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the panacea posted:In media unicorn News: Vox is laying off 5% of their workforce. There are rumors going around of an ever higher cut at Vice similar to Buzzfeeds triple digits last year. You make it sound like a bad thing. I mean, it is a bad thing for the people losing their jobs, but it is a good thing for the world in general: quote:Vox Media will also wind down its focus on native social video. quote:The pivot away from video comes after leadership decided it "won’t be viable audience or revenue growth drivers for us relative to other investments we are making." https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/vox-media-layoffs?utm_term=.ctnllxE43#.qlbNNPQOb The "focus on Facebook videos" that brought us stupid silent videos, muted videos, 1:1 aspect ratio videos and listicles in video form is apparently not the future of the Internet, thank goodness.
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Vegetable posted:Maybe Google should just get rid of their dumbass internal message board. Who the hell thought any good would come out of it Nah the message boards are fine and really useful actually. This whole internal crisis thing is more a media narrative than an actual big thing. When Advanced Auto fires Joe for going on a racist rant about the Mexicans BuzzFeed doesn't give a poo poo, but articles about how bad it is to work for Google get a whole bunch of clicks.
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Vegetable posted:Maybe Google should just get rid of their dumbass internal message board. Who the hell thought any good would come out of it
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The internal meme site is one of the best parts of Google's culture. Pretty sure it's unusual for a company to have a forum, created on company time, running on company servers, that frequently has memes visible across the whole company loudly criticizing and even mocking executive decisions. It was definitely surprising to me coming from Amazon.
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Neon Noodle posted:It's good for Google because they can keep an eye on employee dissatisfaction and intervene if it looks like any real pushback or organization is in the works. It is NOT good for employees because they should be discussing grievances in a secure setting without management oversight. I mean, I am sure a lot of the complaints are stuff about the icecream in the lunchroom tasting off or the bathroom on level 3 not being cleaned well that they absolutely want management to see and not chants of capitalist overthrow that needs to be spoken of in night time signals of patterns of lit and unlit candles.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I mean, I am sure a lot of the complaints are stuff about the icecream in the lunchroom tasting off or the bathroom on level 3 not being cleaned well that they absolutely want management to see and not chants of capitalist overthrow that needs to be spoken of in night time signals of patterns of lit and unlit candles. Nah, there is a separate system for those complaints. It is more like "How do I do x?", "Which x should I buy?", "Why was this product decision that I don't like made?"
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Trabisnikof posted:How the gently caress can you “buy and sell electricity without intermediates?” How do I take delivery of my kwh exactly? This is one possible future depending how widespread micro-generation becomes, if you have a battery in your house being charged by the panels on your roof what is to stop you selling the energy to your neighbour? Or a housing association pooling reasources in. Energy trading has never worked by buying and selling the individual electrons, this is just a smaller version of the same. Source: I co-wrote a bad article based on some good research about this once. Disclaimer: My name is not Matthew Beech. Kobayashi posted:Again, what value does blockchain add here? I have no idea. I don't really understand this company or model which given how involved I was in the field for a bit is concerning. Prediction - nothing. Zalakwe fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Feb 22, 2018 |
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Zalakwe posted:This is one possible future depending how widespread micro-generation becomes, if you have a battery in your house being charged by the panels on your roof what is to stop you selling the energy to your neighbour? The fact that neither I nor my neighbor have a proper safe way to physically do so?
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Zalakwe posted:This is one possible future depending how widespread micro-generation becomes, if you have a battery in your house being charged by the panels on your roof what is to stop you selling the energy to your neighbour? Or a housing association pooling reasources in. Energy trading has never worked by buying and selling the individual electrons, this is just a smaller version of the same. I already do this. I sell electricity back to my neighbors via the intermediatary of the grid. The part of their pitch that stuck out as bullshit was the claim I could use their block chain service to trade electricity without any intermediatary like using the grid.
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fishmech posted:The fact that neither I nor my neighbor have a proper safe way to physically do so? Cables and batteries are hardly breaking news in terms of tech but I'll admit there are very few places with stuff like this installed right now. Still if you were very determined the the main barrier wouldn't be safety but licensing (in the UK at least). What you definitely do not need is a block chain company to try and do it for you. Trabisnikof posted:I already do this. I sell electricity back to my neighbors via the intermediatary of the grid. Well indirectly, if you live in the UK you are also helping pay for that privilege as part of your bill, although not as much as people who don't have a solar panels. As you correctly identify you would definitely need some sort of wire, whether it is the grid or otherwise. You don't need a blockchain company for any reason I can discern. Maybe they are proposing it to handle system balancing which would become complex in a local network but that doesn't seem to be what they are saying and there is tech that can do that already anyway. Zalakwe fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Feb 22, 2018 |
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Trabisnikof posted:I already do this. I sell electricity back to my neighbors via the intermediatary of the grid. You use your spare electricity to mine coins and then sell em. No grid required bing bing bong so simple
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Talked to a Blockchain company this AM in the finance space that is self-funded and is NOT doing a ICO. They are simply using it for tracking the supply chain and transactions. That was a surprise.
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VideoGameVet posted:Talked to a Blockchain company this AM in the finance space that is self-funded and is NOT doing a ICO. They are simply using it for tracking the supply chain and transactions. That sounds like a keeper
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VideoGameVet posted:Talked to a Blockchain company this AM in the finance space that is self-funded and is NOT doing a ICO. They are simply using it for tracking the supply chain and transactions. But, why? Why not just use a database?
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NightGyr posted:But, why? I mean if it's equally good (if) why not if it'll get you more funding
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NightGyr posted:But, why? Yeah just once I’d like to see a white paper for one of these concepts that isn’t: Phase 1. Get rich quick! Phase 2. Network effects! Phase 3. New paradigm!
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Feb 22, 2018 19:42
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NightGyr posted:But, why? Immutability mainly. Transactions, secondarily.
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Tracking poo poo through a complicated supply chain across multiple companies might be about the only thing that might be better fit for. Nobody seems to be able to make thier databases communicate and populate accurately without a poo poo load of errors across multiple companies using different proprietary software suites in logistics. I get a lot of no we cannot fix that it was entered in X location with Y program, only they can fix it.
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BrandorKP posted:Tracking poo poo through a complicated supply chain across multiple companies might be about the only thing that might be better fit for. And the blockchain will solve the problem of 40 different, incompatible, not made to talk to one another, interfaceless systems in the chain how? CSV was the magic bullet, then XML, then web/micro services. And surprise, nothing solved anything. If they aren't able to accept a XML file, they sure as hell can't integrate a bunch of hash codes in a moving DB file.
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VideoGameVet posted:Immutability mainly. Transactions, secondarily. Merkle Trees, motherfucker, do you know of them? (Not being hostile, I just love that sentence structure) A merkle tree uses a hash of the previous information to generate the new information, which is all kept in a regular database. Changing any of the old data changes the hashes of everything after that so you know exactly where the change took place. Sounds a little like a blockchain, eh? The concept of hash trees is named after Ralph Merkle who patented it in 1979.
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Decius posted:And the blockchain will solve the problem of 40 different, incompatible, not made to talk to one another, interfaceless systems in the chain how? CSV was the magic bullet, then XML, then web/micro services. And surprise, nothing solved anything. If they aren't able to accept a XML file, they sure as hell can't integrate a bunch of hash codes in a moving DB file. Fair enough. You tech guys need to crack this logistics / shipping nut. It's so bad that even poo poo that is criminal to not be present fails to transfer or drops out between databases and doesn't make it onto documents.
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VideoGameVet posted:Immutability mainly. Transactions, secondarily. Block chains aren’t immutable, like at all.
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Snap stock plummets after Kylie Jenner declares Snapchat dead https://twitter.com/KylieJenner/status/966429897118728192 
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VideoGameVet posted:Talked to a Blockchain company this AM in the finance space that is self-funded and is NOT doing a ICO. They are simply using it for tracking the supply chain and transactions. In production? That will be literally the first such to reach actual production use I've heard of (and I've been watching closely). If you feel free to PM me their name, I'd be most grateful. Decius posted:And the blockchain will solve the problem of 40 different, incompatible, not made to talk to one another, interfaceless systems in the chain how? CSV was the magic bullet, then XML, then web/micro services. And surprise, nothing solved anything. If they aren't able to accept a XML file, they sure as hell can't integrate a bunch of hash codes in a moving DB file. yeah - your problem is pretty much always your data quality and formats. Blockchain is sold as if it will magically fix this, and of course it'll be as much work as any other data reconciliation project. It's possible you can get funding more easily if you say "blockchain".
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Merkle Trees, motherfucker, do you know of them? Yes, I know of this. I have even seen discussions centered around "how do we speed up this slow crap" that focused on applying this tech.
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Zalakwe posted:Well indirectly, if you live in the UK you are also helping pay for that privilege as part of your bill, although not as much as people who don't have a solar panels. As far as I can tell, they're trying to cut the Suppliers out of the loop, while still using the wires from the local Distribution Network Operator, the argument being that you can find a price between the first customer's supplier's export tariff and the second custome's supplier's import tariff, which will magically be agreed and settled and so on through the blockchain. It might work in theory, but given you're going to have to drop down to half hourly metering and settlement to get it to work, it seems like a massive headache with huge amounts of data (at 17680 half hours per year per customer, with a minimum of maybe 100 bytes of data for each transaction means you're at 35 GB for a small network of 20,000 customers netting with each other) for little gain. There's no reason to use blockchain for system balancing - if you're providing those services, you'll want to be paid by National Grid for it, at which point you've got the trusted third party who can host the database.
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VideoGameVet posted:Yes, I know of this. I have even seen discussions centered around "how do we speed up this slow crap" that focused on applying this tech. A blockchain is not going to go faster than a merkle tree. If it does it's not a blockchain.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:A blockchain is not going to go faster than a merkle tree. If it does it's not a blockchain. But in comparison to the laffchain, Merkle trees will seem like loving magic, and can lead to yet another tech bubble.
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suck my woke dick posted:But in comparison to the laffchain, Merkle trees will seem like loving magic, and can lead to yet another tech bubble. Not unless they somehow create an unregulated, international speculative market. The crypto bubble isn't a bubble because of the technology.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:A blockchain is not going to go faster than a merkle tree. If it does it's not a blockchain. Exactly. The idea was to use Merkle Tree and DB's as a better solution.
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Doggles posted:Snap stock plummets after Kylie Jenner declares Snapchat dead I didn't realize the Jenners were short sellers.
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I am sure this isn't any sort of perfect solution that fixes anything forever but twitter actually made an move to slow down bots: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-bots/twitter-bars-tactics-used-by-bots-to-spread-false-stories-idUSKCN1G52R1 Like, there are a thousand ways to get around this trivially. But until now twitter just wasn't even trying to stop open bot activity. So it's something at least
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Did we have this? https://twitter.com/andrea4animals/status/966832649963823104
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Did we have this? I mentioned it above in my big list of journalismcoins
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divabot posted:I mentioned it above in my big list of journalismcoins Oh. 
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Groovelord Neato posted:they really did gently caress up the update i have no idea what they were thinking. "must change things to keep up the appearance of having a real business model that will generate profit"
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suck my woke dick posted:"must change things to keep up the appearance of having a real business model that will generate profit" It worked for Facebook. Sadly Snapchat is not Facebook.
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the thing is new the snapchat update makes you less likely to "engage" with paid content. i don't know how they thought this was the way to do it.
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Groovelord Neato posted:the thing is new the snapchat update makes you less likely to "engage" with paid content. That explains the Caitlin kardashian comment then.
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