I vaguely remember an index for the number of earthmoving machines per capita for a given country. It was a really good indicator for productivity. It doesn't seem like industrial robots have the same level of correlation. At least not yet.
I'm in the accelerated testing group and I was moved from Mail to the new Outlook a couple of months ago. It's better than Mail for Windows in my subjective opinion, but it was a bit weird to switch just when Mail had gotten the last missing basic features, like signatures etc.
In e-commerce I've noticed that customers that request to be removed from the mailinglist and/or to have their info/account be deleted often forget about ever using the site. Then a few months later they order something and sign up for the newsletter again. When they receive their "first" newsletter they recognize the style and remember that they requested it to be cancelled, which leads to many angry emails and spam reports.
An order form with no pre-selected "join newsletter" option doesn't seem to mitigate this problem. The obvious soloution is to save the customer's email in the mailinglist as unsubscribed, but afaik that's not legal if they request an account deletion.
Sites could provide a cookies-manifest.json with the entities they provide data to. Then the browser could show a standardized cookie banner, if needed. The user could also disable the cookie banner completely, if they so desire.
This makes me curious of how the gradual change from gas- to charging stations will affect these places. I could see clusters of charging stations gathering in the same place and causing a resurgence of shopping centers, maybe even malls, in those areas.
I'm thinking that it could work as an emergency rectal oxygen enema for astronauts in distress. It ought to be very compact compared to pressured gas. Just push 'oxyjet' and don't forget to clench after.
Governments and central banks are doing it to try to continue the cash economy, which has been slowly dying for some time now (a death recently sped up by the pandemic). Cash has some unique benefits over numbers in an account, the primary perhaps being that it's independent of banks.
Hello cm2187 what's happening. I'm gonna need you to go ahead and not recommend movies while at work. So if you could go ahead and get back to it.. that'd be great.
When we pay with physical dollar bills, it's an exchange of unique notes with their own serialnumber. A digital currency would be the same thing, but electronic.
The current system just keeps track of inventory. Like when a warehouse inventory system says "15 Honda Civics currently in stock" it doesn't mean digital cars.
A digital currency system would make a digital representation of the actual money that could contain a bunch of information, like unique serialnumbers, creation date, expiration date, physical equivalent etc.
This is usually what's missing from people criticizing Curtis. It's a form of superficiality where people feel that they don't need to look further into the subjects before drawing fundamental conclusions. I've spoken to so many people that loudly proclaim that Curtis' work is just conspiracy theory, totally oblivious of the instagram level of depth such a conclusion requires.
It would be great with a solid text to go along his films. For now I would urge everyone who get that uncanny feeling after watching Curtis' work to read up on the subjects covered. I promise you that feeling will go away!
One thing to keep in mind is that birds generally don't follow human law, and will certainly find creative ways to source materials from stores, people's pockets, cars, homes etc.
I have YouTube premium too. Even though I probably watch more Twitch streams than YouTube, I still wouldn't consider paying for the Twitch equivalent because YouTube has so many useful videos (tutorials, lectures, historical photage, interviews, seminars etc.), while Twitch is 99.99% entertainment. I use the ads on Twitch as deterrence to get me back to watching something of substance instead.