You don't have to hold a gym to get the currency. You claim your bonus once every 21 hours based on your current gym count. So the way you do it is you go take over a half a dozen gyms, claim your bonus, and then 21 hours later do it again. You don't get any more bonus for that than if you just held the gym for 21 hours except you have to keep playing.
If this were true, it would be a great improvement. The game would be better if it had more mechanisms to ensure that you were actually walking. Not biking. Not riding in a car. Not rollerblading. Not GPS spoofing. But that's a hard problem to solve and takes a lot of infrastructure. The way to solve it would be (a) only have Pokestops in places accessible only on foot (Think unpaved trials in state parks where bikes are prohibited) and (b) have a kiosk there with a rotating code that you have to enter in order to get credit for the stop. That prevents GPS spoofing. Also there should be events like Spartan races with verified participation in order to get stardust. Give out more for the best finishers in the race, but not so much that you discourage those who aren't yet in great physical condition.
>> Eventually you catch them all and then what?
The biggest problem with the game (I walk about 7 miles a day playing, I'm at level 23 which is about 5% of the way through) is that, at first, you are always seeing exciting new Pokemon. But after a while it doesn't feel like you are progressing. Who wants to catch their 1000th Rattata? You can play several hours a day for a week and not see anything new that you haven't caught before.
The second-biggest problem is that the game penalizes you for going to natural areas. You can only catch Pokemons walking around city centers and the parking lots of strip malls. Walk a hundred miles in a state park and you'll make practically zero progress.
Related to the second issue is that you see people playing on bicycles, motorized vehicles, and other means that are essentially cheating. Who cares if you're just cheating yourself, but if you want to make player interaction this is much harder. If all of the Pokestops and gyms were at places that could only be reached on foot, this could be prevented.
You wave down an Uber driver by opening an app and then he stops. That's why these are hailing apps not sharing apps. Only Uber apologists refer to it as sharing. It's hailing. The same way you do a cab, but with an app.
Uber and Lyft do not provide the same level of insurance for third-parties as a taxi. Uber and Lyft drivers aren't required to take fares. Uber and Lyft drivers have standard passenger drivers licenses rather than the higher commercial standards. The market is so dysfunctional that Uber and Lyft do provide a better experience despite this. But you shouldn't be able to build a business on flagrantly breaking the law this way.
The government required that the formula not be adulterated. Primarily that it not be diluted with water as this is horrible for a baby's health. In order to enforce this (in order to keep babies from being malnourished), the government used protein content as a proxy for not being diluted. The totally unscrupulous then added a combination of water and melamine in order to trick the test. But your argument is essentially that if the government had just tolerated the dilution we would all be better off. Most of us would argue that poisoning babies isn't acceptable and part of the purpose of government is to protect the helpless.
If you had a solar roof, electricity would be essentially free and you could simply have an elecrtric heater within the panels that would melt off all of the ice at no cost!
This should get modded up. The 50% most attractive women fight for the 10% most attractive guys, leaving the other 50% of women and 90% of men out to dry. So if you're a 90%er male, you need to have alternatives. Prostitutes are a poor choice because it poses a terrible health risk. This is a safe alternative. And no I don't work for this company and I'm too cheap to buy their product. I'm fortunate to be in a happy marriage that's sexually active, but I realize I'm in a lucky minority.
All Nexus devices offer the option to unlock the boot loader for those who want to flash their own firmware. Of course the locked/signed boot loader is a huge benefit for the vast majority of users, so it's good that we have it. I have only ever unlocked one as an experiment and I ended up re-locking it.
As far as I know, the Nexus phones all support WiFi calling. What Nexus branded device do you have that won't do WiFi calling? That information would probably be worth a +5 Informative
Again, I'm not making any assumptions. But I can tell you that weekends / holidays tend to be times when rental cars are cheap. I rent a car every week for business travel and I can tell you that the weekend / holiday rates are always lower.
If a person needs a vehicle that will be useful in the widest variety of situations, it's an SUV. If you have a midsize sedan and then you need to transport a bicycle? Rent an SUV and the rental cost of bringing the bike home for Christmas is more than the cost of the purchase?
The problem with the "meets all my needs" thinking is that it is somewhat of a slippery slope that leads to everybody driving a Hummer "just in case."
But if your needs are variable, you are driving a suboptimal vehicle most of the time as there isn't a vehicle that's perfect for every situation. I'm not sure why the hostility in the response as I'm not telling you to do anything. But if that 60 miles of waste means you can drive an electric most of the time as opposed to an SUV then it isn't actually waste. You and the environment are both way ahead of the game. I drive a very capable vehicle but I can't remember the last time I towed something. One of the challenges is that most rental agreements prohibit towing. I'm not saying that there aren't drawbacks to electrics just that we are so used to the drawbacks of gasoline that we may be discounting them mentally.
This assumes that your needs are constant. The vast majority of vehicles on the road are, at any time, not meeting the needs. If you need an SUV 10% of the time, you end up driving around a large vehicle all of the time. And since it's much harder to find parking for a larger vehicle, you suffer that inconvenience.
If you need an expensive luxury car, that's a bit different. Those are ugodly expensive to rent because they tend to have a low utilization. They sit on the lot waiting for somebody to rent them where the more mainstream cars come back from a rental, get a wash and maybe an oil change, and are back out the door in an hour.
You can buy a used Chevrolet Leaf for under $10k. With the savings, you can rent a gas car on the occasion that you need it. That doesn't feel so convenient as renting a car can be a hassle. But so is buying gas. So it's probably an even exchange.
Yes I do use ABP because it comes with Firefox automatically. I can certainly see FB being miffed that ABP is taxing ads as much as blocking them.
I hate ads as much as the next guy, but I'm also sympathetic to the content producers. Many small content producers can't survive without ads and although we've been talking about alternative business models for years, none has really come forward. The closest I know about is Amazon Kindle Unlimited where you pay a monthly fee and the authors get compensated based on what percentage of the time you spend reading their content.
With ad blockers in full force, big players like FB will easily circumvent the blockers by serving the content themselves. Smaller properties that rely on the ad networks will go under. So we'll be back to square one in terms of ads only with a smaller number of producers making the overall content quality and quantity lower which isn't an outcome that anybody can really support.
Which is not to say I blame the users of ad blockers. They're better off by blocking ads. Hopefully some new ideas will emerge because we're kind of stagnant now.
Except that if one were to read the incredibly fine article, Ad blockers do allow ads through if they are "acceptable" and the advertiser pays. FBs ads all meet the acceptable criteria of the commercial ad blockers. From FB's perspective, ad blockers are just a taxing authority. Why pay the money when FB has the technical means to just deliver the ads.
Yes but FB benefits from a bigger network effect than those services. A mobile game with 100M players is doing great. A social network with 100M users is toast.
FaceBook and email are not substitutes for one another. Facebook has a moderation system similar to/. If mutual acquaintances / friends like something, you are more likely to see it. Sure you could send a mass email to all of your friends / family members once a day detailing your life, but none of them will read it and they'll think you're weird. Or you break it up into a bunch of FB posts, different people happen to see different parts of it. But if something is interesting, they like it and then FB pushes it up in terms of what to show your other friends / family. People like seeing your FB updates, they hate getting your emails. Even without the technical differences, that's enough to set the two apart.
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I have no idea why this is at zero, it should be modded up.
You don't have to hold a gym to get the currency. You claim your bonus once every 21 hours based on your current gym count. So the way you do it is you go take over a half a dozen gyms, claim your bonus, and then 21 hours later do it again. You don't get any more bonus for that than if you just held the gym for 21 hours except you have to keep playing.
If this were true, it would be a great improvement. The game would be better if it had more mechanisms to ensure that you were actually walking. Not biking. Not riding in a car. Not rollerblading. Not GPS spoofing. But that's a hard problem to solve and takes a lot of infrastructure. The way to solve it would be (a) only have Pokestops in places accessible only on foot (Think unpaved trials in state parks where bikes are prohibited) and (b) have a kiosk there with a rotating code that you have to enter in order to get credit for the stop. That prevents GPS spoofing. Also there should be events like Spartan races with verified participation in order to get stardust. Give out more for the best finishers in the race, but not so much that you discourage those who aren't yet in great physical condition.
>> Eventually you catch them all and then what? The biggest problem with the game (I walk about 7 miles a day playing, I'm at level 23 which is about 5% of the way through) is that, at first, you are always seeing exciting new Pokemon. But after a while it doesn't feel like you are progressing. Who wants to catch their 1000th Rattata? You can play several hours a day for a week and not see anything new that you haven't caught before. The second-biggest problem is that the game penalizes you for going to natural areas. You can only catch Pokemons walking around city centers and the parking lots of strip malls. Walk a hundred miles in a state park and you'll make practically zero progress. Related to the second issue is that you see people playing on bicycles, motorized vehicles, and other means that are essentially cheating. Who cares if you're just cheating yourself, but if you want to make player interaction this is much harder. If all of the Pokestops and gyms were at places that could only be reached on foot, this could be prevented.
You wave down an Uber driver by opening an app and then he stops. That's why these are hailing apps not sharing apps. Only Uber apologists refer to it as sharing. It's hailing. The same way you do a cab, but with an app.
Uber and Lyft do not provide the same level of insurance for third-parties as a taxi. Uber and Lyft drivers aren't required to take fares. Uber and Lyft drivers have standard passenger drivers licenses rather than the higher commercial standards. The market is so dysfunctional that Uber and Lyft do provide a better experience despite this. But you shouldn't be able to build a business on flagrantly breaking the law this way.
The government required that the formula not be adulterated. Primarily that it not be diluted with water as this is horrible for a baby's health. In order to enforce this (in order to keep babies from being malnourished), the government used protein content as a proxy for not being diluted. The totally unscrupulous then added a combination of water and melamine in order to trick the test. But your argument is essentially that if the government had just tolerated the dilution we would all be better off. Most of us would argue that poisoning babies isn't acceptable and part of the purpose of government is to protect the helpless.
This is a discussion of the utility. Mobile phones are fashion accessories first and technology second.
Are you sure? I don't think you own the panels at the end of a lease, but I've been wrong about SolarCity before.
If you had a solar roof, electricity would be essentially free and you could simply have an elecrtric heater within the panels that would melt off all of the ice at no cost!
This should get modded up. The 50% most attractive women fight for the 10% most attractive guys, leaving the other 50% of women and 90% of men out to dry. So if you're a 90%er male, you need to have alternatives. Prostitutes are a poor choice because it poses a terrible health risk. This is a safe alternative. And no I don't work for this company and I'm too cheap to buy their product. I'm fortunate to be in a happy marriage that's sexually active, but I realize I'm in a lucky minority.
Amazon does this already when you're a Kindle Unlimited customer
That's plenty for business people to send / receive email. In fact that's primarily what many people use tethering for.
Which makes sense. Because if you use Knox and then root the phone, you may be able to exfiltrate data stored inside the secure partition.
All Nexus devices offer the option to unlock the boot loader for those who want to flash their own firmware. Of course the locked/signed boot loader is a huge benefit for the vast majority of users, so it's good that we have it. I have only ever unlocked one as an experiment and I ended up re-locking it.
As far as I know, the Nexus phones all support WiFi calling. What Nexus branded device do you have that won't do WiFi calling? That information would probably be worth a +5 Informative
Again, I'm not making any assumptions. But I can tell you that weekends / holidays tend to be times when rental cars are cheap. I rent a car every week for business travel and I can tell you that the weekend / holiday rates are always lower. If a person needs a vehicle that will be useful in the widest variety of situations, it's an SUV. If you have a midsize sedan and then you need to transport a bicycle? Rent an SUV and the rental cost of bringing the bike home for Christmas is more than the cost of the purchase? The problem with the "meets all my needs" thinking is that it is somewhat of a slippery slope that leads to everybody driving a Hummer "just in case."
But if your needs are variable, you are driving a suboptimal vehicle most of the time as there isn't a vehicle that's perfect for every situation. I'm not sure why the hostility in the response as I'm not telling you to do anything. But if that 60 miles of waste means you can drive an electric most of the time as opposed to an SUV then it isn't actually waste. You and the environment are both way ahead of the game. I drive a very capable vehicle but I can't remember the last time I towed something. One of the challenges is that most rental agreements prohibit towing. I'm not saying that there aren't drawbacks to electrics just that we are so used to the drawbacks of gasoline that we may be discounting them mentally.
This assumes that your needs are constant. The vast majority of vehicles on the road are, at any time, not meeting the needs. If you need an SUV 10% of the time, you end up driving around a large vehicle all of the time. And since it's much harder to find parking for a larger vehicle, you suffer that inconvenience. If you need an expensive luxury car, that's a bit different. Those are ugodly expensive to rent because they tend to have a low utilization. They sit on the lot waiting for somebody to rent them where the more mainstream cars come back from a rental, get a wash and maybe an oil change, and are back out the door in an hour.
You can buy a used Chevrolet Leaf for under $10k. With the savings, you can rent a gas car on the occasion that you need it. That doesn't feel so convenient as renting a car can be a hassle. But so is buying gas. So it's probably an even exchange.
Yes I do use ABP because it comes with Firefox automatically. I can certainly see FB being miffed that ABP is taxing ads as much as blocking them. I hate ads as much as the next guy, but I'm also sympathetic to the content producers. Many small content producers can't survive without ads and although we've been talking about alternative business models for years, none has really come forward. The closest I know about is Amazon Kindle Unlimited where you pay a monthly fee and the authors get compensated based on what percentage of the time you spend reading their content. With ad blockers in full force, big players like FB will easily circumvent the blockers by serving the content themselves. Smaller properties that rely on the ad networks will go under. So we'll be back to square one in terms of ads only with a smaller number of producers making the overall content quality and quantity lower which isn't an outcome that anybody can really support. Which is not to say I blame the users of ad blockers. They're better off by blocking ads. Hopefully some new ideas will emerge because we're kind of stagnant now.
That's been a real problem for FB. They announce a few days ago some new technologies where they try to get rid of click bait.
Except that if one were to read the incredibly fine article, Ad blockers do allow ads through if they are "acceptable" and the advertiser pays. FBs ads all meet the acceptable criteria of the commercial ad blockers. From FB's perspective, ad blockers are just a taxing authority. Why pay the money when FB has the technical means to just deliver the ads.
Yes but FB benefits from a bigger network effect than those services. A mobile game with 100M players is doing great. A social network with 100M users is toast.
FaceBook and email are not substitutes for one another. Facebook has a moderation system similar to /. If mutual acquaintances / friends like something, you are more likely to see it. Sure you could send a mass email to all of your friends / family members once a day detailing your life, but none of them will read it and they'll think you're weird. Or you break it up into a bunch of FB posts, different people happen to see different parts of it. But if something is interesting, they like it and then FB pushes it up in terms of what to show your other friends / family. People like seeing your FB updates, they hate getting your emails. Even without the technical differences, that's enough to set the two apart.