That's promising. If this reduces the R value by 30%, then generalizing this may have a compounding effect and could reduce an epidemy's overall size by more than 30%.
Targeted ads suck most of the time. Try Privacy Badger if you're not already using it, and take every opportunity to opt-out of unnecessary data collection and targetting.
I hope your pet is living his best life at its new home, and wish you're able to get a pet soon.
That's part of it, even if that's not the only part.
Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, voluntary exchange, and wage labor.
Subsidies skew the market toward specific sectors, technologies, or actors.
A company that do not benefit from subsidies is at a competitive disadvantage vs a company that do get subsidies.
A totally free market wouldn't have any subsidies. But markets aren't totally free in practice.
Subsidies are typically a good thing when it benefits cleaner tech or improving energy efficiency. It's the fossil fuel subsidies that do the most harm.
Let's hope they're auctioned and sold quickly and don't end-up in tangled in the legal system for too long.
Hopefully this is handled well enough so cars get into the used car market. Selling these for scrap or for recycling is another option but would be more wasteful.
Automatic delay and time adjustment should be standard for consumer devices and electric car charging that consume lot of energy, and don't need to be activated immediately.
For years and even decades, it's been possible to setup water heaters to activate during low-rate electricity hours, and store the hot water for later.
I think the question is whether anonymity cause or enable hate speech, not hate itself. And as important, wether banning anonymity can be a remedy against hate speech, without causing harmful side effects.
That's why I like the GPL. I'm fine with people using my software for personal use, or for commercial use if that's integrated in another open source software.
If a company want to use my software with an unrestrictive opensource license, we're going to have to discuss license price.
Do you know of a study that have confirmed anonymity as a cause of hate or agressive speech online?
It may not be that simple, even if that sounds plausible.
But there's the argument that anonymity is helpful to protect against some agressive behaviors.
While there are many examples of people using anonymous social media accounts to abuse others online, it’s equally clear that anonymity can be a lifeline to many users and communities. Posting anonymously can allow people to protect themselves – to openly discuss and deal with complex topics safely. It can allow people to speak out about abuse, and seek information.
That page about Roger's outage is an interesting read. Interac deserves a (lesser) part of the blame, such a critical service shouldn't depend on a single network provider. Good practices include redundancy in different locations and backed by different network and electricity provider, or at least not share the same local power grid.
I guess these algos are monitored but given benefit of the doubt. Few understand the system and/or would risk going against the system's recommandations of fear of getting blamed.
It's a bit light for a news story. It could have been a lengthier analysis on Twitter's decline and spread of hate speech on the platform.