I do think you're onto something here. I've heard about "right-clicker mentality" [1] in relation to NFTs, which seems to align with your description of its utility as a wealth signal.
Maybe it is because they are so expensive compared to other nuts globally? I wonder why they are so cheap in Irkutsk, it looks like they go for $117/kg in the United States [1].
If you opt into the class settlement, you absolve the defendant of all liability so you can't sue them yourself in the future (for the same issue). If you don't join the class, you can still sue the defendant separate from the class. Not sure if that was the reason for the commenter above opting out, though.
Realistically, I think most of the time, if the ad is targeted well, there are no issues. I see a good amount of ads, and the most annoying ones, to me, are the most poorly targeted ones.
However, I do think there is an inherent creepiness involved in the amount of tracking involved to achieve that level of targeting. Normally, as a person who is not terribly privacy minded, I'm not thinking about this tracking that watches everything I do. That is, until I had an experience like the top comment. I ripped the mic out of my Amazon FireTV remote that day. It made me uncomfortable that my conversation left the room without my knowledge or consent. (I realize this was Amazon, not Google, but they all do this sort of thing.)
Edit: I think ad targeting has to achieve a delicate balance of serving potentially helpful ads, while not alerting the target that they are part of the Matrix.
>I think ad targeting has to achieve a delicate balance of serving potentially helpful ads, while not alerting the target that they are part of the Matrix.
It is a great ideal but this narrative is pretty much anti HN sentiment on Ads.
The housing crash in 2008 was caused by many people getting kicked out of their homes. It was too easy to get a mortgage that was too big, so lots of families were one hardship away from being unable to pay their mortgage (economic calamity). Also because it was so easy to get big mortgages, housing prices were higher than they would have been otherwise (bubble). So after the crash started, there were a lot of big empty homes and few people could afford them since lots of people were getting kicked out. So sellers and banks had to lower their asking prices until someone could afford them. There are more requirements for getting a mortgage now after 2008 so that should hopefully help to make the next crash not as bad.
Basically, if a lot of people buy houses they can't really afford, a crash will happen soon: when all those people get foreclosed on in large numbers because they can't pay the mortgage.
I wish my 71yo dad was as proficient as your mom. He doesn't remember anything he doesn't do regularly.
For example, he texts frequently but doesn't know how to check his email. Because I am the tech support child, he reaches out to me for iPhone help. However, since I am not an iPhone user, I always struggle and sometimes fail to solve his problem.
Perhaps this is a sign I have not dedicated enough time to learning this new OS in my family ecosystem, but I do feel it is the least-similar to the other OS's I have used. It's like if my dad was learning programming and asked if I'd help him with his Lisp program. No thanks.
Though maybe I am just a luddite and the universe is written in iOS.
I think that is because the link does not actually send you directly to your website, but routes you through qr.new. If qr.new were to go down, any QR codes created would not work.
Hi! I've been trying to stick with apt for installing stuff on my Pi to make software updates easier, so yeah, installing via Cargo was something I was leaning away from. No bugs to report. Thanks for sharing your tool!
I am running the Bash script from the linked blog post on my local Raspberry Pi. Is your Lambda for pointing back to your home network? If so, that is awesome that you can do that using a remote service. If you don't mind sharing, how does it work?
Instead of using DynDNS my router at home is configured to hit an alternative url, the lambda. Every hour it pings my lambda with its current public IP. The lambda then uses my actual DNS provider’s API to update the record.
It seems the format of DynDNS HTTP posts is baked into a lot of products but obviously not every provider supports it
Nomorobo does exactly this (except the robo calls are mostly auto-detected and the script read to them is pre-recorded). It records their conversation for your entertainment also! I think you can submit your own recording to harass the robo callers too I think.
[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgzed/what-the-hell-is-righ...