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  1. Re: Speed is less important than no data caps on Cable TV 'Failing' As a Business, Cable Industry Lobbyist Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm one person, I use 300 gb/month, mostly not between midnight and 8.

    It's all HBO, Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, a few Hours a day while I cook, do chores, etc.

  2. Re: If you want content, pay for it... on Wall Street Journal's Google Traffic Drops 44% After Pulling Out of First Click Free (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly, the majority of people searching get no value from paywalled content.

    It's less relevant in the real sense that it's irrelevant to the majority of users.

    Also, conversion to paid doubled on real numbers, so it sounds like it went fine (44% decrease, 4x conversions).

  3. Re:What happened to "it just works"? on Apple Piles On the Features, and Users Say, 'Enough!' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how Amazon works for me.

    I only have the wand, but when I scan something or say something, it goes into a my cart, with a link to refine the result.

    The initial suggestion is first based on my history, then on popularity from what I can tell, with a heavy preference for available on Fresh.

    At no point does it just order the most popular thing.

  4. Re:And the report also provides no evidence of on A New Report Finds No Evidence That People Will Work Less Under a Universal Basic Income (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    A consumption tax.

    It'd have to be high, and would eat some of the benefits, but a 25% consumption tax should cover it (quick Google has us consumer spending around 12 trillion).

    You also get some of it by rolling back SS payments for people that have had the basic income their whole life.

    If it's a 25% consumption tax, you get a benefit from it up to almost 100k.

    Here's a smarter look at how it could really be done (uses a lower number and makes assumptions about low income businesses starting).

    https://bluecollarlunch.wordpr...

  5. Re:But Why? on Germany Detects Emissions Cheat Software In Audi Models (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps turning the wheel turns off the test mode for 30 minutes or so?

  6. Re: Translation on Netflix CEO Says Net Neutrality Is 'Not Our Primary Battle' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My understanding is Netflix was kinda a jerk and moved that way eventually (with more localized servers).

  7. Re: or translated on Netflix CEO Says Net Neutrality Is 'Not Our Primary Battle' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect they even think they could kill Hulu now that it's a pay service only.

    Netflix has much more cultural relevance, therefore more negotiating power.

    Buying their own premium content greatly increased their value (to ISPs).

  8. Re: Translation on Netflix CEO Says Net Neutrality Is 'Not Our Primary Battle' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How much of the data to people's homes were all of those companies combined vs Netflix?

    I'd bet that with the exception of YouTube, they weren't even close, and even YouTube I'd bet was a lot less.

  9. Re: Gonna have to laugh on Netflix CEO Says Net Neutrality Is 'Not Our Primary Battle' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd see mutually assured destruction.

    The only thing I internet with my home connection is streaming video.

    If Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and YouTube, all become unusable I'm going to drop all of them AND Comcast.

    Netflix and the ISPs need each other as mobile gets better.

  10. I'm pretty sure copper meant anologue twisted pair, and was meant as a stand in for "80s and before tech "

    The pneumatic tubes I took to mean mechanical switches, rather than wires and computers to switches. For example the NYC subway still has pneumatic controls in points.

    I don't see any advantage to direct dial and modems vs the internet though. A firewall can do the same thing.

  11. Re:He didn't copy Snapchat on Instagram CEO On Allegations That His App Has Copied Snapchat (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    It wasn't entirely marketing.

    It required active malice to defeat. It was a great way to send messages to people without risk that the entire trove of everything you ever sent shows up years later.

    True, someone acting with malice could save them, but it wasn't really to protect against that, it did a great job of making conversations in the moment and ephemeral.

    Someone with malice can record every conversation you have with them in person too.

    I don't think Snapchat ever marketed itself as secure, it marketed itself as self deleting.

  12. Re: Cord-cutters are ruining TV on Cord-Cutters Are Ditching Their Cable Packages At the Fastest Rate Ever (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    My friends just started going to the bar for games.

  13. Re: Not a particularly unique problem. on Fitness Trackers Out of Step When Measuring Calories, Research Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That makes sense. It does release carbon, just less per unit of energy.

    Also, without the oxidation, the work doesn't directly relate to the calories burnt, as it's a lot less efficient without the oxidation.

  14. Re: Not a particularly unique problem. on Fitness Trackers Out of Step When Measuring Calories, Research Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they capture anaerobic burn?

  15. Re: Is this related to the rewards surveys? on Google Following Your Offline Credit Card Spending To Tell Advertisers If Their Ads Work (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    About $3/month for the questions I'm willing to answer over the last year and a half.

    It was front loaded though, the first two weeks were about $6 each or so.

  16. Re:Is this related to the rewards surveys? on Google Following Your Offline Credit Card Spending To Tell Advertisers If Their Ads Work (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    I smoke and live by a Walgreen's, common sense says I've used a credit card their recently, I'd hardly call it personal.

  17. Re: Is this related to the rewards surveys? on Google Following Your Offline Credit Card Spending To Tell Advertisers If Their Ads Work (consumerist.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They asked to use my location to improve "the experience " I said yes.

    It has improved my experience, but also told them a lot, then they give me surveys, and I tell them more for money. Nothing has been sneaky though, it's all very up and up.

    They let you look at the data and delete it too.

    The places they ask if I've visited are clearly based on my location, I say no and get $0.10, or yes and get more questions. When they follow up it's either about seeing an ad or if I used a credit card, I those are worth $0.30-$0.60.

    They also scan my email and give me flight, hotel, and weather information about my next week.

  18. Re:Is this related to the rewards surveys? on Google Following Your Offline Credit Card Spending To Tell Advertisers If Their Ads Work (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    You lie well then.

    They put trick questions in to get you.

  19. Depends on who I pay. on When AI Botches Your Medical Diagnosis, Who's To Blame? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    until I can get cheaper Medical Service by excluding a doctor, I feel the doctor is liable. If I can choose a discount and use AI with published results and make my own choice, that's on me.

  20. More of an issue with attention to detail on a mobile device when posting to /. than it is brain damage.

    My sufficient, but less than average, brain is fortunately undamaged.

  21. That day = than a

  22. Like on an airplane?

    how about online?

    even excluding online, I've had more times cash didn't work that day card over the last six months.

  23. Re:Ah yes, the good old standby... on Resident Evil Getting Rebooted Into a Six-Film Franchise (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    In the comic books they graduate him, and let him live a life.

  24. Is this related to the rewards surveys? on Google Following Your Offline Credit Card Spending To Tell Advertisers If Their Ads Work (consumerist.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They give me $0.30 for answering if I went somewhere and used a credit card.

  25. Doesn't the AI cheat to win in games such as CIV?

    I don't think you're correct at all with the every video game in existence beating a human player.