His duet cover of "Get Low" with T-Pain is pretty fire.

It seems like this would happen all the time on Polymarket unless the specific terms are laid out at the outset of the bet. Like, how many American soldiers is an invasion?

> Like, how many American soldiers is an invasion?

Depends entirely on what they're doing.

One could be an invasion. A million might not be. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_military_inst...)

Oh it does lol: https://www.wired.com/story/volodymyr-zelensky-suit-polymark...

Poorly thought out and family subscription to YouTube premium in Vietnam is $6/month USD. Google is just going to pull a different lever to compensate, like just displaying more shorter ads per session.

I don't think Google's gonna be hurting for this one given the fact that hitting the skip button gives Google a strong signal that a real human just watched the ad and it didn't just play to an empty room.

Yep. Ad viewability standards simply require that a video ad was 50% onscreen for a continuous 2 seconds in order for it to count as an impression. Google probably usually gets that even for skippable ads.

> Picture this: an advertiser pays premium rates for space on your site, but their carefully crafted creative sits unseen at the bottom of a page your readers never scroll to. Despite technically delivering the impression you promised, you've essentially sold empty air. This disconnect between ads served and ads seen is why viewability has emerged as the cornerstone metric in digital advertising's maturity.

> Video ads require at least two seconds of continuous play while 50% visible ... These seemingly arbitrary thresholds represent extensive research into human attention patterns.

https://www.playwire.com/blog/ad-viewability

Then there can be regulation of that too.

Indeed, just keep pulling the policy ratchet if tech tries to subvert.

It likely wouldn't take much to get YouTube to just shut out Vietnam; ads there are very cheap, so they probably weren't making much money anyway.

Minimal loss, the content can still be ripped and shared through other systems. Youtube is adversarial S3 imho. We can collectively live without Google and Youtube, without getting into the slop argument. I would take a different perspective about social contract if Google did not do Google things, and try to squeeze its users as hard as possible.

I've never worked for Uber and I see the old model as a barbaric non-starter, why on earth would I want to flag a car down instead

The point is that a taxi is a taxi. It's like calling cash "Legacy Payments"

The "nuh uh" attitude also helps explain the usage graph drop. "The users simply wanted the wrong thing than what the site is for" is also something

^ this whole chain-of-interaction is a wonderful reminder of why I left SO: It was like seeing a movie trailer about a remake of some nearly forgotten B- horror film one was unfortunately allowed to watch when far too young.

Spoiler warning for those who havent seen this movie before:

Callous disregard for the utility and purpose of both the 'Q' and 'A' users; thinly veiled in a 'you don't get to tell me what i care about', wrapped in a 'my concept of how to moderate is just the way it is; if you don't like it, go F* yourself' package, trimmed with a ribbon of 'who do these Lusers that pay the bills think they are' directed at both the site owners (who write the checks to pay the bills) and all three relevant types of visitors, Q's, A's and those who neither ask, nor answer questions, but do see Advertisements and indirectly generate the income which the site owners use to write checks. But who cares?!, since Mods are not being paid (or paid well enough) to adjust a maladjusted concept of 'the way things are' into 'giving a shit' for anyone. Closed with some more vitriol declaring the site still exists and continues to be useful (as nipples on a chicken).

WASH, RINSE, REPEAT...

That was so last decade; I just stopped giving a damn, removed my browser bookmarks and learned to skim past less frequent and less relevant links to useless and meaningless SO pages when they appear in search results.

The funniest outcome is that LLMs will continue to ingest the diminishingly accurate content of sites like this and continue to degrade the utility of even the most broadly defensible LLM use case scenario.

phew, haven't thought that deeply about SO in at least 4 ... wait its 2026, make that 5 years. Good riddance to the the Whole Lot of you.

>this whole chain-of-interaction is a wonderful reminder of why I left SO

They've become parodies of themselves to such an extent that this topic should be a new sterling example of Poe's law hahahahaha

I'm a "monitor for the Mac would be the killer app" guy and the problem for us IMO is that there is no device that does exactly the simple desired thing here: give me the ability to manage multiple virtual monitors, or individual app windows, that are crisp and readable and overlay nicely on the world around me. The Vision Pro is massively frustrating because I would eat the price tag if it could do these things, and the hardware seems to promise that it can, but they've hampered it to a glorified face iPad instead for seemingly no reason but a lack of direction. $3500 to reclaim the desk space consumed by my physical monitors is such a better value proposition than the current one, which seems to be "watch movies alone".

Just like photography

AFAIK there is one still in operation and entirely for tourist purposes

Today as in Ancient Rome the aqueduct terminates at fountains. It does not connect to the standard modern municipal plumbing. Whether that counts as being operated for "tourist purposes" is a matter of definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acqua_Vergine

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