"Silly" is a silly word for corruption.

They don't push real content "down the internet" they push it down the google rankings.

And while Google search is not as great as it was, it remains a strong contender for the best way to find stuff on the internet.

I don't think the internet would be better off without it.

You can however make good arguments for Google News, "Instant Answers" in Search, and other products, taking (impressions) from the internet.(And Chrome, Chrome worries me.)

It cannot. That's the whole point of the GDPR. It forbids tracking without informed, explicit user consent. Users cannot be informed or agree with the header setting.

Sites can, of course, not track users, or not track users who set do not track. They don't want to, that's why they try to annoy and/or mislead anyone into agreeing with their horrible banners.

(Using Cookies for site settings or even logins can be done without explicit consent and without banners)

Some of those already existing greenhouses are using LEDs to augment natural sunlight. [0]

So it doesn't seem too far fetched to me. The gamble wasn't to replace (free) sunlight with (paid) LEDs. The core idea is stacking farms on top each other, hoping the reduced land (area) requirement vs increased energy cost might pay off.

Turns out land isn't that short, transportation not too expensive and energy not that cheap.

[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/glowing-dutch-greenhou...

Strange. I understand sprawl (especially suburban sprawl) to be the direct result of housing regulations. The "natural" ("unregulated") trend seems for cities to become denser and for buildings to become higher (e.g. single family homes getting replaced by multi apartment buildings). Density being the opposite of sprawl.

More housing in an already populated area leads to denser populations leads to less sprawl.

It's a super weird one as well. There's no extra special data protection rules for digital data vs. data on paper.

Are they admitting they violate privacy laws already? Or do they want to change the information flow while going paperless? If so, why, and why is it necessary to go digital at all?

Not the only point. Asking them if they wanted to do the sales team job without compensation would get you the obvious answer. They wouldn't. Money is the point, it's just not the sole point and it cannot be stretched arbitrarily. "Money for rent", "money for retirement", "money for vacation" and "money for a second home" are not the same.

Sounds very much like a human would do it.

If I 'know' how to recognize saurik and I know how anime is supposed to look like, I can check my digital photo library for a picture of saurik and than use that picture as a template to draw an anime version of saurik. If someone later asked me what pictures I used the photo is the only one I'd present. Not the thousands of anime pictures I have seen teaching me what anime looks like, nor the picture my eyes took meeting saurik.

Absolutely. C Code is not necessarily easy to understand. Not at all.

But the C parts itself are? In C you seldom wonder what C does, you wonder what the C code does.

If you work like OP likes, single person projects, small enough to keep almost completely in your head, I can see how C is especially charming. You never wrangle with C, only with your own code.

That's because your "quick throwaway" code solves a real problem. It is useful, it works, it is very likely easy to understand.

In short: It's good code.

(It might not be "elegant" or "clever" or even "neat". Those things are overrated.)

Mobile is eating the web. Mobile (Android - it's all Safari on iOs) Firefox is a bad experience.

The web cannot do that without tracking...

I read it as 'the market wouldn't exist at all'. The margins would either be a lot thinner, allowing less experimentation and players or not exist.

YouTube might be paid like Vimeo, social networks might be a lot smaller (say school or town level), and live-streaming for private individuals might not exist at all.

FF can do it, but it only triggers in low ram situations and detection is wonky, disabled on Linux.

I found the auto tab discard addon [0] to be a game changer on my low ram machine. It just works (though not on mobile).

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...

I find the wild, anti-competitive cross product "synergy" the big tech companies are employing just as concerning as privacy violations.

(E.g. Google search pushing Chrome and other services, Chrome sync logging users into YouTube, Android, Windows pushing One Drive, Apple music not paying the Apple store tax, Facebook harvesting WhatsApp data etc.)

Brave joining those practices leaves an ugly taste.

This is great.

Funny how teachers generally aim for their students to 'understand' instead of merely 'replicating' (from memory). Yet math is often taught as a complex, fully formed system (especially in university).

Teaching math along the same path / outline it was historically developed teaches the 'why' alongside the 'how'.

Note there are significant uncertainties in measuring the effectiveness of ads. Measuring click-through rate is comparatively easy, measuring things like brand-recognition doable, measuring how much a specific ad or campaign influences purchasing decisions is quite a hurdle. Predicting it even harder.

There have been success stories, but online, especially "personalized", ads might have been somewhat of a bubble. Appearing better than they are?

Rather look at how many organizations are paying for contributions. If it's all resting on a single back there's increased danger.

Still, the only way to guarantee continued development is paying for it (or doing it yourself).

> It is virtually impossible to identify and segment your user base and apply the bill's protections to only those you can 100% confirm are under 18.

Doing this might be(come) possible by completely destroying anonymous web browsing.

How? Idk and it wasn't mentioned, but you could imagine Credit card checking, Electronic IDs, post-ident maybe backed into the browser for a one-click identification.

Though it's all a hypothetical on unwanted side-effects. I don't think it too concerning as people value random websites less than their personal data and I'd expect websites using the "everyone is a child" approach to have the advantage.