Does it end up calming the noise? Imagine the interactions: * Parents, Children *Friends, Acquaintances, Frenemies *Politicians *Marketing/Product/Services organizations (Think: XFinity) *Neo-political organizations; NGOs, Not-For-Profits *Religious entities, schools, universities, affiliated clubs/networks *For Sale items (already looking like a dystopic Craigslist)
All of these can now be downvoted, and each and every post. Imagine the glee. Imagine the fuel poured on the existing flames. Grab an oxygen tank.
Even that kind of implementation is going to polarize people. You'll look to see who downvoted your innocuous kitty post and growl, perhaps louder than when they downvote your Corey Booker for President post. So far, except for Angry, there hasn't really been a negative vote, only opposing/added/appended posts. It'll shock a segment of people with thin skin.
Like a grenade. You thought Facebook was bombastic before? Watch the fury when you can thumbs-down something. The cesspool will get deeper still. This doesn't do anything but start fights.
Microsoft was just getting used to separating user space functions, which had turned XP prior to SP2 into an eggshell, so easily exploited that even bad script kiddies could pop a bubble and p0wn a machine.
Virus makers were a red herring. So were driver makers. It because impossible to regression test Windows because the software communities had build so many dependencies into the system, which were changed just as quickly by Microsoft.
Vista was simply a turd. There's no better way to describe it, and it's only after screaming hostilities did Microsoft pour sufficient resources to fix it so as to negate Vista into the more stable Windows 7-- which killed a lot of legacy problems, but also software compatibilities, libraries, functions, and functionality/behaviors.
Microsoft needed the money-- back during the phase where they made money on CALs and discrete licensing fees. In the middle of it, chaos ensued. It was a disaster.
And if they sell the shares, with incumbent overall loss of asset value, then those with more shares in the bank are punished further. But maybe not far enough.
Wells Fargo is still fighting suits from the 2008 meltdown to this day, and Wells Fargo was part of the problem: fraudulent lending. None of this is new, it's just gone further berserk. Only rarely is there a bad reputation in banking, and Wells Fargo has one. But they don't care, and I doubt they ever will.
Truvia sounds good superficially, but it still contains SUGARS that produce glycemic reactions.
Erythritol is good, and can also be mixed with stevia, or monk fruit Ia sugar alcohol) or others in combos that both taste reasonably good and importantly, DON'T produce a glycemic reaction. That's the whole point, as in stop the reaction. This means stanching sugar and carbs in all of their forms.
It's an industry marketing tool called "good carbs" or "complex carbs" that are supposed to be "good" for you. It's all propaganda. There really are no "good carbs". Truvia mixes sugar in-- and that's bad for you, op cit.
Stevia is not fructose. Sweeteners fall into sugars, sugar alcohols, and sweeting agents that produce little to no glycemic pancreatic reaction.
Stevia is also blended with other non-glycemic agents, or sugar alcohols to produce a reasonable sweetener that doesn't cause the beta cells in your pancreas to go nuts in response, or otherwise raise the evidence in the A1C score.
EZ PZ. Monitor the transaction with a logic analyzer. Cough the stream to your favorite GPU board, or perhaps an ASIC or FPGA that knows the algorithm. Somewhere, the security key is stored. Hammer that as an alternative. Voila: unlock.
Or just find where the state is termed valid somewhere downstream of this logic path and flip (or pound) a few bits.
The sheer sanctimoniousness of inter-process systems designers galls the shit out of me. With a clever enough hammer, you can break anything, and Apple is and has never been an exception to this.
Canonical announced dumping Wayland quite some time ago, so this isn't news at all. It was too tough for them, and couldn't be rectified with their new best friends, Microsoft.
It was over-promised, then never-delivered.... although it's only one of the few Canonical failures.
This isn't about free market, or communism, or capitalism at all. It's about communities using their own resources for infrastructure and what *should be* a common utility. If things ran they way they should, the easements, right-of-ways, the utility poles, should be owned by the municipal governments and leased to those that can show they can sustain the rent, not damage other people's stuff, and be relied on when there's damage from storms, etc.
There are easements granted and right-of-ways that I as a property owner granted to utilities. Sadly, this was done by prior owners, who benefited from the fees. But then one of the utilities changed the nature of the easement, and low and behold, I could charge them once again.
Municipalities should control their infrastructure, not some lawyer for Verizon, AT&T, etc etc. This has zero to do with communism. It has to do with the most important common denominator for most people: community, not some hackneyed description of an obtuse financial model or governmental construct.
It would be an advance for "AI" to suss when it's appropriate to go down the rabbit hole, into the weeds, into a cpu-intensive series of loops when precision becomes important. The bounds of a series of linked algorithms coupled to its dataset, makes for an accurate day.
This also means unleashing AI, then making it do what all of us have had to do since the beginning of time: show proof. This is where software test is supposed to catch errors, where QA decides that the boundary of inputs deigns the precision of outputs, and most importantly: why.
I eagerly await that.... if only because most organizations are pretty slothful, and imprecision leads to problems in accuracy of results. They imprecision may never be revealed, or be important, or given the dependency on blossoming/mushrooming lambda, maybe trains crash, pipelines burst, surgery goes wrong, etc etc.
A boundary algorithm inside a CPU may be heaven-sent if only to tell imperfect coders that results could be squishy, or to confine the results to a probablistic domain.
Given your low ID#, I would imagine that your skin would be thick by now. A downvote can be a sign of great majesty on/. because of so many ill-advised or contrastingly, great reasons.
Let's take a look at possible rationales for a downvote:
1. You used the word "idiot" as a pejorative. 2. Twitter employees might have modded you. 3. Those sympathetic to twitter malaise in general modded you. 4. I modded you, and now the mod will be undone. 5. You were perceived as being boorish. 6. There might be empathy for Snap employees, causing a mod backlash. 7. There might be empathy for twitter employees, see #6.
Downvotes on social media are like (please excuse me, Kurt Vonnetgut) like sparrow farts. They're not important, in the slightest.
You can get into the weeds as regards what is the value of a name brand, quality & durability, VAT, transportation costs, cost of marketing, returns and returns supply chain, and more.
When I travel to countries where there is less tax and control, indeed the costs are lower, and the quality varies more drastically, especially in SE Asia and Africa.
There is also supply and demand at work, and the ability of people to simply pay for stuff.
There are also unintended ecosystems that evolve from Goodwill, like the buyers for other upscale thrift stores, like:Plato's Closet, Buffalo Exchange, and others.
The problem with these buyers is that they dilute the quality of merchandise, like skimming cream, from the value of the racks. This said, they have fairly narrow focus, and the return isn't very good. It does, however, make other for-profit thrifts useful as a secondary market.
Goodwill has logistics problems, it's true. A relative works for them. My own research says that the demand is very uneven across merchandising areas, and efficiency is poor. And as a recycler, supply chains are often disorganized and quality of merchandise can be equally poor.
All this said, their cost-of-goods is zero.... until you count storage, transport and resorting... which then suffers because Goodwill territories rarely cross-ship to each other. Missouri doesn't ship to West Virginia, and so forth. Each incorporation seems to have policies of their own, and a national network (unless I'm mistaken somehow) doesn't really exist for stock-balancing purposes.
Direct (not anecdotal) experience says that at least in my region, less than 10% gets tossed. The rest are resold. Some garments and labels have a higher success rate of resale than others. But there is a food-chain/ecosystem for even those garments that don't make it to thrift store shelves/racks including outlets, raggers, and more.
The thrift stores are thriving, and so I wonder about the motivations of the poster-- propaganda? I think the used clothing stores are thriving and cutting into the margins of the highly over priced brand-merchandized disasters marketed in dying malls, and on-line.
Goodwill, Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul, Amvets, all of these organizations have pretty efficient operations for re-purposing or selling clothes, at least in the USA.
Like you, I believe the BS agenda is behind the scenes here. Follow the money-- or efficiency of it.
Consider that the hit making machine(s) analyze their works closely to see if they fit specific boundaries of a model developed to fit music, now considered "content" into their formulas.
YouTube play (used to be radio play) time, viral capability, on-tour dynamics with choreography, and the disposable nature of artists and trends.
This isn't about artistry, it's about making money. The indy-music isn't about pop-music or even a specific genre, and with the death of live music (everyone's staring at smartphones), touring becomes wholly the crux of serious marketing money.
You can rant and rave all you want, but the quality of current music distribution isn't targeting you, it's targeting the bell curve of making its shareholder return-- and not your tastes. It has to sell internationally, and be re-marketed to cultures outside of North America successfully. Is it "dumbed-down"? Not full of localized themes, protest or otherwise because they might piss-off other cultures. Everything's safe, if slightly smokey, but there is no possibility for zeal, or novelty.... or the excitement of days gone by.
When AI meets pop hits, we're doomed. Oh, wait.....
I don't pay any fees to access any roaming in any area of the US, and yes, I have an all you can eat $50/mo plan. I have an existing T-Mobile plan that does this.
But hark, I have no phones (and THERE ARE NO PHONES) that currently support the 3.5GHz band. Nada.
So there is no freedom because there are no phones and there are no romaing charges. When the mis-named 5G starts arriving, it also won't make any difference, either, for the reasons above. It's a boondoggle to sell more licensed spectrum to the big guys.
Clearly, you don't understand the Wheeler shift to Title II, its impact, and why the change to a free-for-all model clearly sucks. Local monopolies have zero, nothing, nada, zip, and sweet fuck all to do with the decision and any connection or allusion to municipal utilities is a ruse and facade to carrier domination. This was bought and paid for.
Slashdot Mirror
Does it end up calming the noise? Imagine the interactions:
* Parents, Children
*Friends, Acquaintances, Frenemies
*Politicians
*Marketing/Product/Services organizations (Think: XFinity)
*Neo-political organizations; NGOs, Not-For-Profits
*Religious entities, schools, universities, affiliated clubs/networks
*For Sale items (already looking like a dystopic Craigslist)
All of these can now be downvoted, and each and every post. Imagine the glee. Imagine the fuel poured on the existing flames. Grab an oxygen tank.
Even that kind of implementation is going to polarize people. You'll look to see who downvoted your innocuous kitty post and growl, perhaps louder than when they downvote your Corey Booker for President post. So far, except for Angry, there hasn't really been a negative vote, only opposing/added/appended posts. It'll shock a segment of people with thin skin.
Maybe it's another version of social media's dystopian future. Bring in the zombies.....
Like a grenade. You thought Facebook was bombastic before? Watch the fury when you can thumbs-down something. The cesspool will get deeper still. This doesn't do anything but start fights.
Lots of revisionist history going on here.
Microsoft was just getting used to separating user space functions, which had turned XP prior to SP2 into an eggshell, so easily exploited that even bad script kiddies could pop a bubble and p0wn a machine.
Virus makers were a red herring. So were driver makers. It because impossible to regression test Windows because the software communities had build so many dependencies into the system, which were changed just as quickly by Microsoft.
Vista was simply a turd. There's no better way to describe it, and it's only after screaming hostilities did Microsoft pour sufficient resources to fix it so as to negate Vista into the more stable Windows 7-- which killed a lot of legacy problems, but also software compatibilities, libraries, functions, and functionality/behaviors.
Microsoft needed the money-- back during the phase where they made money on CALs and discrete licensing fees. In the middle of it, chaos ensued. It was a disaster.
And if they sell the shares, with incumbent overall loss of asset value, then those with more shares in the bank are punished further. But maybe not far enough.
Wells Fargo is still fighting suits from the 2008 meltdown to this day, and Wells Fargo was part of the problem: fraudulent lending. None of this is new, it's just gone further berserk. Only rarely is there a bad reputation in banking, and Wells Fargo has one. But they don't care, and I doubt they ever will.
And a Mafia it is. Read Gary Taubes' The Case Against Sugar.
Truvia sounds good superficially, but it still contains SUGARS that produce glycemic reactions.
Erythritol is good, and can also be mixed with stevia, or monk fruit Ia sugar alcohol) or others in combos that both taste reasonably good and importantly, DON'T produce a glycemic reaction. That's the whole point, as in stop the reaction. This means stanching sugar and carbs in all of their forms.
It's an industry marketing tool called "good carbs" or "complex carbs" that are supposed to be "good" for you. It's all propaganda. There really are no "good carbs". Truvia mixes sugar in-- and that's bad for you, op cit.
Stevia is not fructose. Sweeteners fall into sugars, sugar alcohols, and sweeting agents that produce little to no glycemic pancreatic reaction.
Stevia is also blended with other non-glycemic agents, or sugar alcohols to produce a reasonable sweetener that doesn't cause the beta cells in your pancreas to go nuts in response, or otherwise raise the evidence in the A1C score.
Do your homework.
EZ PZ. Monitor the transaction with a logic analyzer. Cough the stream to your favorite GPU board, or perhaps an ASIC or FPGA that knows the algorithm. Somewhere, the security key is stored. Hammer that as an alternative. Voila: unlock.
Or just find where the state is termed valid somewhere downstream of this logic path and flip (or pound) a few bits.
The sheer sanctimoniousness of inter-process systems designers galls the shit out of me. With a clever enough hammer, you can break anything, and Apple is and has never been an exception to this.
So a fingerprint or other auth is stored externally, then tells an Intel chip, yeah, go ahead and boot.
In possession of that machine, we just fake the auth to the Intel chip and move on from there.
There is no Apple hate here; Apple *thinks* they're smarter than the rest of the world, but have become vastly insular, and a cult unto themselves.
Canonical announced dumping Wayland quite some time ago, so this isn't news at all. It was too tough for them, and couldn't be rectified with their new best friends, Microsoft.
It was over-promised, then never-delivered.... although it's only one of the few Canonical failures.
This isn't about free market, or communism, or capitalism at all. It's about communities using their own resources for infrastructure and what *should be* a common utility. If things ran they way they should, the easements, right-of-ways, the utility poles, should be owned by the municipal governments and leased to those that can show they can sustain the rent, not damage other people's stuff, and be relied on when there's damage from storms, etc.
There are easements granted and right-of-ways that I as a property owner granted to utilities. Sadly, this was done by prior owners, who benefited from the fees. But then one of the utilities changed the nature of the easement, and low and behold, I could charge them once again.
Municipalities should control their infrastructure, not some lawyer for Verizon, AT&T, etc etc. This has zero to do with communism. It has to do with the most important common denominator for most people: community, not some hackneyed description of an obtuse financial model or governmental construct.
It would be an advance for "AI" to suss when it's appropriate to go down the rabbit hole, into the weeds, into a cpu-intensive series of loops when precision becomes important. The bounds of a series of linked algorithms coupled to its dataset, makes for an accurate day.
This also means unleashing AI, then making it do what all of us have had to do since the beginning of time: show proof. This is where software test is supposed to catch errors, where QA decides that the boundary of inputs deigns the precision of outputs, and most importantly: why.
I eagerly await that.... if only because most organizations are pretty slothful, and imprecision leads to problems in accuracy of results. They imprecision may never be revealed, or be important, or given the dependency on blossoming/mushrooming lambda, maybe trains crash, pipelines burst, surgery goes wrong, etc etc.
A boundary algorithm inside a CPU may be heaven-sent if only to tell imperfect coders that results could be squishy, or to confine the results to a probablistic domain.
Some have a decade of skin. Pioneers have the scar tissue of arrows in their backs. ;-)
Given your low ID#, I would imagine that your skin would be thick by now. A downvote can be a sign of great majesty on /. because of so many ill-advised or contrastingly, great reasons.
Let's take a look at possible rationales for a downvote:
1. You used the word "idiot" as a pejorative.
2. Twitter employees might have modded you.
3. Those sympathetic to twitter malaise in general modded you.
4. I modded you, and now the mod will be undone.
5. You were perceived as being boorish.
6. There might be empathy for Snap employees, causing a mod backlash.
7. There might be empathy for twitter employees, see #6.
Downvotes on social media are like (please excuse me, Kurt Vonnetgut) like sparrow farts. They're not important, in the slightest.
You can get into the weeds as regards what is the value of a name brand, quality & durability, VAT, transportation costs, cost of marketing, returns and returns supply chain, and more.
When I travel to countries where there is less tax and control, indeed the costs are lower, and the quality varies more drastically, especially in SE Asia and Africa.
There is also supply and demand at work, and the ability of people to simply pay for stuff.
There are also unintended ecosystems that evolve from Goodwill, like the buyers for other upscale thrift stores, like :Plato's Closet, Buffalo Exchange, and others.
The problem with these buyers is that they dilute the quality of merchandise, like skimming cream, from the value of the racks. This said, they have fairly narrow focus, and the return isn't very good. It does, however, make other for-profit thrifts useful as a secondary market.
Goodwill has logistics problems, it's true. A relative works for them. My own research says that the demand is very uneven across merchandising areas, and efficiency is poor. And as a recycler, supply chains are often disorganized and quality of merchandise can be equally poor.
All this said, their cost-of-goods is zero.... until you count storage, transport and resorting... which then suffers because Goodwill territories rarely cross-ship to each other. Missouri doesn't ship to West Virginia, and so forth. Each incorporation seems to have policies of their own, and a national network (unless I'm mistaken somehow) doesn't really exist for stock-balancing purposes.
Huffington Post isn't very useful as a citation.
Direct (not anecdotal) experience says that at least in my region, less than 10% gets tossed. The rest are resold. Some garments and labels have a higher success rate of resale than others. But there is a food-chain/ecosystem for even those garments that don't make it to thrift store shelves/racks including outlets, raggers, and more.
The thrift stores are thriving, and so I wonder about the motivations of the poster-- propaganda? I think the used clothing stores are thriving and cutting into the margins of the highly over priced brand-merchandized disasters marketed in dying malls, and on-line.
Goodwill, Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul, Amvets, all of these organizations have pretty efficient operations for re-purposing or selling clothes, at least in the USA.
Like you, I believe the BS agenda is behind the scenes here. Follow the money-- or efficiency of it.
"radical centrist" seems an oxymoron.
Consider that the hit making machine(s) analyze their works closely to see if they fit specific boundaries of a model developed to fit music, now considered "content" into their formulas.
YouTube play (used to be radio play) time, viral capability, on-tour dynamics with choreography, and the disposable nature of artists and trends.
This isn't about artistry, it's about making money. The indy-music isn't about pop-music or even a specific genre, and with the death of live music (everyone's staring at smartphones), touring becomes wholly the crux of serious marketing money.
You can rant and rave all you want, but the quality of current music distribution isn't targeting you, it's targeting the bell curve of making its shareholder return-- and not your tastes. It has to sell internationally, and be re-marketed to cultures outside of North America successfully. Is it "dumbed-down"? Not full of localized themes, protest or otherwise because they might piss-off other cultures. Everything's safe, if slightly smokey, but there is no possibility for zeal, or novelty.... or the excitement of days gone by.
When AI meets pop hits, we're doomed. Oh, wait.....
I don't pay any fees to access any roaming in any area of the US, and yes, I have an all you can eat $50/mo plan. I have an existing T-Mobile plan that does this.
But hark, I have no phones (and THERE ARE NO PHONES) that currently support the 3.5GHz band. Nada.
So there is no freedom because there are no phones and there are no romaing charges. When the mis-named 5G starts arriving, it also won't make any difference, either, for the reasons above. It's a boondoggle to sell more licensed spectrum to the big guys.
Clearly, you don't understand the Wheeler shift to Title II, its impact, and why the change to a free-for-all model clearly sucks. Local monopolies have zero, nothing, nada, zip, and sweet fuck all to do with the decision and any connection or allusion to municipal utilities is a ruse and facade to carrier domination. This was bought and paid for.
Oddly, that's exactly what the post reference link says.
Glad you read it.
Too bad others didn't.