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Water Cooler / Algo News
« on: March 02, 2016, 11:51:01 AM »
I suppose I'm stating the obvious here but I see the need for a real human editor vs. relying on an algorithm to sort your news pages.

What I wanted, this morning was a state by state breakdown of who won what in the US primaries and by how much.  Chart would be nice but text would do.  I didn't want to watch videos from the networks, I didn't want op/ed pieces, blogs or drama puff pieces - "just the facts Ma'am, just the facts".

It took over 10 minutes of scud hunting on Yahoo news and Bing news to find it. Finally found on Bing.  Yes I could have searched, but my thinking is slow until the first cup of coffee kicks in.  Yahoo was hopeless, Bing did deliver but it was buried.  Yahoo allegedly "learns" what your preferences are by what you read but I tend to click on bizarre stuff so I'm getting news about weirdness in NKorea, what the cast of "Green Acres" is doing now (they're dead) and archaeology instead of election stuff.  I've probably permanently corrupted poor Yahoo news.  I have no idea what Bing does with click data.

RC quit laughing.

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Self checkouts were all the rage here for awhile.  I wouldn't use them, if I'm in a full priced store I'm not going to do the work unless they pay me.  I'd rather they hire a real human to do that, they need the jobs.  If I'm in Aldi I'll gladly pack my own groceries, but not at a Jewel with higher prices.

The Jewel was paying someone to monitor the self checkouts when they were hardly used.  Finally they tore them all out and and put in a bunch of quick checkout lanes staffed on demand by real people.  Those are much used.

It will be interesting to see if this Swedish store works out.

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Water Cooler / Re: Low carb
« on: March 01, 2016, 02:53:32 PM »
Low carb worked for me based on previous threads posted here.  I lost a lot of weight.  I couldn't sustain it though, I started dreaming of pancakes, waffles, potatoes, pizza, donuts (hey those donuts can get mean in your nightmares.)

But mostly, I missed beer: Stouts, Porters, ales they all called to me.

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For electric cars in the US, where distances are larger: price has to come down, driving range has to come up, charge time has to decrease.  There is a niche: US North East, commuter cars, cities that might introduce carbon taxes like London has.

Also design: right now most of the electric vehicles are over wind-tunneled to maximize range, but that eliminates a large segment of the population that is either tall or overweight or both and won't/can't jack-knife themselves into something like a Prius.  (There are a lot of reasons Americans buy so many full sized pickup trucks and part of the reason is because we fit in them better than most of the modern cars being cloned.)

Hydrogen fuel cells make more sense as a long term replacement for internal combustion but the technology and commitment to the infrastructure are not there yet.

Long term, both are coming and will exist side by side. 

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Water Cooler / Re: Find out how much you've spent with Amazon (lifetime)
« on: February 29, 2016, 12:20:32 AM »
It's best I don't know.

2061
Web Development / Re: SEObook toolbar, Firefox 44.0.2
« on: February 27, 2016, 12:51:01 PM »
Welcome Aaron!

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Water Cooler / Re: Nope. Nope. Nope.
« on: February 26, 2016, 12:44:15 PM »
Ditto on nope.  I hate snakes.

I was in a restaurant here many years ago and a little nonvenomous garden snake came in the back fire door which was open on a nice day and started slithering down the isle.  The diners where freaking.  The owner came out and like lightning captured the snake just  behind the head with chopsticks and took it outside to release.  Everyone applauded.

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Marketing / Re: Ironic... TV ads by Google Facebook and Netflix
« on: February 24, 2016, 12:37:11 PM »
Nothing quite pushes ads in front of a mass of people like TV.

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>medical tourism

Bingo.  Doesn't have to be beyond state of the art, just state of the art and enough cheaper than US medical and you got something.  Depends on insurance industry and treatment pre approval: "we won't pay for $400K surgery in US, but if you fly to Oslo you can get the same surgery for $200K and we'll pay."

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Marketing / Re: Google Waze
« on: February 23, 2016, 12:42:45 PM »
If they offer Michelle Dockery's voice I'm in.

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Water Cooler / Re: We Are The Borg
« on: February 22, 2016, 01:07:44 PM »
>dress like us ...

It still kinda shocks me when I see street photos from Britain or the Continent: people are wearing the same cheap clothes, from the same cargo containers, that Americans are wearing (and our taste is crap.)  Scary that.

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As I've recommended elsewhere, check out Vivaldi, which is made by the original Opera guys. It's still in beta, but I find it more useful than the modern Opera. Think Opera 12.x based on Chrome...

Ditto what bill said.

Also: Trust Me:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/opera-will-continue-to-respect-user-privacy-after-possible-chinese-buyout-500460.shtml

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Hardware & Technology / Re: US LTE Coverage Comparison Report - Feb 2016
« on: February 04, 2016, 04:12:40 PM »
T-Mobile seems to be concentrating on high population urban areas.  However, where they have service, it seems to have improved greatly.  Around here, if you are rural and not near an Interstate Hwy go Verizon or maybe ATT, T-Mobile around metropolitan areas, Sprint seems hopeless.

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If I were a country that needed to have some restricted areas edited out of Google Earth, I would also have some perfectly harmless and normal areas blanked out just to feck with enemy spies.

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>>gold

The problem with gold.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

This lasted till 1974!

Gold jewelry was still allowed. My grandfather had two gold frames put around two gold coins that converted them into tie tacks without destroying the coins. By converting them into "jewelry" he hoped to get around the ban and confiscation.  He kept the coins/"tie tacks" as a last ditch nest egg for the family just in case the Great Depression got worse.

Gold is probably still a good choice, just don't put all your eggs in one basket.  And never, ever, underestimate the coercive power of the government.

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