So while it's relatively rational to agree on maintaining a higher price....
Maintaining a higher price than what?
This is a key point and everyone seems to be missing it.
All other things being equal, there is an optimal price and that doesnt mean 'higher' as although it could be higher, it could also be lower..
Charging a non-optimal price is sub-optimal by definition, and on those grounds it is bad, but of course sometimes a company can get away with benefiting from sub-optimal pricing when the flaw in their pricing does not get exploited by other players.
Here we are talking about online retail. Correct me if I am wrong but online retailers are a dime-a-dozen. Sure there are some big players, like Amazon and even NewEgg, but there are also plenty of smaller players.
Now, presenting different consumers with different prices for the same items isnt new either. This is called A/B testing and its done all the time. Something new here is segmentation of the market down to the individual instead of a region.
I posit that these algorithms are not learning to collude with each other, that instead they are learning which people will pay more, and its the same people. Thus, the outrage here is not the nonexistent "collusion", the outrage here is the ability of a machine to reliably figure out who the suckers are.
Any sort of vote system is a measurement and it is expected that the full range of this measurement will from to time be used.
If you are getting vote bombed, then this can be attributed to the measurement system working as designed. Moving to a star rating wont save your content, either.
And yes, they can tell who a thief is by tracking how the coins get spent or transferred
The problem with you is that you know some things about bitcoin, but then you say this shit proving that you barely know anything about it, but amazingly are acting like an expert.
There are dozens and dozens of anonymity services that will co-mingle coins with others from other wallets and then redistribute them to fresh wallets.
The lessons of Enron have been forgotten because everyone wants the gravy train to keep rolling.
I have not forgotten the lesson. Dont let the government price fix. Dont let politicians claim that its for the peoples own good while they get campaign donations from those ready to take advantage of it.
Enron would not have been possible if the politicians of California werent corrupt.
Just the other day I was considering writing up a cron job that would scrape weather underground daily, and then create some visualization later... but meh... I've also considered one that takes snapshots from a webcam pointed out the window daily....
Seems to me the only way to get it to people at youtube is by tweeting it and then getting thousands of re-tweets. Anything short of that and its just dead silence.
Because if this style of extorsion becomes a "thing", the thiefs will eventually go after the big youtube guns, you know, the ones that bring millions of revenue to youtube. So it's in youtube's interest to nip this thing in the bud.
Youtube doesnt care, at all, which monetized video is being watched. They get their revenue either way. The lack of some videos, no matter how popular, will not reduce the number of viewer hours, and will only alter which videos were viewed but not the number of ads served.
Yes, but in some countries, "human" bot assisted with scraping python scripts will always prevail and remain cheaper than bothering to develop and code an "AI" style bot.
The majority of user of our new AI Programming Overlords will not develop the AI bot, they will merely purchase a copy of it from one of the first that did.
Then a handful of folks (thats all it takes) somewhere in the world that are already familiar with several of the existing solutions, will write an open source alternative.
So I am not so sure that you've thought about the economics of this very much.
The language wars are going to return because none of the languages we use today are going to matter. Are you on the side of Sloppy Intent Description Language or are you of those garbage coders that uses GNALs Not A Language.
In my experience, it's only those who don't use it (or ultra-Libertarians) that can say this with a straight face. If you're "always online" and have a normal number of friends, you should be more than aware of FB's deep tendrils into American life. If you don't have FB and don't use it, great. You're definitely in the minority (among those with regular internet access).
Can we end this assumption that people without fakebook accounts are safe from facebook selling their data? Its just not fucking true, at fucking all. It may in fact be the most valuable pieces of data facebook sells. I can certainly see reasons for that being true.
On the matter of if facebook should be allowed to sell the data it collects then I gotta side with facebook. Sorry. Show me a promise that they made to you, that they wouldnt sell the data that they collected on you, and I will be the first to have your back.
The real crime is that there are institutions on this planet that can legally and forcefully compel facebook to share your data with them. That even if a company contractually promises to never sell your data in full good faith, you are still in jeopardy.
This has always and will always be how automated coding grows.
First it was canned code, such as generated by RAD gui designers. The intent of the code is explicitly defined by the programmers decisions.
Now we are on to some bug fixing. The intent of the generated code is implicitly defined by the programmers code.
Now it will happen quite rapidly. The leap from very explicit to slightly implicit is further than distance from slightly implicit to fully implicit.
IDK. Maybe because he can land a rocket when the rest of us can't even do a water bottle flip.
I still need to go see a launch and landing. I know for a fact that no matter how prepared I make myself, the sheer amount of energy released for the take off, the noise and rumbling still felt a mile away, that I will still be in complete awe.
And old fart over there is four times as productive as you are.
Maybe the year the union is voted in. A few years later and the most senior people will do the least work, safe in the assumption that their seniority will prevent them from being laid off.
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Flat is a two dimensional concept and we clearly do not live in Flatland.
Tell that to the believers in the holographic principle, aka leading cosmologists.
So while it's relatively rational to agree on maintaining a higher price....
Maintaining a higher price than what?
This is a key point and everyone seems to be missing it.
All other things being equal, there is an optimal price and that doesnt mean 'higher' as although it could be higher, it could also be lower..
Charging a non-optimal price is sub-optimal by definition, and on those grounds it is bad, but of course sometimes a company can get away with benefiting from sub-optimal pricing when the flaw in their pricing does not get exploited by other players.
Here we are talking about online retail. Correct me if I am wrong but online retailers are a dime-a-dozen. Sure there are some big players, like Amazon and even NewEgg, but there are also plenty of smaller players.
Now, presenting different consumers with different prices for the same items isnt new either. This is called A/B testing and its done all the time. Something new here is segmentation of the market down to the individual instead of a region.
I posit that these algorithms are not learning to collude with each other, that instead they are learning which people will pay more, and its the same people. Thus, the outrage here is not the nonexistent "collusion", the outrage here is the ability of a machine to reliably figure out who the suckers are.
I know I expect every app to always be available without a man in the idle attack.
Even if the app *is* the man in the middle?
Yeah you went there. You decided that this wasnt the problem.
Any sort of vote system is a measurement and it is expected that the full range of this measurement will from to time be used.
If you are getting vote bombed, then this can be attributed to the measurement system working as designed. Moving to a star rating wont save your content, either.
When did policing in the United States become gestapo-like?
This isnt like that at all. These are traffic cops.
To continue to be a traffic cop they must consistently bring in at least as much as they are paid, in revenue. Thats the bare minimum too.
When ticket revenue is down, they get chewed out hard for sure. That money was expected.
128-bit? secure?
now thats some funny shit.
And yes, they can tell who a thief is by tracking how the coins get spent or transferred
The problem with you is that you know some things about bitcoin, but then you say this shit proving that you barely know anything about it, but amazingly are acting like an expert.
There are dozens and dozens of anonymity services that will co-mingle coins with others from other wallets and then redistribute them to fresh wallets.
More like the intentional stupidity was its own insurance device...
..but somebody killed him anyways
I just can't keep all these new gender pronouns straight.
Because the new pronouns arent for straight people
The lessons of Enron have been forgotten because everyone wants the gravy train to keep rolling.
I have not forgotten the lesson. Dont let the government price fix. Dont let politicians claim that its for the peoples own good while they get campaign donations from those ready to take advantage of it.
Enron would not have been possible if the politicians of California werent corrupt.
Just the other day I was considering writing up a cron job that would scrape weather underground daily, and then create some visualization later... but meh... I've also considered one that takes snapshots from a webcam pointed out the window daily....
Too many ideas... not enough time.
Send youtube the extortion message
Seems to me the only way to get it to people at youtube is by tweeting it and then getting thousands of re-tweets. Anything short of that and its just dead silence.
Because if this style of extorsion becomes a "thing", the thiefs will eventually go after the big youtube guns, you know, the ones that bring millions of revenue to youtube. So it's in youtube's interest to nip this thing in the bud.
Youtube doesnt care, at all, which monetized video is being watched. They get their revenue either way. The lack of some videos, no matter how popular, will not reduce the number of viewer hours, and will only alter which videos were viewed but not the number of ads served.
Dont tell the raving lunatic democrats that are modding themselves up in a giant circle jerk claiming the opposite
Python has been around for a very long time, and frankly, its popularity is inexplicable.
One can conclude that fights between the tab and space crowds might be keeping programmers away from all other languages.
Yes, but in some countries, "human" bot assisted with scraping python scripts will always prevail and remain cheaper than bothering to develop and code an "AI" style bot.
The majority of user of our new AI Programming Overlords will not develop the AI bot, they will merely purchase a copy of it from one of the first that did.
Then a handful of folks (thats all it takes) somewhere in the world that are already familiar with several of the existing solutions, will write an open source alternative.
So I am not so sure that you've thought about the economics of this very much.
The language wars are going to return because none of the languages we use today are going to matter. Are you on the side of Sloppy Intent Description Language or are you of those garbage coders that uses GNALs Not A Language.
In my experience, it's only those who don't use it (or ultra-Libertarians) that can say this with a straight face. If you're "always online" and have a normal number of friends, you should be more than aware of FB's deep tendrils into American life. If you don't have FB and don't use it, great. You're definitely in the minority (among those with regular internet access).
Can we end this assumption that people without fakebook accounts are safe from facebook selling their data? Its just not fucking true, at fucking all. It may in fact be the most valuable pieces of data facebook sells. I can certainly see reasons for that being true.
On the matter of if facebook should be allowed to sell the data it collects then I gotta side with facebook. Sorry. Show me a promise that they made to you, that they wouldnt sell the data that they collected on you, and I will be the first to have your back.
The real crime is that there are institutions on this planet that can legally and forcefully compel facebook to share your data with them. That even if a company contractually promises to never sell your data in full good faith, you are still in jeopardy.
This has always and will always be how automated coding grows.
First it was canned code, such as generated by RAD gui designers. The intent of the code is explicitly defined by the programmers decisions.
Now we are on to some bug fixing. The intent of the generated code is implicitly defined by the programmers code.
Now it will happen quite rapidly. The leap from very explicit to slightly implicit is further than distance from slightly implicit to fully implicit.
Not sure the obfuscation that Google does to make getting the download link "hard" can be classified as copy protection.
My solution? Never log in to youtube unless it's to post a video. Also run cookie autodelete.
But what you are going to do about the tracking?
I think the ideal solution would be to well, use the recommendation list to show debunking videos, so you can get the people "on the edge".
Since we have decided to be social constructionists......
You get to put anti-flat-earth stuff on my recommended list if I get to put anti-child-rape stuff on yours.
In the other news, they will also refuse to share real evidence of Iraq WMDs with the public.
After the break, we will also pretend that there is evidence of russian meddling.
you so sure that that wasnt theater?
IDK. Maybe because he can land a rocket when the rest of us can't even do a water bottle flip.
I still need to go see a launch and landing. I know for a fact that no matter how prepared I make myself, the sheer amount of energy released for the take off, the noise and rumbling still felt a mile away, that I will still be in complete awe.
And old fart over there is four times as productive as you are.
Maybe the year the union is voted in. A few years later and the most senior people will do the least work, safe in the assumption that their seniority will prevent them from being laid off.