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Comment Garbage in = garbage out. (Score 1) 124

"t 94% of spreadsheets used in business decision-making contain errors, " Absolutely. People that make these entries, error, consistently. That data is never directly used to make mission critical decisions. Industries that depend upon clean data also employ data analysts, to assure individual entries are clean, anomalies are investigated and a pure dataset is recorded.

  So yea, users fuck up data entry due to mistakes, errors or just plain laziness but data management is responsable for presenting clean data. And, from experience it pretty much works very well.

Comment Key words (Score 2) 20

"with fewer industry-linked scientists "

  Fewer?? please..
Experts will always be "linked" to the field they are qualified to be considered experts. Scientists with no financial link to the industry are the most accurate and unbiased way to understand fact as we know it. This is why we tenure educators, to assure unbiased dissemination of knowledge

Comment Re:Ad revenue incentive for SEO still remains (Score 1) 51

"As long as ad platforms continue showing ads on these low quality content farm type sites, the incentive for an SEO war remains"

  The change is designed to derank --"Low-Quality, Unoriginal Content In Search Results". What they are saying is even SEO optimized unauthoritative, copied, unoriginal won't make the cut as it used to.

Comment Re: Oh no (Score 0) 129

"If I want to play that game, I'll buy from Aliexpress or Gearbest."

Except for the fact that the majority of the products available on both of those platforms aren't stateside when you place your order.
  We 'Murkins like to satisfy our needs for Chinesium in 72 hours or less (with tracking) as cheap as we can.

Comment Really? (Score 1) 253

"(How would you invest in sex anyway?)"

How can the answer to this question not be blatantly obvious?

Just say "I do", the minute you don't you've lost half. It's 50/50 these days that you loose. Pretty poor investment in/for the worlds smallest parcel of real estate.

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