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> people buying TSLA stock believe future sales will be larger than Toyota

... until the day they sell

would you say the cultural difference was equally massive 20 years ago, when turkey was much more aligned towards an EU future? I don't think so much has changed in turkey culturally, but a lot has changed politically

France just left a NATO exercise after aggressions from Turkish navy

https://www.france24.com/en/20200701-france-suspends-role-in...

seriously? it's easy to tell that something is slow to respond, because you can compare the time it takes from the audible mouse click to the change you see on screen, and primates are very very good at perceptual discrimination

PERCEPTUALLY slower. meaning, you click on something and you know instantly that at least it's processing, i.e. without perceptually detectable delay. Almost 100% of SPAs (including gmail and "electron" type apps) suck terribly at this, and they pay it with double- and triple- clicks from frustrated/clueless users

Nobody does it worse than imgur.com . You upload something and there is no indication, no feedback, nothing

It's weird we don't have psychometric benchmarks to capture this trend. How many times a day do you get frustrated thinking that your mouse has broken down because you clicked something and it didn't start spinning (it will be spinners of course, lots of them, and when they stop spinning you 're already fuming and banging at your screen)

Can anybody point out an app that has become better at perceived feedback over time? Everything is a horrible, slow mess. And the bigger issue is: due to the choice of language/UI libraries, they are un-optimizable

Incidentally, this may help explain the popularity of vim which was posted on another article. Console feedback is truly instant and, importantly, predictable. You can hit a bunch of keyboard commands on vi, and it will execute them 100% predictably even with a slow connection or high system load (of course, it was designed for that).

everyone can create a second email address for precisely this purpose and it will be much more anonymous than anything apple promotes

aren't they going to be asking for the real email though?

email remains the best and free-est login identifier. Most people who are not complete internet plebs have a second email for things they dont trust.

bans are good - it means de-consolidation. Wait until something interesting happens in gab.ai and you 'll see hordes of left-leaning people flock to it, because people love to argue on the internet, and safe bubbles dont have a lot of arguing.

The internet was designed to be robust afaik, we dont need a new design but rather let it work as it was intented

i dont know any of the people involved, but the time when Dave Morin was in the platform was the best for 3rd party developers. it was a really neat, very open platform well ahead of its time, it was reliable and really made developers feel included. FB shut the door for us abruptly in later years because they liked fake news better than virtual sheep.

Facebook had a developer forum in the early days which basically chronicled what was happening on their platform. pity they took it down...

and doesn't even reduce chances of death, like Dexamethasone does

I find such studies rather shallow, just explaining away a phenomenon without looking deeper for causes. I dont think the level of political animosity that the USA seems to have now has been seen before, maybe ever. In no other country have people massively defied death in the way americans do today. When people stop valuing their lives , it seems rather like a change in psychology. Maybe it's not even a political phenomenon, but an extreme expression of underlying psychological issues in individuals that express themselves macroscopically in an irrational way.

musk studied physics though. and you cant be a phd chemist without being a physicist at some point. of course all politicians are primarily politicians at the time when they do politics but we 're talking about background here. Background matters because it creates a culture and a set of ethics. Popular figures are generally freeloaders riding on democracy's bias for popularity.

It's just that for lawyers , politics is almost part of their normal career progression: you go from law-student to law-maker. Political scientists or economists becoming politicians is similarly easy to grasp. Medical doctors and engineers less so, but what matters here is they are both regulated professions, regulated by lawmakers so there's a long-standing relationship.

Because it is and always has been , from the start. Without this liberation of having a public , anonymous board, we 'd be so much poorer culturally. Reddit banning some stuff is a good thing - new venues will arise because people arent just going to stop talking.

Musk is a physicist though, and i m pretty sure Musk is a frequent subject even when politicians speak. They have not reached out to the public in ways that Rowling or Obama have, so it's natural that the public feels them distant. Bill gates earns some respect for his low-key activism but he s not too prominent either. Scientists who reach out can garner respect, Thatcher was a Chemist, Merkel is a physicist. It's true however that the non-rich comp.scientists are virtually unknown or known for unrelated reasons (e.g. Turing).

A lot of it is just grooming: Lawyers (and doctors) are groomed and almost expected to have socially prominent aspirations. Programmers have not but it's not like they really asked for it, most tend(ed) to be politically aloof.

it's still a tiny amount of neurons that are being turned over. About 1.75% of the dentate gyrus is renewed per year.

Growth cones are only relevant during development and in regenerating neurons which are not common. Everyday neurons do however continuously extend (and contract) filopodia which may reach nearby axon terminals and eventually form a synapse, thus causing synaptic rewiring. Synaptic scaling is usually used to refer to a homeostatic and uniforum up- or down- scaling of synaptic weights and is not really relevant to rewiring.

if that were true, the switch to online advertisement should have led to increased consumption/sales per person compared to previous decades, but that's not happened

Software enters postmodernism

This is awesome, the revolt of the postmillenials

> why is our society so inefficient when it comes to spending money?

There's no recipe for that - it's a gamble. The amounts of money that are spent in science have been increasing rapidly for decades to great proportions, but there's no law that says that the returns won't be diminishing.

Also, covid has been politicized and nationalized so you 're not likely to see a concerted effort , even if it costs way more that way. Human crowds it seems are not wise enough to be efficient.

Well apart from this being a good PR play in a time when advertising is naturally cut back due to the uncertaintly, it will be a big test (if not just acknowledgement) that social media traffic is just as crap traffic as e.g. forums. The old adage about 50% of ad spending being wasted is true , the it's just that the perception of where it is that's changing. My theory is that FB & Google are just better at dazzling advertisers with fancy dashboards that they can show their bosses.

Maybe she has a point, but for the wrong reasons. There's something to be said about "throwing more money" believing that it will end up in better science. It's politically easy to pass a bigger, huger accelerator: tons of jobs, recognizability of the effort by taxpayers , but scientifically it's a rather predictable bet. It's similar to rich people throwing megatons of money on startups believing that they are creating something useful. LHC size projects are not that exciting projects. They are mostly a welfare package for the hordes of decomissioned physicists who are left behind after the wild century of Physics. It's probably more fruitul to seek innovative accelerator designs or other kinds of stuff. Or, that money would probably better be spent if they just paid the scientists to work and compete on whatever they like. Perhaps physics needs more patent clerks who spent a lot of time thinking rather than submitting grants, catching flights to perpetual meetings and publishing 500-author papers.

the trough of disillusionment

The metric system sends thoughts and prayers

yeah apparently javascript or html5 video isnt lightweight either though. I 'd prefer the timeline in which the flash ECMAscript and animation model had become standard in the browser.

flash has been abandoned for 15 years

History would be different if Apple had bought Flash back then. It made sense: a web-based lightweight platform for making games and such on a phone.

in terms of video chat support , javascript is terrible compared to flash. Flash and RTMP are lightweight, support multiple streams and CPUs don't even sweat it. Doing video chat with javascript is a nightmare of protocols

so, like every VC startup

how is it stealth?