So, you are re-implementing Altavista, Lycos and other old search engines.
They used the naive approach: you searched for "steak", and they would bring the pages which included the word "steak".
The problem is that people could fool these engines by adding a long sequence like "steak, steak, steak, steak, steak, steak" to their site -- to pretend that they were the most authoritative page about steaks.
Google's big innovation was to count the referrers -- how many pages used the word "steak" to link to that particular page.
Differently from most countries in the world, Colombia allowed corporations to buy and distribute vaccines to their employees.
The result?
Hunger Games: Food Delivery Company Giving Vaccines Only to Best Gig Workers
As COVID deaths in Colombia reach an all-time high and a third wave of infections has left hospital systems on the verge of collapse, the massive delivery company Rappi said it would offer vaccines to its employees.
The catch: the delivery workers will have to compete against each other to prove they are the hardest workers to win just a handful of jabs.
Juan Sebastián Rozo, Rappi’s director of public affairs, announced this week during a local radio interview that the company will give vaccines to the five percent of its delivery workers who “deliver the most orders, spend the most time logged into the app and because of that are the most exposed.”
> I can understand where the author is coming from, but this is the cruel reality of the world.
This article was written in 2015, when this kind of dilemma (who would you save) was purely theoretical.
Fast-forward to 2020/2021, and it became real: we had to decide how to allocate scarce, life-saving resources -- COVID-19 vaccines -- and we decided to distribute them to the elder and most vulnerable first.
I hope this decision -- replicated in most countries around the world -- will put an end to this attempt to calculate the value of human lives.
The thing that I don't like about the new images is the abuse of star flare effect. The colors are okay, but the flares... that's simply too much.