Across a lot of media, impressions are so cheap now they don’t even charge for them, just the clicks cost (“CPC” is the charge type, “cost per click”). They track impressions to give advertisers metrics on conversion rates, but they don’t charge for them.
I’m significantly allergic to pine. I wonder if this means I would no longer be able to take these medications if industry switched to this method.
Not OP, but I personally would like to see a mesh-based low-bandwidth HTTP alternative, like Gemini. A tool set for sharing things more persistent than text messaging (or ideally building other digital services with) while being compatible with the underlying lower performance hardware and wireless medium.
To these people, hypocrisy just doesn’t matter. An act is right if and only if the right people are doing it, and likewise an act is wrong if and only if the wrong people are doing it. The morality is determined exclusively from identity before the act is even committed. What matters to them is not how Obama was interacting with Iran, but that it was Obama who was doing it. Now that it’s Trump doing it, the justifications will flow.
Any arguments, rational or otherwise, justifying the act are theater at best or subterfuge and sabotage at worst. The purpose of the arguments isn’t to convey a thought the speaker actually believes, like a good faith argument would. The point is to get others on their side who don’t derive morality from identity by any means possible, to sow confusion and doubt into the opposing side, and to waste the opposing side’s time and resources refuting bad faith fallacies.
The article discusses that IP-based limiting doesn’t work as well as it used to. Because of NATs, proxies, etc., IP addresses are a lot more ephemeral and flexible, so they’ve seen the same big perpetrators adapt and change IPs when rate-limited. I expect we will start to see support for anonymous downloads go away in the next several months in many major OSS registries.
705,809 births and about 1.61 million deaths, leading to a net population decrease of 899,845. Wikipedia says the total population is about 123.4 million, so they lost about 0.73%.
This looks like someone took regular expressions, expanded them to a full programming language, and used Unicode to deal with the explosion of required symbols. I have a hard enough time reading my own regular expressions. I can’t imagine writing full programs like this.
This and putting lightning in rocks to do math.
The result of all this may be catastrophic. Should a worst-case scenario ever occur — a cyberattack, a natural disaster, an internet outage — there may be no human workers left with the skills that once kept food on the shelves.
Very nerdy of me, but this reminds me of a Stargate SG-1 episode “the Sentinel.” The team travels to a planet whose civilization relies on fully automated technology. The people don’t have to operate or maintain it (normally), so their society has completely forgotten how. In the episode, one set of antagonists comes in and sabotages their defense system, and another set sees the opportunity and invades. The protagonists have to then figure out the defense system and fix it.
We don’t live in a TV series. There aren’t benevolent outsiders who will swoop down and save our systems in the nick of time when they break down. We’re headed in a bad direction.
Pittman’s decision on Tuesday came after a series of pretrial rulings penalizing lawyers for the defense. In December, he ordered three defense attorneys to each pay a $500 fine for filing aggressive motions for discovery. He also nearly blocked George Lobb, an attorney, from representing one of the defendants, saying he had not met the residency requirements to practice in the district. Lobb eventually withdrew from the federal case and Clayton replaced him.
After declaring the mistrial, Pittman gave a short speech decrying partisan division in the country, saying he was “absolutely disgusted” by it and that “we have to find a way to turn down the anger”.
I’m noticing a bias, and it ain’t from the jury.
The decision stems from a lack of clarity regarding how prominently the religious text would be displayed, whether teachers would reference the Ten Commandments during lessons, or if other historical documents, such as the Mayflower Compact or the Declaration of Independence, would also be exhibited, the majority opinion noted.
This is absurd. The legal standard is to assume the government will abuse vagaries in the law to violate the Constitution. So the lack of clarity/specificity is itself sufficient reason for an injunction and ultimately striking down the law.
Change the problem from 3 doors to a million. Kids pick a door, and the host opens 999,998 doors, leaving theirs and one other door closed. One of the closed doors is the winner. Do they want to switch now?
This will probably create a Constitutional crisis
Pretty certain a judge doing something the constitution allows won’t create a constitutional crisis. We’re already in the middle of one. People are either propagandized enough they don’t believe it, or aren’t in a position to do much about it.
I didn’t want to be a buzz kill, but if that’s supposed to be the top of the vase around its neck, that would mean it climbed into the vase and got its head stuck trying to get out?
FYI the enforcement arms of CBP and ICE do not shut down. Just the departments in DHS that would perform oversight over ICE and CBP. So don’t expect boots on the ground to reduce in any way because of this.
First, don’t need to respond to arguments made in bad faith. There’s no net positive outcome possible for the other person who is coming to the conversation in good faith.
Second, not having their own solution does not invalidate anything critical they say about the one under discussion. There doesn’t have to be a “better” solution to justify not implementing something that has no positive impact on the targeted problem and severe negative impacts elsewhere.
CROSS: Look Renee Good’s family in the face –
BORELLI: It is unfortunate is a tragedy. There’s an investigation going on with those shootings.
That’s disingenuous at best and a flat out lie at worst. There is a state investigation by the state of Minnesota into the shootings. Corresponding federal agencies have fired people for trying to start an investigation of the shootings at a federal level.
How does the age inference model work?
We leverage an advanced machine learning model developed at Discord to predict whether a user falls into a particular age group based on patterns of user behavior and several other signals associated with their account on Discord. We only use these signals to assign users to an age group when our confidence level is high; when it isn’t, users go through our standard age assurance flow to confirm their age. We do not use your message content in the age estimation model.
Completely opaque explanation of how they use AI to guess your age with a claim that message content is not used. With no independent way to actually verify that claim, I don’t trust them at all.
That’s their “safety” category in his rankings. They talk about moderation tools and risks like bad actors posting illicit content quite a bit, actually.
Read their license. It does not meet the definition of open source.