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Cabs can be next to impossible outside downtown core. Calling in advance had minimum half hour wait in Hamilton, even an hour wait when when you're only 10 minutes outside the downtown. And street pickups have massive discrimination. Everyone except cab drivers was happy for Uber.

I hope the following perspective helps with your question. Think of newspapers as a mix of Journalism and blog-type "Content" and this writer as a Content writer. Content ideas are pitched by a writer to the editor, or assigned by the editor to a writer. After it's written, a third person (SEO expert) adds the headline. This article looks like Content filling out an idea rather than Journalism uncovering a story.

There were black hat scrapers in 2013-ish that enabled affiliate marketers to enter a FB page or public group,and export all the commenters' and likers' names, handles, numeric ID's, locations, emails, ages and a few other things to a CSV.

I assume their scraper was more in depth. If you had friend-type permissions back then you could perhaps see their posts and shares. You'd need post and share content to run text analysis, figure out their hot buttons based on language and frequency, sort them into groups and then target then.

Affiliate marketers could also upload lists of unique user ID's (like the FB group members scraped above) for specific ad campaigns, y'know, disguised hookup sites, skin cream credit card rebill offers, etc.

Back then, many of the privacy options were deeply hidden, obscure, changed names a couple times a year or were unavailable.

From what I've seen, tech companies tend to be understaffed on enforcement and compliance, relative to their user reach. Was the "certification" anything more than a checkbox in an emailed Word doc? I expect that's one area where they could improve their diligence. I would argue that if you have a high volume advertiser who has already broken a TOS and continues to use the platform, that type of hands-off certification is deliberately negligent. Anyway, we'll find out more details from their FB account manager in the coming months.

You keep stating the same allegations and assumptions, and now including statistics, without sources.

That's hopeful... but false. If there are no consequences, then it doesn't matter whether or not they lie, does it? The accused's outcomes are +1 or -1. The officer's outcomes are +1 or 0. The rational play for the officer is to lie for the +1.

Please consider your words.. I see many posts using "money" interchangeably with "investment"; and misunderstanding the financial definition of "exchange" (eg trying to argue eBay is the same as Coinbase). Maybe that's the disconnect, the word doesn't mean what you think it means.

Like using webapp, app and program interchangeably "well they all run on computers right?"

Please re-read your first link. "Most HPV infections of the cervix are cleared rapidly by the immune system and do not progress to cervical cancer (see below the Clearance subsection in Virology). Because the process of transforming normal cervical cells into cancerous ones is slow, cancer occurs in people having been infected with HPV for a long time, usually over a decade or more (persistent infection)." 1) Not every person with HPV gets cervical cancer. 2) Many people will get into a monogamous relationship, it will not spread further. 3) It is not necessarily spread in every sexual encounter.

Therefore eradication is definitely possible.

What a well written article. But from personal experience, it's missing something. My dad's funeral service was held in the crematorium. Afterwards they invited the closest family members to watch. Didn't warn us about what we were about to witness. First, instead of the "nice" coffin with flowers on top, he was put into a cheap-looking, thin plywood crate filled with thin, twisted strips of paper. It looked like the paper equivalent of styrofoam peanuts. The gurney was carelessly lying crooked against a wall as if it had just rolled over and bumped to a stop. Then they rolled it into the furnace in workmanlike manner and closed the room's blinds to block our view.

We all swore off cremation after that. Please leave after the service. Don't watch your loved one's cremation, it'll be a horrible last memory that taints everything that came before.

Second, the cremains are in a sealed plastic bag, inside a cardboard box. After you scatter the ashes, what do you do with the box, the bag, and the last ashes in the bag? Throw them in your household garbage? (Illegal, btw) It was my reminder that not everything has a "nice" interface.

Was this measured before the Bitcoin surge?

"what goes on your skin goes in your body" amirite?

My country is divided into a very very fine cartesian grid, and each pole is referred to by the grid number, which is also its database reference id for transformers and other hardware... a homegrown GIS. A consistent grid also makes it easy for linemen to find them!

The US gov't is unlikely to jack the results of $200M and 11 years of research and give it to state-controlled companies.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/spy-fears-drive-us-offic... Can't find the article but there was a warning not to discuss trade secrets or use the free wifi in conference rooms at Chinese-owned hotels in the US or Canada (which includes Starwood brands). Before anyone starts talking about "hackers"... why sneak around when you can just own the building.

So I'm assuming SK doesn't want their citizens' money 1) exposed to the risk of a bubble 2) for which SK society will blame them 3) flowing through Chinese and Russian miners to 4) pad North Korean state finances?

With the opt-in... 30mins to cross a border. Without it.. slowdowns, flagging, questioning, etc... could be 6 hours. If one is travelling for business, opting out is not realistic.

Former finance developer: 1. Without Excel, every finance company will need another 100 developers, BA's, managers and QA to do programming and updates. $$$$.

2. Most of the data sources I've seen are heterogenous or very expensive. It comes in from big companies via secure FTP overnight, small companies via pdf. Big companies won't change their rules for you, small ones don't have the staff to do it. You can quietly and immediately export to excel from a terminal at 5pm, or be charged an extra 200K a year for the overnight deluxe data export package and still not get the same bond valuation you need to reconcile. (looking at you, Bloomberg!).

3. Every rockstar portfolio manager has their own models, and not even the VP of IT dares tell them what to use. There's no "bog-standard model" that everyone uses. That's the expensive PM's edge.

4. Speed. Requirements, test cases, test server, scheduling personnel, project planning, testing, promotion to prod, signoff, takes a month for trivial stuff if you're lucky. Trading opportunity long gone. Analysts grab a spreadsheet, do it in half a day, make or reject the trade.

5. Capability. Pivot tables. Compact, resizeable, color-coded, read/writeable grid, notations on the side, instant recalc, reorientable text. Row inserts. Printing. Ugh.

6. Risk. Analyst does the spreadsheet, IT hands are clean. "Not our fault if you screw up".

7. Resumes. What developer wants to spend 10 years coding models and reports that are regularly modified or discarded with each new analyst and PM's whim?

8. Time. FO spends 16 hours a day trading or researching under immense stress. Asking them to find, let alone spend, 2 hours a day explaining workflows to devs is... unrealistic.

9. Education. Devs know development, not financial instruments and regs. SME's who understand both software design and finance are rare and expensive therefore used on major projects. This may hurt egos here but most devs are some combination of untrained/low social sensitivity/ESL/fragile egos/tend to start explaining a solution instead of first listening to the problem.

Devs do major dev stuff where it's warranted. Analysts can keep Excel where it's not.

I expected Remote Desktop to be on every system... it's really frustrating that I can't remotely see and configure my elderly mom's iPhone screen when she needs tech support. "Do you see an x? Or is there something that looks like a backwards arrow? No? A less-than symbol? Or the word Back? No? Cancel? Maybe at the bottom?"

Google Glass. IMHO they mistakenly went after the consumer and advertising markets instead of starting with maintenance workers and hobbyists. On a related note, I also expected some mobile computers would be "cyberdecks", embedded in the keyboard. Instead, the computer is the screen.

I'm disappointed... what an alarmist and false article. Soldiers are expensive to train, you want them to come back safe and healthy so you can send them out again. Fighting is a messy affair where you have to rely on people making good independent decisions in swiftly variable situations with limited information, and helping each other out.. a battalion of "hunter killer cyborgs" needing direction and micromanagement would be a real commander's worst nightmare. Commenters have been playing too many video games :) Most armies are volunteer, not draft... who would ever join again?

That example doesn't apply here. The utility covered the cost by selling bonds. Municipalities use bonds to fund the building of toll roads and other long term projects without tax dollars.

If I were a capitalist VC, and discovered I was potentially missing out on a raft of profitable ideas only because otherwise capable founders were intimidated by the selection process... I would change the process asap to increase my win ratio.

um, no, that's just your sexism and assumptions talking. I agree with the correction.

Universal income is a fantastic idea. Imagine being able to work on your own coding project for 2 years with a guarantee of basic ramen and safe shelter. I don't think it'd work well in Western society yet. It would be feasible in, say, a dense and autocratic city-state like Singapore. IMHO it will come. As a world, we are starting to automate and displace work faster than our brains can learn new skills en masse. IE one person can create a skill and codify it (years), faster than 300K people can go to training and expand the industry organically (lifetime). This applies to both manufacturing and service jobs.

Structural lifetime unemployment is going to be the cause of future civil instability, and governments will use UI as a way to calm and control social order.