Also, has anyone studied the debris? If we go to hundreds of millions of little satellites, that is a significant mass. what is that debris made of, is it reactive, what happens to it?
Wouldn’t you typically have to also use Nem-ID to log in to some new service?
Nem-ID is a central login system, where you get mailed a physical printout of keys that act as two-factor authentication across financial and other services (at least that’s how it was, I think some new system is underway).
I.e the cpr number on its own is not valuable without the login info for services that use nem-Id.
The system seemed to work pretty well and I’m surprised to not see it more widespread.
You can still create phone subscriptions and order medicine and from what I can read quickly on the internet people have in recent years been frauded with smart-loans, leases and some similar stuff.
It's right there in the word. Eu-topia: "Not place". A place that does not exist. Trying to create utopia is futile because by definition it will never exist.
To me Duolingo is a fun side activity while learning a language, good to reinforce vocabulary, but I wish the exercises had just a bit of context. So much of language is with full expressions. When we learn words, we don't learn them individually but rather how they are used in a context or phrase.
That makes sense. I will do it as well if advertising wasn't a model. In some ways, YouTube already allows that with Red.
I wonder how many people are like you though outside the tech forums and especially in developing countries (where a lot of the users for US based tech companies come from).
Yes, and even fewer people would pay for that on a continuous basis like a utility. If there was a free alternative everyone would just use that one and suggest it to their friends.
Although I suppose there could be a certain exclusivity and elite aspect to such a network, similar to how Facebook differentiated itself with exclusivity by only being available at universities in the beginning. A network that markets itself as both for higher class people willing to pay monthly and free of ads/tracking.
I believe FB makes something like $6.50 per user. Obviously Google makes money from users too, and given overlap it seems likely that one user is worth quite a bit annually. Average that out over lifetime value, and we’re talking thousands of dollars.
Imagine if the likes of Equifax treated silos of data as a liability instead of an asset to be milked. Properly valued, a breach of hundreds of millions of people’s data would end a business, even as large as Equifax.
This is interesting actually. In theory it makes sense for them to offer a subscription that gets rid of ads, and if priced well it could make them more money on a user than ads. I'm sure a few people would be pay $5.99 - $9.99 for ad-free Facebook, especially if this means getting rid of video ads too.
Yet, if too many people opt for the paid option, technically advertiser value would fall, since less users would be targetable. Moreover, $6.50 average per user means they probably make close to no money on some users, but a lot of money on others. If only their high-yielding users opt-in to an ad-less Facebook, this could mean big losses for them.
I guess this is why they haven't offered a paid version as an option ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> I'm sure a few people would be pay $5.99 - $9.99 for ad-free Facebook
It's not about the ads, it's about the tracking, profiling, and sharing/selling our data.
If I could pay a few dollars a month (I guess Facebook would be worth $3-5/mo to me, and Google $5-10/mo) and get out of the whole tracking/voter-manipulation/profiling/sharing data/etc. thing, that'd be worth it. That would have to include that any non-essential data is not recorded or (if I previously was on the free tier and am now paying for a year or so) permanently deleted. Of course many personal things fall in the 'necessary for functionality' category, like chat history and which pages I liked, but part of the deal is not using that data for anything other than the service itself. And if I decide to go to a competitor, I don't want to be blackmailed into paying to keep it private, so I'd want to have an option to permanently take out and delete my data once I leave.
Sounds like a tough bargain, given all the restrictions I'm putting on it, but the alternative is the current state where I'm not making them any money at all. Not using it is worth it to me, despite missing out on a few things. And I don't think the requirements are unfair, I'm just asking them to provide service X for price Y without anything else, but apparently in 2018 we have to mention that we don't want anything else, like having our data misused or shadow profiles being recorded.
And it could be used in a smart grid environment to provide a stabilization power... after all, it's known when a ship will be needing the power (divide the distance by the top speed and the ship physically cannot arrive earlier), and so as long as it is ensured that the battery is topped up when the ship arrives for a recharge, the capacity can be used for grid stabilization.
