Maximizing profit is more complicated than that. He could argue that building a long term brand is more important than the short term profit selling data would achieve.
If you have three populations: Apple loyalists, Android loyalists, and people who are willing to move from platform to platform, it would make sense that a period where more people moved from Android to iOS might be followed by the reverse. That assumes that most people don't want to deal with swapping out their software and either OS is good enough, but I think there's a case for that.
Property tax doesn't work like that in King County. The amount collected is fixed and it's divvied up by figuring out your ratio of appraised value to the county as a whole. As my house has gone up in value, my taxes have gone up some years and down others, depending on how the year went.
I don't know of anyone who thinks we'd be holding hands and loving each other sans the bots. This is an existing problem otherwise they'd have nothing to work with. However, there is evidence for them existing (since they've traced the activity back to Russia) so denying that this is happening at all is equally naive.
It's less trying to promote one side or the other than a case of Let's You and Him Fight where they just try to get everyone so mad at each other than the US has trouble governing. Trolls are less about converting people (although it's great if they can) and more about making the other side think their views are so insane that they can't be reasoned with. It's all an attempt to get us into increasingly frustrated self selected bubbles and it does seem to be working....but maybe I'm just bitter because the Russians didn't offer me a Lapras for helping them. I mean if you're going to use Pokemon Go, use it!
They marched with weapons outside a synagogue chanting antisemitic slogans during a sabbath service. Their goal was to inspire fear in those attending the service. I'm not a huge fan of antifa in general but in this case, they were needed for the safety of those who just wanted to mind their own business on their own property.
The next time someone uses "cracker" as a part of an organized movement to deny white Americans access to the ballot box, schools, or jobs will be the first.
I have a friend who has lived there her entire life and she's bitched about how people are now coming into meetings and derailing them. Everyone else is trying to get work done and they're ranting about some very obscure topic and how it's oppressing them. They don't have the best rep locally.
However, if the 20k people move, the other 49 states will become that much nicer of a place to live.
Personally I like living in a high cost of living/high salary location. It makes it a lot easier to travel. On the other hand, I bought a house before the bubble started. I might not be a fan otherwise.
It looks like this bill just forces ISPs to change their DNS information to not have sites in it. As horrible as that is (and it IS ridiculous), what would stop people from using 206.47.244.61/206.47.244.103 (Those are from Toronto via a quick Google look up. They're perhaps not the best ones available, but it's the kind of thing that you can search for.) or something at which point the Internet is exactly the same? Am I missing something?
The ones in Redmond, WA don't trigger for that if you stop... but they did give me a warning once for not coming to a complete stop first. The speed I was going?
0.012 mph
Yes, technically illegal, but I had thought I had come to a complete stop. The precision they have is beyond what a human does.
This is insane. I tell the freaking truth about unemployment and it's flamebait?
Every single person I have ever met who has used unemployment actively avoided getting a new job
The assumption here is that you know enough people to form a significant sample size. If you have a dozen friends who leeched off of UI, it doesn't mean that the millions of people on it are all doing that any more than the fact that it saved me a few times while it took me a few months to find a new job means that no one would abuse it.
I actually came up with one once - a subscription service that allows unlimited mp3 downloads with the monthly costs split up by percentage of downloads. While would customers pay the $10? Well first a limited subscription could be built into the cost of an MP3 player to get people addicted to having access to anything without even having to search for it. But the second part of this is to have a contest system where only registered members could vote for various bands. The winner would get a prize. So if I'm a huge fan of a band and they ask me to go and vote for them, I'm going to be tempted to keep my membership active.
"Instead, libertarian thought is a belief in the greatest possible reasonable amount of freedom for everyone. "
Only true if you don't care about freedom of assembly (only true if there is public property which there wouldn't be in Libertopia). Of course you'd also have to miss that many of our freedoms come about because we don't have the dubious "freedom" to sign a contracts that would let the powerful easily bully around the weak. It would not be hard to effectively enslave people in a Libertarian society through non-compete clauses and obfuscated language. For that matter, a majority could commit legal genocide by just refusing to sell any of them food or let them use private roads to leave the area, but - hey - at least the rights of the shop owners and road creators wouldn't be destroyed.
It's the TV output that makes this interesting to me. Could this be an Apple TV that actually works? Add a decent digital audio out, the ability to stream from iTunes, and a decent (256-512 gigs) amount of storage space and this device becomes a lot more interesting as a portable video player.
"only "boys" are stupid enough to go into a field that's globally-fungible, where entry-level salaries are declining, "
I'd like to know what fields out there are having increasing entry level salaries and can't be outsourced. Most of the examples given - like plumbing - require the existence of other people making good salaries to pay for the services so if all manufacturing jobs go away, we're pretty doomed in general.
"They can't be drug addicts that may be thrown into rehab any minute and leave me screwed."
Nor can they have bodies because they might break down and require a visit to the hospital. What if they're wasting their time on live saving surgery and don't leave when you're having an emergency?!?!
The problem is though that we can't ALL be managers. Every rung of the job pyramid that gets removed knocks out some people whose skills just aren't good enough to be promoted. Be careful about being smug over other people's skill sets. That might be you in 10 years.
Maybe the example is off. I'm driving at 35 MPH when I see the traffic light up ahead turn red. What I do these days is immediately take my foot off of the accelerator and coast to the light. The person in the lane next to me keeps burning gas to stay at 35 mph until they're much closer to the light and then slams on the brakes. How am I not using less gas? The energy to travel at 35 before the light wasn't wasted; the question is how do we travel between where we are and the light.
As for regen, as I understand it, the Prius tries to always use regen except for when it senses it's an emergency or when your speed drops below 7 mph.
"Once you're at speed, all braking is loss (unless you have regenerative braking.) So coasting slooooooooooowly to a stop wastes no more energy than coasting right up to the stop and then stopping suddenly. It's harder on your brakes, but it doesn't waste your gasoline. I haven't seen any discussion of this, but I assume that with regenerative braking, you recover more energy from a rapid stop than a slow one since less energy is lost in rolling friction."
The waste isn't in the braking technique. It's in using gas to speed up before you slam on the brakes. If you coast, you're not using any gas to cover a longer distance. There's an additional benefit if due to the slower approach to the light, it turns green when you get there meaning that you can get up to speed from 15 mph instead of from 0.
Slamming on brakes also tells the Prius system to use the friction brakes too to make sure you can stop in time.
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There are multiple Marvel Captain Marvels and the first one was male. So you're not completely wrong there.
But I was way into the Marvel Family (Fawcett/DC) and know little about this one other than the whole thing is confusing.
Maximizing profit is more complicated than that. He could argue that building a long term brand is more important than the short term profit selling data would achieve.
If you have three populations: Apple loyalists, Android loyalists, and people who are willing to move from platform to platform, it would make sense that a period where more people moved from Android to iOS might be followed by the reverse. That assumes that most people don't want to deal with swapping out their software and either OS is good enough, but I think there's a case for that.
Property tax doesn't work like that in King County. The amount collected is fixed and it's divvied up by figuring out your ratio of appraised value to the county as a whole. As my house has gone up in value, my taxes have gone up some years and down others, depending on how the year went.
I don't know of anyone who thinks we'd be holding hands and loving each other sans the bots. This is an existing problem otherwise they'd have nothing to work with. However, there is evidence for them existing (since they've traced the activity back to Russia) so denying that this is happening at all is equally naive.
It's less trying to promote one side or the other than a case of Let's You and Him Fight where they just try to get everyone so mad at each other than the US has trouble governing. Trolls are less about converting people (although it's great if they can) and more about making the other side think their views are so insane that they can't be reasoned with. It's all an attempt to get us into increasingly frustrated self selected bubbles and it does seem to be working. ...but maybe I'm just bitter because the Russians didn't offer me a Lapras for helping them. I mean if you're going to use Pokemon Go, use it!
They marched with weapons outside a synagogue chanting antisemitic slogans during a sabbath service. Their goal was to inspire fear in those attending the service. I'm not a huge fan of antifa in general but in this case, they were needed for the safety of those who just wanted to mind their own business on their own property.
The next time someone uses "cracker" as a part of an organized movement to deny white Americans access to the ballot box, schools, or jobs will be the first.
I have a friend who has lived there her entire life and she's bitched about how people are now coming into meetings and derailing them. Everyone else is trying to get work done and they're ranting about some very obscure topic and how it's oppressing them. They don't have the best rep locally.
However, if the 20k people move, the other 49 states will become that much nicer of a place to live.
Personally I like living in a high cost of living/high salary location. It makes it a lot easier to travel. On the other hand, I bought a house before the bubble started. I might not be a fan otherwise.
It looks like this bill just forces ISPs to change their DNS information to not have sites in it. As horrible as that is (and it IS ridiculous), what would stop people from using 206.47.244.61/206.47.244.103 (Those are from Toronto via a quick Google look up. They're perhaps not the best ones available, but it's the kind of thing that you can search for.) or something at which point the Internet is exactly the same? Am I missing something?
The ones in Redmond, WA don't trigger for that if you stop... but they did give me a warning once for not coming to a complete stop first. The speed I was going?
0.012 mph
Yes, technically illegal, but I had thought I had come to a complete stop. The precision they have is beyond what a human does.
This is insane. I tell the freaking truth about unemployment and it's flamebait?
Every single person I have ever met who has used unemployment actively avoided getting a new job
The assumption here is that you know enough people to form a significant sample size. If you have a dozen friends who leeched off of UI, it doesn't mean that the millions of people on it are all doing that any more than the fact that it saved me a few times while it took me a few months to find a new job means that no one would abuse it.
I actually came up with one once - a subscription service that allows unlimited mp3 downloads with the monthly costs split up by percentage of downloads. While would customers pay the $10? Well first a limited subscription could be built into the cost of an MP3 player to get people addicted to having access to anything without even having to search for it. But the second part of this is to have a contest system where only registered members could vote for various bands. The winner would get a prize. So if I'm a huge fan of a band and they ask me to go and vote for them, I'm going to be tempted to keep my membership active.
"Instead, libertarian thought is a belief in the greatest possible reasonable amount of freedom for everyone. "
Only true if you don't care about freedom of assembly (only true if there is public property which there wouldn't be in Libertopia). Of course you'd also have to miss that many of our freedoms come about because we don't have the dubious "freedom" to sign a contracts that would let the powerful easily bully around the weak. It would not be hard to effectively enslave people in a Libertarian society through non-compete clauses and obfuscated language. For that matter, a majority could commit legal genocide by just refusing to sell any of them food or let them use private roads to leave the area, but - hey - at least the rights of the shop owners and road creators wouldn't be destroyed.
It's the TV output that makes this interesting to me. Could this be an Apple TV that actually works? Add a decent digital audio out, the ability to stream from iTunes, and a decent (256-512 gigs) amount of storage space and this device becomes a lot more interesting as a portable video player.
"only "boys" are stupid enough to go into a field that's globally-fungible, where entry-level salaries are declining, "
I'd like to know what fields out there are having increasing entry level salaries and can't be outsourced. Most of the examples given - like plumbing - require the existence of other people making good salaries to pay for the services so if all manufacturing jobs go away, we're pretty doomed in general.
May I borrow your ATM card now please?
"They can't be drug addicts that may be thrown into rehab any minute and leave me screwed."
Nor can they have bodies because they might break down and require a visit to the hospital. What if they're wasting their time on live saving surgery and don't leave when you're having an emergency?!?!
Gift cards? You mean like this?
The problem is though that we can't ALL be managers. Every rung of the job pyramid that gets removed knocks out some people whose skills just aren't good enough to be promoted. Be careful about being smug over other people's skill sets. That might be you in 10 years.
Hopefully we'd know what was up and wouldn't freak out about it too much. I'd rather not have wacky cults trying to breed red heifers...
Maybe the example is off. I'm driving at 35 MPH when I see the traffic light up ahead turn red. What I do these days is immediately take my foot off of the accelerator and coast to the light. The person in the lane next to me keeps burning gas to stay at 35 mph until they're much closer to the light and then slams on the brakes. How am I not using less gas? The energy to travel at 35 before the light wasn't wasted; the question is how do we travel between where we are and the light.
As for regen, as I understand it, the Prius tries to always use regen except for when it senses it's an emergency or when your speed drops below 7 mph.
"Once you're at speed, all braking is loss (unless you have regenerative braking.) So coasting slooooooooooowly to a stop wastes no more energy than coasting right up to the stop and then stopping suddenly. It's harder on your brakes, but it doesn't waste your gasoline. I haven't seen any discussion of this, but I assume that with regenerative braking, you recover more energy from a rapid stop than a slow one since less energy is lost in rolling friction."
The waste isn't in the braking technique. It's in using gas to speed up before you slam on the brakes. If you coast, you're not using any gas to cover a longer distance. There's an additional benefit if due to the slower approach to the light, it turns green when you get there meaning that you can get up to speed from 15 mph instead of from 0.
Slamming on brakes also tells the Prius system to use the friction brakes too to make sure you can stop in time.
Isn't that also the study that assumes that Hummers will last for 300,000 miles and Priuses for 100,000 for no obvious reason?