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How do you find time to work on stuff that's not your awesome ideas? I have the same issue but for taxes.

I'm pretty sure the advertising is worth at least the $50K. If you tried to purchase equivalent exposure it would cost you more. It's a bad deal if you don't need the exposure, but seems alright if you do.

The clincher for me was:

> Prevents Google from rewriting the search results (to include tracking elements)

How infuraiting. Now sites open without my having to pay google 1s-2s for them to log me.

I've said for a long time that we are currently in the fitbit stage of AI.

"Ng was responding to a question about why machine learning models trained to make medical decisions that perform at nearly the same level as human experts are not in clinical use"

"“It turns out,” Ng said, “that when we collect data from Stanford Hospital, then we train and test on data from the same hospital, indeed, we can publish papers showing [the algorithms] are comparable to human radiologists in spotting certain conditions.”

But, he said, “It turns out [that when] you take that same model, that same AI system, to an older hospital down the street, with an older machine, and the technician uses a slightly different imaging protocol, that data drifts to cause the performance of AI system to degrade significantly. In contrast, any human radiologist can walk down the street to the older hospital and do just fine."

Not all reflowing is created equal. Say you knew for certainty your users were only on desktop. In that case you may still want responsive design but it will likely be a different responsiveness than what we get with the cliff dive to "the mobile site". Reflowing can be done gently and granularly at the exact maximum points needed with minimum changes - rather than the stark nuking to a completely different site at 700px.

Not to mention watches and TVs

Could you explain what you mean with an example?

What's wrong with centered? Anyway it's not really centered, more left-justified with expanding left padding.

> what good is that if I have to pay capital gains tax

You would (almost) never pay cap gains on cash even if the law required it, because cash goes down in value over time. Everyone knows this, so no one holds cash, they buy stocks, bonds and realestate. When it comes time for the Tesla, they have to sell those assets, pay cap gains, then buy it, just like BTC. If you wanted to avoid cap gains, your only choice is to hold cash, in which case you would have less overall money at the end.

tl;dr: all appreciating assets are encumbered with cap gains, the only way to avoid it is to buy non-appreciating assets, which is worse

It's a lot simpler than that. If one team has to pay artists, and another team does not, ceterus paribus the second team will win. Only by constraining the second team does the first team have a chance to play. If government didn't "waste" money constraining pirates then pirates will necessarily have an outsized presence in the space given their unfair advantage.

The reason things like steam can "best" piracy is because piracy is so crippled by anti-piracy. Between sites disappearing, spotty content, abusive ads, viruses, malware, and risk of prosecution, it's not hard being better. Imagine if that weren't the case and the free experience were seamless.

> He says [the energy consumption] also limits the number of transactions the system can process to about five per second.

Doesn't bode well when the expert of the article makes a mistake like this.

> It doesn't use a ton of resources - they just need more IP addresses.

Aren't you also providing 100% of the resources if they are using your IP, or is there a way for them to do most of the work "behind" your IP?

> it was a bad ethernet cable in the end

Checking the cable is like checking if the power is on, it is NEVER the cable - except in networking for some reason. Half the time it's the cable.

It's trick site and it still made the front page?

We can't solely print money instead of tax because it is the tax itself that gives the money value to print in the first place. The greater the tax, the more can be printed, the lower the tax, the less can be printed.

This is not because taxation removes money from the system (reducing supply and increasing value) - it is because the intial seed of value that allows fiat curerncies to exist in the first place is the demand generated from the force-enforced requirement to pay tax in that currency. Everything else is layers above. Without the tax, the system would have nothing to stand on.

If you authenticate the video comes from a credible unrelated source, that would be different than if it came from a mysterious unknown source. Additionally if you have the chain of trust, you can interrogate every step manually for credibility and consistency.

There's a big practical difference between owning an original and owning a print. People have discovered secrets behind paint or canvas before. New technologies often allow us to introspect qualities of the art that we previously didn't know (chemicals used, techniques, tools, lifestyles, etc.). An original is a snapshot of history that includes tons of unique information that is simply not available in prints or nfts.

It's none of anyone's business! I generate one password for the password and a second password to break into 4 char random chunks for the security questions which I record in "notes" of the password manager.

Someone uploaded a "virus" to OP's domain and Google crawler found it and blocked said domain? Is that the mechanics?

There is no way it would be effecient to perpetually store 1000X your regular demand just to upsell in an unprecendented crisis, regardless of price gouging policies.

dppx always gives me 1

Mobile has some unique characteristics that don't fully allow agnostic design, namely:

- viewport changes size due to soft keyboard - address bar hides/unhides during scroll down/up

For certain types of apps, like games, it's important to know whether a device is actually "mobile" regardless of size/resolution. Sniffing user-agents might have to come back into vogue. Who knows where "mobile browsers" will end up - maybe some giant 60" kiosk app, or other places.

Barring that though the article brings up good points and searching the web for how to detect mobile usually brings up the error-prone portrait/landscape resolution detection that the article discusses.

The full solution requires the knowing the resolution and the dpi to get an estimate size of screen in inches. At least with that we can be safe until next article "Just because I'm a 100" kiosk app, doesn't mean I'm on a phone".

Is there a good npm lib that does the above?

> FWIW, doing that is actually possible these days with all the GDPR data export options, just a little tedious

It's tedious to the point that it is something else. The same reason the web is scrape-based rather than api-based today. When something is ancillary and done for compliance alone, you rarely get what you are looking for.

Say everyone had their own personal, live, accurate, predictable, actual data tree:

  facebook
    - friends
    - posts
  twitter
    - posts
    - followers
  email contacts
    - etc.

There would likely be an ecosystem of new services that create new value for you from that data. Combining things, extracting insights, backing things up, sharing things, organizing things, AI'ing things.

> 2. Because they're YouTube videos that you watched on YouTube and pressed the like button on YouTube.

Yes, that's how it is now, but it can be that going to youtube is granting them access to a branch of your tree on your server (which could be an encrypted managed 3rd-party).

> 3. "Why is sharing my GITHUB repo something GITHUB has to do, and not me?" - see the problem now?

As above, github the service can be made to operate on data that is yours in your warehouses.

> there's no money in it for them

They are still the app, they make the interconnections, they have tons of the valuable data and meta data.

You can't imagine reasons why people would want to keep their data? Which includes posts, photos, likes, etc. Many people aren't that scared of their spouses :D [1]

[1] "So my spouse can keep an eye on me?"

Instead of giving your contacts to facebook, why can't facebook instead operate directly on them in your personal data store? Why does youtube know which videos I've liked but I don't unless youtube allows me? Why is sharing my github repo something github has to do, and not me? Why are all my posts randomly dispersed and locked across multiple networks and not available for me to query and analyse as I see fit?

I hope eventually we all own and control our data while platforms are given limited access to it, rather than the other way around.

The interesting feature is being able to avoid heavy sites without having to visit them - but doesn't that:

A) Leak privacy by first having to check urls against a centralzied db?

B) Add slowness to every site due to having to request metadata from the centralized service first?

An AI researcher, by definition, is one who spends their time researching AI, so they would have no time remaining to get operational experience.

The trust is supposed to be in their legal system and politics.

Npm is great, but it's not ideal to structurally depend on a centralized service for normal functioning.