I mean I can list a 100 points to prove what a stupid article this is but I am too busy picking out parts to build this super computer for like $1200...
People with the mindset of this article need to get some antidepressants and try working out. You are obviously not putting things in the proper context.
These were not special hotels, this was a feature like getting free breakfast today. This is how crazy the 1920s thirst for stock speculation was.
Not just betting on stocks but betting on stocks with huge leverage too. You want to bet on a $100 stock then go down to the hotel lobby and put up $10.
Absurd article.
I first traded stocks during the dot com bubble. People have barely caught even the smallest amount of speculative frenzy the past 20 years since.
I don't think we will ever match the level of addiction people had when online trading was a new thing.
Totally agree. This is just peeling the skin of an onion.
Who are the people in Russia that help Snoden live his day to day life anyway? Of course you can make the argument that of anyone in the world, Snoden has no choice...however then it just becomes an argument as to what constitutes not having a choice.
I just don't get how Youtube recommendations are so bad. So often it recommends me things I have already watched.
Or the algorithm knows I like David Bowie so recommends me "Changes". The most boring possible recommendation it can give to a David Bowie fan.
I really wish it had a setting to up the daring of the recommendation. It seems designed to just never recommend something that I would really hate but in doing so it never recommends me anything all that interesting.
Facebook obviously posses some interesting questions on various topics but framing the debate as Facebook collecting "monopoly rents" is ridiculous.
I haven't used Facebook since 2010 and I have never used Instagram.
If someone in my social network wants to send me some information they have my number and they can txt me. If someone wants to send me a picture they can do the same.
I don't use Facebook because ultimately for me it is completely redundant.
To call Facebook a monopoly is an analogy at best. You are not going to solve these problems through analogy though, these are uniquely new problems.
IMO we need some kind of data driven media/data driven reporting/data driven newspaper type thing.
Then we can have reporting/debate/conversation on the meaning of the data but without the filters we use to have in place all reporting has essentially become meaningless, untrustworthy, opinion pieces.
It is a strange word to use in this context.