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Honestly, I trust you're being sincere, but this reads like anti-EV FUD.

Re: gas stations for tire pressure - it's the worst! They'll charge an exorbitant rate, the timer cuts out before you get to your fourth tire, someone is parked in the way or the machine is down - filling the tires was literally my least favorite part of car ownership for years, and I tend to do most of my own simple maintenance like oil changes.

I bought this tool on the battery platform of the rest of my power tools: https://www.makitatools.com/products/details/DMP180ZX

Best $120 I've ever spent! Can't recommend enough. Also great for inflatable mattresses, kiddie pools, basketballs, and shuts off automatically when it gets to the pressure you set.

My dad always said the three most stressful things were:

Changing jobs, changing homes, changing relationships

Try not to do all 3 at once :)

But, I think you framed it better - a lot of people interpret what my dad said as the negative, but it really is the status "change" that matters.

I would interpret 'side project' here as a work project that is not your primary and has low stakes for delivery into production timelines or expectations.

Sorry, I wasn't complaining about your post specifically, just a general tenor that kind of shits on this work because of an unsolvable problem: as you say there's actually no comprehensive dataset that would make it possible.

Your original comment was valid and insightful. I replied to it because it triggered a lot of secondary criticism about sample bias, and those are the comments I was most trying to respond to.

Weird. No famous people are noted at the house I grew up in.

Bad joke. This is amazing - thank you.

There's plenty of discussion in this thread on the methodology.

Clearly Hillary has a longer and more verbose Wikipedia entry than any of those other people, which is no way surprising considering her length of tenure as a high profile national politician.

You could be more helpful by presenting your superior approach to programmatically ranking 'fame'.

There's a lot of discussion here of the 'western lens' as you bring up, but I'm not sure that's fair criticism. The creator(s) aggregated data and built something very interesting. To complain that the data they used isn't universal doesn't seem fair. I think Wikipedia is a reasonable starting place, but yes, Wikipedia skews geographically.

All datasets have bias. It's okay to acknowledge that and still find insights in the data.

Honestly curious: what highly accessible dataset that allows for the simple creations of 'fame metrics' would be better? I'm not aware of any.

Let me know when I can celebrate the federal holiday Jeff Foxworthy day and go down to my locality's Kanye West Boulevard

Thank you for your comment. I had no idea, and appreciate the correction and lesson.

My old neighborhood in Brooklyn always had filming, and my current town is on its third movie shot on main st so far this year - I wonder if those are usually subsidized too.

It's possible you are compensated for this though. It's not unlikely that the shoot pays your locality for the inconvenience and in turn your taxes are lower than they may otherwise be.

I wonder what the overlap of people is that: 1) are in a tizzy over promiscuity among adults, 2) advocate for organized religion, and 3) target 'hot young chicks'.

You are a unique individual, I think. That said, maybe start thinking of women as human beings.

What are you trying to communicate?

Whenever I see that chart I feel gratified that I chose Makita when I was making the big battery decision a few years ago.

Personally, I lean to independent brands. I don't want my Milwaukee tools having all the same parts as the Ryobi line - makes me assume I'm being suckered into an identical tool that's way more expensive. Even if the Milwaukee is usually superior, I'm guessing some things just are exact copies with red paint. I'm the same way with say Patagonia over North Face - I'll always avoid VF Corp brands for something that's still building legacy, rather than profiting on historical credibility.

I guess the same is true with previous generation stuff. Abercrombie & Fitch, and Eddie Bauer used to be premier outdoor equipment companies with great down jackets and sleeping bags, fishing equipment, even shotguns. Now they're both brands representing clothes I don't want. Both brands sold and were aggregated with other companies in the late 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Bauer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abercrombie_%26_Fitch

Downvoted you for the hyperbole.

You're arguing that all crimes that have fines and jail time should be capital crimes instead?

Is this humor?

Because the symbols need to be looked up we shouldn't use silk any more??

Agreed. I had to watch the animation cycle a dozen times to address my curiosity on what the current symbols mean. Should have been two images like below, but with the text.

I find it ironic that you're worried about a 'woke culture' while speaking on behalf of other people's feelings that you don't know or work with.

I have SO MANY questions?

Where does your domain name come from? How do you get people to trust that install? What's keeping you out of an app store? How do you source update material?

I expected to see pr0n related stuff in this thread, but your post struck me as super curious-inducing. Thanks.

I like your site, but are you marking prices up massively?

A url in the domain search took me to a purchase page for $99/yr. I see the same domain on Hover for $14.... Are you bundling a bunch of additional services or something?

Are you claiming that no knowledge or technology has come out of CERN that benefits humanity in any way?

I find that hard to believe considering how much technical innovation came out of the space race that has had an impact on our everyday lives [0].

[0] https://www.aii.org/how-the-space-race-built-todays-technolo....

Interesting. I've never experienced this in Outbacks - I've had the 2017 and 2021 models.

Is something occluding your eyesight cameras, like EZ pass?

Usually, the behavior is adaptive stuff all shuts off when the road turns to sharp or weather blocks the cameras.

That's a fair point, and I'm guessing why my previous comment is being downvoted.

I know our location provider did some things proactively - like they would not geofence hospitals, for example, but "home" is likely very visible.

That's a dataset I didn't work on as much, so maybe I'm not being sensitive enough to the "this should be illegal" argument. I guess on reflection misleading you for the collection should be illegal, though how to do that isn't obvious.

What I've worked on the most is people's credit card transaction histories, and that's quite a bit more naturally anonymous, though again, if you know enough about a person they would be discoverable.

I use the 6 and 12 hour forecasts every single day, personally. Simple stuff like - is it going to rain while we go to the playground, what's the UV going to be while we're at that outdoor thing, how cold is it going to be after I go to bed and do I need to close some windows... that sort of thing.

Honestly, I'm not sure it needs to be illegal. I'm not sure it shouldn't be either.

I wholeheartedly admit, some of our data providers are shady, and there's no way I would go work for them. I don't like the way they mislead people.

That said, the data we get is anonymous. Sure, if I know enough about you, and you're in one of my panels, it's feasible that I might be able to figure out which panelist you are. I know there's been some kerfuffle there with less than upstanding "private investigators" and bounty hunters in the past. But, the data we deal with is far too expensive for those sorts.

We find valuable consumer behavior insights the data at regional levels. That creates information that's valuable not only on Wall St, but to retailers and brands, who are desperate for anything to help them understand market share and loyalty.

I dunno. It's a weird world. It's also a very commoditized world. Just having access to the data is no longer the main value add - you have to provide the meaning of it as well.

Not sure why this is getting downvoted. I think it's a good and reasonable question.

I suspect it's the difference between an app's prompt and the OS's prompt.

My team used to buy location data that we packaged up into reports for equities investors - the premise being the more foot-traffic your brand had, the more revenue you're likely to have.

Tons of apps sell this info. I think a lot of the 3rd party weather apps have been the traditional worst offenders because everyone wants to know the weather where they actually are in the moment.

That's interesting, but how does it work? Of the jobs I've applied to it's been exceedingly rare that I knew the pay at the time of the application.

Just note that it's going to be very, very rare that the person you're being "impolite" to has influence to change the company in a way to "do what you need them to do".

Above ground power in areas with large trees is a recipe for longer power outages.

I was in northern NJ when Superstorm Sandy hit, and that suburb had many houses with multi-week outages.