Well the big thing there is, what's in it for youtube to keep you there? You aren't interested in watching ads, or willing to pay for the content, the question is. You support the creators you like directly, which is great for the creators.

But the short of what you are saying... You want to give youtube zero cents, in exchange for their bandwidth costs of delivering you videos. It's a small amount of money to them of course, but it's not necesserally zero.

I hate google on the whole, but I find people silly that don't comprehend that companies want people that earn them money in some way. Think for a second that say a restraunt has garlic bread and water for free. Before long they notice more and more people are coming in, filling up on bread, drinking water, and leaving. Eventually they start up a new rule that you have to pay for a meal or else you will not even be seated. To which the people who have been just eating bread and drinking water will say "well they just lost my business".

Well I'd also say that's the general problem with the world as a whole. What's the sane and trustable source now. Big media is corporate controlled, they care about keeping their advertisers happy over finding the truth. Then there's the internet, the wild west. Then you have "independent" news, which half the time is a puppet for a particular party that's hiding it's real motives, or just a crazy guy talking out of his own ass with no real sources. Trusted journalism is darn near an oxymorn these days.

I'd imagine because, UFO means unidentified flying objects. Of which some turn out to just be random things (balloons, toys, weather phenomenons etc...). Some are our own secrete spy crafts, some are our enemies secrete spycrafts etc... Obviously we don't want to tell anyone about our own secrete craft, and we generally don't want to tell our enemies we've spotted their craft (better for them to think they are hidden when we can see them and hide what we don't want them to see when they approach, rather then tell them the weak points so they can make one that we really can't see). While I would hope we actually were near a state of actual world peace where all the nations aren't constantly burning trillions on these stupid games. I don't forsee that happening in our lives, but as citizens we're idiots if we jump to conspiracy theories that everyone's hiding shit that means, extraterrestrials, ghosts or lizard people.

Would seem to me to be rather big cost of resources, why train a guy just because he has no fingerprints, when you could just accomplish the same with skin grafts on a more naturally skilled agent.

Agreed, and IMO the biggest thing is, this is also the biggest hurdle to, even attempting to free the internet from corporate censorship, is to have more small sites, and less big conglomorates that are already censoring some things their owners/investors don't like, and are a single sale or takeover away from a takeover to suppress even more speech. The problem of course is, a small independent site, isn't going to have the lawyers to stop things like this from happening. The law being used as a bludgeoning instrament that you can't defend yourself unless it's in some billionares interest to protect you is a very dangerous scenerio.

Well AI training off of itself isn't necesserally bad, Training data itself is actually more problem than good. AlphaGo basically demonstrated that. (the Go AI that just played against itself, did better against pros than the AI that started with loads of pro games as training data.

Of course, I'd imagine the difficulty of how to let the AI learn success and failure to brute force the way alpha go would be the real challenge. Unless... we first make AI observers to guess how humans will react to movies. Once that system hits an accurate enough level then we could make it watch movies, until screenwriter bot impresses him enough

Damnit, I was sure just being in olive garden qualified me to use anyone's netflix account.

To my understanding, it reads what network the device is coming from. IE so if you use your ipad on your home network, you don't have to confirm for another month. If you don't bring your ipad home for a month, then it will force a 2 factor ID from something in that network. No idea what happens to say people with regularly changing IP addresses or say giant school networks etc..

It's game money, but in eve, you basically can exchange real world money for in game money legally within the rules of the game. There's a few more complicated steps but effectively, the game has a mechanism to spend real world money, and exchange it for an item that you can sell in game currency, and that creates a real world dollar to in game currency exchange rate. (however there is no method within the games rules to turn game money back into real world money, I'm sure people make arrangements like that all the time, but if the admin's catch you they'd ban your account).

New in a corp sure... I've never played an MMO without some daily active long time players in a guild. Sure you'll find a week or 2 when leader is on vacation, but usually there's 3 or 4 trusted leaders keeping general tabs. When there's under 10 active regulars, that's when you'd consider a guild "Dead" or abandoned.

Honestly on #1. I have to bring this up but.... asside from the fact that we can't seem to stop voting in 90 year olds that don't know what a computer is. Why aren't we looking into a remote work congress anyway? Is it important for it to be washington that we bring snowballs onto the floor of congress for to argue climate change isn't real? Seems to me that our representatives might do a better job if they spent more time, near their constituents than they are supposed to be representing, instead of needlessly traveling back and forth. The tech didn't exist when they wrote the constitution but that's what ammendments laws etc.. are for

Umm... so what's the conclusion that if the hosue of representatives, was more representative that would make people more likely to be in favor of authoritarian tyrany? Seems to me more common to find small firey groups of firebrand lunatics that gain power through heavy force of will, than large groups that become the majority.

The point isn't to say manchin is as bad as the republicans. the problem is... he's closer to a republican than a democrat... but people then call out democrats as having a majority that they don't have. When you have 2 people who vote with the republicans half the time or more, then it's unfair to claim you have a "democratic majority" . when reality when the votes are down party lines on an issue, it will not end in your favor (even before we talk the filibusters that can crush things even when you have a 59% majority.

I'm more currious why that has directly to do with "EVs" though. I mean EVs are often the cars with the most advanced technology, but it isn't like being gas powered is any hinderance on adding in bullshit immobilizers, trackers, etc...

My point is stopping EVs and stopping the tech that allows corporations to continue to own and control the car after they sell it to you. have nothing to do with eachother. There's no reason they wouldn't put all of this crap into a gas guzzling SUV.

Not an electrician... but logically there has to be something more to it isn't there? Logically there's got to be something more efficiant in devices made purely for the purpose of generating heat, versus products that generate heat as a byproduct. If not I suppose there's an unknown killing to be made in bitcoin mining, or better yet some of the old CPU donating projects like when CPU cycles were donated to medical research etc.... if we just got rid of all heaters, and replaced them with computational machines that run when it gets cold.

What's so frustrating about it all, is why it's so hard for government agents to understand encryption. Even old dinosaurs understand the idea of combination locks. What do you think happens if say we required every combination lock to have a master code that we tell every police officer about? You don't need to be able to understand an iphone to see how quick that would go wrong. Hell you could also compare it to the TSA keys on luggage tags, Followed by pictures of TSA keys selling for under $5 on amazon.