TerrifiedMouse

I think it will come eventually. Bandwidth is getting cheaper (at least I think it is) and video compression is getting better all the time (saving on storage and bandwidth), both lowering the cost of operating such a service.

This is why I feel YouTube’s crusade against ad blockers is short sighted. Sure they can get away with it now but it might cost them in the future against potential competition. Even viewers who don’t watch ads might add value to your platform’s content in the form of comments and votes.

Energy would be better used trying to find out why viewers hate their ads so much and if there is a way to remedy it and get some kind of compensation.

Google and Facebook probably don’t selling user information to others. Why would they? It’s their moat.

From what I have heard, Google instead sells ad space in real-time with information about the viewer attached to the ad space - but not the identity of the viewer; real life, online alias, or otherwise. Advertisers then in real time bid for that ad space depending on whether they are interested in the viewer characteristics attached to it - it’s all automated / done by preprogrammed bots.

Why would high resolution make it worse? Just increase the screen DPI.

Anyway, the iMacs I have seen at the Apple Store has decently sized text.

It’s important to those of us with aging eyes.

TSMC doesn’t care. It’s like an arms dealer, it will happily sell to both sides.

I worry about the battery longevity of a MacBook though - about damage from keeping at high charge for long periods from it being plugged in/docked.

With an iMac that isn’t concern since it has no battery. It will last 5 years + no problem.

But the iMac screen is bigger and higher resolution - not sure about the latter but too lazy to check.

> The conscripts of the IJA weren't trained specifically to commit atrocities.

Maybe not directly.

100s of thousands of people don't commit atrocities just out of the blue.

Their doctrine was pretty hardcore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoichi_Yokoi

I think the $200k-300k Bezos got was also most of this parent’s life savings. It was their retirement fund they gambled on their son’s company.

The rest of the money (excluding his own savings) he got the old fashion way, begging VCs and other investors.

You got me wondering. What happens to trademarks that are no longer in active use?

Since Musk is obviously throwing away the Twitter trademark, does he eventually lose control over it and someone else just take it and start using it.

Frankly I think the only reason China copies and clones is because it’s the path of least resistance to profit. They have lax laws on IP protection. Ther is no reason to do R&D when you can just copy/clone and make just as much money with none of the risk.

And that’s probably the only reason. If push comes to shove, they can probably innovate if given proper incentives.

I heard the tale about the Japanese lens industry. For the longest time they made crap lens that were just clones of foreign designs until the Japanese government banned licensing of foreign lens designs forcing their people to design their own lens. Now they are doing pretty well in that industry if I’m right.

Technically speaking every military is made up of civilians … every soldier was once a civilian.

That said, there is a difference between you voluntarily signing up to join the military and you being dragged into it.

Well I don’t want people forcing to Apple to change things when things are working just fine.

Currently opening up the browser to others just means Apple will lose control over that part of the UX as Chrome will eventually take over giving Google to have full control of the future of the web.

Now you will tell me, “We have Firefox!”. I use Firefox too on PC … tell me how that’s working out market-share wise.

> Your conspiracy doesn't make sense. No German politican would ever ty to hurt the German automotive sector.

The same German politicians that shutdown nuclear reactors making Germany more dependent on fossil fuels like coal?

You can always buy the device that allows hacking. No one is putting a gun to your head to by an Apple product.

If people want to buy a non-hackable Apple product that Apple tightly controls, that’s their business.

It doesn’t affect you. You should mind your own business.

> Comments like me honestly scare me. If windows was released today, you'd only be allowed to install windows apps through the approved store, and some of you will even defend that.

If people want a close platform and all that comes with it, it’s their business.

As long as there exist viable open platforms for those who want an alternative, I don’t see the problem.

> pry open Apple’s control of the iPhone

I wonder if this might backfire and have the opposite effect, compel Apple to enter the search engine game because Google is attacking them on their own turf.

If Google controls search and the browser on iOS, Apple would have ceded a ton of control to Google.

Although what you say isn’t wrong …

Apple really can’t win. Oppose RtR. Gets criticized. Complies with RtR. Also gets criticized. LOL

Microsoft chickened out because Sony was absolutely slaughtering them in sales by being $100 cheaper.

Granted price isn’t the only reason - MS’s self-inflicted bad PRs and slightly lower graphical performance of the XB1 - but it really wasn’t helping.

At the end of the day, their core demographic wasn’t interested in the gimmick that was the Kinect.

Is that advisable? It won’t learn anything new and might reinforce its errors.

Wait. They killed AMP? I mean I don't miss it but that's something I never thought would end up in the Google graveyard.

> It feels weird to use quotations on "smarter" or pretend this is a complicated concept when it's just describing how humans achieved greater intelligence faster than the speed of evolution.

It’s in quotes because the orca did not become smarter.

If you replace orca with human, the quotes would still make sense.

Things have changed over the decades. Those countries have become more individualistic and divorce is less taboo among the current generation than the Boomers.

> incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic

Not that hard to work around frankly. Just delete the offending video that trigger the avalanche of recommendations from history - make sure you did not leave a comment or vote on the video; zero interaction apart from watching (which will be forgotten when you remove it from your history)

> Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has abandoned any pretense of offering a good user experience.

This I agree. YouTube (Google as a whole) has stopped trying to match eyeballs to relevant ads. Instead they have handed the reins to advertisers to bid for who they want to advertise to. So if advertisers was to be self-destructive and make your web experience crap, Google will happily let them as long as they get their check.

While it might be different for some people, I believe most of what you mention are short term side effects that fade once you stop taking it.

Discontinuation syndrome I assume are the side effects when you suddenly stop. I believe those are also temporary for most people.

It’s pretty much collectivism vs individualism.

The West has mostly leaned towards individualism (aka “it's a free country”) while the East Asia under the influence of Confucianism is most collective.

Collectivism has its downsides. It can be suffocating. Society also doesn’t always take into consideration an individual’s limitations when it comes to meeting societal obligations - a moot point in more individualistic societies.

Out of curiosity, what do you think are the permanent side effects for humans.

I have been taking them for decades but stopped recently since my life hasn’t really improved after all those decades.

> The only major difference so far is that these chips by default don't have the typical power limit set, so they can actually achieve about +2-3% more performance in gaming at +100% more power draw.

I heard that Intel might have gotten their Digital Linear Voltage Regulator working which would decrease power consumption. It was disabled in 13th gen because it was broken.

> That would be: How could a tea commercial actress cause scandal anyway?

It’s all about image. If the spokesperson can’t project the image the sponsor wants, they are gone.

Anything from sex scandals (leaked photos/videos) to being caught doing drugs (pretty much a death sentence for any celebrity’s career there) could get you dropped and blacklisted from the industry.

> The only "spokesperson scandal" I can think of is the Subway guy, and I don't really think even that enormous scandal hurt Subway very much.

It’s different in countries like Japan. A spokesperson must generally be squeaky clean.

The biggest fall of a celebrity in Japan is probably Noriko Sakai. Got caught doing drugs with her then husband.

All ads featuring her instantly disappeared. Almost all media works with her were pulled from the shelf or had parts her removed and redone with another actress.