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Opening line:
Huge news: God spoke! And the first thing God said was, “Use other people’s money to pay for your home remodel, Colorado pastor Eli Regalado!”
They would offer stock to mods and users.
... in 1996.
I remember thinking at the time all we needed was a standard format for real estate listing HTML pages.
Google could index them, and the Multiple Listing Service would go away.
Instead, we eventually got Zillow - real estate listings, gameified.
The article explains this:
* You have to shoot spatial video holding the iPhone horizontally to get the two cameras side-by-side
* The spatial video is limited to 1K 30fps because of the limitations of the wide angle camera
For a long time, the 27" iMac was priced comparably to displays of similar size and quality - you could buy it with minimal factory RAM and disk, slot the RAM yourself, use external drives, and not break the bank.
If you were feeling brave, once the warranty lapsed you could open it up and add an SSD - cutting and replacing the adhesive strips holding it shut was not for the faint of heart.
With Apple Silicon most of those cheaper routes are closed off - no RAM or SSD upgrades at non-Apple prices.
I'm still waiting for an x86 system with slotted RAM and SSD that has the performance of Apple Silicon, though...
Sure, Reddit knows what I read.
They aren't showing me ads, though, and without that it's very difficult for them to monetize that knowledge by selling it.
It's like what Apple does. They know a lot about me because of Apple Pay, but they don't show me ads based on that info. They say explicitly that they do not save that info long-term, too - they keep it just long enough to enable the transaction.
This is different from what Google Pay does, BTW - Google Pay is run through a Google-owned bank, which can see all the info on your transactions, and they definitely add that info to their advertising profile on you.
Reddit has had this forever.
$40/year, no ads, gold every month (when you could buy gold).
I started it ages ago when Reddit actually needed the $; I kept doing it because I hate ads.
I read a lot, comment occasionally, post rarely. Reddit slips new-to-me subs into my feed based on my other viewing - this is the only tracking I can detect.
So, this amount is something like 15-20% of Apple's profits that year.
Not completely closed, according to my (dated) experience.
In the 1980's and 1990's Japanese people in computing/AI could read and write English well enough. It was rare for them to speak it or be able to converse in it, though.
Bottom line, no one can track you by looking at your traffic. Assuming the two proxies don't collude.
Given that this is Google we're talking about, I don't think you can assume the lack of collusion.
Google would have lots of plausibly-deniable ways to monetize that information without revealing where they got it.
Apple, not so much, which is why I would trust their proxying system over one from Google.
Instead of trying to own what students/faculty do, try:
* Encouraging entrepreneurship
* Setting up incubators, doing early investment in student/faculty startups
* Promoting successful associated businesses, accepting donations
The University of Maryland has a beautiful new Computer Science building right next to the main campus entrance, courtesy of Brendan Iribe (Oculus founder), Sergey Brin (Google founder), etc.
You get more donations when you don't have an adversarial relationship with your innovators.
You can pay reddit $40/year, and browse with no ads.
That's $3.33 and change per month.
I've done this ever since the days when reddit actually needed the money.
Better yet, leaks of identity-theft level data should be punishable by a simple fine.
$100/head feels about right to me,
Japan tried a government-planned AI and Computing buildup called Fifth Generation Computer Systems. This started in 1982, and was supposed to revolutionize computing.
It didn't, and it probably contributed in a small way to the global stall in the Japanese economy afterwards.
I am not quite old enough for direct experience of this, but there was a major education panic in the US around the time of the launch of Sputnik.
There weren't enough math and science teachers in K-12 education.
There were two proffered solutions:
* New Math
* Chemistry and Physics courses on film and filmstrips that could be taught by non-specialists
Any guesses as to how well they worked?
Any similarities to current trends in math education and science-by-remote-learning are purely conicidental, of course.
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.