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Maf1··on The Monkey and the Coconuts: An Introduction to the Extended Euclidean Algorithm
The men are spotify executives and the monkey is the artist.
Maf1··on LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
one of many posts on LinkedIn.
Maf1··on To the Bored All Things Are Boring
Me too.. I decided to use Chat GPT to summarise the article!
Maf1··on What ‘The Jetsons’ predicted right – and wrong – about the future
Did the Jetsons predict the future or did we just take inspiration from it?
Maf1··on Joseph Stiglitz: 'We should shut down the cryptocurrencies'
Davos have been pushing individual carbon trackers. "reached carbon quota.. access to flight/bus/car..denied!
Maf1··on Instagram reportedly removing shorter daily time limit options from its app
Somewhat expected. These social media apps rely on people using them. The time limit is a reminder that you are using the app for too long, it's bad for business!
Maf1··on Wizzair with £2 tickets, how do they make money?
Average revenue per passenger improved by 5.2 per cent from €69.0 in F20 to €72.5 in F21. Average ticket revenue per passenger decline from €37.7 in F20 to €32.0 in F21 (by 15.2 per cent), while average ancillary revenue per passenger increased to €40.6 from €31.3 (by 29.6 per cent)

Wizz air annual report.

Lots of people spending a little adds up. Poundland for example, small amounts of revenue for each individual product, but millions of transactions add up.

Maf1··on Wizzair with £2 tickets, how do they make money?
Wizzair’s ancillary sales of 1.2 billion Euro accounted for 45% of total revenues(2017).

Ancillary services are considered those beyond the transportation of the passenger from origin to destination. Airlines provide various services and engage in other activities connected with its core air passenger service, including non-flight scheduled services, internet-related services, and the in-flight sale of beverages, food, and merchandise.

Maf1··on Wizzair with £2 tickets, how do they make money?
Perhaps the landing slots are more valuable. If airlines don't use allocated slots they could lose them. Might as well get some small amount of income. Upsell on the flight. Just a thought.
Maf1··on Managed by Bots: surveillance of gig economy workers
Or will we live in a world where the computer is always right.
Maf1··on Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022
Gibraltar surge in covid cases and is cancelling lots of events, but has 100% vaccination rate. No stopping restrictions and cases even with 100% vaccination rate.
Maf1··on Much of Bitcoin’s 2017 boom was market manipulation, research says (2018)
Is this equal to the market manipulation or currency manipulation experienced in other markets? thoughts?
Maf1··on I found an Amazon folder with thousands of audio recordings from my home gadgets
Are people still surprised that these devices are capturing information???
Maf1··on FDA grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid shot
In 2019/20 there were estimated to be 506,100 hospital admissions attributable to smoking. (Statistics on Smoking, England 2020-NHS)
Maf1··on FDA grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid shot
and smokers, drinkers, drug takers, extreme sports enthusiasts.
Maf1··on FDA grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid shot
I agree I think smokers, drinkers, drug-takers should also fall under this. If they choose not to take advice about reducing smoking, drinking, taking drugs then they should be on the hook for medical treatment.