A better example would be that Gillette advert. It was doing okay, I mean it's an ad and people usually try to avoid them... Then 4chan got started.
All they really need to do is discount votes from people landing on that page directly, rather than coming from an internal link. 97% of those will be activists triggered by a Reddit post or following their Twitter crush's orders.
The do delete fake likes, which leads to all kinds of conspiracy theories about them trying to stop certain videos becoming popular.
This is a different problem though. It's not a like farm with hundreds of phones, it's not a spammer with a script. It's a 4chan or Reddit post organising people to go click the dislike button for political reasons.
Usually anything that a) increases risk or b) increases value/repair cost. So pretty much any change from factory, including things like adding a protecting coating or wrap.
What about the child's right not to die of a curable disease? Society should protect their human right to life, no matter how stupid their parents are.
Vaccines are proven, safe technology. There is no down side to having them.
You can just set the charge limit to 75% if you want to extend your battery life by the same amount. And yeah, I want it for free, it's my car and if I decide I don't need Tesla's on-going support I'll maximize its performance and utility for myself, thank you very much.
In all your anecdotes people didn't freak out and call the cops. They didn't label you a criminal on social media just for being there. And, you were a tourist and not trying to live your life there. Living somewhere is a very different experience to merely visiting.
Also, this is America, where a large proportion of the population is non-white. While you can give a little more leeway to cultures that are almost 100% one ethnicity and haven't developed diversity and understanding quite so much yet, that does't really extend to America in 2019.
Tesla is shipping 100kWh batteries that are software limited to 75kWh for their cheaper cars. Would be nice if you could unlock the extra 25% capacity.
More likely they are just another corporation unleashing a new product on the world without bothering to consider what effect it might have on anything other than their bottom line.
Thinking that someone is out of place because of the colour of their skin is textbook racism. It's why when black people move into certain neighbourhoods people call the cops on them for entering their own homes or using their own pools.
The assumption that someone does not belong because of their race is what helps maintain these segregated enclaves.
Actually the American Dream is a bit of a myth, especially these days.
Pew did some research on it, but this article has some great graphs illustrating how social mobility has declined in America (and many other places).
People born in the 80s have a much poorer chance of moving up in the world than their parents. Their fortunes are much more closely tied to their parents'.
Americans tend to overestimate social mobility by quite a margin, which stops them taking action (via the ballot box) to fix it.
The bit before the bit you quoted maybe, where they have a post making random accusations about black people using the stairs. Or the one after it, where someone finds a black person using a phone in the street "suspicious".
"Doing X while black" seems to be a problem for some significant number of Americans, and Amazon built a platform where people can post semi-anonymous accusations and mug shots.
There has been a lot of interest in shallow trenches lately, with various schemes to make them work. Armour plated conduit, under asphalt or paving slabs, that kind of thing.
If someone can figure out how to get the cost of installing last mile infrastructure down there is a huge opportunity to build not only new data comms networks, but charging for electric vehicles and smart sensor networks. Vast potential profits for decade after decade.
As Google discovered it's not easy, but for places where they can't just hang stuff on utility poles it's the only idea anyone has for making the new infrastructure economically viable.
This reaction makes me think she is a big asset for the Democrats. Has some of that Obama-style charisma and popularity.
As Trump demonstrated, being wrong isn't an issue. Right and wrote are irrelevant now, because there is no truth any more. That's the problem with populism - once you win you actually have to deliver and can't just rely on vague/outlandish promises or attacking your opponents any more, and someone else will come along and do exactly the same to you.
There are some pretty glaring errors in that blog post.
For example, he claims that Nuclear creates CO2-free energy, which is obviously false. His own graph goes on to contradict the headline, but even that is very optimistic compared to the peer-reviewed IPCC study of lifetime CO2 emissions (https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5_annex-ii.pdf) that puts it at up to 110 gCO2eq/kWh depending on the fuel source.
His numbers for the amount of raw materials that go into renewables are kinda crazy too, and unsourced. Again, the IPCC report has proper peer reviewed numbers, but just looking at the amount of steel and concrete he thinks go into solar makes it obvious how badly he fudged the numbers.
And, because of course, he uses the classic "deaths per kWh" misdirection at the end to ignore the vast cost of nuclear accidents.
People said the same thing about Paris, and Kyoto, and many other efforts. Yet here we are, countries making major, sustained efforts to do something about climate change.
This is how politics work. You build up support, get people discussing the issue and making proposals, pushing from different angles. A non-binding agreement acts as a foundation for binding ones, justification for changes to rules and future policies.
Solar panels withstand hail just fine, as well as even more extreme weather conditions.
Nuclear has too many unsolved problems and is too expensive. Battery storage is much cheaper and safer, and brings the kind of stability to the grid that nuclear just can't offer. Batteries can react within milliseconds to demand, nuclear takes a day to ramp up or down.
It's quite a thing for a child to start harming themselves, and eventually commit suicide. There is a very strong instinct to not harm yourself, and it's very far outside social norms. Seeing other people doing it gives them permission, it normalizes it. Kinda related to how people do things they wouldn't normally when they are part of a group, or a mob.
Unfortunately that tends to be more powerful than the natural revulsion someone who isn't already suffering from mental health problems would feel. Instead of saying "there is something wrong with you, you need to get better", it's telling them that other people feel the same way and legitimizing it. It also gives them a community, a group that validates them and seems to understand when others don't.
Problem is all their friends are on social media, not outside.
This is just the same moral panic people had about kids hanging out at the mall, and before that the dance hall, and before that somewhere else where they can get away from their parents.
Just like before, the solution is education and support, not trying to ban the latest hangout they find.
It was worth doing because now we can say to advertisers "we gave you the opportunity, you blew it, and now you are blocked." Ad blocking gained a lot of legitimacy when advertisers decided that they were going to ignore polite requests.
GDPR mandates that you have to ask specifically and clearly for permission to do that. If you bury it in the ToS it doesn't count, you have to have a separate opt-in tickbox with clear explanation of what it allows.
That's just KotakuInAction though, most of Reddit is fine. Or at least no worse than the bulletin board systems and forums of old. Even Usenet had moderated groups.
we took this open platform of the internet where anyone could do anything and we gave control over our behavior to a few big players
Bollocks.
Even if you hosted your own site on your dial-up connection back in the day, your ISP would eventually cut you off. Usenet is still around but the server operator would just ban you if you started abusing it. When was this golden age you speak of?
Things are actually much better these days. We have TOR and hidden sites, we have platforms like YouTube that give people immense reach on a very effective medium, and we have 4chan if you really want to go nuts. All free.
The people moaning about being banned are mostly just complaining about not being free publicity or getting paid. It's not enough that they can post their messages or host a.onion site, they want to be promoted on YouTube, suck up that ad revenue, be on the prime-time platforms.
There is no way they're going to prove to anyone now that any controversial moderation decision wasn't forced on them by outside pressure now.
Every decision is already the subject of wild conspiracy theories and cries of "SJW!" so the probably don't even care. At this point it can't really get any worse than it already is.
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A better example would be that Gillette advert. It was doing okay, I mean it's an ad and people usually try to avoid them... Then 4chan got started.
All they really need to do is discount votes from people landing on that page directly, rather than coming from an internal link. 97% of those will be activists triggered by a Reddit post or following their Twitter crush's orders.
The do delete fake likes, which leads to all kinds of conspiracy theories about them trying to stop certain videos becoming popular.
This is a different problem though. It's not a like farm with hundreds of phones, it's not a spammer with a script. It's a 4chan or Reddit post organising people to go click the dislike button for political reasons.
Usually anything that a) increases risk or b) increases value/repair cost. So pretty much any change from factory, including things like adding a protecting coating or wrap.
What about the child's right not to die of a curable disease? Society should protect their human right to life, no matter how stupid their parents are.
Vaccines are proven, safe technology. There is no down side to having them.
You can just set the charge limit to 75% if you want to extend your battery life by the same amount. And yeah, I want it for free, it's my car and if I decide I don't need Tesla's on-going support I'll maximize its performance and utility for myself, thank you very much.
In all your anecdotes people didn't freak out and call the cops. They didn't label you a criminal on social media just for being there. And, you were a tourist and not trying to live your life there. Living somewhere is a very different experience to merely visiting.
Also, this is America, where a large proportion of the population is non-white. While you can give a little more leeway to cultures that are almost 100% one ethnicity and haven't developed diversity and understanding quite so much yet, that does't really extend to America in 2019.
Tesla is shipping 100kWh batteries that are software limited to 75kWh for their cheaper cars. Would be nice if you could unlock the extra 25% capacity.
More likely they are just another corporation unleashing a new product on the world without bothering to consider what effect it might have on anything other than their bottom line.
First, nobody keeps black people in the US in poverty
What about Donald Trump? His companies blocked non-whites from renting/buying his real estate, or even getting jobs building it.
One guy from Uzbekistan
Don't have a link to this channel do you? Apologies but I need to verify your extraordinary claim before accepting it.
Thinking that someone is out of place because of the colour of their skin is textbook racism. It's why when black people move into certain neighbourhoods people call the cops on them for entering their own homes or using their own pools.
The assumption that someone does not belong because of their race is what helps maintain these segregated enclaves.
Actually the American Dream is a bit of a myth, especially these days.
Pew did some research on it, but this article has some great graphs illustrating how social mobility has declined in America (and many other places).
People born in the 80s have a much poorer chance of moving up in the world than their parents. Their fortunes are much more closely tied to their parents'.
Americans tend to overestimate social mobility by quite a margin, which stops them taking action (via the ballot box) to fix it.
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The bit before the bit you quoted maybe, where they have a post making random accusations about black people using the stairs. Or the one after it, where someone finds a black person using a phone in the street "suspicious".
"Doing X while black" seems to be a problem for some significant number of Americans, and Amazon built a platform where people can post semi-anonymous accusations and mug shots.
Fortunately that's illegal now. GDPR requires explicit opt-in. Opt-out and requiring an email address to do so are not allowed.
There has been a lot of interest in shallow trenches lately, with various schemes to make them work. Armour plated conduit, under asphalt or paving slabs, that kind of thing.
If someone can figure out how to get the cost of installing last mile infrastructure down there is a huge opportunity to build not only new data comms networks, but charging for electric vehicles and smart sensor networks. Vast potential profits for decade after decade.
As Google discovered it's not easy, but for places where they can't just hang stuff on utility poles it's the only idea anyone has for making the new infrastructure economically viable.
This reaction makes me think she is a big asset for the Democrats. Has some of that Obama-style charisma and popularity.
As Trump demonstrated, being wrong isn't an issue. Right and wrote are irrelevant now, because there is no truth any more. That's the problem with populism - once you win you actually have to deliver and can't just rely on vague/outlandish promises or attacking your opponents any more, and someone else will come along and do exactly the same to you.
There are some pretty glaring errors in that blog post.
For example, he claims that Nuclear creates CO2-free energy, which is obviously false. His own graph goes on to contradict the headline, but even that is very optimistic compared to the peer-reviewed IPCC study of lifetime CO2 emissions (https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5_annex-ii.pdf) that puts it at up to 110 gCO2eq/kWh depending on the fuel source.
His numbers for the amount of raw materials that go into renewables are kinda crazy too, and unsourced. Again, the IPCC report has proper peer reviewed numbers, but just looking at the amount of steel and concrete he thinks go into solar makes it obvious how badly he fudged the numbers.
And, because of course, he uses the classic "deaths per kWh" misdirection at the end to ignore the vast cost of nuclear accidents.
People said the same thing about Paris, and Kyoto, and many other efforts. Yet here we are, countries making major, sustained efforts to do something about climate change.
This is how politics work. You build up support, get people discussing the issue and making proposals, pushing from different angles. A non-binding agreement acts as a foundation for binding ones, justification for changes to rules and future policies.
Solar panels withstand hail just fine, as well as even more extreme weather conditions.
Nuclear has too many unsolved problems and is too expensive. Battery storage is much cheaper and safer, and brings the kind of stability to the grid that nuclear just can't offer. Batteries can react within milliseconds to demand, nuclear takes a day to ramp up or down.
It's quite a thing for a child to start harming themselves, and eventually commit suicide. There is a very strong instinct to not harm yourself, and it's very far outside social norms. Seeing other people doing it gives them permission, it normalizes it. Kinda related to how people do things they wouldn't normally when they are part of a group, or a mob.
Unfortunately that tends to be more powerful than the natural revulsion someone who isn't already suffering from mental health problems would feel. Instead of saying "there is something wrong with you, you need to get better", it's telling them that other people feel the same way and legitimizing it. It also gives them a community, a group that validates them and seems to understand when others don't.
Problem is all their friends are on social media, not outside.
This is just the same moral panic people had about kids hanging out at the mall, and before that the dance hall, and before that somewhere else where they can get away from their parents.
Just like before, the solution is education and support, not trying to ban the latest hangout they find.
It was worth doing because now we can say to advertisers "we gave you the opportunity, you blew it, and now you are blocked." Ad blocking gained a lot of legitimacy when advertisers decided that they were going to ignore polite requests.
GDPR mandates that you have to ask specifically and clearly for permission to do that. If you bury it in the ToS it doesn't count, you have to have a separate opt-in tickbox with clear explanation of what it allows.
That's just KotakuInAction though, most of Reddit is fine. Or at least no worse than the bulletin board systems and forums of old. Even Usenet had moderated groups.
we took this open platform of the internet where anyone could do anything and we gave control over our behavior to a few big players
Bollocks.
Even if you hosted your own site on your dial-up connection back in the day, your ISP would eventually cut you off. Usenet is still around but the server operator would just ban you if you started abusing it. When was this golden age you speak of?
Things are actually much better these days. We have TOR and hidden sites, we have platforms like YouTube that give people immense reach on a very effective medium, and we have 4chan if you really want to go nuts. All free.
The people moaning about being banned are mostly just complaining about not being free publicity or getting paid. It's not enough that they can post their messages or host a .onion site, they want to be promoted on YouTube, suck up that ad revenue, be on the prime-time platforms.
There is no way they're going to prove to anyone now that any controversial moderation decision wasn't forced on them by outside pressure now.
Every decision is already the subject of wild conspiracy theories and cries of "SJW!" so the probably don't even care. At this point it can't really get any worse than it already is.