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Internet advertising is a million times more moronic than older mediums though. Like in that linked article above: Ebay was spending 20 million dollars per year on sponsored search results for the word "ebay". https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-here-its-called-online-advertising posted:Brand keyword advertising, the presentation informed him, was eBay’s most successful advertising method. Somebody googles "eBay" and for a fee, Google places a link to eBay at the top of the search results. Lots of people, apparently, click on this paid link. So many people, according to the consultants, that the auction website earns at least $12.28 for every dollar it spends on brand keyword advertising – a hefty profit! I can't find it in this article but IIRC after the economist from the article (Steve Tadelis) stopped working there, ebay started all their ad spending right back up.
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Weatherman posted:It's been brought up at least twice in the last few pages but again: What is it about emails with multiple recipients in the "to" field that doesn't do exactly what you guys have been wishing for in the last few dozen posts? Because when you're spamming somebody's email inbox instead of shouting into the algorithmic void it makes you realize how pointless most of your status updates really are.
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One of Robinhood's big corporate customers, Citadel, is invested in Melvin Capital. I wonder how much of that decision was based on pressure from the money guys.
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is harvard actually a good university i thought it was just the expensive class-signaling one that you need to be related to rich people to get into
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Ruffian Price posted:yeah the real question is are these all FB profiles or just the ones that were consciously created That tweet was a bit misleadingly worded. It's not "all facebook accounts have been leaked". Rather, the original post was "533 million fb phone numbers have been leaked and the cracker is selling them", and that more recent tweet was "All 533 from that leak are now available for free".
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Maybe you want to have fun talking with the other people in your online game who are usually fine but one in 5 rounds or so you get matched up with a Gamer(tm)
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Didn't someone already do that with butts drawn onto pokemon cards
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If you trust someone enough to care whether they GPG sign your thing, you trust them enough to not waste hundreds of dollars in transaction fees on a ~*~trustless decentralized ledger~*~ what does having an NFT add for art that couldn't be accomplished by having the original artist post "This image adopted by iLovePenguins69!" on their website
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Quick question about bitcoins et al. Now, the more people mine, the harder they are to "find". Meaning it use more resources to keep things going. If you make your own currency and run it in private then yes you can make it as cheap as you want to run, but it's also worse in literally every way than just using a normal database to record transactions like every pre-bitcoin financial company has done forever. If you have a public coin with a super easy difficulty then that means any random schmuck can throw a few GPUs at it to take over 51% of the network's hash power and gently caress with the payments in all sorts of nasty ways. The more electricity than Belgium thing is an intentional security feature, so anyone who wants to perform a "51% attack" needs an entire Belgium worth of computers to break bitcoin, which is supposed to make it hard and expensive to break the system. But in practice the majority of the bitcoin network's hashrate is only like 3 different companies (who all have warehouses full of miners in China where electricity is cheap), so any 2 of them could team up to do a 51% attack at any time if they felt like loving with bitcoiners.
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i'm the $10,000 software upgrade to use the sensors and chips that already existed in the car when it rolled out of the factory
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That one specifically was becasuse there was a goon doing a live-translation LP of some animu game, at a time when no other translations of the game existed. Lots of kids on tumblr who were into the dangan ronpa fandom wanted to lurk the forums to read it, and probably didn't have their parents' credit card.
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The new rules also included "no more committees, all decisions about 'moral quandaries' will be made by me specifically", and "no lingering on past decisions" (aka no questioning the CEO's choices).
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We're not going to tell you how to live your lives so kiss all the wellness benefits gootbye 
oh and don't talk politics at work, that's our time not yours
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There is no reason why they would die now they're losing the same amount of money they always were. The of self-driving car poo poo only existed as a post-hoc justification for their sky-high stock prices so investors would think there's something to the company other than losing money on every ride and having no plans to achieve profitability but they've realized that the stock market is way stupider than they thought and they don't even need a justification
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it's because they make their money by selling your data to advertisers now it's a business asset instead of an expense, they aren't gonna just delete it
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OctaMurk posted:In game cosmetics can at least be used to make your character look cool, unlike NFTs which can do ????? one of the first uses of nfts was to allow trading videogame items ~on the blockchain~ for some terrible bitcoiner videogame
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Fame Douglas posted:No one plays those Blockchain videogames for a reason. if you think about it, this is actually good for bitcoin gaming fewer players mean we don't have to handle more than 7 trades per second
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BabyFur Denny posted:startup working on an AI trained to write smut: https://www.talkdirty.ai/ It supports "Over 5 fanfiction universes" Also it looks like if you pay a subscription get the option to make a real human(?) read your terrible computer-generated porn and send the recording to you.  e: no wait it is text-to-speech it just has a 24 hour delay for no good reason. So if you've really got a thing for Microsoft Sam this is a great deal.
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Foxfire_ posted:There is no suggestion in the original article that the thermostats [...] are insecure in general it says they're IOT bullshit connected to the internet and made by a startup
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It's moderately useful if you're cooking and your hands are all covered in sticky bread dough or salmonella-ey chicken guts or some poo poo, and you want to check a recipe or start a timer. Or you can just print the recipe out on paper and wash your hands before fiddling with the kitchen timer.
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The Chinese mining farms had the advantage that you can pay for miners and electricity in RMB (which can't easily be used to buy stuff overseas due to China's strict currency controls), and then sell your bit corns for USD that you can do whatever you please with. So Chinese miners may have been willing to run even at a loss, since the business worked as a form of legal money laundering. Meanwhile Texas miners have to actually pay for electricity in USD, the same currency that you're selling the buttcoins for, so their business has to basically shut down if electricity prices temporarily rise too high relative to profits.
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BiggerBoat posted:Also, every celebrity will be an unwilling porn star. Basically what the poster above me wrote. There are already extremely creepy communities of men online who share clothed pics of their favorite female celebrities to jerk off to. especially foot fetishists for whatever reason Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:not all services exist in all areas. in this case, the homeowner had the option of paying the tax or not (at $75 a year) and chose not to pay the tax, thus declining the service. fire protection is one of those things which simply doesn't exist if the area you live in is below a certain population threshold, because the tax base to pay for the service simply doesn't exist The problem is not that the homeowner chose not to pay. The problem is that an essential emergency service was dependent on individual homeowners paying in the first place, because neither the state nor federal government did anything to support essential services in a poor rural community which didn't have the tax revenue to support them by itself. RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Jul 18, 2021 |
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Hi fyi "the fed" is the name for the central bank not the federal government it doesn't control budget at all
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I checked the website for that "smart oven", which seems to be worse than a normal oven in every way except that it has an app -- and you need to pay a $10/month subscription fee to use the app with it.
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Solkanar512 posted:Uh. Has this Ryan rear end in a top hat ever seen how ovens are installed in regular kitchens before? You’d have to physically drag the hot oven away from the wall, then likely climb on top of it to reach the plug. This one seems to be a countertop microwave oven (+ combination air fryer) type thing. It's not a full sized oven Still stupid though. It absolutely needs a physical off switch.
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Space Gopher posted:gently caress that, go Chemex. It's also literally just a plain glass bottle with a bit to hold coffee filters, so you have to do all the tedious pour-over coffee stuff manually with your own hands. I don't want to spend 5 minutes slowly dripping hot water out of a kettle into the coffee maker every morning! We have machines to do that for us.
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HootTheOwl posted:Electric cars have to make fake engine noises because of it. also to stop them from killing blind pedestrians constantly
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Aren't companies required by law to always maximise their profits? So, if an ISP started cancelling all their customers on the say-so of another company, couldn't they face legal action from their shareholders? the reason the isps comply with those demands in the first place it is because they expect it to cost less in the long run by avoiding lawsuits from the RIAA etc they're already following the path of greatest profit
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Facebook was trying to create a system just like that when they were doing their "charity" thing to go to third world countries and hand out facebook phones that can't access the non-fb internet.
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no hay camino posted:So I guess they've given up on Amazon Go with the anti-theft cameras that you could fool by just going into the bathroom. This story is amazing. The writer didn't just hide poo poo in his bag in the bathroom or something, no... he changed his shirt in the bathroom and from then on the AI camera system didn't recognize him and nothing he picked up anywhere in the store counted towards his bill.
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RFC2324 posted:I was specifically thinking of piracy of high dollar software, tho now that I think of it all thats actually high dollar and something wanted at the consumer level is adobe or autocad. even windows has a free version, if I understand correctly. windows has become winrar-style nagware. you can use it forever without paying but it'll constantly bug you to "activate windows" with a transparent overlay on the corner of the screen. and i think you can't change from the default desktop background i guess that change is worth it to MS now that they shove ads in your start menu and sell all your data
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Motronic posted:Since I was one of those complaining: not me, considering I've built multiple motors. yeah except the main reason the  kids these days can't competently operate that technology is because they do not in fact use it on a daily basis. the world has changed. desktop pcs are out of fashion except for nerds and office workers. of course they don't know how to use a physical keyboard when they've only ever had a touchscreen phone
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Magic Underwear posted:What does this non-bailout bailout mean for the future? The FDIC will back all bank deposits without limit. Does that mean it's open season for risk taking with bank deposits? Aren't banks supposed to have limits on what they can do with deposits though? Will it affect business behavior, eg taking huge sums out of markets to put into (now) risk free interest-bearing bank accounts? Even if this particular facility is time limited (is it even?) it sets a precedent. I know jack poo poo about banking regulation but this seems like it will create huge second and third order effects. Or maybe it won't because investors and bondholders and executives are being wiped out? The FDIC doesn't back all balances without limit. It only guarantees balances below 250k. For bigger non-FDIC-insured balances at a failed bank like SVB, it will just try its best to make everyone involved whole. In this specific case it succeeded, because SVB's assets really were worth enough to pay back the deposits. (Presumably they found a buyer or something but they haven't released a specific statement saying what they actually did yet.) That's not a guarantee that they will do the same thing in the future. RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Mar 14, 2023 |
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SaTaMaS posted:It seems like Facebook could use all their social media data to generate a conversational LLM. They do have a significant AI effort though it's hard to figure out what they've accomplished. As a matter of fact: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta-ai/ quote:Introducing LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model Afaict it's not trained on customer data though. That would probably really piss some people off. efb
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Realistically the most successful path for fb would have been to realize that investors are fuckin' stupid, chasing infinite exponential growth forever is a bad idea, and they should've just stopped growing and used that money to pay out steady dividends instead. But tech companies are allergic to that idea. SaTaMaS posted:Request access and they'll send you the model files. Nice? Some of the first researchers to get access leaked it, it's floating around as  already
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OctaMurk posted:AR would be real cool if i could have some glasses that display my speed and nav when im on a motorcycle That's not some new cutting edge augmented reality tech, that's just a heads-up display and has been used in military aircraft since 1958. Cars or motorcycles with them are less common but the tech isn't exactly new. The BMW 5 series has had a HUD since 2004, and the newer ones have nav features too. From a quick google search there are a handful of different companies making either helmets or helmet add-ons that can do it too. At least one such helmet add-on suffers from startup-itis and became a useless brick due to some always-online drm bullshit after the company went out of business. It seems like keeping your eyes on the road while checking your speedometer would be a nice safety improvement so I wonder why it isn't standard on more cars. RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Mar 15, 2023 |
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