This is one of my all-time favorite HN quotes: "Pick the weights up, put them down, eat food. It just not that complicated." Sincerely brought a smile to my face.
These are very cool. Especially the ones that appear to be natural features.
Unfortunately, my first though upon seeing military installations camouflaged as cabins, barns, homes - that gives an invading enemy a good excuse to target civilian structures...
I had the same thought, I even assumed there would be some international wartime law against it. But turns out it's apparently ok according to this study I found from US Naval College
> Conventional IHL (international humanitarian law), then, indicates that at least one form of disguising a military object as a civilian object—camouflage—is a permissible ruse of war, not a prohibited act of perfidy.
So 10g would be $18,000 for 5 years of service. Less for 1G of course.
There were people I knew who moved to Kansas when Google installed fiber there because they wanted a lower cost of living and could work from anywhere if they had good internet service.
If someone wants a decent side hustle a service for finding places to live that have 1G+ internet + enough amenities for your typical engineering type might make decent bank with referral fees. Collecting all that into one location.
As someone who recently (-ish) moved to Oak Ridge, TN where we still have shitty Comcast and AT&T service I really wish we had what Chattanooga has. I love the area, but I do not love the internet service providers I have to choose from.
Very true, I could have it much worse. Honestly Comcast isn't that bad, but I deeply resent their ridiculous bandwidth cap when their service is so expensive.
It still gets floated from time to time (I recently saw high speed rail maps making the rounds).
IF/ when ATL > Chattanooga > Nashville are connected by a leg, it will absolutely change the region.
I have "heard" - completely so-and-so said - that much of the needed infrastructure exists. The key is repurposing existing rail lines and getting right of way.
I think there was a study commissioned that laid out the whole plan for a (3-5 stop) between downtown ATL and Nashville with a stop in Chattanooga.
I wonder how many customers actually do the networking on their end to make sure they aren't the bottleneck (10g ports/proper cabling and switches) versus people who just think "it's a bigger number and I have the cash... Sure"
Residential Internet almost never guarantees speed to the Internet backbone, it is just advertising the Ethernet link speed. There are subscriptions with guaranteed performance, but at a different price.
My home Internet connections are 1 Gbps and 300 Mbps (2 links from 2 providers, I work from home and I need the uptime) for less than $10 each, but the transfer speeds are close to these numbers only for local servers, getting out of the country is about half these speeds.
While its easy to point at Facebook and say "they are so creepy" - this sounds like the type of challenge every marketing department faces. "What is the attribution of X,Y,Z ad campaigns?"
Connecting purchase + email + 'where the ad happened' via social solves that.
> While its easy to point at Facebook and say "they are so creepy" - this sounds like the type of challenge every marketing department faces. "What is the attribution of X,Y,Z ad campaigns?"
That can still be creepy. (If you're meaning that the accusation of "creepy" should be directed at modern marketing in general and not just Facebook, yes, I'd agree with that, though a good part of how we got here is large centralized aggregators like Facebook.)
I think there are plenty of non-advertising contexts where "using people's data to influence their behavior more effectively" can easily cross from normal to creepy as you start collecting more data. If you give your SO a certain flower because you remember a conversation the two of you had a while ago about that flower, that's normal and even thoughtful. If you give your SO a certain flower because you hired people to follow them before you even started dating and you got a report that they always stopped to admire a certain flower on their walk to work, that's creepy.
Absolutely, but I think it's time to start asking:
1. Is that ok that we accept this sort of Pavlovian training from anyone, much less for-profit companies?
2. Is it ok now that the entities are so easily able to completely track the effectiveness of their advertising and thus empowered to amplify whatever works to increase their success rather than some metric like human happiness?
Imagine all of our phones' lockscreens being unlockable only by face unlock and not fingerprint... you know, our face which is all over the internet and trackable across websites and in-store and public cameras.
The right of privacy. The right of dominion of ones own affairs. There right to not be harassed by soulless individuals and companies who are 'merely' seeking to gratify their greed.
If rights were violated then this would all be illegal. Clearly it isn't. In the US, there is no constitutional right to privacy, and any legal precedents are mostly about government surveillance.
There's new data privacy regulations at the state and federal level going into effect which is why FB made these changes, but they don't explicitly prevent this kind of data sharing from an outside company using first-party trackers to send data to Facebook's marketing platform.
You are right, of course. It just goes to prove that we are little more than slaves to the system of governments who dictate what is lawful, who usurp their position in order to bestow rights back to us that used to be intrinsically ours to begin with. It doesn't make it right however.
"Attribution" in this sense is always going to be the enemy of privacy, because it boils down to the question of "what was on your screen when you decided to make this purchase".
