the most subscribers on YouTube is largely a symbolic achievement
This is an understatement, as the views from all videos from media company (with hundreds or thousands of content creators) isn't comparable to the views from content that is largely generated by a single person. It's like comparing one artists views to all views on VEVO channels.
Oh, AC is that your Ars comment quoted in the summary? Thanks editors for including this heavily biased and assumptive text. What trash.
It's now obvious that everything Elon tweeted that manipulated the market was a lie. Funding was not secured, the price of $420 was not based in reality, and it was not just a vote away from happening. When you're being investigated by the SEC for a weed joke that you used to manipulate the market it's an idiotic idea to make it even more obvious you manipulated the market by smoking weed publicly broadcasted. People are pulling out of the market because Elon lies to manipulate shareholders and cost them billions and that has become even more obvious. Not because 'omg weed is bad.'"
I don't know, keeping the masses pacified by playing video games (violent as some might be) seems like a win/win. Also, anyone in the western hemisphere who plays PUBG is extremely aware of the popularity of the game among the Chinese. For whatever reason the Chinese (and Koreans to a lesser extent) seem to enjoy playing on North American servers, so you often end up with teammates who can't understand you or killed by a massive team of red-shirt wearing players in a solo game mode.
The quotation in the summary and even a bit in the article are very misleading. The company seems to take full responsibility for the issue and are not passing blame. The line right after that quote is:
"We are regretful that this was not addressed immediately and adequately by our support team, when discovered. We have addressed this and made some internal changes."
They do however have a previous incident where the exact same thing happened, and in that case they apparently suggested it was because two completely unrelated users used the same user and password (which wasn't true).
He's contacted several media outlets already and none of them have run his story (yet). I guess if any of his claims had merit then we'll see something. Personally I'm leaning more towards personal greed - he tried to sell a story to the media, they didn't bite (except CNN apparently), so he found something that Tesla's enemies wanted instead.
I could do this even better by routing the output of a SNES directly through the NES console. I'd drill a 1-inch hole all the way through an original unmodified NES, and then run the A/V cables of an unmodified SNES (or even a SNES classic if I had the patience) through the hole and into my TV. There'd be no jitter and you'd get 100% perfect SNES output on the TV. Since it can be done far more quickly this way we'd have far more time to actually play the games, and would be exactly as useful as the article's experiment.
Honestly it's fucking everywhere. I first heard about it on the radio during my commute, then it was in the news the next morning. The dress thing was almost interesting but this just feels like society has too much free time on their hands.
if he'd put as much effort into studying as he did setting up this phishing attempt, he probably wouldn't have needed to change his grades
It's not surprising that he would put a huge amount of effort into something he found interesting and motivating, and was probably failing his other classes he hated (English class anyone?). I knew a guy in high school who had a seriously high IQ - he was the lead of the school team that does those trivia competitions and he would take a class's textbook home and read it for fun and ace the class tests. And he nearly failed every subject because he wouldn't do any of the assigned work which accounted for a significant portion of the marks.
I also think it has a positive effect on many restaurants (even if relatively small) to try and reduce fat and sugar in their food
In Canada we've had this for a while now, and this seems to ring true, especially with serving size. I go to Broadway's regularly and get a club sandwich with fries. It used to come on a plate where they'd put as many fries as would fit, but a couple years ago they started limiting the fries to a more reasonable fixed portion. This is likely because their menus now indicate the calorie size of a serving of fries, and "as many calories as can fit on your plate" doesn't sound very good.
I think gaming is a lot more mainstream now than it was when TF2 came out, the only real difference being how much money can be made selling to a larger audience.
The late passengers should miss their plane. To go rummaging them up, trying to find them before the plane leaves, will only encourage the bad behavior of not getting to the gate area on time.
Not all delays are the fault of the passenger. My mother recently missed a connecting flight because she had to go through security between flights. It took about 2 hours causing her to just barely miss the flight. Had the airport been able to locate her they could have expedited her through the line, or held the craft knowing that she was on the way. It was no fault of her own, and the airport had all the information to know where she was most likely held up. They had to reschedule her on a flight 24 hours later. Which was then delayed another day due to weather. So, shitty airport logistics cost her 2 days.
- Paid about $60/mo and we only watched 4 channels - Started watching less TV couldn't justify the expense, downgraded to $40/mo package which lost 2 of the channels we liked - Picked up Netflix for $8.99/mo - Realized we watched Netflix 5x more than cable, so cancelled cable - shake our heads when we think how more much we used to pay for so much less value
This is why I only get the free 30 day trial prime membership. When I have it, I make more orders, and I make them as soon as I think of them. Otherwise I just queue items in my cart until I have enough for free normal shipping. I think it takes a certain level of consumerism to make the full cost of membership even theoretically worthwhile, and I assume that level is more common in the US. I may also just be cheap.
You seem to think that making the de-identified information public is enough to satisfy the new rules. Given all the scientists decrying this change, do you think they didn't consider this?
People want to look away from the road for minutes at a time and Tesla sells drivers that ability. This is adding more to their bottom line than the fact their cars are electric.
Bullshit. I want a Tesla and while AutoPilot is an interesting feature it doesn't register as a buying factor. Mainly I want a quality electric car and I want to reward one of the very few car companies that is driving electric car adoption. There are many reasons why people would want a Tesla.
I rather suspect that he has access to really good base information on the subject,
He has access to great information and even expert advice on many topics. Based on his behaviour, this doesn't actually seem to affect many of his decisions.
Also, he has at least some familiarity and ability with finance, unlike many other politicians.
Which is completely irrelevant since the only politician involved is Trump, who has a personal grudge against Amazon.
In any event, lets assume he's bumbling into a subject which we've identified as a problem for many years.
Traditional postal revenue has declined for years. Package delivery is probably one of the major things propping it up. If prices need to be adjusted, then adjust prices. People who work at USPS would probably be the best qualified to have an opinion about that. Meanwhile anyone with common sense can see Trump's voiced opinion is far more about his grudge against Amazon's CEO than a concern to fix the USPS. He's singling out Amazon because he wants to hurt their stock.
Good point. Also the ridiculous things that can be considered racism these days is boggling. Any AI that could properly figure that out would be batshit insane.
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the most subscribers on YouTube is largely a symbolic achievement
This is an understatement, as the views from all videos from media company (with hundreds or thousands of content creators) isn't comparable to the views from content that is largely generated by a single person. It's like comparing one artists views to all views on VEVO channels.
It's now obvious that everything Elon tweeted that manipulated the market was a lie. Funding was not secured, the price of $420 was not based in reality, and it was not just a vote away from happening. When you're being investigated by the SEC for a weed joke that you used to manipulate the market it's an idiotic idea to make it even more obvious you manipulated the market by smoking weed publicly broadcasted. People are pulling out of the market because Elon lies to manipulate shareholders and cost them billions and that has become even more obvious. Not because 'omg weed is bad.'"
Pirating is too expensive for most people because they can't afford the big sailing vessel.
Anyone buying a vessel for pirating doesn't know how pirating works.
I don't know, keeping the masses pacified by playing video games (violent as some might be) seems like a win/win. Also, anyone in the western hemisphere who plays PUBG is extremely aware of the popularity of the game among the Chinese. For whatever reason the Chinese (and Koreans to a lesser extent) seem to enjoy playing on North American servers, so you often end up with teammates who can't understand you or killed by a massive team of red-shirt wearing players in a solo game mode.
Canada certainly does. The current government is being active about it too.
The pretence that the drivers are independent contractors is just an end run around labour regulations.
From TFA:
Drivers will be full-time workers instead of contractors, and Amazon will require business owners to give them paid time off and other benefits.
If you answer to a corporation and not your customers...
Amazon would be the customer in this case since they are now and still will be the ones paying the delivery company for the service.
"We are regretful that this was not addressed immediately and adequately by our support team, when discovered. We have addressed this and made some internal changes."
They do however have a previous incident where the exact same thing happened, and in that case they apparently suggested it was because two completely unrelated users used the same user and password (which wasn't true).
He's contacted several media outlets already and none of them have run his story (yet). I guess if any of his claims had merit then we'll see something. Personally I'm leaning more towards personal greed - he tried to sell a story to the media, they didn't bite (except CNN apparently), so he found something that Tesla's enemies wanted instead.
And in Canada we can now buy 2-year stickers, so...
I could do this even better by routing the output of a SNES directly through the NES console. I'd drill a 1-inch hole all the way through an original unmodified NES, and then run the A/V cables of an unmodified SNES (or even a SNES classic if I had the patience) through the hole and into my TV. There'd be no jitter and you'd get 100% perfect SNES output on the TV. Since it can be done far more quickly this way we'd have far more time to actually play the games, and would be exactly as useful as the article's experiment.
Honestly it's fucking everywhere. I first heard about it on the radio during my commute, then it was in the news the next morning. The dress thing was almost interesting but this just feels like society has too much free time on their hands.
if he'd put as much effort into studying as he did setting up this phishing attempt, he probably wouldn't have needed to change his grades
It's not surprising that he would put a huge amount of effort into something he found interesting and motivating, and was probably failing his other classes he hated (English class anyone?). I knew a guy in high school who had a seriously high IQ - he was the lead of the school team that does those trivia competitions and he would take a class's textbook home and read it for fun and ace the class tests. And he nearly failed every subject because he wouldn't do any of the assigned work which accounted for a significant portion of the marks.
I also think it has a positive effect on many restaurants (even if relatively small) to try and reduce fat and sugar in their food
In Canada we've had this for a while now, and this seems to ring true, especially with serving size. I go to Broadway's regularly and get a club sandwich with fries. It used to come on a plate where they'd put as many fries as would fit, but a couple years ago they started limiting the fries to a more reasonable fixed portion. This is likely because their menus now indicate the calorie size of a serving of fries, and "as many calories as can fit on your plate" doesn't sound very good.
I think gaming is a lot more mainstream now than it was when TF2 came out, the only real difference being how much money can be made selling to a larger audience.
She flew from Costa Rica to US to Canada.
The late passengers should miss their plane. To go rummaging them up, trying to find them before the plane leaves, will only encourage the bad behavior of not getting to the gate area on time.
Not all delays are the fault of the passenger. My mother recently missed a connecting flight because she had to go through security between flights. It took about 2 hours causing her to just barely miss the flight. Had the airport been able to locate her they could have expedited her through the line, or held the craft knowing that she was on the way. It was no fault of her own, and the airport had all the information to know where she was most likely held up. They had to reschedule her on a flight 24 hours later. Which was then delayed another day due to weather. So, shitty airport logistics cost her 2 days.
My evolution was:
- Paid about $60/mo and we only watched 4 channels
- Started watching less TV couldn't justify the expense, downgraded to $40/mo package which lost 2 of the channels we liked
- Picked up Netflix for $8.99/mo
- Realized we watched Netflix 5x more than cable, so cancelled cable
- shake our heads when we think how more much we used to pay for so much less value
This is why I only get the free 30 day trial prime membership. When I have it, I make more orders, and I make them as soon as I think of them. Otherwise I just queue items in my cart until I have enough for free normal shipping. I think it takes a certain level of consumerism to make the full cost of membership even theoretically worthwhile, and I assume that level is more common in the US. I may also just be cheap.
may also force pesticide companies to publish trade secrets in order to have their products registered for legal use
I'm pretty sure all necessary lobbyers had their chance to review and revise the regulations before their sock-puppet pushed them.
You seem to think that making the de-identified information public is enough to satisfy the new rules. Given all the scientists decrying this change, do you think they didn't consider this?
People want to look away from the road for minutes at a time and Tesla sells drivers that ability. This is adding more to their bottom line than the fact their cars are electric.
Bullshit. I want a Tesla and while AutoPilot is an interesting feature it doesn't register as a buying factor. Mainly I want a quality electric car and I want to reward one of the very few car companies that is driving electric car adoption. There are many reasons why people would want a Tesla.
I rather suspect that he has access to really good base information on the subject,
He has access to great information and even expert advice on many topics. Based on his behaviour, this doesn't actually seem to affect many of his decisions.
Also, he has at least some familiarity and ability with finance, unlike many other politicians.
Which is completely irrelevant since the only politician involved is Trump, who has a personal grudge against Amazon.
In any event, lets assume he's bumbling into a subject which we've identified as a problem for many years.
Traditional postal revenue has declined for years. Package delivery is probably one of the major things propping it up. If prices need to be adjusted, then adjust prices. People who work at USPS would probably be the best qualified to have an opinion about that. Meanwhile anyone with common sense can see Trump's voiced opinion is far more about his grudge against Amazon's CEO than a concern to fix the USPS. He's singling out Amazon because he wants to hurt their stock.
Children grow up going outdoors, socializing etc., in ways they find enjoyable and result in them doing the same thing through their adulthood.
If that were true, then they wouldn't need draconian rules to force them to live their lives in a specific way.
Good point. Also the ridiculous things that can be considered racism these days is boggling. Any AI that could properly figure that out would be batshit insane.