The intermediary companies also want to attract clients, whom to sell more detailed data. It isn’t unusual for them to release basic data like total number of users per domain, for free. For further segmentation, like interests, keywords, geolocation, client’s system properties, etc. they do require subscribing.

I’m not speculating, I’ve had a chance to work at server maintenance (where basic data comes from), website design and maintenance (where 3rd part user trackers go), and both offering ad space and contracting ad services (dealing with these companies, ad networks, and website owners).

You asked where do they get the data from… well, that’s the answer 🤷

The numbers could be fictitious (you didn’t ask whether they get “reliable data”), or they could be doctoring them themselves… but there is a number of companies whose work is to let sites put trackers that gather user data, so they can in turn use it as a point when luring advertisers.

It isn’t “highly guarded confidential” information, websites would happily submit their access logs if that could make them look more appealing to advertisers… but they don’t, because: a) they could be sending fake data, which would make the aggregating company lose face, meaning they won’t accept self-reported data, and b) site logs contain a lot of users’ personal information, sharing which could fall afoul of privacy legislation.

They may still have to pay for access to parse that data, or extract it from the data made publicly available (…which could still be doctored, but 🤷)

Ah… I didn’t catch on that. Nvm then.

Keep in mind that “having a plan”, doesn’t say when that plan is to be executed.

If you asked me, every object launched into orbit, should have a safe de-orbit plan beforehand. Chances are, as more private entities get onboard launching space stations, there might be regulations put in place to require a de-orbit plan for the launch to get approved.

Getting a de-orbit plan for the ISS now, might be just a preemptive plan for when those regulations get enacted.

There is no Lagrange point “North”.

L1 is sunwards, L2 is counter-sunwards, L3 is on the other side of the Sun, L4 is Eastwards, and L5 is Westwards.

Going from LEO to L1/L2, requires a ∆v of 7.5km/s, which is comparable to the 9.4km/s ∆v required to go from Earth surface to LEO.

Meanwhile, the ISS keeps getting slowed down by Earth’s atmosphere, and it only takes a ∆v of 1km/s or less, to plunge it into denser atmosphere for reentry.

Heh. Well, I got curious and double checked it anyway 😉

1. Have more smartphones than people
2. Have more AI instances than people
3. Have more drones than people
4. Have more robots than people
5. Hook the drones and robots to AI
6. Arm the drones

Romania, or 1984’s Big Brother, were failed because they required people to watch people, which doesn’t scale outside a Panopticon, or a country with “9 kinship extermination” type of sentences.

The US, has a history of slavery.

China has a history of suicide prevention nets, docking pay for not finishing your lunch, millions of undocumented illegal migrant workers, houses full of camgirls “because they’re young and need to be controlled”, closed apartment complexes with thousands of catfishing “remote workers”, and so on. AKA: outsourced slavery.

But you’re right, it’s the capitalist way.

a Taliban spokesman also denied there had been any arrests for “bad hijab” and said: “The issue of rape is not at all possible because there is not just one or two people [in the room with a prisoner] and when there are three people, such a crime would not happen …[this is] a very sensitive issue for the Taliban. I am sure such a thing did not happen.”

Translation: gangbang is not possible. 🙄

Looks like they want to go back to the “good old times” when children were less of a responsibility, and more of a property.

The problem is that some people still believe that things like being gay, an atheist, or supporting the wrong party, are a “mental illness” that makes one unable to consent, and so require a guardian to make decisions for them… and that’s still better than the people who believe it’s a felony, or a sin to be punished by death.

Curate your feed, report+block does wonders on Facebook.

You can see the source of the data in the table:

https://therighting.com/traffic-reports/news-websites-endure-traffic-tailspin-in-may/

They publish monthly traffic reports:

https://therighting.com/traffic-reports/

mainstream news websites based on Comscore data

https://www.comscore.com/

…whether you trust their methodology, is a separate matter.

As someone who’s never been into sexting… what’s the difference between “leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate”, and “actual sextimg”?

How so?

Anyway, it’s not our call what people in 100+ years will think the exchange rate of Bitcoin should be.

As Bitcoin has grown, transactions have become slow

Except for Bitcoin Lightning Network:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network

Bitcoin is always being diluted

It’s also constantly getting un-diluted by people losing their keys.

Current estimates put the “lost coins” at around 25% of the total. That is twice as many as there are left to mine.

it is possible that transaction fees will need to be raised to compensate miners.

That’s been the plan from the beginning.

Mining halving has been defined with a rough estimate of adoption, volume, and technological advances. It’s why Lightning Network was developed, and why Ethereum has switched to a Proof-of-ownership mining scheme.

The estimate is rough and quite inflexible, which has lead to cyclic fluctuations around the period of halvings… but from a long term perspective, it has been working reasonably well for the first 10% of Bitcoin’s starting period.

This is a fancy way to say that it is slower unless you pay higher fees.

My bank takes:

• 24-48 hours for 0€, only in the EU, up to 15k€
• 5 minutes for 0.50% (min 1.25€), only in the EU, up to 900€
• 48-120 hours for 0.70% (min 35€), international, up to 20k€

So my bank is also “slower unless you pay higher fees”… or “slower even with higher fees”… and on top of that, it has an amount cap.

Meanwhile, on Bitcoin Lightning (https://1ml.com/statistics):

• Median Base Fee: $0.000617

fork the network and update it if they had 50%+1

No. There are 3 components to Bitcoin: Miners, P2P nodes. and coin owners.

• Getting 1 miner and 1 P2P node, allows forking… and getting kicked off the network.
• Getting >50% of mining power, allows a chance at double-spending some own coins.
• Getting 100% of miners AND/OR 100% of P2P nodes, allows taking over the network.
• Getting an owner’s key, allows full access to the coins tied to that key.

Neither of those are impossible, some are just easier and have a higher ROI than others.

The tax and identity layers have to be added on top. They are not built-in.

Same as with cash.

Yes, this is one of the selling points of Bitcoin vs. Banks, in an age where cash is getting phased out.

The opposite, is also a selling point of “OpenSource Money with Taxes built-in” vs. Bitcoin.

Pick whichever side you prefer.

Why not call it by its full name: Decentralized Peer-to-peer Open-source Cryptographically-secured Self-custodial Money

“Everyone” doesn’t have a clue about “crypto” other than “there are scams”.

It’s a case of “parallel evolution”.

Burrito comes from the slang word used in Mexico to call a taco or corn tortilla, which can be traced back to 500 BC in Mesoamerica.

Dürüm comes from the Latin word durum, meaning a type of wheat artificially selected around 7000 BC in the Near East.

Since neither the Mediterranean cultures had corn, nor the American cultures had durum, it’s just a case of “can make flour, add water, slap a thin layer on a flat stone, and heat it up”.

In the present day, both can be made with wheat, and have similar fillings, except dürüm is filled with döner kebab meat which can’t contain pig, but a burrito can contain anything.

So, putting it all together… “Lord God’s little enshittener”?