You're confusing how Google and Facebook entice the product with the "product." They put content there to attract users. Data on the users is the product they actually make money on. They might as well have to pay for the bait.
Or, and this is a wild though, we start making Silicon Valley follow the same rules as everyone else. No more Uber skirting regulations around taxi wages, no more Google selectively censoring news for public manipulation, no more Apple and HP hosing customers on support and planned obsolescence, no more NEST and Facebook spying on people, no more Amazon dodging taxes, etc. Silicon Valley is nothing more than a marketing hub so effective at what they do that they convince everyone that they're not only above the law, but that it never even applied to them. They are the mecca of illicit activity ranging from gun running (the CA senator,) to manipulation of political campaigns.
Whoa there... now we're veering way into tinfoil hat territory.
How is that even remotely tinfoil hat territory? The only things Silicon Valley has done over the years are automate jobs, consolidate power, spy on people for the government (under the guise of marketing mostly, though Google, Facebook, Amazon, Intel, etc and all the other major ones actively collaborate with the government and have specific publicly-known projects for doing so without the bounds of their specialization) and every single government in Human history given the blanket ability to do a thing has done so regardless of morality when it suited them. Uber has been allowed to skirt taxi regulations around the world almost unhindered (certainly the case for the US,) where the average person can't so much as miss a year worth of taxes without going to jail and having all their possessions seized. To suggest Uber has no intention of collaborating (assuming they aren't already merely on data sharing, which is quite the assumption to make) is downright absurd. When it comes the conspiracies involving large corporations and the government the burned of proof is on the one trying to disprove them, as that is the far more outlandish position given every single publicly known interaction.
Pretty much, Silicon Valley has a habit of ignoring every law and thinking "it's OK, we work in tech," a bunch of corrupt marketing people, the entire area.
There are over 5 million auto accidents a year. If Uber succeeds in automating vehicles they could theoretically get the number down near zero, but they won't. They'll get the number down to around 20%, be heros for it, and the government will be able to off 1 million political dissidents a year without anyone batting an eye. Driverless cars and by extension Uber (since their entire business model is built around buying time until they can replace their fleet with driverless cars) are corrupt by nature.
Uber employees have worked for years to knowingly skirt laws around the world, create algorithms to take advantage of drivers and riders alike, and ultimately with the goal of replacing entire industries so their masters can make billions while they skim a little off for their "work." It's a story literally as old as the start of recorded history: peon sellouts work for non-peon sellouts and get screwed over by their masters after breaking themselves thinking they can get a little bit of that sweet corruption with only moderate moral guilt. Fuck them all, I have no pity to spare.
Visual Studio is connected and sending telemetry these days. The last thing I want to do is devote my time to designing something bleeding-edge in it only to have Microsoft to patent the thing first.
Bitcoin was created by SAmsung, TOSHIba, NAKAmichi, and MOTOrola in the future to fund their temporal agents; the "cash out" is ongoing and extends to subtle manipulations to generate a timeline where the 4 companies involved control the world.
Perhaps the most insightful thing related to Bitcoin since SAmsung, TOSHIba, NAKAmichi, and MOTOrola published the original blockchain whitepaper behind Bitcoin.
Facebook and similar companies are evil due to their spying on users, selling user data to governments and marketing agencies, their tactics of creating shadow profiles to track and monitor even people not on their networks, and censorship of topics based on what they themselves feel is right or wrong. The dopamine high people get posting is irrelevant because only the lowest of "people" can succumb to it, honestly it probably quells violence more than anything by satisfying their poor impulses temporarily and in an unfulfilling manner leading to depression. Granted, society has been driven by people controlling masses of people with poor impulse control for eons, but that doesn't mean destroying that aspect of society is remotely a bad thing. The other issues are vastly more damaging and honestly all these "ex" Facebook executives "speaking out" against the "dopamine high" they engineer around strikes me as a low energy distraction campaign from the real issues they cause.
This, Hitler was the worst thing to ever happen to eugenics - he vilified it in the public mind when acceptance was at the peak in exchange for some power. If the species eventually dies off it will absolutely be traceable directly back to Hitler.
Summer of code and similar "I hate paying programmers so much so lets try to get a bunch of unqualified people in" initiatives, even before the summer of code and code.org nonsense when it was simply:
Hiring the cheapest retarded salesman who sounds like he knows what he's talking about (hint: if they are cheap and can afford a salesman they don't have any good programmers,) or:
Hiring that one guy who you know made a geocities page when you knew him as a kid because he'll give you a deal (hint: good programmers don't give deals on anything but their own personal projects someone else wants to get involved in, they have too much shit to do and too little time/resources to do it, I've yet to meet one without at least hundreds of projects on their backlog that they actually want to do instead of your "brilliant" "it's a social network for x but it does y too" website they are too nice to call you retarded over.)
If you haven't caught on by now: Microsoft employs a form of rotating backdoor where a set of patches fix security holes but introduce new ones. It's a method to keep the backdoor secure against third parties while still allowing them access. It's technically "secure against this," unless you define "this" to mean "the backdoor" instead of "the specific implementation of the backdoor," in which case it is not and will likely never be.
I think you overestimate the competency of people in media/entertainment. They will price it upward until people get sick of it, but by that time it's already a critical mass to send them into a nosedive, just like cable cutters.
Advertising is a cost, it consumes time, it detracts from the entertainment, it manipulates and influences people - everything about advertising is a cost.
Honestly, the NAZIs made the right play after WW2 and we could learn a thing from their tactics. They embraced liberalism to the point they made it an extremist ideology people are getting sick of. We need to embrace advertising to the degree people actually get sick of it. Right now we're still in the game theory level of "how much can the consumer tolerate while still watching" but if we go full throttle with intrusive ads it will make people demand they all be repealed.
Are you joking? TWC/Spectrum and Comcast are the largest ISPs these days and their business is all about advertising, the ISP part was an afterthought and with cable TV dying they are looking to fill the gap.
Repealing regulations is hardly ever stupid. Things work themselves out in time, but if you were to make any form of argument with merit it would be "repealing net neutrality is chaotic," not "stupid."
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You're confusing how Google and Facebook entice the product with the "product." They put content there to attract users. Data on the users is the product they actually make money on. They might as well have to pay for the bait.
Or, and this is a wild though, we start making Silicon Valley follow the same rules as everyone else. No more Uber skirting regulations around taxi wages, no more Google selectively censoring news for public manipulation, no more Apple and HP hosing customers on support and planned obsolescence, no more NEST and Facebook spying on people, no more Amazon dodging taxes, etc. Silicon Valley is nothing more than a marketing hub so effective at what they do that they convince everyone that they're not only above the law, but that it never even applied to them. They are the mecca of illicit activity ranging from gun running (the CA senator,) to manipulation of political campaigns.
Whoa there... now we're veering way into tinfoil hat territory.
How is that even remotely tinfoil hat territory? The only things Silicon Valley has done over the years are automate jobs, consolidate power, spy on people for the government (under the guise of marketing mostly, though Google, Facebook, Amazon, Intel, etc and all the other major ones actively collaborate with the government and have specific publicly-known projects for doing so without the bounds of their specialization) and every single government in Human history given the blanket ability to do a thing has done so regardless of morality when it suited them. Uber has been allowed to skirt taxi regulations around the world almost unhindered (certainly the case for the US,) where the average person can't so much as miss a year worth of taxes without going to jail and having all their possessions seized. To suggest Uber has no intention of collaborating (assuming they aren't already merely on data sharing, which is quite the assumption to make) is downright absurd. When it comes the conspiracies involving large corporations and the government the burned of proof is on the one trying to disprove them, as that is the far more outlandish position given every single publicly known interaction.
Pretty much, Silicon Valley has a habit of ignoring every law and thinking "it's OK, we work in tech," a bunch of corrupt marketing people, the entire area.
There are over 5 million auto accidents a year. If Uber succeeds in automating vehicles they could theoretically get the number down near zero, but they won't. They'll get the number down to around 20%, be heros for it, and the government will be able to off 1 million political dissidents a year without anyone batting an eye. Driverless cars and by extension Uber (since their entire business model is built around buying time until they can replace their fleet with driverless cars) are corrupt by nature.
Uber employees have worked for years to knowingly skirt laws around the world, create algorithms to take advantage of drivers and riders alike, and ultimately with the goal of replacing entire industries so their masters can make billions while they skim a little off for their "work." It's a story literally as old as the start of recorded history: peon sellouts work for non-peon sellouts and get screwed over by their masters after breaking themselves thinking they can get a little bit of that sweet corruption with only moderate moral guilt. Fuck them all, I have no pity to spare.
Visual Studio is connected and sending telemetry these days. The last thing I want to do is devote my time to designing something bleeding-edge in it only to have Microsoft to patent the thing first.
Everyone in Silicon Valley is a shill. If it were any other way they would be viewed only as a marketing hub, not a tech hub.
Bitcoin was created by SAmsung, TOSHIba, NAKAmichi, and MOTOrola in the future to fund their temporal agents; the "cash out" is ongoing and extends to subtle manipulations to generate a timeline where the 4 companies involved control the world.
Perhaps the most insightful thing related to Bitcoin since SAmsung, TOSHIba, NAKAmichi, and MOTOrola published the original blockchain whitepaper behind Bitcoin.
Facebook and similar companies are evil due to their spying on users, selling user data to governments and marketing agencies, their tactics of creating shadow profiles to track and monitor even people not on their networks, and censorship of topics based on what they themselves feel is right or wrong. The dopamine high people get posting is irrelevant because only the lowest of "people" can succumb to it, honestly it probably quells violence more than anything by satisfying their poor impulses temporarily and in an unfulfilling manner leading to depression. Granted, society has been driven by people controlling masses of people with poor impulse control for eons, but that doesn't mean destroying that aspect of society is remotely a bad thing. The other issues are vastly more damaging and honestly all these "ex" Facebook executives "speaking out" against the "dopamine high" they engineer around strikes me as a low energy distraction campaign from the real issues they cause.
This, Hitler was the worst thing to ever happen to eugenics - he vilified it in the public mind when acceptance was at the peak in exchange for some power. If the species eventually dies off it will absolutely be traceable directly back to Hitler.
If you haven't caught on by now: Microsoft employs a form of rotating backdoor where a set of patches fix security holes but introduce new ones. It's a method to keep the backdoor secure against third parties while still allowing them access. It's technically "secure against this," unless you define "this" to mean "the backdoor" instead of "the specific implementation of the backdoor," in which case it is not and will likely never be.
I think you overestimate the competency of people in media/entertainment. They will price it upward until people get sick of it, but by that time it's already a critical mass to send them into a nosedive, just like cable cutters.
The death of advertising is the point.
That's the most euphoric "I know you are but what am I" I've ever heard. Did you write it while rolling your eyes while they were closed?
Advertising is a cost, it consumes time, it detracts from the entertainment, it manipulates and influences people - everything about advertising is a cost.
Honestly, the NAZIs made the right play after WW2 and we could learn a thing from their tactics. They embraced liberalism to the point they made it an extremist ideology people are getting sick of. We need to embrace advertising to the degree people actually get sick of it. Right now we're still in the game theory level of "how much can the consumer tolerate while still watching" but if we go full throttle with intrusive ads it will make people demand they all be repealed.
Are you joking? TWC/Spectrum and Comcast are the largest ISPs these days and their business is all about advertising, the ISP part was an afterthought and with cable TV dying they are looking to fill the gap.
Zero to retard in two posts, not bad.
Why not? It's just filled with people who irritate me anyway.
$30 is my monthly budget for arguing with people on the internet, downloading porn, and streaming videos - the ISPs aren't getting more from me.
Repealing regulations is hardly ever stupid. Things work themselves out in time, but if you were to make any form of argument with merit it would be "repealing net neutrality is chaotic," not "stupid."
Thanks.