andraganescu

Ha. People are so different, I was annoyed and distracted by that since minute one :)))

Indeed :)) the modern watches connect to phones for no reason other than to not cannibalize the phone. I accept that price - it'd be horrendous to market otherwise. But at least I'd love a device that is dumber but makes using it a better experience for me.

Yes I think you are right except that it comes at the cost of a device that is anti-anatomy :) a bulge on your wrist to wear 12h ...

Maybe they'll refine and refine those sensors to make it flat? They still add weight I think?

Yes. I think the market for a watch that is just a small comms device is tiny for the big players but not tiny for a smaller one?

It's great at doing what it does: if you want it. I don't want it, nor its function, but I do have to use a device affected by it - bulky design, non ergonomic shape (nothing that attaches to a wrist for hours should have a bulge).

I want everything other than the physical tracking stuff. Maybe that will be solved by some super smart design.

Never seen one. Says "Heart rate sensor" on the description - does that entail the tip of a sphere design on its back? Can I use contactless payments with it?

I didn't mean to make my post about Apple - but generally about a specific feature set watch:)

> And that’s how we get ruscism: psychological complexes of something not deserving to be called a nation

> The sad thing is that all russians are infected by it in one form or another.

This post is nationalistic trash filled with inflammatory stuff and nothing of value other than the mental contortions of the author to be mean and upset.

Is this still open to sharing or is 13 days way long ago? I'll find out after posting the thing: https://www.andreidraganescu.info/ and getting downvoted for resurrecting threads.

This is so amazing, I love all you people who take the time to do these super mega awesome tinker/fun projects and then share them with to the world!

Oath's gdpr wizard îs torture. I hope they will pay their share of fines for it, just to compensate for the time wasted ...

# What if we had an Advertising ID API in the browser?

With an Advertising ID I could be in charge of the things I want tracked about myself, an opt in participation, not only a generic yes or no, instead, a detailed approach on tracking.

If I had an advertising ID that the browser allows me to manage, and which would be common across all browsers, there would be definitely no need to have that much effort thrown away at identifying Internet users with all kinds of trickery.

1. I just provide this advertising ID to all advertisers by default. 2. Then I choose what I want tracked. THE BROWSER then tracks said items in an anonymous mode, transmitting non identifiable information only (such as product names, SKUs, Page contents, even links but say in a screwed up order). 3. Then I can ban advertisers or networks that show me crap. One by one.

It would be a shared effort.

The user will do some work, but they will have the tools required for the work. The banning and defaults will be scriptable and people could solve 80% of the problems with easy scripted actions (via browser extensions and such). Advertisers will have to work with anonymous details, but they will be able to precisely target people, after they solve the math involved with working with irregular data sets.

Advertising is the financial engine of the Internet and all this rage against it won’t make it disappear or behave nicely. Browser vendors need to work together and they need to do so in the same way they did it for so long: to implement open web specifications.

Advertising is just another kind of technology that the browser needs to support!

Advertising ID would be a solid base for all the freemium content to have the legitimacy required to block users who don’t provide a way in for advertisers. Once we get technology that is as safe as the Internet overall is, we can then teach people how to use it, and shut out sociopathic behaviour of money crazed folk to the obscure corners of forsaken random domain names.

The Better Ads Standards is just talk. We need tech that supports it and it should be a browser implementation of an open standard with an Advertising ID API. People will flock to the best support of a good standard. Everybody wins and competition stays healthy.

It is illogical to rip off the internet of it’s best lucrative asset: the capacity to target advertising with great precision. It is dangerous that for the same reason should the Internet become the looking glass of Big Brother. And the tech to stop this from happening, while maintaining money flow for Internet growth is easily achievable.

Do you thing an Advertising Standard with an Advertising ID API would make the Internet better?

I am actually thinking of having an online directory of specific website cleanup extensions which power users of said websites should be more than happy to pay for :)

Would anyone pay a monthly fee for some dev to maintain some chrome/ff/safari ext that simply cleans up booking.com?

is this mono?

yes that's the word: disengaging :)

You gotta wonder about the whole vision speech. It would have been a better service to the world to explain where exactly did the idea get stuck: not enough volume, wasn't the platform big enough, is it a technology issue (ad management, the cms), was is the corrupt budget managers of various brands ... idk.

This whole bla bla "our vision is to be the saint content liberators" is a both funny and completely useless. It is not to say that Ev has no inner drive or that Medium is a company that doesn't stick to their mission or vision, but it is just that they communicate:

- hey we tried to do better - they didn't let us - we're leaving

WTF :)

"It’s not that I know better than they do, just that it’s clear they are wrong and actively glossing over huge bodies of ignorance to focus on the subjects they think they understand.", this is very common feeling one gets across many domains from contact with textbooks.

yes bacteria and viruses qualify. I propose biology is a process made possible by life and evolution a phenomenon inside this process.

for entertainment purposes i have an attempt to define life here:

https://medium.com/for-for-thought-for-rainy-days/the-meanin...

the funny thing is i have a series of "posts" on this subject and while trying to post on r/philosophy i got a ban warn on the reason it is not philosophy :D

ping :) Yes, I am very interested in your offer, sorry for the delay, holidays got to me! on the spot i didn't have the nerve to ask, and i took it as a politeness formula, but if indeed this is a activity you enjoy do help me :) ill be thrilled!

Thanks everyone who took the time :) You've been very helpful and I really appreciate it, A

Thank you a thousand times for this. It was extremely helpful for me :) I take this very seriously and have no issue with admitting the strong limitations in my grasping capacity.

Your detailed effort is much appreciated, almost a Christmas gift! And with limited battery :D

Awesome, yours, A

> If life is a 'property' of the universe, everything else also is, and the word ceases to have any meaning.

Why would life be all encompassing? It is just a thing on its own, and quite small in its manifestation. The way I framed the assumption is that life (I know it's hard to dismantle the meaning inside the word and see it separate from us) is just as time woven in, working in the opposite direction of time.

I have developed this here:

https://medium.com/for-for-thought-for-rainy-days/the-meanin...

As for the idea, it is exactly NOT religious I want it to be seen. A property is a characteristic and I don't know if life would be an essential or accidental property of our (this) universe.

Awareness, our subjective existence, subjects of religion and philosophy are completely separate subjects from life and the phenomenon of evolution it produces.

As for evidence, I would dare quote evolution and the spawning of it. But I can solely produce thought experiment type of evidence :) from my current settings.

hey, thanks for replying. Yep, this is what I find hardest these days, asking for feedback. If you happen to be in a life setting where you don't have direct access to informed opinion you must risk the usual down vote of coming out of the blue asking for opinion on internet forums.

regarding the article itself I think you should try to understand I did my best stay away from the horror of the shitty "new age" quantum bullshit interpretation of the measurement problem. it is NOT my intention or idea.

my central idea is that maybe life is a property of the universe not a phenomenon, and try to construct something out of it.

I wish you'd give the perspective a chance :), beyond the annoying paragraphs, and put up with my lack of coherence as a gentle gesture towards an amateur wrestling with an extremely complicated subject.

Thanks again!

hey folks, if this is not ok i'll remove my reply. I just want to post this article I wrote on the subject a few months ago:

https://medium.com/for-for-thought-for-rainy-days/life-cause...

If anyone finds the time and mood to go over it I'd appreciate a discussion :)

i don't get it, countries export electricity for ages. other than money and infrastructure, what are we missing so that we all, as a united humanity, use our shared sun to export, on a daily basis, electricity from the sun lit part of the planet to the other one. why must we still wait on the genius who will revolutionize batteries, considering we already have non stop sunlight. is this lack of political will? or is such a planetary scale effort impossible?

programming computers has more to do with DB schema than networking, no?

"If they ever release a good computer, we will do it," he said. If they ever release a good computer. There must be an "enough" missing i believe.

I think he is more about staying curious and dont over specialize. Also just saying a big no-no to what I call "coders", people who can code but have no clue to what is actually happening. There are so many "developers" who learned a kind of ... memorized way to code in some scripting language, and stopped there.

The "engineers" he speaks about are people who cannot limit themselves like that. However, "engineer" sounds a bit pretentious :D

i'd also add that more than the new words/sounds/phonemes the differences in grammar between languages make your thinking more flexible. the order of nouns and adjectives, or languages where every sentence ends with the verb and so on, all these contribute to a person having better cognitive capacities, from simply learning foreign languages.