Some of you may know that I took a vacation last week. My wife and I took a cruise with some friends. I thought it might be interesting to talk about some privacy issues I encountered.
My Graphene Pixel
Once the ship was far enough from the coast to exceed my local carrier range, the cruise line offers satellite internet. I was warned beforehand that the ship's wifi would not work with a vpn, but that wasn't entirely accurate. I had to change my standard settings to allow connectivity without VPN protection, but I was able to surf the web and access some web sites with the vpn. Some sites were impossible to connect to. SN was surprisingly easy to access. Generally speaking, I observed that my Pixel lost connectivity much more than my friends' assorted iphone and stock Android devices, but it wasn't too bad. I was willing to accept some inconvenience.
Biometrics US Customs
I don't know how many stackers have experienced this yet, but it's creepy as hell. My face was photographed upon boarding the ship. When disembarking after the cruise, there was no need to show your passport. You just stood in front of a biometric analyzer. It took about 30 seconds to recognize my face and clear me to leave the ship. Here's more info:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/other-visa-categories/safety.html
I have the real sense that the world has changed, and I have lost my will to resist these privacy invasions. I often trade privacy for convenience. I remember that I resisted easypass technology for years. I would patiently wait to pay my toll with cash while everyone with the magic tag zipped by. I guess the alternative to biometrics is to either sneak across borders or become a stationary hermit.
Rewards are definitely better than expected.
In my morning routine of reading stuffs, found this post by @TomK which in short terms explain that free speech price is the truth. The difference between Stacker News and others is very simple: here, if you want to talk, there's a price and incentivize not to talk bullshit and stupidity. In Stacker News, right there in their inception was "talk cheap is very expensive".
I fell in love of this site since in early days and enjoy everyday. Happy friday comrades!
I like nearly all of those ideas and want to begin experimenting with them.
The biggest problem we continue to have is prioritizing stuff because until we have more programmers, every feature competes with every other.
My SN priorities atm:
There are also some other ideas we are discussing like advertising treasure hunts for getting stackers more sats.
@ekzyis makes his own priorities mostly and is working on "liveness" - realtime updates for notifications, comment threads, item stats etc.
I'll be looking to hire another programmer soon. I just need to sit down and write up the job post and prepare to for The Great Application Sift.
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There are many other extrinsic channels for revenue one can do with a brand. But, at that point, the territory becomes more of a sponsored ad for a different product, which is an operating cost like line item rather than a revenue driver. All of which, require additional resources.
If 100k + Other Costs < 5k + Other Revenue ...then territories make sense. But...as of right nowo, there isnt really tools to even integrate or measure.