That's what I thought, given that protons are ten a penny (actually 10^24 a penny) and hardly worth transporting around. But the summary in Ars has the answer:
To confirm it all works, the team loaded it up with some protons (which are notably easier to produce)
The upshot is that 90% of us lost money, while the wealthy gained, as they have since Reagan.
That's not great, but a Thirties-style depression would have been a lot worse.
Counterpoint: People could miss out on good opportunities without targeted ads. I'm interested in local theater and I've found out about several productions through Facebook ads. Also I go running, and there are a couple of local events that I only found out about because of Facebook. If advertising is partly about matching up possible consumers and possible suppliers then (and it pains me to say this) Facebook's targeting could be a good thing.
over-engineered, over-built
"Race to the bottom" should get more love in Slashdot. It gives people more stuff for less money, and it's silly to engineer a sandwich toaster to last for 20 years, when it might only get used 20 times. But I'm quite keen on my over-engineered vacuum cleaner.
Honeybees and CGP Grey know it: Hexagons are the Bestagons.
Hundreds of billions of dollars to teach a 78 year old man some economics. Coursera would be a lot cheaper.
Agreed. Also it's wise to spend the shortest possible time at the "insane crowd around the Mona Lisa" exhibit.
I can't remember what I ordered at about 9am in the Louvre cafeteria, but they served me a beer. I'm pretty sure my French isn't that bad. Anyway, quite an unexpected treat.
The Federal Trade Commission(FTC) has never ever been an independent organization. The "Independent" self label was always marketing(a lie).
It's funny that we're discussing matters of enormous constitutional importance, but what I most care about is that you didn't put a space before either of the opening brackets
Isn't this just reflecting the reality that the Congress has taken a back seat and the Executive is completely in control? Perhaps the GDR and the DPRK should have edited themselves in the same way.
That's a fair point.
If I was going to be snarky, I'd say that "would of" instead of "would have" is evidence for declining standards, but that would just be me being old
As advertisements go, it's not particularly a hard sell: "lack of new features", "model never materialised", "sharp decline".
I wonder if part of the downturn is just people holding on to their watches for longer before replacing them. I've bought Garmin running watches in 2016, 2020, and 2024. I'd imagine that if people hold on to their Apple watches for four years or more, then that would tend to reduce their sales.
There's a photo going around of an iRobot store in a shopping mall with a wall of floor cleaners and a young woman in front of said wall with a dust mop cleaning the floor.
If you trip over a Roomba while it's cleaning the shopping mall floor, sue the mall. If you trip over a young woman with a mop, sue your optometrist.
But these effects work best at the higher latitudes, it hardly works south of the Canadian border.
San Francisco is about 800 miles south of the Canadian border and switching to daylight saving time in the summer works there. Without DST days would start before 5am for a couple of months in the summer. How about permanent DST? That would mean a winter sunrise after 8.15am for a couple of months. Changing the clocks twice a year avoids this.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
