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Ethereum as an example, is near an all time high as PoS nears. Many other tokens with unique use cases like NEO and XMR are at all time highs as well.
That being said, my microwave just broke down and I headed to the store to buy a new one. I was really disappointed at the new models. The UI seems to be getting worse on them. I have a feeling they are not even trying to innovate because it has become a low margin device.
People are still trying if you are interested.
Articles:
https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/28006/why-do-microwav...
https://medium.com/@bn/this-is-how-a-microwave-should-work-4...
Art Mockups:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/15102955/Microwave-Redesign-...
https://dribbble.com/shots/1309476-Microwave-UX-Concept
https://dribbble.com/shots/1449210-Microwave-Concept-PSD
https://dribbble.com/shots/3249355-Smart-microwave-UI-concep...
If you have others, feel free to comment! Appliance UX/UI is a very neglected area.
If Intel really believed in making secure products and believed in secure computing, they would remove Intel ME.
It also seems, from early benchmarks, this can slaughter performance with databases.
Why? Because the instant I search once, twice, three times and find nothing. I am abandoning the system.
Blockchain aside, it doesn't matter. Whatever system you build has to be 10x better than the current system. Nothing you have said, blockchain usage included, comes close to getting there.
1. How else would you like the results to be delivered? It is delivered in browser's search bars. It is delivered by visiting Google.com. It is delivered by voice. It is delivered by mobile devices. It is delivered inside my Nintendo Wii, XBOX, PS3/4, and my Nintendo Switch. It's delivered on my crappy Vizio TV via smart apps. It's even delivered in my car. Google search results are everywhere.
2. I think that is kind of the point. However, you assuming Google is being evil by keeping it a secret. That's not fully the case. A lot of SEO companies would love to see how things are ranked so they can beat it on behalf of their clients.
3. They already have an API and if you really want to customize the query, you can add all kind of query modifiers in the UI.
4. As a developer myself in the crypto space, blockchains make a poor curated database for the very reasons why Google keeps things a secret. Anyone with money can pump the reputation of an entry on the blockchain to get better rankings thus lowering the quality of results.
Second, most blockchains can't handle the query load.
Three, dapps cost money to run. I can see a market for users submitting entries. If there are users using it, it might catch on in the submission department. However, this brings me to my next point.
Four, the chain would not have all the websites on the net. Kind of expensive to get it all on there and not scalable.
Lastly, someone has to pay to run the query side too. Would users pay to run a search query and get gamed incomplete results? No.
1. The post assumes that the search result quality is not good. This simply is not the case. Users say the search results are good. Could they be better? Sure. Are they terrible? No.
2. The post assumes users want transparency on the search algorithm. This clearly is not the case. The whole reason that google became what it is today is because of the lack of clutter and good search results.
If you remember Altavista then you remember users constantly having to fidget with all these knobs in the advanced section to get relevant search results. Lycos, excite, etc weren't much better. I remember using Google for the first time and it just worked.
3. The post assumes that users want deep customization. This again is not the case. Users want less clutter, less knobs, and a faster search experience. Google is delivering that.
4. The post assumes that any startup with a better algorithm can beat google. However this is not the case. Google has deep search integration with mobile providers such as it's own Android OS and also iOS. it also has it's own browser (Chrome) and has paid deals with Mozilla. Obviously, both browsers default to Google when you type something in the search field.
Not to mention, the leading IOT devices all connect to Google to find results when it needs to search the web. And for safe measure, Google has come out with its own voice assistant device, Google home, to safe guard against any shenanigans from Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa that might happen in the future. It is heavily subsidizing the price to make sure it has a strong horse in the voice game.
Integration aside, it also has scale. It crawls most of the internet several times a day. That's no small feat and it is quite hard for a startup to just replicate that with funding. I mean, even that won't cut it.
Google is now even using machine learning to understand relevant pieces of information on a webpage so when you query it by typing on your keyboard, by voice, or future mind control it delivers the answer you were looking for.
The only valid point the post makes is that Google has squashed competition by buying any startup that remotely could threaten it's position...for safe measure. I'll give the author that.
The article correctly identifies the number of people are working on a job is about 4x the normal rate when compared to Asia and Europe. However, when you take the hourly pay rate you quickly see it for what it is. This is fraud.
The reason none of this matters is because the market says it doesn't matter. The market is finding enough value from Bitcoin to keep running the network. Going forward, I think energy consumption won't matter because we are now producing more power than we can consume. For example, Germany had to pay citizens to consume power because there was a glut. Another example recently was in California where the state had to pay Arizona to take their excess capacity.
The same is happening in China. China is heavily investing in alternate forms of energy and when you boil it down, it is still cheap to mine a 14,000+ USD bitcoin. In other words, the market says it's ok.
Tutankhamun is a great example of this. His name was forgotten. His existence forgotten until they discovered his tomb, read the tablets, and then transcribed knowledge of his life to the modern medium. His memory now exists because we transcribe and communicate this information today.
For example, if you were a world renowned inventor and everyone wrote and communicated about you via clay pots then your memory is only carried on as a function of how many clay pot readers there are. Since all clay pot readers are dead and the medium itself is dead, your memory is dead. This is assuming no one transcribed the text from clay pots to whatever new communication medium came next.
After decades of being the principled underdog, hopefully everyone can rally around them and make sure their open source projects work well with AMD products and contribute to their new open source initiatives.
But in the end, it doesn't beat a washlet or bidet.
In fact, the use of toilet paper has spurred a whole new industry that most other countries don't have...the ointment industry.
Washlets or bidets are far cleaner and preferred.
For the last two months, they have said they plan to add it. In fact, Bitcoin Cash was about 280 dollars and it was common knowledge Coinbase was going to support it. You, the employees, and everyone else could have loaded up if you wanted to.
Lastly, there is no real incentive for employees to load up on BCH to make a quick buck. In the first seconds of trading a massive sell wall of 12,000 orders emerged and that would drive the price down dramatically.
The solution: lawsuits. The laws need to be relaxed where if a company leaks data, we are entitled to damages. Just like if someone assaults you on the street you are entitled to damages.
The most famous case is McDonald's. When their hot coffee scalded a woman, she was awarded damages. Suddenly, everyone food serving establishment too care to make sure the temperature was right, printed warning labels, and told customers to be careful...it's hot.
Pretty sure if some of these companies get stiffed with huge fines, everyone will take notice and clean up their act.
Typically what happens, is a whale starts buying a particular currency and magically you start to see news articles appear on major and smaller niche crypto blogs. Then the reddit posts start appearing causing a even more hurried frenzy to buy the coin. It is very similar to how traditional stocks are pumped.
On a side note, I am noticing a trend from Forbes, Business Insider, and CBS News that are very hostile to the crypto space. They will literally grasp at any resemblance of shadyness to write a negative article.
They create a global revolution over this behavior. To do what's just. For the people to have a say once again.
It is highly ironic that USA Network and Mozilla did the exact opposite of what the show is all about and promoted it this way. In fact, Mozilla's principles about creating a no-fuss browser runs counter to this very behavior.
- I didn't miss anything. Turns out there wasn't any real quality content on there anyway.
- My battery lasts 2x longer.
- I seem to be happier. No joke. With all the rage articles and click bait headlines gone, I am far more happier.
- I am way more informed now. I visit allsides.com and get the news there. I quickly get up to speed and find well written articles that inform me about what is really going on.
- I am more productive. Without all the garbage Facebook puts out, I have more time to get actual work done.
- I feel accomplished. I go home feeling more accomplished. I am happier, more productive, and more informed. It is a win-win-win all around.
Is it fine art or throw away art? See how the team talks about their product. Their attention to detail and in this case how they treat their users. It tells you a lot about their values and how they, themselves, treat each other.