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Youtube should be forced to pay people minimum wage for their videos

Etsy should be forced to pay minimum wage to their makers


I think in that situation, YouTube would take adshare to 0%. YouTube then is just a place to upload videos and make them public. No expectation of turning a profit. For a premium fee you pay YouTube, you could get some of that adshare, and now they're a paid service.


People don't work for YouTube or Etsy. (Apart for the relatively low number where there exist YouTube partnership contracts)


That would turn them both into closed platforms. Bad idea IMO.


ok but make them retire at 65. before mental decline really kicks in


Please cite evidence showing how this is actually a problem. Thanks.


google: age statistics of dementia


Let you grandparents set the rules of how your life should be. Bonus points if they watch fox news every day. Best way to understand why.

Older people are not representative of the population, it unreasonable to expect someone born in the 40-50s era to understand the importance of privacy or the social media world of someone growing up today and more importantly shape legislation for future decades - laws are very long living.

It is certainly is possible, but without hetrogenous mixture whether black , women or the young the policies will not be inclusive

Environmental policies, tax, debt , lack of investment in education all favour older people . It is not just because older people vote more. They are lot more likely to know older politician to influence their decision, who is lot more likely to understand and empathize of the problems of his peer group.

The voting bloc influence the baby boomers is well established.


Our geriarchy is functioning exactly as intended.


they are anti-displacement provisions in the bill.

gentrification/displacement can't happen if upzoning happens at scale of the entire regions/state. e.g. techies won't move to Oakland if there's a bunch of new housing in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Cupertino etc.


biometrics of the face, body or eye are mostly simple algorithmic transformations of photographic images. I find it hard to believe that "biometric data gathering" of Illinois residents can have massive civil liability without effecting all public photography and publishing thereof.

there's also the catch-22, that if an entity is pursuing legal collection outside of Illinois (for example of the Flickr dataset from the IBM case) it has no way of knowingly excluding Illinois residents without identifying them by using an (illegal) facial recognition dataset in the first place.


its been my observation that most researchers/DS prefer PyTorch because it lets them hack in python and most production software engineers will prefer models be written TF because of effortless portability and performance of TF Graphs.

I work on a team that does the latter and lately DS have been handing off PyTorch models that we cant scale or make performant because Torchscript doesnt really work with any realistic code complexity and authors include all sorts of random python libraries. So we can't load models in C++ or get them under 50ms.

So the framework divide very much feels like dynamic vs statically typed languages. People that dont have real production demands love dynamic languages for the productivity.


Without Fed intervention, the repo market is just big banks lending to each other overnight, using mostly risk-free assets as collateral.

Why wouldn't this market clear at a large spread above the fed funds rate? ... either a majority of banks are too low on capital reserves to participate in some lucrative low-risk loans, OR one or more unknown participants are close to insolvent and the others don't want counterparty exposure. Either way it's a dangerously close to a systemic liquidity crisis and the Fed is completely behind the ball.


In other news ... instead charging a transparent and fair price for a service, private colleges and government conspire to attain perfect price discrimination against their education consumers based on itemization of their income/property.


the user data might not belong to them (GDPR etc), but I agree the certainly don't have to serve it to any other 3rd party business if they don't want to.


pretty clickbaity outrage in the article. It's user's data but Strava isn't obligated to serve an API to anyone. We already learned from the early FB era, the insane data privacy implications of having liberal APIs for personal data. Also if it wasn't completely obvious to Relive its not wise to build a product or business off of someone else's uncompensated API, especially when the entity you're piggybacking on depends on user engagement for its revenue.


> It's user's data but Strava isn't obligated to serve an API to anyone.

Arguably, it should be. Siloing data and controlling API access is the cornerstone of user-abusive business model.


HIPAA is siloed and controlled API access, is that user-abusive?


HIPAA requires providers to give you access to your data. Not perfect, but hardly a silo.


and you can't download your data from strava? https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918437-Expor...


Can you get your own data from the system?


you can download your data from strava, individually as flat files and in bulk. this has been the case for years, and its more recently a requirement of GDPR anyway.

you have the right to your data, that doesn't mean strava has to serve it to some random 3rd party in perpetuity.


When a random third party is acting on their (Strava's) user's behalf, it kind of means they should.


just upzone where the jobs are and let the capital markets solve the problem. people would rather walk to work anyway.

100% of this money will be wasted on:

a) rebuilding few dozen graded crossing of rail

b) acquiring land at insane values (same land thats inflated by restrictive zoning)

c) backfilling unfunded pension liabilities of 9 different agencies


I wish they would do this in Los Angeles, or provides incentives for companies to move their companies to where people live. Instead, they are building out more in areas away from the jobs causing more and more congestion as everyone tries to get to work. Its mind boggling.


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