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salvar commented on YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M bbc.com/news/business-464... · Posted by u/happy-go-lucky

dogma1138 · 7 years ago

Im pretty sure that we can easily define metrics to measure that and we had.

This cult of relativism really needs to stop.

salvar · 7 years ago

Excellent, what are the metrics then? What makes a "how to do your nails" tutorial brainless stupidity?

salvar commented on YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M bbc.com/news/business-464... · Posted by u/happy-go-lucky

xte · 7 years ago

A small point: did anybody notice how this reward mechanism prize the "idiocy" far more than the "knowledge"? I mean most followed YT channels, most upvotes on FB etc are about "brainless things", "brainless contents" vs valuable technical or cultural contents.

An YT channel about "just for laugh" or "sport" or "how to decorate nails" have FAR more subscribers and viewers than a tech, historic, physics, ... DIY channels.

That's of course natural but prize it instead of fight it it's a means to push toward stupidity.

salvar · 7 years ago

Who decides what is valuable content and what is brainless stupidity?

salvar commented on Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10 windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/rattt

SwellJoe · 7 years ago

I'm not sure what more they could do. They're extremely pushy about it in Windows. It takes several steps to make it stop pushing Edge when you open any web links.

I don't use Edge (or Chrome) because I don't trust the companies that make them, and it's one small piece of my computing life I can withhold from them. So...there's nothing they could do to make Edge good enough for me, without fixing the lack of trust I have toward Microsoft, which I guess is a marketing problem, but also a behavior problem. (Surprisingly, though, I think I feel less animosity toward Microsoft than I do for Google these days. Which, is hard for me to believe about myself, given how long and how much I've hated Microsoft over the years.)

salvar · 7 years ago

> I'm not sure what more they could do. They're extremely pushy about it in Windows.

One of the things that pushed me away from Edge. Being pushy is not the same as being persuasive.

salvar commented on I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back fastcompany.com/90270691/... · Posted by u/bennettfeely

threeseed · 7 years ago

Yes you can get a dual charging/headphone adapter for $2.65.

I really don't understand people who change entire platforms over such small amounts of money. I know for me personally my investment in apps and content is significantly more than just $2.65.

salvar · 7 years ago

Where can you get them for $2.65? I've never even seen one for sale.

salvar commented on German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis ghacks.net/2018/11/23/ger... · Posted by u/jakobdabo

explainplease · 7 years ago

Is it your belief that it has nothing to do with Microsoft's misdeeds?

salvar · 7 years ago

Of course it has lots to do with Microsoft's fuckery. I don't think it's a binary choice. Can you answer my question now?

Edit: Sorry, misread the author. Thought you were the same as I asked the original question. Nevermind that.

salvar commented on German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis ghacks.net/2018/11/23/ger... · Posted by u/jakobdabo

Sir_Cmpwn · 7 years ago

Enumerate some of them?

salvar · 7 years ago

Is there any point? It seems like you're convinced enough that nothing can ever change your mind. So I'm fine with just disagreeing and leaving it at that.

salvar commented on German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis ghacks.net/2018/11/23/ger... · Posted by u/jakobdabo

bmn__ · 7 years ago

> Why don't more computers come with Linux pre-installed? […] Is it all somebody else's fault

That coquetry of ignorance wasn't cool on Slashdot twenty years ago, what makes you think it's acceptable here?

Microsoft's actions, for which they have been convicted in courts of law all over the world, have set back desktop computing by two decades. A PC clone with e.g. BeOS on it could not be had for money or good words, and the reason was precisely because they killed off competitors with their anti-capitalist, anti-consumer stranglehold on the vendors and markets before the competitors even had a chance to show their quality or lack thereof.

Linux' boon was that it by-passed that system, thriving from the figurative grass roots. It makes little sense – merely in order to take it seriously – to demand to be able to buy a pre-installed Linux.

salvar · 7 years ago

I'm sorry if I come across as obtuse, but I just need to understand this clearly. Is it your belief that the low usage of Linux has nothing to do with Linux itself?

salvar commented on AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking caixinglobal.com/2018-11-... · Posted by u/breitling

bicubic · 7 years ago

> Anecdote of my own: In my country, monetary fines in traffic infringements are explicitly not for revenue. They mix into the total state revenue [...]

You're contradicting your own claim.

Just because someone in a PR position says the purpose is not to increase revenue doesn't make it so. It doesn't matter where the revenue goes, the fines generate revenue. If they didn't care about revenue, they'd use penalty points - with the added benefit of not fucking over the lower and middle classes.

salvar · 7 years ago

Just because something is revenue doesn't mean that the purpose is entirely to increase revenue. That is the claim you made. I have presented a counter-example to that, where revenue increase is clearly not the only reason for monetary fines. We have the stated purpose of the legislation -- you can call that PR or whatever you'd like but the stated purpose is not revenue increase -- and you have the fact that these revenues do not benefit any police departments or anyone directly. Instead they make up an absolutely tiny fraction of the total revenues of the state.

Just for fun, I calculated this fraction for a given year. The revenue from all traffic violation fines accounted for a whopping 0.1% of the total state revenue.

So apparently the only purpose of these traffic fines are to raise the state revenue by 0.1%, despite the explicit stated purpose of the legislation and any evidence to the contrary. Does that make sense to you?

Is this one of those things where you just know you're right because you feel it in your gut and nothing can ever convince you otherwise?

salvar commented on German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis ghacks.net/2018/11/23/ger... · Posted by u/jakobdabo

Sir_Cmpwn · 7 years ago

Because money = influence. Linux has none and Microsoft has lots. It's really that simple.

salvar · 7 years ago

I'll have to disagree with that. Linux has significant usability problems, and pretending that it has none is not going to help anyone.