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Does YouTube not make money of all the ads I watched?

I’ve been using YouTube way less since they did this. I watch YouTube on 3 devices; iPhone, iPad and my desktop. On two of those I’m already forced to watch ads, and I accepted it. Now besides the ads content creators already put in their videos, I’m also being forced to watch at least 4 ads in a 10 minute video.

I get that they’re not going for user experience with the ad milking, but how many people will just give up on YouTube, like me. Or do the forced ads just make up for the people leaving?

Jokes aside. Them being remote could be a huge selling point for them. Building software for remote workers, tried and tested by everyone in the company who makes it.

I do agree with you on the price point. And sometimes I do feel like I'm overpaying just to have the game up to date. Obviously I don't know any of the financials behind making such a game, but I would imagine that licensing makes up a fairly large chunk of the price.

> It's not an insult to point out the obvious 'ignorance is bliss'. You can still like bargain bin fast food while admitting such food is garbage.

It does feel like an insult. And it also feels like an insult to say those players are ignorant. I'm fully aware of what I'm buying every year, but it meets my expectations of such game.

> The userbase that plays these games do not care. They are a sustained revenue source. A majority of them do not overlap with gaming and tech communities online. They simply play the games and move on. It's a large silent community that we don't often interact with.

What's with the need to use such an insulting tone, simply because you don't like a certain type of games?

I buy F1 every single year, and I'm an avid gamer and part of the tech community. The game doesn't require massive changes every year, there's simply no need for it. Improved graphics, and an up to date grid, cars, circuits and regulations is what I want from such a game.

I had the same experience with some backend engineers, they constantly looked down on the front-end engineers, ridiculing JavaScript and CSS. And while all those frontend engineers picked up backend languages and became fullstack developers. Those backend engineers couldn't do the most basic frontend things to save their lives.

> After securing the flash loan, the bot employed it to deposit funds on Aave, a decentralized lending platform. It again borrowed a relatively small sum of $2,300 in Wrapped Ether (WETH) against the deposits, Arkham said. WETH, an ERC-20 token that can be used in smart contracts and is equivalent to Ethereum in price, was subsequently utilized to purchase Threshold Network (T) tokens on the Curve exchange.

> Upon completing the arbitrage loop, the bot sold the Threshold Network tokens on the Balancer exchange, generating a gain of 0.019 ETH,

Can someone explain this to me; it seems like all the profit came from the $2,300 worth if WETH. Why did it borrow $200M? Also how can this bot ensure all of those transactions happen within the same block?

Do you mind explaining this more? How did your prompt save your business $15K in costs?

I do 4 gym sessions per week, usually Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Specifically I follow nSuns 5/3/1 (https://liftvault.com/programs/powerlifting/n-suns-lifting-s...), although I've changed up some exercises to an alternative. My workout is usually between 50-70 minutes.

I also go for a 2 hour hike, once or twice per week.

Are class components really considered out of date? I still prefer writing those compared to functional components. Vue is also moving in that direction with their composite API.

I think it’s why I like Svelte, it’s just JavaScript.

In fairness, the PM was the kind of guy who has no technical experience, but was arrogant enough to pretend like he did, and most of the devs were pretty junior.

It was the first time for me having to even argue about this.

I legitimately recently had to argue with a PM and his developers, that a base64 encoded user ID isn’t considered security best practices for API authentication. Even when I showed them how I can produce the “secret” myself, they kept arguing that I was wrong.

I personally used https://www.metroresidences.com/

I definitely didn’t try to watch how much I spend, or even tried to eat at local places most of the time, so take it with a grain of salt.

It is definitely a little high, and I have no doubt you could live way cheaper. You could probably rent an APA hotel for less than $50/night, eat more local for $5/meal.

Cliche answer; but depends on your lifestyle and what you’re willing to send.

I just spend a month in Tokyo, my serviced apartment was around $2,700. Daily lunch via Uber eats was between $12 and $25.

Going out for beers would be from $5 to $11. Eating out also just varied, but usually eating at local restaurants was probably around $15-$20.

Public transport was pretty cheap, usually between $3 and $5. Took a taxi late at night a couple of times, averaged around $25.

(This is all with the current exchange rates)

In what sense would this change anything to the job market or your retirement plans? Hasn't the web always gone through changes, were people had to adjust?

Software development has always been (in my opinion) an ever changing environment, where you had to adjust your skill set in order to keep up. Sure some technologies change faster than others, and it's not always the right choices being made, and maybe people jump on these new technologies rather quickly, but people innovating, and learning from failures should be a good thing.

> If it wasn't for reading about it in discussions like this, I would probably never even think about it.

I'm the same, but in the sense that I can't even begin to understand that people will marginalize each other based on the colors of their text messages, or that it would even matter at all. Having lived in Asia for the last ten years, having multiple chat apps is just so normal, most of my friends use WhatsApp, some use Messenger. Friends in China is WeChat, some friends from Japan and Thailand use Line.

All you have to do to beat an HR bot is request a JD, the company and a salary. 95% of recruiters refuse to answer this. (At least based on my experience)

> The reason why technical people look down on full stack engineers is because they are usually just web developers.

To give some context here, yes, when people refer to full stack developers, they're usually referring to developers who are focused on web development, but that would also include API development, or even mobile development.

I don't think anyone thinks of full stack developers, as developers who know embedded development or compiler development, so I don't know anyone who looks down on them for not knowing these things.

> It's hard for a full stack engineer to see or admit to this because of bias, it's much easier for someone outside of web development to see it, or a more well rounded engineer to realize it.

Now obviously, the way that you put it, it's extremely difficult to say why you're wrong, because you've started by adding a bias to people who would defend it. So maybe, when you want to have a discussion about it, don't start by stating something that makes it extremely difficult to argue against it without being seen as having a bias.

In my last fulltime role, we were called “product engineers”, which I actually really liked. It highlighted that our focus was on building a product, and not necessarily on frontend or backend. Because there was so much more involved, we all also helped out with deployments, or looking through log files, or talking to the business about issues.

> While familiarity with your stack is great for cross-cutting concerns, mastery is what truly builds great software, not to mention in a timely manner.

I fully disagree with that. Great software isn't just about what stack you have mastered, great software is build by people who can do whatever it takes to build great software, and that's not necessarily just about your stack.

I have noticed that when interviewing, the more specialized technical people often look down on full stack engineers, whereas managers are more excited about it.

I consider myself full stack, but in my last role I presented myself as a frontend engineer, with some backend experience. Eventually this role just kinda expanded into both frontend and backend.

Now that I do contract work, I present myself as whatever they need, with my current contract, I was hired to do frontend, but just started looking at the backend when running into some problems or questions about the data. There's always a point where they ask you "oh, you can work on the backend too?".

Which is also annoying, since it’s pretty hard for a foreigner to set up WeChat and AliPay in China. Before covid, I had to repeatedly ask friends to pay for me, and give them cash in return.

I'd say that sounds like a huge success, 300-500 euro is a decent extra bid of money for most people.

Sounds a lot like victim blaming to me. He only found those reviews after he went looking if people had similar experiences. My assumption is that those negative reviews didn't stand out on AirBnB itself, and thus he made the choice of renting the property.

And like he said in the post, we wasn't even able to leave a review, so it seems like many people with negative reviews were in the same scenario.

Similar experience with VRBO, booked an apartment in Munich, on arrival, turns out it was completely different than advertised (even the photos were different). We only stayed a single night, because the room situation just wasn't suitable for two adults. VRBO and the owner refused to refund us. After pointing out the discrepancies, and providing proof that the owners were using the same listing for different properties, VRBO only refunded their fee to us, claiming the transaction was really between us and the owner...

Yet there's plenty of stories of buyers getting banned for trivial TOS infractions. But when a host is essentially scamming people, nothing happens.

All the reviews in the article are also scattered across different platforms, he posted his on Google Maps, another one is on TripAdvisor and another one on Facebook.

Is the expectation that when you book something on AirBnb, you're supposed to look on every possible platform to get a sense of what you're getting yourself into?

Invent roles, or straight up lie. The giveaway is usually that they want a call with you to discuss details, or can’t produce any job description.