When most leaders say they "serve" people, they mean as a servant, to help and support the people they lead.
Zuckerberg means to serve you and your identity as in serving a slice of pie to the highest bidder, like the monstrously obese Mr. Creosote in Monty Python's Meaning of Life. Only Facebook is as monstrously obese.
So it's a monstrously obese Mr. Creosote serving you to another monstrously obese Mr. Creosote. But the movie scene is less disgusting than Facebook.
> In addition to recording the movements of passengers and crew, the team also collected air and surface samples from areas most likely to host microbes.
The article didn't mention the bathrooms, of which only a few service dozens of people who serially share a very small space.
Not new to anyone who's heard of Jevons Paradox, the rebound effect, or the trend of many (most?) technologies that increase efficiency. From Wikipedia:
In economics, the Jevons paradox (/dvnz/; sometimes the Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the rate of consumption of that resource rises because of increasing demand.[1] The Jevons paradox is perhaps the most widely known paradox in environmental economics.[2] However, governments and environmentalists generally assume that efficiency gains will lower resource consumption, ignoring the possibility of the paradox arising.[3]
In 1865, the English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that technological improvements that increased the efficiency of coal-use led to the increased consumption of coal in a wide range of industries. He argued that, contrary to common intuition, technological progress could not be relied upon to reduce fuel consumption.
Similar trends happen when you widen roadways or have people wear helmets or seat belts.
Exactly. If they thought of themselves as a search company, they'd see users as their customers and Duckduckgo as the competition. They'd stop tracking everything and everyone they can, and promote privacy.
Instead, they see themselves as finding out what they can about everyone to control them and the KGB as their competition.
To a nine-year-old I'd say he was the most woke dude of his time. Only instead of woke, he was brilliant, which people valued back then.
He wrote tracks nobody expected that got the most upvotes. Only instead of tracks, they were scientific papers and instead of upvotes they were experimental confirmations.
He withstood persecution from neo-Nazis who spoke against him at marches with tiki torches. Only instead of neo-Nazis, they were actual Nazis and instead of tiki torches, they had panzer divisions and a Luftwaffe.
And because people hadn't yet invented hashtags and blue hair dye, people didn't yet organize to realize his achievements were due to his white male privilege.
Slashdot Mirror
He can stay at the Ecuadorian embassy.
> 31% are ready to do it. But that 31% hasn't yet. What is holding them back?
They're procrastinating on Slashdot.
The question no one is asking remains: Why did the pedestrian cross the road?
To get to the other side?
Until we know, we're just chickens running around with our heads cut off, walking on eggshells.
We don't even know which came first, the chicken or the eggshells.
Start at the library, especially if cost was once an issue and might still be.
> "we don't deserve to serve you"
When most leaders say they "serve" people, they mean as a servant, to help and support the people they lead.
Zuckerberg means to serve you and your identity as in serving a slice of pie to the highest bidder, like the monstrously obese Mr. Creosote in Monty Python's Meaning of Life. Only Facebook is as monstrously obese.
So it's a monstrously obese Mr. Creosote serving you to another monstrously obese Mr. Creosote. But the movie scene is less disgusting than Facebook.
The survivors of the 30-year test of time probably look better than today's who haven't survived.
Almost like there is a bias in the survivorship. Someone should come up with a name for this bias for noticing survivors.
> In addition to recording the movements of passengers and crew, the team also collected air and surface samples from areas most likely to host microbes.
The article didn't mention the bathrooms, of which only a few service dozens of people who serially share a very small space.
> Are you a bug?
I'm a feature.
> This settlement basically ruins her
Is she in jail? If not, she doesn't sound ruined. Plenty of innocent, hard working people have less than zero net worths.
I was going to suggest looking for comedy, as the algorithms would lead you to funnier and funnier videos, which at least will become less enjoyable.
But then you would reach the result in this BBC documentary.
If ever there was a perfect case for an obligatory XKCD, this is it!
Show stick figures.
Does anyone doubt that Trump has copyright-violating material on nearly every digital device he owns?
Or that his companies share copyright-violating materials?
Or that he retweets and promotes copyright-violating materials?
Or that his employees stream copyright-violating materials using his company's hardware on company time?
Etc.
> "Why bother making ridiculous assumptions" immediately followed by "I'd be surprised if drivers are making minimum wage". Classic Slashdot!
Classic Slashdot would say:
1. Why bother making ridiculous assumptions
2. I'd be surprised if drivers are making minimum wage
3. ???
4. Profit
It won't solve the problem. The pencils will slip from their hands.
Ironically, you're polluting the world more than they are, which we all have to live with.
> a new wrinkle
Not new to anyone who's heard of Jevons Paradox, the rebound effect, or the trend of many (most?) technologies that increase efficiency. From Wikipedia:
In economics, the Jevons paradox (/dvnz/; sometimes the Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the rate of consumption of that resource rises because of increasing demand.[1] The Jevons paradox is perhaps the most widely known paradox in environmental economics.[2] However, governments and environmentalists generally assume that efficiency gains will lower resource consumption, ignoring the possibility of the paradox arising.[3]
In 1865, the English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that technological improvements that increased the efficiency of coal-use led to the increased consumption of coal in a wide range of industries. He argued that, contrary to common intuition, technological progress could not be relied upon to reduce fuel consumption.
Similar trends happen when you widen roadways or have people wear helmets or seat belts.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
> You don't need to teach ethics to CS majors. You need to teach ethics to Business majors.
Such as the founders of Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, the companies most invading our privacy and lobbying the government to do more?
Several of them still have most of the control of their companies.
Ajit Pai: If you don't want people to characterize you as an industry puppet, don't be an industry puppet.
It's not that complicated.
George Carlin: Think for a moment about the concept of a flamethrower
They should have gone the other way and elevated their honesty, even putting it in their name.
Like: Department of Honesty.
Or: Ministry of Honesty
Or: Ministry of Truth
Or: Minitrue, for short.
Exactly. If they thought of themselves as a search company, they'd see users as their customers and Duckduckgo as the competition. They'd stop tracking everything and everyone they can, and promote privacy.
Instead, they see themselves as finding out what they can about everyone to control them and the KGB as their competition.
> Those are the only three examples I can think of right now.
They rehired Steve Jobs.
To a nine-year-old I'd say he was the most woke dude of his time. Only instead of woke, he was brilliant, which people valued back then.
He wrote tracks nobody expected that got the most upvotes. Only instead of tracks, they were scientific papers and instead of upvotes they were experimental confirmations.
He withstood persecution from neo-Nazis who spoke against him at marches with tiki torches. Only instead of neo-Nazis, they were actual Nazis and instead of tiki torches, they had panzer divisions and a Luftwaffe.
And because people hadn't yet invented hashtags and blue hair dye, people didn't yet organize to realize his achievements were due to his white male privilege.
If this stuff matters to you, watch the documentary The True Cost, which discusses the waste from clothing and textiles.
Here's a link to the trailer.