Thing that's weird is that the folks who serve up these ads haven't figured that out. Of course it will take a little work, but the Television industry has been doing this for years.
Scale is the difference. TV channels serve the same dozen ads on a hundred ad time slots each day. YouTube serves millions of different ads on billions of videos each day.
You might be able to pick up a handful of sand, but moving the entire beach is a different matter altogether.
Meh, I'll just peel apples from now on. I know I don't get as much nutrition but I like my nutrition free of pesticides, herbicides and various other rural pollutants.
Exactly what nutrients are you losing by peeling the apple? Are they things that you don't get elsewhere in your diet already? I feel like this is one of those "common sense" things that everyone knows, or at least thinks they know, except I've not seen any data backing that up.
If I start with $1 billion dollars in the crib, I'll be richer than you no matter what you do. Even if my parents just puts that money into an index fund and does literally nothing else, I'll have $5 billion by the time you're old enough to start looking for work.
Your second point is basically describing capitalism's natural tendency towards monopoly. It's much cheaper to slightly expand a larger factory, than it is starting a new, much smaller one. With intellectual property, it's even more so. A newcomer must spend a huge amount of capital developing new IP just to reach parity with the established players.
I agree that guillotines may not be necessary. We still live in a democracy where social change can occur without a violent revolution. Monopolies can be broken up, inheritances can be taxed and land can be redistributed, all without anyone's head hitting the ground. Of course, democracy isn't invulnerable. As more and more politicians become pawns of the rich, they will try harder and harder to prevent that change, eventually destroying the democratic process.
Mostly automated and fully automated are completely different in terms of utility. A fully automated car could drive 12-year-olds by themselves to soccer practice and seniors with bad eyesight to the doctor. It could also drive itself from the Tesla factory to your house and pickup your pizza on the way. Being "pretty much" capable is completely different from actually capable.
I do know that keyboards as I describe do exist but they cost far more than they should.... I would like the keys lined up in nice rows and columns to reduce typing fatigue though.
Someone went to the effort of creating exactly what you want, and you're not happy about that? Just go build your own then.
As much as I would like to disagree with you (as nukes are disagreeable), the fact remains that combat deaths, and the number of conflicts worldwide, has dropped dramatically since nuclear weapons were invented.
If anyone's to blame for the prevalence of anger and hysteria in today's society, it's the main stream media. They're the ones taking a bunch of non-stories, cutting out all of the sensible parts, then throwing on wild speculations and meaningless anecdotes. Just go take a look at any recent scientific study, then compare it to what's written in the headlines. This has nothing to do with the internet. Yellow journalism existed long before the internet. At least now people who are interested in the truth can go find the primary source themselves instead of relying on MSM.
This story is no exception either. It's only written to get a reaction out of a bunch of tech-savvy readers (and a bunch of clicks). There's nothing that's actually "news" or anything of substance whatsoever in there.
I don't think that's actually true, looking at this list, for every civil war, there's a bigger international war that killed more people.
I think this is because different civilizations tend to see each other as barbaric or less than human, and find it more acceptable to massacre entire cities of their opponents to make room for their own. On the other hand, in a civil war, you are only fighting for the control of the nation. Once you obtain that control, you'd want everyone to stop fighting and start working for you. Killing more people at that point would be meaningless.
Is no one thinking it might be an accident? Channels get suspended frequently and it doesn't take much to organize a mass flagging campaign against a handful of anti-Chinese government vloggers. Out of the hundreds of videos on a channel, it's not going to be that hard to find a few of them that is not "community friendly", e.g. containing what some might consider "hate speech" or "inappropriate content", whatever that means. It takes just 3 of those videos to get your channel suspended.
What about a physical token with password or pin entered on the token itself, which then signs a message using its private key? The attacker would need to both observe you using that token and obtain the token itself.
only two of the reasons we could come up with made any real sense: the effect was significant and real, and based on 'unknown' psychological (must get better, faster, so I can get up and have a fag...need a fag...) or physiological (for example the pre-op stress of giving up smoking weakened the 'non smokers' in some way or otherwise predisposed them to complications) factors; or the study results were a statistical fluke, exacerbated by the small sample size
Given that it's not a randomized control trial, there could also be other confounding factors, like those in less serious conditions being more likely to choose to continue smoking. Small sample size is also a problem. If enough small studies are done to find benefits of smoking, eventually a few of them will show a correlation. Of course, the media will have a field day with it, and you'll have something like "Want to heal faster after surgery? Try smoking!" plastered all over the headlines.
The slightly troubling aspect, I found, was that he was asked not to present the findings in any way that could be construed as suggesting that there was any positive benefit in smoking
That is troubling. Who asked him not to? Other than the publisher themselves, I don't think anyone has the authority to prevent a study from being published.
there's still very much a 'war on cigarettes' going on
That's more about second hand smoke. Regardless of whether cigarettes are harmful, subjecting other people to it without their approval is a problem.
Something in our society has whittled away at patience. Maybe it is the increasing number of people or their cognizance of time or both, one being the result of another.
How about the increasing number of hours spent at work? When you have less free time to begin with, you want to spend as little of it stuck in traffic as possible. Not to mention the stress and reduced sleep hours.
A texting driver can notice danger up ahead and put down the phone. A drunk driver may see danger, not recognize it, then hear a notification and pick up the phone.
School projects are probably not exemplary code that you'd want to share with future employers and hobby projects can be one-offs that aren't written with reusability in mind. Not everyone wants to maintain a free software project, especially since most of that work is not even writing code.
It's fine if you only want "great programmers" that fit this description, but since a lot of other employers also want them, be prepared to pay more.
Have you tried having your own opinions on what is "cool" or not? Since this is Slashdot, I'll bet a lot of people here were nerds before it was cool and were ostracized for it. Guess what? It's cool now. And maybe in a few years it won't be. Who cares? The real nerds will keep doing what they love.
Regarding your point about superiority: You still see the world like a teenager. Because it's hard for you to do, you think you deserve some sort of an award. Guess what? In the real world, people respect you for things that are hard for them to do, like playing a Chopin piece perfectly, because it's something they can't do without months of practice. Nobody respects a toddler for learning to walk, even if it's the worst struggle it had ever faced in its short life.
Just double the fine every time they're caught littering. It'll start hurting very quickly even for a billionaire.
If you need help enforcing it, give the fine based on video recordings instead of requiring police eye-witness. If the video comes from a layperson, then give them 10% of the fine. Pretty soon you'll have lookouts on every street and alleyway.
As usual, various media and political groups have interpreted the actual findings to their own benefit. I looked at the source paper. The conclusion is very tenuous and as the authors wrote, "should be interpreted with caution".
If you look at their data, you will see the scatter plot in Figure 1 which supposedly demonstrates the relationship between legality and trafficking. However, once you ignore the line that they drew on it, you'll see the relationship doesn't actually exist. Every combination of legal status and trafficking volume is represented in the chart.
So even assuming everything they did to gather this data was perfect, the relationship is still barely there. Setting any sort of public policy based on that is just dumb.
Sure, very rarely somebody is forced via threat of violence into sex work, but the thing is that usually the first or second client is the one to call the police on this, because customers of sex-workers are not complete scum.
Why would the clients do that? They would be admitting to a crime.
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Thing that's weird is that the folks who serve up these ads haven't figured that out. Of course it will take a little work, but the Television industry has been doing this for years.
Scale is the difference. TV channels serve the same dozen ads on a hundred ad time slots each day. YouTube serves millions of different ads on billions of videos each day.
You might be able to pick up a handful of sand, but moving the entire beach is a different matter altogether.
Meh, I'll just peel apples from now on. I know I don't get as much nutrition but I like my nutrition free of pesticides, herbicides and various other rural pollutants.
Exactly what nutrients are you losing by peeling the apple? Are they things that you don't get elsewhere in your diet already? I feel like this is one of those "common sense" things that everyone knows, or at least thinks they know, except I've not seen any data backing that up.
If I start with $1 billion dollars in the crib, I'll be richer than you no matter what you do. Even if my parents just puts that money into an index fund and does literally nothing else, I'll have $5 billion by the time you're old enough to start looking for work.
Your second point is basically describing capitalism's natural tendency towards monopoly. It's much cheaper to slightly expand a larger factory, than it is starting a new, much smaller one. With intellectual property, it's even more so. A newcomer must spend a huge amount of capital developing new IP just to reach parity with the established players.
I agree that guillotines may not be necessary. We still live in a democracy where social change can occur without a violent revolution. Monopolies can be broken up, inheritances can be taxed and land can be redistributed, all without anyone's head hitting the ground. Of course, democracy isn't invulnerable. As more and more politicians become pawns of the rich, they will try harder and harder to prevent that change, eventually destroying the democratic process.
Mostly automated and fully automated are completely different in terms of utility. A fully automated car could drive 12-year-olds by themselves to soccer practice and seniors with bad eyesight to the doctor. It could also drive itself from the Tesla factory to your house and pickup your pizza on the way. Being "pretty much" capable is completely different from actually capable.
I do know that keyboards as I describe do exist but they cost far more than they should.... I would like the keys lined up in nice rows and columns to reduce typing fatigue though.
Someone went to the effort of creating exactly what you want, and you're not happy about that? Just go build your own then.
As much as I would like to disagree with you (as nukes are disagreeable), the fact remains that combat deaths, and the number of conflicts worldwide, has dropped dramatically since nuclear weapons were invented.
I'd like to see the stats to back up that claim.
Here you go: https://ourworldindata.org/war...
If anyone's to blame for the prevalence of anger and hysteria in today's society, it's the main stream media. They're the ones taking a bunch of non-stories, cutting out all of the sensible parts, then throwing on wild speculations and meaningless anecdotes. Just go take a look at any recent scientific study, then compare it to what's written in the headlines. This has nothing to do with the internet. Yellow journalism existed long before the internet. At least now people who are interested in the truth can go find the primary source themselves instead of relying on MSM.
This story is no exception either. It's only written to get a reaction out of a bunch of tech-savvy readers (and a bunch of clicks). There's nothing that's actually "news" or anything of substance whatsoever in there.
I don't think that's actually true, looking at this list, for every civil war, there's a bigger international war that killed more people.
I think this is because different civilizations tend to see each other as barbaric or less than human, and find it more acceptable to massacre entire cities of their opponents to make room for their own. On the other hand, in a civil war, you are only fighting for the control of the nation. Once you obtain that control, you'd want everyone to stop fighting and start working for you. Killing more people at that point would be meaningless.
Is no one thinking it might be an accident? Channels get suspended frequently and it doesn't take much to organize a mass flagging campaign against a handful of anti-Chinese government vloggers. Out of the hundreds of videos on a channel, it's not going to be that hard to find a few of them that is not "community friendly", e.g. containing what some might consider "hate speech" or "inappropriate content", whatever that means. It takes just 3 of those videos to get your channel suspended.
What about a physical token with password or pin entered on the token itself, which then signs a message using its private key? The attacker would need to both observe you using that token and obtain the token itself.
only two of the reasons we could come up with made any real sense: the effect was significant and real, and based on 'unknown' psychological (must get better, faster, so I can get up and have a fag...need a fag...) or physiological (for example the pre-op stress of giving up smoking weakened the 'non smokers' in some way or otherwise predisposed them to complications) factors; or the study results were a statistical fluke, exacerbated by the small sample size
Given that it's not a randomized control trial, there could also be other confounding factors, like those in less serious conditions being more likely to choose to continue smoking. Small sample size is also a problem. If enough small studies are done to find benefits of smoking, eventually a few of them will show a correlation. Of course, the media will have a field day with it, and you'll have something like "Want to heal faster after surgery? Try smoking!" plastered all over the headlines.
The slightly troubling aspect, I found, was that he was asked not to present the findings in any way that could be construed as suggesting that there was any positive benefit in smoking
That is troubling. Who asked him not to? Other than the publisher themselves, I don't think anyone has the authority to prevent a study from being published.
there's still very much a 'war on cigarettes' going on
That's more about second hand smoke. Regardless of whether cigarettes are harmful, subjecting other people to it without their approval is a problem.
Something in our society has whittled away at patience. Maybe it is the increasing number of people or their cognizance of time or both, one being the result of another.
How about the increasing number of hours spent at work? When you have less free time to begin with, you want to spend as little of it stuck in traffic as possible. Not to mention the stress and reduced sleep hours.
A texting driver can notice danger up ahead and put down the phone. A drunk driver may see danger, not recognize it, then hear a notification and pick up the phone.
School projects are probably not exemplary code that you'd want to share with future employers and hobby projects can be one-offs that aren't written with reusability in mind. Not everyone wants to maintain a free software project, especially since most of that work is not even writing code.
It's fine if you only want "great programmers" that fit this description, but since a lot of other employers also want them, be prepared to pay more.
Oh yeah, let's wait for everything to go to shit before trying to fix it. How's that working out great for Detroit by the way?
Elect your congress critters to make laws that make sense for you and if they don't, vote them out.
In theory, but in the last California senate election, there were 2 candidates, both democrat, having the exact same stance on all issues.
That doesn't explain why their internet service also increase in price the longer you stay with them.
Have you tried having your own opinions on what is "cool" or not? Since this is Slashdot, I'll bet a lot of people here were nerds before it was cool and were ostracized for it. Guess what? It's cool now. And maybe in a few years it won't be. Who cares? The real nerds will keep doing what they love.
Regarding your point about superiority: You still see the world like a teenager. Because it's hard for you to do, you think you deserve some sort of an award. Guess what? In the real world, people respect you for things that are hard for them to do, like playing a Chopin piece perfectly, because it's something they can't do without months of practice. Nobody respects a toddler for learning to walk, even if it's the worst struggle it had ever faced in its short life.
Just double the fine every time they're caught littering. It'll start hurting very quickly even for a billionaire.
If you need help enforcing it, give the fine based on video recordings instead of requiring police eye-witness. If the video comes from a layperson, then give them 10% of the fine. Pretty soon you'll have lookouts on every street and alleyway.
As usual, various media and political groups have interpreted the actual findings to their own benefit. I looked at the source paper. The conclusion is very tenuous and as the authors wrote, "should be interpreted with caution".
If you look at their data, you will see the scatter plot in Figure 1 which supposedly demonstrates the relationship between legality and trafficking. However, once you ignore the line that they drew on it, you'll see the relationship doesn't actually exist. Every combination of legal status and trafficking volume is represented in the chart.
So even assuming everything they did to gather this data was perfect, the relationship is still barely there. Setting any sort of public policy based on that is just dumb.
If it were really socially acceptable, then no. Nobody keeps their IT job from their family, for example.
Sure, very rarely somebody is forced via threat of violence into sex work, but the thing is that usually the first or second client is the one to call the police on this, because customers of sex-workers are not complete scum.
Why would the clients do that? They would be admitting to a crime.
I'll just leave this here.
Why not just wrap some razor wire around the drone? If you don't care about hurting the eagles, that would be much cheaper.