Further, the psychological manipulation that's the heart of marketing makes it more than just a drain on our wealth. It's an active trade of social goodwill and cohesion for personal profit. Much of it is literally focused on finding the social cues that signal genuine emotions and motivations... and then abusing them until they are no longer trusted by people.
The thing is, advertising is inefficient. The product has very little overall value, and even that value is fleeting. If we all just paid for content, in the longer term we would all have more wealth because less of it would be wasted on creating and distributing ads.
The customer of advertising agencies is other companies and their success is in selling advertising campaigns to those companies.
It doesn't matter if it actually works or if it's efficient. It only matters that the agencies are able to convince enough people at enough companies that it works.
A lot of younger developers don't get it yet, and get confused when I OK a complex change to a product while reject a simple one. Mostly due to having experience with a full life cycle of a product, and I know what type of changes would become a rabbit hole of pain.
You then go on to explain your reasoning to them, right? Even if it only gets through some of the time, the world will be a little better place.
Ha! Owning German cars in the US is the epitome of conspicuous consumption. And that's doubly true for used ones, which lack any semblance of reliability or maintenance affordability.
Unless you have mechanical aptitude and the free time to work on it, buying a $1000 car is not a financially responsible decision. The cost of maintaining a car rises sharply later in life and a large number of $1000 cars in well into the paying-more-in-repairs-than-what-you-bought-it-for stage of their life.
I've been a mechanic and I've seen the thrifty, but not financially responsible, poor go through this over and over. Getting a newer car, or even a cheap new car, with a non-predatory loan will ultimately save money in the long run.
I have fantastic credit, but not because I've ever spent more money than I had on hand. Knowing that credit scores exist and are used for all sorts of things besides loans (or assuming that you'll never ever need a loan) and choosing to deliberately let your score be poor is the financially irresponsible course of action.
I bought my last two cars on a 0% loan instead of buying them outright with cash. I could continue to invest the cash I would have otherwise spent and the cost of paying the loan actually goes down with time (as inflation goes up). Paying cash would have been the irresponsible decision.
Where is the "coercion" here? Musk could have fought the charges in court. A legal war chest of $40m is quite enormous. He chose not to on advice from his lawyers. Do you know what reasons a lawyer may have to give such an advice?
Not speaking to the coercion claim specifically, but fighting a case in court means making things part of the public record. In many cases, settling out of court is the best option. Even if you were guaranteed to win the case in court.
I'm pretty sure that was his point. Women coming into the field because of their interest and passion for physics win Nobel prizes, but diversity hires invited in to round out the numbers don't.
"War" is definitely hyperbolic, but you paint the situation as much more benign than it is. It's a exploitative relationship, where one party is generally (and legally) regarded as unfit to make sound decisions for themselves. Exploitation of minors and the mentally unsound is regarded as pretty damn heinous by our society, apparently except when it comes to advertising. When the advertising industry starts using psychologists to manipulate children and influence their behavior against their (and their parents') knowledge or consent, it definitely crosses a line.
And anyway, in an exploitative situation, the exploiter doesn't have to view the object of exploitation as an enemy for a war-like situation. Slaveholders didn't see their slaves as the enemy, but the slaves sure as hell saw the slaveholders as the enemy.
This country is fucked, big big trouble soon and the government (s) have been clueless.
The government is anything but clueless. Financial crises are fantastic methods of transferring more wealth to the already wealthy. Everything is going according to plan.
Which is good to keep in mind when buying from domestic brands, but Chinese manufacturers are increasing selling their shoddiest products directly through Amazon now. Some of these are designed directly in China with the intent of cutting costs to the minimum, which is even worse than the average cost-cutting approach used by domestic brands.
Seriously, putting much trust in brand names is silly these days, but buying a piece of critical safety equipment from TOPOLEK, or WINFI, or MODOAO or any of the assortment of identical looking and implausibly cheap sources is more than just naive.
I just moved the SIM card from an iphone to an android phone and sent texts to the number from another iphone. The phone with the SIM always got the texts and the color of the message bubble accurately reflected the method of delivery (blue: imessage, green: SMS).
So you give all of your money to this third party insurance company (generally known as the most absolutely ethical and trustworthy and compassionate of all companies) and they promise to keep it safe and dole it out to you as you lose your mind? If they happen to just stop disbursing funds (perhaps even for agreed-upon reasons buried in a hundred pages of legalese), you hopefully have the means and wherewithal to take them to court for the next xx years to get it back?
That sounds exactly like one of these predatory scams.
Those rules aren't in place to be followed. They're in place to limit the employer's liability for workplace injuries.
If you follow all of the rules, you'll be let go as underproductive (since nobody else will follow all of the rules). If everybody follows the rules (rulebook strike), overall productivity tanks and nobody can be called out on it.
Here's an interesting technical article on how "Hey Siri" works. I'd assume that Google's equivalent or any of these that run on battery powered devices work similarly.
I totally understand your frustration, but I also have little sympathy for people who are in a hurry to get somewhere and decide that driving across a college campus is the best way to do it. This is an utterly predictable situation that you've found yourself in.
It's not a mistake. A huge number of receiving servers don't handle SPF correctly, so you need the softfail at the end to allow delivery (totally defeating the purpose, yes).
For example, every university system that I've ever been exposed to that uses Office 365 ends up with a server somewhere in the chain checking the SPF record against itself and always failing. Without the softfail, everything gets bounced.
So we agree that kids are very suggestible and we (as a society) have come to the conclusion that massive advertising agencies with teams of people that are trained in psychological manipulation can have access to children (for profit), but children can't even be accidentally exposed to crackpots because something might be repeated to another kid.
Actually, it is't we as a society that have come to this conclusion but Alphabet, the largest advertising company in the world.
It's not more common for the same reason that any manufacturer ever decides that using blinding blue LEDs for indicator lights are a good design choice. Who the fuck knows what that reason is?
As proven by all the research done in VR since Occulus : the main drawback would be rendering speed/feedback loop. Will this eyesight tracking work fast enough so the image rendering doesn't lag too much behind the eye motion ? (Other wise you'd be seeing blurred image when ever you're looking around fast, as the eye motion overshoots the region that was rendered at high resolution by the fovea tracking you're advocating).
Intelligent eye tracking could render the point of focus and likely immediate points of focus in higher resolution. If a monster is about to jump out of the bushes at you, it's obvious that you're going to quickly shift your gaze to it and ignore the foliage between it and your current gaze.
In constructed media like games and movies, there is a lot of control or easy prediction regarding where people's gaze goes.
Unfortunately, a UPS demands both high peak currents and deep discharges, so either kind of battery is poorly suited.
If you overspec your battery, you can have low (relative to spec) peak current and deep discharges. The trade-off is a gigantic and heavy battery, which you can tolerate in certain situations.
It's not the topic, which is interesting, but the headline that is bullshit clickbait. "Could this one weird trick boost gravitational-wave detection?"
More and more headlines are reading like that and I find myself coming here less and less. (Interestingly, since I rarely come here, I get mod points every time and use them instead of posting. Posting less, I get fewer responses and less of a pull to engage in discussion, which makes me come even less. Negative feedback loop...)
That sounds like an ideal way to wind it down. H1B as indentured servitude, followed by deportation is what made it so heinous. Nobody involved had any interest in the US or the US economy.
If they stay in the country forever, then they effectively become Americans and gain an interest in the wellbeing of the country. Also, they then need to actually live in the US long-term, which means that they need a salary that matches the cost of living here.
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Their new logo seemed like a not so subtle hint that they want Microsoft to buy them.
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but competition on the supply side results in lower prices. Competition on the demand side drives prices up.
Oh, I absolutely agree with you there.
Further, the psychological manipulation that's the heart of marketing makes it more than just a drain on our wealth. It's an active trade of social goodwill and cohesion for personal profit. Much of it is literally focused on finding the social cues that signal genuine emotions and motivations... and then abusing them until they are no longer trusted by people.
The thing is, advertising is inefficient. The product has very little overall value, and even that value is fleeting. If we all just paid for content, in the longer term we would all have more wealth because less of it would be wasted on creating and distributing ads.
The customer of advertising agencies is other companies and their success is in selling advertising campaigns to those companies.
It doesn't matter if it actually works or if it's efficient. It only matters that the agencies are able to convince enough people at enough companies that it works.
A lot of younger developers don't get it yet, and get confused when I OK a complex change to a product while reject a simple one. Mostly due to having experience with a full life cycle of a product, and I know what type of changes would become a rabbit hole of pain.
You then go on to explain your reasoning to them, right? Even if it only gets through some of the time, the world will be a little better place.
Ha! Owning German cars in the US is the epitome of conspicuous consumption. And that's doubly true for used ones, which lack any semblance of reliability or maintenance affordability.
Unless you have mechanical aptitude and the free time to work on it, buying a $1000 car is not a financially responsible decision. The cost of maintaining a car rises sharply later in life and a large number of $1000 cars in well into the paying-more-in-repairs-than-what-you-bought-it-for stage of their life.
I've been a mechanic and I've seen the thrifty, but not financially responsible, poor go through this over and over. Getting a newer car, or even a cheap new car, with a non-predatory loan will ultimately save money in the long run.
I have fantastic credit, but not because I've ever spent more money than I had on hand. Knowing that credit scores exist and are used for all sorts of things besides loans (or assuming that you'll never ever need a loan) and choosing to deliberately let your score be poor is the financially irresponsible course of action.
I bought my last two cars on a 0% loan instead of buying them outright with cash. I could continue to invest the cash I would have otherwise spent and the cost of paying the loan actually goes down with time (as inflation goes up). Paying cash would have been the irresponsible decision.
Where is the "coercion" here? Musk could have fought the charges in court. A legal war chest of $40m is quite enormous. He chose not to on advice from his lawyers. Do you know what reasons a lawyer may have to give such an advice?
Not speaking to the coercion claim specifically, but fighting a case in court means making things part of the public record. In many cases, settling out of court is the best option. Even if you were guaranteed to win the case in court.
I'm pretty sure that was his point. Women coming into the field because of their interest and passion for physics win Nobel prizes, but diversity hires invited in to round out the numbers don't.
"War" is definitely hyperbolic, but you paint the situation as much more benign than it is. It's a exploitative relationship, where one party is generally (and legally) regarded as unfit to make sound decisions for themselves. Exploitation of minors and the mentally unsound is regarded as pretty damn heinous by our society, apparently except when it comes to advertising. When the advertising industry starts using psychologists to manipulate children and influence their behavior against their (and their parents') knowledge or consent, it definitely crosses a line.
And anyway, in an exploitative situation, the exploiter doesn't have to view the object of exploitation as an enemy for a war-like situation. Slaveholders didn't see their slaves as the enemy, but the slaves sure as hell saw the slaveholders as the enemy.
This country is fucked, big big trouble soon and the government (s) have been clueless.
The government is anything but clueless. Financial crises are fantastic methods of transferring more wealth to the already wealthy. Everything is going according to plan.
Which is good to keep in mind when buying from domestic brands, but Chinese manufacturers are increasing selling their shoddiest products directly through Amazon now. Some of these are designed directly in China with the intent of cutting costs to the minimum, which is even worse than the average cost-cutting approach used by domestic brands.
Seriously, putting much trust in brand names is silly these days, but buying a piece of critical safety equipment from TOPOLEK, or WINFI, or MODOAO or any of the assortment of identical looking and implausibly cheap sources is more than just naive.
This apparently doesn't happen anymore.
I just moved the SIM card from an iphone to an android phone and sent texts to the number from another iphone. The phone with the SIM always got the texts and the color of the message bubble accurately reflected the method of delivery (blue: imessage, green: SMS).
So you give all of your money to this third party insurance company (generally known as the most absolutely ethical and trustworthy and compassionate of all companies) and they promise to keep it safe and dole it out to you as you lose your mind? If they happen to just stop disbursing funds (perhaps even for agreed-upon reasons buried in a hundred pages of legalese), you hopefully have the means and wherewithal to take them to court for the next xx years to get it back?
That sounds exactly like one of these predatory scams.
Those rules aren't in place to be followed. They're in place to limit the employer's liability for workplace injuries.
If you follow all of the rules, you'll be let go as underproductive (since nobody else will follow all of the rules). If everybody follows the rules (rulebook strike), overall productivity tanks and nobody can be called out on it.
Here's an interesting technical article on how "Hey Siri" works. I'd assume that Google's equivalent or any of these that run on battery powered devices work similarly.
I totally understand your frustration, but I also have little sympathy for people who are in a hurry to get somewhere and decide that driving across a college campus is the best way to do it. This is an utterly predictable situation that you've found yourself in.
It's not a mistake. A huge number of receiving servers don't handle SPF correctly, so you need the softfail at the end to allow delivery (totally defeating the purpose, yes).
For example, every university system that I've ever been exposed to that uses Office 365 ends up with a server somewhere in the chain checking the SPF record against itself and always failing. Without the softfail, everything gets bounced.
So we agree that kids are very suggestible and we (as a society) have come to the conclusion that massive advertising agencies with teams of people that are trained in psychological manipulation can have access to children (for profit), but children can't even be accidentally exposed to crackpots because something might be repeated to another kid.
Actually, it is't we as a society that have come to this conclusion but Alphabet, the largest advertising company in the world.
It's not more common for the same reason that any manufacturer ever decides that using blinding blue LEDs for indicator lights are a good design choice. Who the fuck knows what that reason is?
Ok, but on a serious note, why not just use a silk sleeping mask? I use one and I sleep like a baby.
You wake up every few hours crying? I'll go with the foil advice!
As proven by all the research done in VR since Occulus : the main drawback would be rendering speed/feedback loop.
Will this eyesight tracking work fast enough so the image rendering doesn't lag too much behind the eye motion ? (Other wise you'd be seeing blurred image when ever you're looking around fast, as the eye motion overshoots the region that was rendered at high resolution by the fovea tracking you're advocating).
Intelligent eye tracking could render the point of focus and likely immediate points of focus in higher resolution. If a monster is about to jump out of the bushes at you, it's obvious that you're going to quickly shift your gaze to it and ignore the foliage between it and your current gaze.
In constructed media like games and movies, there is a lot of control or easy prediction regarding where people's gaze goes.
Unfortunately, a UPS demands both high peak currents and deep discharges, so either kind of battery is poorly suited.
If you overspec your battery, you can have low (relative to spec) peak current and deep discharges. The trade-off is a gigantic and heavy battery, which you can tolerate in certain situations.
It's not the topic, which is interesting, but the headline that is bullshit clickbait. "Could this one weird trick boost gravitational-wave detection?"
More and more headlines are reading like that and I find myself coming here less and less. (Interestingly, since I rarely come here, I get mod points every time and use them instead of posting. Posting less, I get fewer responses and less of a pull to engage in discussion, which makes me come even less. Negative feedback loop...)
That sounds like an ideal way to wind it down. H1B as indentured servitude, followed by deportation is what made it so heinous. Nobody involved had any interest in the US or the US economy.
If they stay in the country forever, then they effectively become Americans and gain an interest in the wellbeing of the country. Also, they then need to actually live in the US long-term, which means that they need a salary that matches the cost of living here.