digitalneal | 6 years ago | on: After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web
Yup. What would Brian Boitano do?
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digitalneal | 6 years ago | on: New bill would ban autoplay videos and endless scrolling
Auto-play is a tax on the poor with limited data plans.
digitalneal | 7 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Year Ago
Pardon my ignorance here, never worked on this kinda program before, but isn't is actually hard on complex databases like Facebook to actually remove data, better just to mark it as unviewable?
digitalneal | 7 years ago | on: Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? [audio]
Anytime a social network starts to show threatening growth, Zuck tries to buy them.
digitalneal | 7 years ago | on: FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory
Wouldn't surprise me if some meth manufactures found the place to be fairly empty and was operating out of one of the buildings. Only to get caught shipping product somewhere and the FBI backtracked it to the observatory.
digitalneal | 7 years ago | on: Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack
I just don't see what value private health insurance companies bring to the table anymore. They are not helping get the best coverage for their patients and they squeeze the crap out of the care-givers until its hardly worth their time.
digitalneal | 7 years ago | on: A peek into China’s top ‘bodyguard factories’
As an early IT job, I worked for a famous boxing promotor who would take end of career fighters and charge them a fee to "school them" into bodyguards and find their first quazi-celeb client. Was fascinating to watch their training at the gym.
digitalneal | 7 years ago | on: YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels
Would be interesting to know if these "silenced" channels have monetization turned on.
digitalneal | 8 years ago | on: Restricted by YouTube, Gun Enthusiasts Are Taking Their Videos to Pornhub
Because, to a lot of people, guns are a euphemism for...
digitalneal | 8 years ago | on: Hidden Cameras in AirBnBs
Its a two way street. I had friends put an annoyatron in an airbnb they were staying in and knew I was going to stay in a few days later. So its not just the hosts you have to worry about...
digitalneal | 8 years ago | on: A glut has used-car depreciation accelerating
You will get a much better idea of what real used cars cost when you look at the manheim numbers. Going to a retail website like Autotrader or cars is going to add a few grand to the price at least. Manheim is what the dealers pay at auction. True used car prices.
digitalneal | 8 years ago | on: Snap sold fewer than 42K Spectacles, down 35% in Q2
Legit forgot they were still for sale. After all the hype and lack of product availability it simply skipped my mind that they were now readily available to the masses!
digitalneal | 8 years ago | on: Blue Apron Plans to Cut 24% of Staff Barely a Month After IPO
I was using the term in a sarcastic tone around the buying of ad space. I'm a weird bird, apologies for the confusion around terminology.
digitalneal | 8 years ago | on: Blue Apron Plans to Cut 24% of Staff Barely a Month After IPO
Didn't Blue Apron and Square Space alone underwrite like half the podcasts in the world last year? Wonder what this means for podcast advertising in Q4/Q1-18
digitalneal | 8 years ago | on: Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
Your assumption is the "local businesses" own their property. I don't know many small grocery chains that own their lots. "All boats rise with the tide". High demand for residential means commercial and industrial zoned lots will also increase in value/rent/lease.
digitalneal | 8 years ago | on: Apple Monitoring Blood Glucose
Loyal to Dexcom for the night and day changes their product made to the quality of life for my mother. But very glad to see Apple putting a foot into these waters.
digitalneal | 8 years ago | on: The FCC voted to start the process of eliminating net neutrality rules
Oh I get both sides of the debate. I also understand why we put regulations in place. Don't get me wrong, our government has fumbled the ball on a few occasions but generally regulations are only put in place once an industry habitually breaks the trust of our citizens.
digitalneal | 8 years ago | on: The FCC voted to start the process of eliminating net neutrality rules
Had to stop reading after this quote
"ISPs generally do not discriminate against highly-trafficked websites. If they did – holding a figurative gun to the head of those websites by throttling back speed to those websites – consumers would dump those ISPs in favor of others."
I'd believe this true if any of the large cities I have lived in actually had competition between ISPs.
digitalneal | 8 years ago | on: YouTube Stars Feel an Advertising Pinch
The classic "Musicians make money touring, not selling records."
This is why the automotive Youtube "celebs" are launching GTCon a convention for car enthusiasts to get fans to meet them IRL and buy merch!
digitalneal | 8 years ago | on: Puerto Rico files for biggest ever U.S. local government bankruptcy
Wonder how bad it would be if they didn't subsidize rum production so heavily.
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