You don't know anything about running an online business
OK, you know a lot. Wish you luck in your "online business". This does not change the fact that running a site is dirt cheap today. If asking donation or selling virtual things is your business model, that does not make running a site more expensive. That just make your business model look like selling air. Or you think that air should be traded for profit too, otherwise it is socialism?
Online services worth paying for are.
No single online service worth paying, giving telephone number and very rare worth registering.
A dating service is a business, whether online or not.
It is insane. First, create a situatiion when people need dating service, then make money on that. :)
You've proven you don't know anything about running an online business of any significance.
I don't even want to know anything about running scam that produce nothing real.
real e-business in 2023
LOL. e-business can't be real.
A small business has needs for all sorts of things, customer service,
Why should it need third-party customer service? Phone calls banned?
continued development,
Nobody need that crap. CD/CI should be scorched to ashes with all those who push it. You don't need CD/CI for a stove or a lathe. So you don't need it for internet service.
administration,
What do you want to adminiter for small business?
marketing, like any business.
You mean spamming or writing lies about superior excellence of small business products in the hope somebody will be caught? Do you understand that best marketing strategy ever is to make a good, high-quality product? Customers will find it by themselves, gladly. And will be thankful for absense of marketing brainwashing. If you need any other marketing, you are a scammer, trying to sell some overpriced crap.
And of course creating a business that helps both clients and employees is a benefit to society.
What is benefit for society if your business just transact money for useless services in circles producing nothing real?
It is a destruction of society, not benefitting it.
There is no any value or virtue in "making business" for the sake of "making business" at all.
Yeah your websites are so great nobody wants to pay for your service.
I just don't need that payments. I have a real job, why should I create stupid paywalls for people and count that tiny beans? Information should be free.
Meanwhile me and my clients make money online.
Yeah, go ahead. That's what Western GDP is made of. Nice. Most amasing thing is that you account that as something good and noble.
I'm not sure why you think small businesses should work for free for you, but that is not how it works.
Because not everything on Earth is a business. I don't account spreading the useful information or connecting people as a business. For me, business is creating real things in real world that are useful for real people. Everything else is a scam. So, even if I had paid to dig out some infomation from behind some paywall, I always make it free for others and never had any thought about making money from that.
Yeah and you are still thinking in terms of the 90s of some simple text based website that does nothing.
You even don't realize, that today web server have less load because page render is done on the user side, in the browser, not on the server.
I work on modern web apps and it costs money to develop them and maintain them. Period. And this isn't just a plain website, it is an entire business.
So, you are part of the problem with web2.0 bloatware. You are part of the problem with insane demands for memory and CPU of modern browsers. And with high probability you use all that fucking JS "frameworks" like vue/react/whatever to make things much worse.
So, your incompetence and inability to develop an effective architecture and create simple and lightweight web site without using bloatware "frameworks" sponsored by corporations to be as memory and CPU hungry as possible, leads to excessive money spending on both server and client side. As expected. You are perfect corporations pawn helping them to sell and rent more hardware. Congratulations.
Try creating and running a web service yourself since it is so easy and takes no money. You never will because 1) You are a lazy socialist 2) You know you will be proven wrong.
Unlike you, I have dozens. Doing that from mid 90s. Many is not even a business connected. And, meanwhile, did you know, that this shitty web is only a part of internet? Not even most important.
Asking for donations "for keeping site running" is complete, total bullshit. You absolutely don't need anything expensive unless you collecting BigData from billions or doing MSM grade social shit.
As for socialists you hate - I saw nothing more socialistic than Western corporations. It is an essence of socialism in its worst possible form. And unlike you, I definitely know whar socialism is and how it is look like, since I was born in USSR.
Of course they should make money, that is how you keep the site running.
How about real job? Running site is nothing. Dozen bucks for domain name a year and hardly more than hundred bucks a month for server. That's all. I will never believe that this $101 a month is something that could not be afforded by average US citizen and he will need all that business entity, employees, donations and merch shit to "keep the site running". It is a complete bullshit.
Stupid socialist.
Do you understand that you just confirmed that is not about truth about vaccines, spreading info, community and so on, it is just about few people making money on those who have some specific views?
I will not be amased at all, if the same people also have "sites and communities" for those who sexually attracted to trees, those who restore old chainsaws, those who quit drinking coffee and so on. Nothing personal, just business.
This is not a first and not last business on users of that kind that was robbed or tricked by some side employee or activist.
To avoid that, never mix your rebellion with business in one thing.
Or you so afraid of socialism, that you believe that even rebellion must be turned into business, just to not look socialistic? :) OK, go ahead.
If you want the things to be done right, do them by yourself.
has captured the payment processing service, effectively eliminating the means of revenue for the company.
And that strange desire to necessarily make some money on users even when declaring doing some good and barely profitable thing...
Sorry, my knowledge of USA political system design is mostly based on "BrainDead" series, but how exactly he plans to prosecute all mentioned persons? Does he have a solid team who will take over current bureaucrats and that will allow him to do all that? How he plan to replace judges and prosecutors to make it real? How he plan to force House and Senate to allow him to do that?
And what does he think about criminal prosecution of politicians who failed to fulfill their promises that was given to voters?
It's dated earlier this month, my local police are either incompetent, or they don't care.
Or they care about getting good KPI (key performance indicators). It is much better for KPI to "resolve" cases like that in the way they do it, than to really do something useful for society like resolving government corruption, punishing corporations for their disregard to consumers, fighting real crime and so on.
Why do you think that moon landing is something that have to be believed or not believed?
It could be just checked directly. There is no any need for faith at all. Making religion from technical questions is complete insanity.
I know for shure that it was technically possible at the time. I did not know if they really do that. Resolving that question is technical problem that is perfectly solveable. Then why need for "believe"?
Eventually, places of declared landings will be visited and problem will be finally solved. Endless talking about believeing or not in moon landing gives absolutely nothing for technical resolution of that question.
Hard to say. There are a lot of products that depend on climate, resources and so on. You can't have same price of oranges everywhere, f.e..
Pork is occasional match, really Russia a colder country, so growing a pig needs more energy. But energy is cheaper here, and that make price equal. Retailing pork does not depend on climate, but depend on fuel price, shop land price/taxes/rent and so on. So retailing here is cheaper.
Also currency rates, stock market games and so on.
However it could be interesting to convert prices into something fixed and independent, like total energy units needed to create product and compare.
Wholesale pork is somewhere around $.80 a pound from producers.
Interesting. nearly same here if you buy a whole pig as dressed carcass from farm. ~130 RUR/kg = ~$.80/lb
Retailing adds a lot, yes.
CAD is something like 0.75 of USD so it is slightly less expensive than looks like. And IDK, may be it is possible to find pork cheaper, say CAD 5/lb in Toronto, but then math will bring even worse result. More than 1lb a day into poor baby? Perverts.
P.S. In Russia pork is ~300 RUR/kg on average i.e. ~$1.85/lb if you are interested. In regions could be slightly cheaper.
she saves hundreds of dollars
Either meat in Canada is very expensive now, either it is just a plain lie.
Internet tell me that average pork price in Toronto is $10/lb. Expensive, yes, but not overhelmingly and I think still more than affordable for average Canadian. Let's just imagine that insects are free for her. So $200 is 20lb of pork. Baby just could not eat so many. Usual norm is ~100 g per day, or ~3kg/6lb of meat per month for year and a half old baby. Not avery adult could eat 20lb of meat per month or 300g per day.
Looks like those who write that articles really think that "math is racist" and should not be used at all, even to make lies look more credible.
Person will try to figure out what you mean in different ways, from asking questions to relying on context. ANN can't understand anything and can't analyse context at all. And without understanding context it is impossible to correctly parse phrase.
Also - "Naked conductor runs under the carriage" - every time a lot of fun with any ANN.
Just try to talk with this toy using non-existing words.
are expecting neural networks to be fantabulous replacements to workers just because they use the term "AI".
Everything that is named by them "AI" is ANNs. There no any single other thing that could be named "AI". So, always, when you see they use term "AI", in is 100% ANN.
All other research on something that could be eventually resemble any intelligence is heavily curtailed long ago. They have specific reasons for that, but it is another rabbit hole.
A chat bot will take your order at the drive through.
Until something unexpected happen. Oversimplyfing that problem - ANN have no any means to understand that normal customer will never order 1000 hamburgers. So, owner of such drive through will have to hire somebody with apropriate knowledge of matter to look after "AI". There still be same workers with same skills to be competent enough to judge "AI" "decisions", just doing another job.
We had fully automatic cafes in USSR times. Vending machines with cakes, donut cooking machines with vending frontend serving hot donuts, coffe/tea machines, machines that wash crockery and so on. Everything worked fine witout any "AI". There was absolutely no any need for any "AI" for that task at all. But there still was same amount of workers to load machines, to look for them, to service them, to resolve customer problems and so on. And no "AI" could resolve that and replace that workers even now. IDK, it is insane how quickly people forgot something that goes out of their range of view. Automatic cafes is a distant past. They are not something new, and they do not free workforce. Moreover, automatic cafes demand more advanced tech and more skilled personnel than regular ones. In USSR it was not a problem, but in the modern world it is. Personnel, apart knowing regular cafe workflow, had to be familiar with advanced tech and automatisation and have an ability to make more complex decisions.
That nowdays "AI" shit have nothing to do with what you talk about. It is purely a way to hide behind non-existing "AI". They train ANN to produce results they want, and then "You see, it was not us, it was AI decision! We have nothing to do with that! AI knows better!". Simple as that.
The language parsing/analysis of the chatbots is actually more impressive than the AI
It is not impressive at all. Stupid very old IRC chatbot Elisa from early 90s written in perl does not differ a lot. And it was not even neural network, just a small script with very simple algorithms who could, unlike chatbots, "self-educate" during conversation and hold a sensible dialogue with user. And despite it was heavily English language dependent, I was able to get sensible dialogues in Russian too. Kind of, because order of words in Russian sentence does not really matter, so that dim the picture a lot.
There is nothing impressive when you feed terabytes of questions and anwsers pairs from real internet conversations, and see something similar as a result. That is exactly now neural networks work. No any AI magic at all. Chatbot does not understand you. It does not even learn from you. It just calculate most probable reply from known replies for the question that is closest to yours.
You are mistaking a neural network with a general intelligence.
If you are not aware, "AI" other than neural networks does not exist. In the past, there was huge efforts applied to computer science and programmer startups to shut down anything connected with expert systems, self-categorisation, inventing algorithms, and other stuff that is different from neural networks and magnitudes of order closer to intelligence than stupid neural networks.
Fucking chatbot is a dumb neural network that trained on internet content that just show you compilation of most probable phrases it was trained on suitable for your request. Nothing more.
And ive met bottom workers that arent as smart as the chatbots.
Unlike chatbots they could deal somehow with something they never met.
First. There are no "AI" exist at all. Thing they pose as "AI" have nothing to do with "Intelligence". It is very simple and absolutely dumb thing that just "produce" most probable result from all data it was trained on. Nothing more.
Second. Even bottom tier workers have some intelligence unlike that fake "AI". They at least could identify new situations when something go wrong. That fake "AI" can't do that because it wasn't trained on that new situations because they are new. Fake "AI" is incapable to deal with new things in principle. So even lowest possible tiers of workers could not be replaced with that fake "AI". There is a lot of issues of that kind even with simple automation, and with fake "AI" things will be much worse, because propaganda narratives about "AI" create an illusion of fake "AI" abilities. Misguided bu that propaganda will inevitably fuck things up.
Third. When that stupid thing with "AI" eventually fail, the number of bottom tier workers necessary to fix all that mess and try to somehow continue production will be much more than before because when you replace one worker with a robot, and then a robot fails, you need more than one worker to replace robot, because all stuff needed to make one worker enough for that operation was removed when robot was installed,
It will be opposite, really. As soon as they will try to really use something their dumb neural networks will produce, there will appear a huge demand for those who will be able to fix all that mess. And no, script monkeys they will try to replace with neural network will not be able to fix it. They will need much more skilled and much more expensive professionals to repair (or rebuild from scratch) things they broke.
Artificial neural networks are too dumb to account for consequences of using one or another solution. And any tech is not just combining random patterns, but also thinking about how one solution will interfere with others and so on.
We will see a lot of circus with solutions like that - https://acidcow.com/pics/64081-the-most-epic-construction-fails-ever-48-pics.html
You could easily make parallels into any other tech you know.
Thank you. That could be the real cause for that circus. At least may be some chips will fall to the tables of Rwandians while their government will saw that loan to fill the pockets. Or even may be Rwandian government are thieves with honor and will build few roads for their people.
Exactly. We don't know whose money that BlackRock/Vanguard invested in some public company we interested in. So that thread to world owners effectively cut.
Reading such news about all that CBDC/ID/etc in poor countries, I always find myself thinking about technical details of that shit and see huge inconsistencies.
To widely use something digital whole population need an internet access and smartphone. And not a cheap one, since applications for that digital crap are enormous bloatware with all modern bells and whistles that would not work normally on a cheap $50 Chineese smartphone. But even that $50, with monthly dataplan fee is a huge money for people in a poor country. Poor country, but everybody have internet access and advanced modern smartphone. That does not fit together at all.
Digital ID, theoretically could be made in a form of cheap RFID card or whatever. But again, you will need relatively expensive reader + computer + internet in every place where that Digital ID could be used. Without that, they will have to print name/photo/whatever on that Digital ID cards, but there will be no any sense in Digital ID, since it will not differ in use from regular ID or passport or what they use for identification now.
I didn't not check, but may be some IMF or other terrorist organisation offer large loans for implementing all that digital crap? So poor countries just took them and imitate enthusiastic activity of implementing that crap that will never really work.
What make you believe in that?
Bank privacy was complete bullshit long before creation of bitcoin.
Also, why even Switzerland was forced to ban anonymous bank accounts under a threat of shutting down SWIFT?
It is not transactions that is crucial for privacy. No any bank can guarantee privacy of transactions because there always will be transactions to another banks. It is anonymity of accounts that matters. And anonymity of accounts was totally banned long ago.
And if you want private transactions, then there are few cryptos with private transactions too. Monero is most popular one.
And about "court order". Fuck that shit about "court". If somebody could get anything about you from bank, than anybody could. It is just a simple question of bribe size.
With crypto there is nobody to bribe. At least anonymity problem is fixed by design. And transaction privacy is solved in some variants. And it is just a beta version of crypto technology, which is for unknown reasons was declared as something ready-to-use for peasants.