That's why I never accept any requests unless they are accompanied by non-generic invite text. Also, once accepted, they have two weeks to send me a message, otherwise they're removed from my network. Many recruiters added me, only to be removed after two weeks because they never wrote me anything. i'm not going to become one of the 10K contacts they boatd having.
Honestly... with 1.2M in the bank I would completely ditch the USA and move to one of the many, many cheaper (and arguably nicer) countries out there. It's something that plenty Western Europeans do. They buy cheap houses in villages in Eastern European countries, and live very comfortably with less than 1K dollars a month. Hell, 500 bucks a month are more than enough, and you could buy a large house with huge courtyard, vegetable garden and an orchard for 30K dollars or less.
Oh, the beauty of statistics... Sadly, the page you linked is directly affected by purchasing power index (PPP). How about checking this link? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What. The. Fuck. I really hope your post was sarcastic. Some people need way less than 1.2M in the bank to live cozily for 30 years. Others would go through 1.2M dollars in a couple years.
Same here, I had HTC and Samsung phones, my wife's tablet is a Nexus built by LG, my brother-in-law also owns an LG tablet. None of us care about the brand, but what the device has to offer.
Their data is in that ecosystem. Pictures saved in cloud, e-mail, contacts, tasks, calendar. Switching is a pain, not because it's difficult but mainly because it's inconvenient.
Anectodal evidence: I never switched scosystems. Small sample statistical evidence: the dozens of people I talked to around the "Apple versus Android" topic all named "ecosystem" as the biggest switch prevention reason. Some reasons below (randomly ordered): - "my data is in the google Cloud" (pictures, contacts, calendar, files) - "I bought this or that app" - "I am used to the menus" - "Android sucks" / "Apple sucks".
There is such a thing called "ecosystem lockdown" or however you want to call it. Be it from getting used to where stuff is, how UX works or whether you paid for shit (apps, games, etc). Also there's a big difference between what people say will do and what they will actually do.
unlike humans, it can look in all directions simultaneously.
It can look in all directions, but apparently (at least with some vehicles) has been less reliable at identifying hazards than humans......
Highly debatable. There are sleepy drivers, drunk drivers, distracted drivers, etc., etc.
The difference must be made between "accidentally less reliable" and "consistently less reliable". If an automated driving car is consistently less reliable than the average human driver, then it shouldn't be released. Now, concerning "accidentally less reliable", that's not measurable, because human drivers are accidentally less reliable as well, for many, many reasons that automated driving can reliably avoid:
- kids fighting in the back seats - cellphone related distractions - hot man/woman on the sidewalk - strong incoming traffic lights - bad weather (iced road, fog, heavy rain, lateral winds, etc) - alcohol effects - drug effects (not just the illegal ones) - fatigue - bee entering car - wife/husband unable to keep their mouth shut (again!)
And many others I can't think of off the top of my head.
Blocking ads came as an effect. The cause being obnoxious ads. It was a run to the bottom (top?) since then. Ads became more obnoxious, ad blockers became more complex, and so on, and so on. Of course, some websites would fall. Is this users' fault? Only if you look no further.
You are partially right. But top 250 has... 250 movies. Some of those have been there for a couple decades if not more. Those are very good movies, almost none of which are in Netflix's list.
1. I was referring to literature, not music. 1. The definition of a "genre" is really elastic and won't match theory in most cases. Most people would say "this is SF!" even for books which are purely Fantasy.
Taking things a but further... if no SF is receiving a literary award, why would it fucking matter? There's SF-specific awards being handed out there, e.g. Nebula et. al., genres are being kept separate and I think this is best for everyone. Wondering why no SF gained literary awards is like wondering why no non-SF gained any Nebula awards.
I personally couldn't care less. SF is bashed? So be it. It's still pretty much the only genre I ever buy in form of books (with very, very few exceptions).
The behavior change stays when off camera for a simple reason: knowledge that data comparison can be used against you. Officer john wears the camera one week and gets 3 complaints. Next week he doesn't wear the camera and gets 30 complaints. It's safe to infer he behaves like an asshole when off-camera, so, to counter that, he is NOT an asshole even when not wearing the camera.
Only... it's not in the game, tard. The game features procedurally generated planets, which was a huge selling point, and they backed it with a set of three planets that were NOT procedurally generated. They were manually made and shown as "random stuff we just found by playing the game, now".
Yeah but this is not the 80s and the quality of the game was the quality that was expected, given the hardware capabilities of the console. Apples and oranges.
The Steam Page STILL shows screenshots of stuff not in the game. That monolith you see on the Steam Page screenshots? Not in the game. The big space battle? Not in the game. The nice colors? Not in the game. The huge animal in the screenshot? Yes, you guessed it... not in the game. Oh and all screenshots there are from a scripted static planet which people have found in the game files. There are three such planets in there.
It was false advertisement. Example: Sean Murray showcased some planets during live gameplay, said to be "random planets from the game" and after analyzing the game files, people have discovered those planets as statically scripted ones, left in the game files.
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That's why I never accept any requests unless they are accompanied by non-generic invite text. Also, once accepted, they have two weeks to send me a message, otherwise they're removed from my network.
Many recruiters added me, only to be removed after two weeks because they never wrote me anything. i'm not going to become one of the 10K contacts they boatd having.
Honestly... with 1.2M in the bank I would completely ditch the USA and move to one of the many, many cheaper (and arguably nicer) countries out there.
It's something that plenty Western Europeans do. They buy cheap houses in villages in Eastern European countries, and live very comfortably with less than 1K dollars a month. Hell, 500 bucks a month are more than enough, and you could buy a large house with huge courtyard, vegetable garden and an orchard for 30K dollars or less.
Oh, the beauty of statistics...
Sadly, the page you linked is directly affected by purchasing power index (PPP).
How about checking this link? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What. The. Fuck.
I really hope your post was sarcastic.
Some people need way less than 1.2M in the bank to live cozily for 30 years. Others would go through 1.2M dollars in a couple years.
Same here, I had HTC and Samsung phones, my wife's tablet is a Nexus built by LG, my brother-in-law also owns an LG tablet.
None of us care about the brand, but what the device has to offer.
Their data is in that ecosystem. Pictures saved in cloud, e-mail, contacts, tasks, calendar.
Switching is a pain, not because it's difficult but mainly because it's inconvenient.
Anectodal evidence: I never switched scosystems.
Small sample statistical evidence: the dozens of people I talked to around the "Apple versus Android" topic all named "ecosystem" as the biggest switch prevention reason. Some reasons below (randomly ordered):
- "my data is in the google Cloud" (pictures, contacts, calendar, files)
- "I bought this or that app"
- "I am used to the menus"
- "Android sucks" / "Apple sucks".
There is such a thing called "ecosystem lockdown" or however you want to call it.
Be it from getting used to where stuff is, how UX works or whether you paid for shit (apps, games, etc).
Also there's a big difference between what people say will do and what they will actually do.
unlike humans, it can look in all directions simultaneously.
It can look in all directions, but apparently (at least with some vehicles) has been less reliable at identifying hazards than humans......
Highly debatable.
There are sleepy drivers, drunk drivers, distracted drivers, etc., etc.
The difference must be made between "accidentally less reliable" and "consistently less reliable".
If an automated driving car is consistently less reliable than the average human driver, then it shouldn't be released.
Now, concerning "accidentally less reliable", that's not measurable, because human drivers are accidentally less reliable as well, for many, many reasons that automated driving can reliably avoid:
- kids fighting in the back seats
- cellphone related distractions
- hot man/woman on the sidewalk
- strong incoming traffic lights
- bad weather (iced road, fog, heavy rain, lateral winds, etc)
- alcohol effects
- drug effects (not just the illegal ones)
- fatigue
- bee entering car
- wife/husband unable to keep their mouth shut (again!)
And many others I can't think of off the top of my head.
Blocking ads came as an effect. The cause being obnoxious ads.
It was a run to the bottom (top?) since then.
Ads became more obnoxious, ad blockers became more complex, and so on, and so on.
Of course, some websites would fall. Is this users' fault? Only if you look no further.
If he meant people will do illegal things, well DOH.
Assuming anyone would want to hold a stock of batteries which could burst in flames any moment...
Um, no.
if the battery is at fault, you would have to leave it at flight origin and buy a new one at destination. Not the best choice, is it?
The ban on carrying phones in checked bags is in TFS. I expected the good ol' Slashdotter to not read TFA but really, not even TFS properly?
You are partially right. But top 250 has... 250 movies. Some of those have been there for a couple decades if not more. Those are very good movies, almost none of which are in Netflix's list.
(nice Snowpiercer quote BTW)
Couple differences here:
1. I was referring to literature, not music.
1. The definition of a "genre" is really elastic and won't match theory in most cases. Most people would say "this is SF!" even for books which are purely Fantasy.
Taking things a but further... if no SF is receiving a literary award, why would it fucking matter?
There's SF-specific awards being handed out there, e.g. Nebula et. al., genres are being kept separate and I think this is best for everyone.
Wondering why no SF gained literary awards is like wondering why no non-SF gained any Nebula awards.
I personally couldn't care less. SF is bashed? So be it. It's still pretty much the only genre I ever buy in form of books (with very, very few exceptions).
The behavior change stays when off camera for a simple reason: knowledge that data comparison can be used against you.
Officer john wears the camera one week and gets 3 complaints. Next week he doesn't wear the camera and gets 30 complaints. It's safe to infer he behaves like an asshole when off-camera, so, to counter that, he is NOT an asshole even when not wearing the camera.
Only... it's not in the game, tard.
The game features procedurally generated planets, which was a huge selling point, and they backed it with a set of three planets that were NOT procedurally generated. They were manually made and shown as "random stuff we just found by playing the game, now".
I would. Nothing to lose, really.
Yeah but this is not the 80s and the quality of the game was the quality that was expected, given the hardware capabilities of the console.
Apples and oranges.
The Steam Page STILL shows screenshots of stuff not in the game. That monolith you see on the Steam Page screenshots? Not in the game. The big space battle? Not in the game. The nice colors? Not in the game. The huge animal in the screenshot? Yes, you guessed it... not in the game.
Oh and all screenshots there are from a scripted static planet which people have found in the game files. There are three such planets in there.
It was false advertisement.
Example: Sean Murray showcased some planets during live gameplay, said to be "random planets from the game" and after analyzing the game files, people have discovered those planets as statically scripted ones, left in the game files.
I loved it.
Dead Island had an intro which was better and more entertaining than all No Man's Sky together.
You're assuming it was "entertainment"...