If you are being truthful: I am really sorry, I have had sleep apnea it's not pleasant, exacerbated by a thick neck would you believe. Though once I stopped smoking cigarettes it stopped. I will not give advice because I don't know your situation.
If you are not being serious given what I have said in my comment: :)
I understand your point. Though when email campaigns came out the goal was to send the email to everyone. Then it was to target people. I think that targeted emailing obsession then led to the natural conclusion of targeted adverts on the web through personalisation. I'm not sure the ROI on the adverts is what companies think it is. Just like it isn't for email campaigns.
I feel there may be a better market like roody15 has said for contextual analysis of websites and provide adverts based on that. Enhanced with Anon user traffic and buy paths. Which could slowly overtake if done well.
Then if you cross reference this with how procurement works, bullshit jobs and similar (can't find that article) starts to make some sense.
Though there may be arguments such as manipulation as to why the focus is on the advert personalisation and not the nefarious things that can come out of it. Think McCarthy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism#Blacklists
Regardless of your persuasion consider if the other side gets in and you end up on the black list.
'I don't mind adverts tracking me' vs 'I can't get a job because of X opinion'
Trying to avoid google analytics personally, but as you added them to your site you need a policy. You are the custodian and are sharing information to google through you. As you are the Data Controller: https://www.gdprsummary.com/gdpr-definitions/data-controller....
This thread made me read this article. I think if I had visited without I wouldn't have got past the first paragraph. Really glad I read it. Strangely joyful.
There is a surprising amount of open data. I think this would be a great hobby. Though maybe use a good VPN and fake creds. People have been murdered for this sort of thing.
I can't find a link now but some phd students in South America (I think?) fairly accurately found fraud based on the content in business and government contracts simply on certain clauses.
Would also be interesting to take stats of higher incidents of certain diseases and track them against factory production/creation in the area. Could also cross-examine against EPA fines.
You could then send the analysis to forbidden stories. Though remember they are journalists and not necessarily ML/GPT-3 experts.
Consider if you are stressed, have not slept, are hungover or ill. Often you smell pretty pungent.
I imagine that over the years we have excessively washed (with soap, certainly need to go under water) to cover poor diet, excessive alcohol consumption, lack of exercise and general detritus from our cities.
Then ended up forgetting how important our smells are.
I wonder what percentage of the 200M are not aware that they have accidentally subscribed to it. I've turned off prime a few times only to log back in and find it has been applied, I don't doubt I clicked something, but I certainly didn't intend to add prime. The patterns going through as non-prime are more redshift than dark.
Might start a brand "NetZer0" (see 'Seaspiracy'). Companies can pay me to have the logo so consumers can have a false sense of security and I can buy an island, make it apocalypse safe and live there with friends, family and anyone who can pass an empathy test.
Nice for a bubble to be of a singular nature and moving back to something tangible as opposed to a derivative of a derivative. Maybe I should create an NFT of the deli menu and list a company with the NFT as the only asset.
I'd argue that this happening further indicates to me that the stock market is still a Tulip market, except that we adopted it as a form of capitalism to which we can't exit or reform.
I liked the cookie banner. While I don’t know if it hides something darker I wish all cookie banners were so simple.
In terms of the article it is long. Enjoyed the article, felt balanced. As maybe a slightly harsh summary (not of the article but the topic):
Mental health professionals provided by Uber/deliveroo style companies.
I see why Charlie Brooke stopped writing black mirror. We have stepped through the mirror.
The only way something like this could not end up really hurting people is if there was no short terms goals. Given each company appears to be attempting be first to giant IPO I would imagine they will leave quite the wake in their path. It would need philanthropic investment coupled with patience.
Though that doesn’t mean to say the people in those companies don’t have good intentions. Maybe they have the best of intentions. In theory it’s a really nice idea. Though I am too pessimistic to believe huge pressure placed on the company as a whole for rapid growth over something so delicate would not end badly.
I dislike these types of articles. They are apathy generators.
I wish they could at least add a link to a donation page, or a way to offer help or waited for something more conclusive.
The other issue is that adding noise at this point often has the reverse snowball effect. If it came out this was due to something class actionable the noise of it dies down before the shouting needs to start. Then we get a ten part docudrama ten years later.
That’s not to diminish the suffering these people are going through. Though if I can’t help in some small way or there hasn’t been some sort of outcome or it’s about to become a pandemic it just generates apathy among the masses.
Focusing on fixing bugs and maintainability can make a project substantially better long term.
Though I am not very keen on the underlying reasons the author gives. Seem to be anecdotal and not cover a host of other situations the solution could cover. I think there can be many other reasons. Cultural for one.
In the example of the professional team they may still be beholden to write cheap code because of certain business decisions, despite tests and the fanciest of ci builds. Additionally ‘amateur’ teams could still produce high functioning websites if there goals were shifted toward leaning and measurements taken against customer satisfaction and reduction of bugs over time.
I don’t want to dismiss anything you’ve said and am sorry you feel that way.
Though I would say I worked at a company where I saw many people promoted into high paying and high responsibility jobs who I felt were not particularly deserving.
Looking back I know that I tried to find reasons they could have deserved it or ways I did not or ways that they gamed the system. Resulting in me feeling quite bitter.
Now I would say promotions are largely random. I’ve seen some very capable people shoot to the top, some forced out.
It’s a ladder, it’s ordered sometimes other it’s chaotic and makes no sense. Focus of yourself. Your knowledge. What you can learn, how you can improve. Compete with yourself. People tend to see this in the end. It is also better for your psyche.
I have been learning Italian. Don’t slam me for this if it’s wrong I am a beginner. But there are a number of contexts in Italian to which lei (she) is used. One for polite and respectful use (such as a general in the army, regardless of gender) or if the person’s gender is unknown.
I assumed this was an April fools. A friend asked if news was too bonkers for April fools to still be held. Guess he was right. Checked the date on the article multiple times.
This has happened to me. Do you use a VPN at all?. I think by connecting from different perceived places between your IP location and the cookie (from a previous visit at a previous IP location) can confuse the redirect.