not from other states. Because of this conservation is pretty important because there are no adjacent states near there that have water to share/sell. Southern California's water is taken either from other states by trading allocations of water from the Colorado River, or from local sources (including California's own allocations of the Colorado River). Geography factoid: the Colorado River defines part of the border between Arizona and California starting at around Needles, CA and down to Mexico.
I'm originally from a rural state that isn't even worth flying over, it's too far out of the way of the usual flight paths. I've got no problem with so-called fly-over states. I do have a problem with inaccurate claims that imply "coastal elites" have much dependence on the South and Mid-west other than free market forces driving prices down through competition. My California beef is cheaper than it otherwise would be because Texas, Nebraska and Kansas produce so much of it and deliver it to satisfy demand elsewhere in the US.
but finding out that a lot of tasks humans are (so far) needed for do not actually require intelligence.
My hope is people don't figure this out before I retire. A lot of what goes on in software engineering is repetitive, formulaic, and un-creative.
I predict that as soon as self-driving cars become generally available, insurance premiums will do the rest very fast, because on average these will cause far less and far less costly accidents.
There is a curious dance going on right now between car manufacturers, self-driving car systems developers, and insurance companies on how to lobby the government for where to assign responsibility for self-driving car accidents. Individuals don't have any lobbyist so they'll probably get the short end of the stick on this one.
Looking forward to that, because I am not a good driver and sometimes a car is useful even in a large city.
You're a rare breed, most people insist they are above average drivers. (heh)
"Flyover states" provide the bulk of the food in this country. Without food, what will the coastal elites eat?
"In 2017, the top 10 agricultural producing States in terms of cash receipts were (in descending order): California, Iowa, Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Indiana. " -- USDA ERS FAQs
California's state receipts for all commodities is larger than Iowa and Texas combined. (Farm Income and Wealth Statistics, 2017)
The calendaring apps make reoccurring meetings across time zones a bit weird when one region goes into a daylight savings change and another does not. It usually ends up following the organizer's own time zone, which isn't always obvious to attendees.
Perfect timing with the demise of Sears!! Amazon will take over the world!
Feels a bit more like Amazon is dancing on Sears' grave. If anyone was primed to establish and dominate the online delivery industry, it was Sears. It was a real missed opportunity and something that will likely be decomposed and discussed in business schools for decades. (hindsight being 20/20 and all). We kind of knew it was too late for Sears once Kmart bought/merged it.
Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) is the same as Mountain Standard Time (MST). (not to be confused with MT which generically refers to both MST and MDT)
Seems to make sense to me. Disadvantage is now tech workers in California will have phone meetings to the East Coast that will be an hour off sometimes. Advantage is the harder to schedule meetings with India will be more consistent, as India does not use daily savings (and has a weird half-hour adjustment, UTC +5:30). Frankly the disadvantage is insignificant in my case I do more business with India, China, Taiwan, Japan, Europe, and Washington state than I do with the rest of the US.
Cool. More business for me. It's like they say, if you can't take the heat, then get out of the kitchen.
It's an old dream, that every person would live a life of leisure with an army of servants.
Technology has significantly reduced the amount of labor we have to do, especially labor at home. This preference makes sense in a way, we don't earn money when we wash our own cloths. But a washing machine manufacturer can to a profit, so they build the machines. We buy the machines because our time can be spent on other things, hopefully more leisure, in practice we end up with households where both husband and wife work outside of the home. The amount of time we save from technology doesn't translate perfectly into an equivalent amount of leisure time.
I think the self-driving car thing is a done deal. It may not be A.I. in the strictest sense. But it does replace a human driver for that narrowly defined task of driving a car. We'll probably accept an incomplete and slightly dangerous implementation rather than wait for a perfectly executed self driving car. Arguments against scenarios where self-driving won't work are already being ignored. We'd need multi-car Uber pile-ups every day for the next few years for the industry to put the brakes on this.
That's for the gibberish, I needed the lulz.
The asphalt lobbyists don't want us to have flying cars. "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."
But more seriously, there is a real desire for fast travel that isn't limited by long waits like in a train schedule or unpredictable travel time like in heavy traffic. If you take the whole "flying car" thing from mid-20th century Popular Science magazines overly literal, we're probably very far away from that. But we are moving towards technology that addresses similar demands for convenience and will have some of the same advantages of the theoretical flying car.
Gross oversimplification.
How much would gold be worth if only priced in intrinsic value?
It's not that useful of question, and difficult to answer. Chemically gold is extremely useful. If there were no scarcity we'd use a lot more of it. It was discovered fairly recently that gold is a good catalyst for converting carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. (effectively a different way to burn "wood gas")
Having instant access to comprehensive patient histories gets in the way of "winging it".
But more seriously we have a top down development of software in the medical records industry. It creates sweetheart deals for a few big contractors, and prevents free market forces that evolve and improve software.
Having supported an office that is using 30 year old medical billing software (Medisoft for DOS), I can say that there is little that has changed over the years other than the size of the organizations writing the software. The newer software is easier to train on, but gives people repetitive strain injury, functionally it is equivalent. (that oldie moldie software is HIPAA compliant)
I... didn't get the job.
Then they didn't understand the kinds of messes that customers of a convenience store leave behind. I often wondered how people grew up barely house trained, but then I remembered there is little difference between a drunk and a toddler.
There could be at least two reasons for that.
Certainly depends on your point of view, for example you could be a piece of shit and substituted "we" for "I". But I won't take your dysfunction personally.
there is no need to wait in line or even speak to another human being.
Having worked at 7-Eleven for four months, I can attest that most customers don't think we're human beings. Or at least that awareness is not terribly high on their priorities.
The job has its perks though, I can casually ignore customers after the 10 seconds it takes to complete the transaction. Third shift has its drama, but it also has a long peaceful period after the midnight drunks are gone and some generally nice people in the A.M. Money-wise it sucks, but you can get a lot of O.T. taking the third shift and covering for other shifts once in a while, nobody wants to cover for third shifters but first and second need to be covered all the time.