> they believe up to 80 percent or more of the lat-long data available there is fake. No one has stopped to think about where that data has come from and why a publisher would choose to sell it all to a vendor who is going to build a business on top of their data. What’s actually happening is these ad tech vendors are trying to pad out the limited data they already own with other data sets from competitive vendors or other unknown sources.
Sounds more like textbook fraud than a Ponzi scheme (though, honestly I did not read the whole article).
Not really fraud, phones have different levels of horizontal accuracy based off of privacy settings, GPS & cell signal strength, battery life, CPU load and that's before you get to the obfuscation that exchanges do. At Dstillery we built a geodata classifier to tell us what was and what wasn't good data. We throw out 60% to 75% a day as not useful for learning anything from. But we can be picky since we combine web and location data we aren't beholden to needing the unreasonable amounts of location data you need working with just location data. Location should be holistic part of the data, not the be-all, end-all.
It should also be noted that we have anti fraud tech baked into our system that fires before our geodata stuff runs. Fraud gets cleared out for being fraud not for being bad location data.
Correct, VRBO has been around a while. They do not aggressively go after getting units in towns that do not allow short term rentals, like AirBnB does.
I was curious if this would beat James Webb to space, but this is targeted for middle of the 2020s while NASA appears to be pushing for James Webb to get up to space in the next couple years. Fingers crossed!
> In testimony before Congress in July 2018, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine proposed slowing down the development of WFIRST in order to accommodate a cost increase in the James Webb Space Telescope, which would result in decreased funding for WFIRST in 2020/2021.
In the US, a Roth IRA is somewhat similar, except it differs from what you described: early withdrawals have a penalty, and the contribution "room" is different. With the IRA, you can only contribute up to the $6000 annually. You don't accumulate "room", just principal. If you miss it, you miss it.
Senators are moral imbeciles, and so it goes. Without a strong move in the senate to make this happen and damn the backlash, America is stuck with the rolling disaster that is their NRC, and decentralized ad hoc storage of spent fuel. It’s crazy, but it part of a long list of crazy and self destructive things that form the American status quo with “Senators are moral imbeciles” throbbing at their core.
Wait, one of these freelancers worked 63,000 hours on the platform? They must be outsourcing themselves... That's 30 forty-hour work years (divided by 2080 hours in a year).
Sounds more like textbook fraud than a Ponzi scheme (though, honestly I did not read the whole article).