>"We are clearly different then. I always log in, but i have a major incentive due to wanting to squash ads with youtube premium
There are other options. I also have no ads.
We've seen what happens when people do it your way
>"I'd say the same for YouTube. It's used to watch videos. The number of people who comment on them is minimal compared to the userbase."
That is exactly what I came to post. I use YouTube all the time. I have *never* logged into it. So for tons of people, it is not "social media".
Facebook, on the other hand, is mostly useless without a login. You can see a bit of it, then it stops.
>"I'd be very curious to the exact definition of "social media" they use is. I don't think it's what most people consider to be social media."
Bingo. Plays right into my comments last week about the stupid Virginia law trying to force "age checking" for "social media" and they don't even define what "social media" is or is not. As if everyone knows exactly what it is. Yet, somehow, stripping adults of their privacy and rights will save children (since parents refuse to restrict or withhold internet-connected devices from their children).
Is Slashdot "social media"? How about my local LUG's forum? What about the comments section on Amazon or Walmart product pages? Or reviews of apps on Google Play? A USENET group? Chat sessions in online games? If just watching videos is "social media" does that make broadcast TV or cable TV or a movie theater "social media"?
I don't spend much time on slashdot, rather in economics reading.
Umm...ok. I'll let you in on a little tidbit of information that is news to nobody who actually does read about economics. Notice how you linked a piece of his from 1992? Yeah well, he keeps changing his mind on shit like this, which is fine and all, everybody should change their views in the presence of new evidence. I do this often. But the way he changes his mind seems more to adjust to whatever the current whims of the democratic party are at the moment, rather than being based on any empirical measurement or observation. Just a few examples:
https://www.econlib.org/archiv...
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem...
Guarantee you, he'd even revise the shit out of that piece if he went over it again.
I believe his best-known point was that when Bill Gates walks into a 20,000 seat football stadium, the "average attendee" just became a multi-millionaire.
You don't have to tell me this, I'm always the one having to tell you guys this.
But I gotta say - that St Louis Fed page says it rose from 27K to 45K in 45 years. That's 1.1% gain per year.
By the way, in case you haven't noticed, this is in real terms. In other words, that's in excess of the rate of inflation.
Krugman's own essay above is about how that number is smaller than the percentage gains of the top 10%, much less the top 1%, much much less the top 0.1%...which is what the inequality debate is all about.
I don't know how we're jumping to inequality all of a sudden, but here's an interesting thing about those upper income brackets: The higher you go, the more you find that they don't have an actual salary. I don't think you'll understand this particularly well, so let me draw an analogy that you may be familiar with:
Suppose you build a house. The land you bought plus the materials cost you $100,000. Fast-forward 20 years later, you make no improvements to it over that time, only maintaining what is already there. Somebody else comes along and says it's worth $1,000,000, even though if we only follow the rate of inflation, that original $100,000 only looks like $200,000 in today's money. So what about it changed to increase its value 5 fold?
Hold that thought, and consider the road you're currently heading down. By having this house, what harm did you do to somebody else? You literally have a lot more "wealth" than somebody two towns over, yet nothing in your possession has changed. Sure, you might argue that somebody who could afford your house two years ago now can't. But is that even relevant if you never had any intention of selling? Certainly not, but you're going to get taxed much harder. But who created that problem? Some unnamed "wealthy" people who are willing to pay you more money for it, or some very specific people who you voted for and decided that you owe a privilege tax because of what somebody else thinks about your house?
There's a lot to digest there.
But my stronger point was the use of "wealth" rather than "income". Wealth is the integral of (income - living.costs) over time, modified by preference for saving over spending. (Japanese are great savers, so are Canadians). If your income keeps going up, but your inescapable living costs like housing and higher education also skyrocket, your wealth will do poorly, as with Gen Z not having housing.
Canada has THIRTY PERCENT higher median wealth than America. That's the sum of savings, despite lower income, because we have far lower medical insurance costs and precarity.
I'm actually glad you cited Canada. Do you have any idea what is going on with that country right now? Quick video for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Now watch what happens to your...well...let's be honest, really meaningless...wealth figure falls with Canada's real estate bubble.
JPEGXL really does everything webp does and so much more, and it's well thought out.
WebP isn't terrible; they are smaller than I would have guessed given that they have the container overhead, but there's no stunning argument for it. "Better than PNG for what we used PNG for." OK, true, but.
Google should just let AV1 be AV1 and focus on pushing HEVC out of the market with it. The real opponents of progress have left the image space and are mucking around with video and VR now. Google has the capability to do something about this and foster innovation.
So... irreversibly irradiating our groundwater supply, but with more steps.
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That you and rsilvergun are obviously related.
>"but really HSR should be focused on interstates. "
Exactly. That is about all we can expect would be workable/affordable. Otherwise it requires extremely expensive elevated tracks. The problem with many Interstates is that some of them now are nearly "full", having expanded multiple times for more lanes. There isn't an usable center area and sides are pinned in.
A credit union is not socialist. They are, in fact, private, corporate entities. The fact that you don't know the meaning of the word "socialism" proves exactly what I just said.
No, that's not what happened. As usual, you're ignoring history and injecting your own false narrative into it. You like state owned businesses, so listen to what a French state-owned company had to say about it:
https://www.businessinsider.co...
California's politicians are what happened to it. We have a bunch of people who think like you running this state, and it shows.
The problem with "hot rock" is that, while it has incredibly high thermal mass and can retain a lot of heat, the thermal conductivity of rock is very poor - so poor that once you take the heat out, it takes weeks or months to put it back..
Oddly enough, you just described how it might work perfectly if you had a few sites to extract that energy source that’s more dependent on timing than physics.
Extract the energy from “hot rock” when hot. When it cools to a non-optimum temperature, you switch back to primary power and target the next hot site to pull energy from and wait for the first one to heat back up to become an optimized energy source again. Rinse and repeat.
Switch to geothermal sources in times when the primary is more expensive (such as heating costs in winter). Convert to geothermal when you can mimic nature year round and pull the energy effeciently.
Oh, and much like Japan nuclear wont forget tsunamis anytime soon, let us not forget about natural and wild volcanic activity. One cannot over engineer that safety valve enough.
Microsoft Warns Its Windows AI Feature Brings Data Theft and Malware Risks, and 'Occasionally May Hallucinate'.
With friends like that behind the corporate firewall, where’s Pablo Escobar the HR Director when you need him.
Seriously. A sneeze-activated cocaine dispenser on the CEOs desk sounds better for business than that shit. And ironically is what currently works to keep their stock price higher than giraffe pussy.
You have to admit; it's a fun thought experiment.
We don't know we will find such a method. But let's say we do. Just for the sake of the thought experiment. Imagine how different people will react. Some will have their favorite cause just plain
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