Sorry to bust your bubble, but assuming a better idea will crowd out the old idea is like assuming evolution will take care of a problem in the particular way you want.
Just like Mother Nature in evolution, Human memetics has its own ideas about what a "better" idea is and couldn't care less what you individually think.
I once had a grad level quantum mechanics class taught by a prof who I found to be a nice guy, but was quite poor at teaching. The class was at 8 am.
2 semesters later, I had him again for a more advanced QM class. This was at 5 pm. I could hardly believe he was the same teacher. He was good. The problem had been that he was an extreme night owl (as I was) and he just couldn't get woke up enough that early to be coherent.
I later mentioned it to the department chair and he said, "Oh yeah. When we want to punish Kevin, we give him an 8 am class." I retorted that he was punishing us (grad students) far more.
The heck with that. Have him estimate the likelihood of me winning the lottery I didn't buy tickets for.
Yeah, Sofia Vergara showing up in my bedroom would be nice, but the likelihood of anything more happening than her channeling the Talking Heads and saying "This is not my beautiful house!" and walking out is less than the above.
Those b-tard trolls on 4chan have always been tools of Putin and the Russian government, and they are trying to tilt the election!
Let's investigate the history of finance links between Moot and the Russians. Has he ever attended FSB (He's not old enough for KGB) training?;) (for the blindly humor impaired)
Youtube is a company that makes large amounts of money off of people uploading pirated content. It then puts up a cumbersome problem plagued automatic system to "address" copyrighted content problems, but in reality has such a big legal budget that most organizations wouldn't want to go up against it in court.
And now, the MPAA etc are up; in arms over sites that help users "pirate" this pirated content.
I know there is no shame, but that's a pretty big elephant standing in this coat closet.
Is there any chance these were a bunch of analysts BOA picked up on the cheap from the 5300 people Wells Fargo fired recently for setting up phony bank accounts?
The response is vintage Facebook. The descriptions weren't what was being complained about. It was the method of choosing which articles to highlight. So, they go to an algorithm for choosing them and say that it's now unbiased (ignoring the obvious fact that I can write an algorithm that's just as biased. It's just a set of rules and I can make the rule set whatever I want.)
But, they also removed the human written descriptions which is something separate from the matter of choosing what is displayed as trending. This makes the feature suck. It will get people annoyed.
I suspect that a few weeks from now, Facebook will announce that this was an overwhelming failure and go back to the old way. If anyone then complains, they'll talk about how they gave the users a "choice".
This is the same kind of choice they gave when some years back they allowed us to decide whether we took the new interface or waited a week before we took it.
Facebook commonly gives its users a choice that really is no choice and is actually a "shut up and gives us page views" response.
This was a debit card I was using rather than credit, so it was pin rather than signature. As to the sequence, it depends. some indeed do let you do that, but many still require you to wait for the cashier. In some cases that's for extra steps required, like a signature for a prescription medication or entering your birth date as a cross check that the prescription is going to the right person.
In many cases, it's probably just the processing company that wrote/customized the software (or the store itself in the case of larger retailers) saying: "But that's the way it's always been done."
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"I suppose I'll agree with that."
It doesn't matter if you think that or not. It only matters what the AI running you as a simulation thinks.
Sorry to bust your bubble, but assuming a better idea will crowd out the old idea is like assuming evolution will take care of a problem in the particular way you want.
Just like Mother Nature in evolution, Human memetics has its own ideas about what a "better" idea is and couldn't care less what you individually think.
Quiet, or I'll put alcohol in your blood surrogate.
I once had a grad level quantum mechanics class taught by a prof who I found to be a nice guy, but was quite poor at teaching. The class was at 8 am.
2 semesters later, I had him again for a more advanced QM class. This was at 5 pm. I could hardly believe he was the same teacher. He was good. The problem had been that he was an extreme night owl (as I was) and he just couldn't get woke up enough that early to be coherent.
I later mentioned it to the department chair and he said, "Oh yeah. When we want to punish Kevin, we give him an 8 am class." I retorted that he was punishing us (grad students) far more.
"There is increasing competition from fish, which produce a ton of eggs."
Yeah, but how many fish eggs would I have to crack for an omelet?
"Save a chicken! Eat a pizza."
Had a drawing of a chicken kneeling and begging.
The heck with that. Have him estimate the likelihood of me winning the lottery I didn't buy tickets for.
Yeah, Sofia Vergara showing up in my bedroom would be nice, but the likelihood of anything more happening than her channeling the Talking Heads and saying "This is not my beautiful house!" and walking out is less than the above.
"Hey! Please no squeeza da banana!"
You generally shoot targets rather than people during training.
"May as well write about marriage between toasters and humans."
The writers of Battlestar Galactica already did.
"In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead."
You never turn off your devices. You will be constantly be consuming monetized content.
Including the surf noise it plays while you're sleeping.
Someone who wants to turn it off must, obviously, be deviant and need intervention.
See! You just confirmed Moot's financial link to them!
It was all a conspiracy, I tell you!
Would you want Sarah Palin peeping in your back window? Sounds pretty creepy to me.
And Russia blocked 4chan 2 years ago (and 4chan blocked all of Russia for a time this year due to a DDOS).
Obviously this is all just a cover to throw us off the scent!
Isn't the link through some guy named Goldstein, and dates back to 1984?
Those b-tard trolls on 4chan have always been tools of Putin and the Russian government, and they are trying to tilt the election!
Let's investigate the history of finance links between Moot and the Russians. Has he ever attended FSB (He's not old enough for KGB) training? ;) (for the blindly humor impaired)
So, let me get this straight:
Youtube is a company that makes large amounts of money off of people uploading pirated content. It then puts up a cumbersome problem plagued automatic system to "address" copyrighted content problems, but in reality has such a big legal budget that most organizations wouldn't want to go up against it in court.
And now, the MPAA etc are up; in arms over sites that help users "pirate" this pirated content.
I know there is no shame, but that's a pretty big elephant standing in this coat closet.
So, we'll have it that Wikipedia can post age data about an actor or some other public figure, but IMDB can't?
Is there any chance these were a bunch of analysts BOA picked up on the cheap from the 5300 people Wells Fargo fired recently for setting up phony bank accounts?
Or should we call it "The vast Russian conspiracy"?
Please do this and point all the companies that move out to Champaign, Illinois.
Massively cheaper cost of living and home to an excellent university that turns out lots of CS majors and other technical types every year.
Sincerely,
The residents of Champaign-Urbana Illinois and surrounding towns. We'd love to have your problems..
Libelous!
I don't wear armor, and we're only a Brigade.
Did they have powdered toast to put their powdered cheese on?
The response is vintage Facebook. The descriptions weren't what was being complained about. It was the method of choosing which articles to highlight. So, they go to an algorithm for choosing them and say that it's now unbiased (ignoring the obvious fact that I can write an algorithm that's just as biased. It's just a set of rules and I can make the rule set whatever I want.)
But, they also removed the human written descriptions which is something separate from the matter of choosing what is displayed as trending. This makes the feature suck. It will get people annoyed.
I suspect that a few weeks from now, Facebook will announce that this was an overwhelming failure and go back to the old way. If anyone then complains, they'll talk about how they gave the users a "choice".
This is the same kind of choice they gave when some years back they allowed us to decide whether we took the new interface or waited a week before we took it.
Facebook commonly gives its users a choice that really is no choice and is actually a "shut up and gives us page views" response.
This was a debit card I was using rather than credit, so it was pin rather than signature.
As to the sequence, it depends. some indeed do let you do that, but many still require you to wait for the cashier. In some cases that's for extra steps required, like a signature for a prescription medication or entering your birth date as a cross check that the prescription is going to the right person.
In many cases, it's probably just the processing company that wrote/customized the software (or the store itself in the case of larger retailers) saying: "But that's the way it's always been done."