I am not surprised. Part of the 50/50 idea is that people can toss the coin high enough to make an unpredictable number of turns. Which they can’t. I’d be interested in the information how many turns such a coin made before it landed. I’d expect to see a Gauss distribution here, with the center sufficiently off to explain the difference to a true 50/50.
I mentioned it because as far as I saw they did not specify what coin they used.
You haven’t actually read the article, have you?
(…) the authors of the new paper conducted 350,757 flips, using different coins from 46 global currencies to eliminate a heads-tail bias between coin designs. (They also used a variety of people to rule out individuals with biased flipping techniques corrupting the results.) Regardless of the coin type, the same-side outcome could be predicted at 0.508, which rounds up perfectly to Diaconis’ “about 51 percent” prediction from 16 years ago.
I should be specific, they say 4⁰ someodd coins but don’t mention a control coin or the effect of air.
You should probably reign in that snark as i specifically addressed your point.
Notably every coin has a face/tail bias because of how much material is removed for the design, a coin with no bias flipped in vacuum should have been the control to remove the design and/or air resistance.
i’d more say the point is that you don’t know if it’s gonna be heads or tails, sure maybe one is 60% likely but unless you go out of your way to statistically analyze your flips it’s still perfectly fine for randomly determining between two choices. where it doesn’t matter which one you go with.
I guess it might help with some sites, where kids just scrolled into it but don’t care about it. In cases where they want to see the feed/‘for you’ page, then yep agreed.
If it works out the way I’m hoping for, this might help a lot of OTHER people avoid the algorithms/feeds/suggested posts when they intentionally want to avoid them. I’d love to have a filter like this where I can toggle it off.
YouTube’s recent change has been really nice, I like only seeing content from subscriptions
I’d love to remove suggested posts in Instagram, I don’t like random suggested posts mixed in with content from friends/family, and I snooze it every 30 days. If this also blocks the suggested reels page, I’ll probably save a lot more time.
I don’t use Facebook/Snapchat that much anymore, but it would probably help there too
So honestly, don’t even need to focus on the kid aspect. Make it mandatory to include a toggle to turn off suggested posts.
I stopped using Facebook when I had to reset the sort to Time instead of suggested every login. That was about 10 years ago so I’m glad to see some progress on the issue.
i also hate that they’re gonna hire real people, to staff and manage the places, and those people are gonna start slowly convincing themselves that maybe it’s not stupid to wake up and get dressed and go to work so people can buy an orange is the new black sweater. which is really sad, the quiet desperation of it all. people’s livelihood now depends on this garbage.
In Tokyo they had a Stranger Things themed restaurant for a while. Pop up culture is pretty big in Japan so it worked out great I suppose. I don’t expect it to work in other places nearly as well. Especially if it’s a permanent structure.
I mean the spaceships in star trek, star wars and firefly all have pretty different interiors. Of your idea is to draw in fans of specific shows you don’t really want to have a “generic sci fi” setting.
Well, yeah you wouldn’t be able to re-use everything but certain things like the building structure and cutlery, flooring, etc probably wouldn’t have to be modified much. Some of the more expensive things to switch out.
Best date nights always started with a trip to Blockbuster.
I remember renting an N64 with Majora’s mask and pulling an all-nighter so I could finish it during the two-day rental period. It was a good time to be alive.
I remember when you couldn’t choose what to watch except for a handful of options, and you had to show up at the right time to watch what you chose. And there was no option to avoid ads.
I didn’t expect to be doing the old man routine in my mid 40s, but here we are.
It wasn’t that going to Blockbuster was an inconvenience. Those things were like modern day Starbucks where you don’t even bother to check a map. You just drive in one direction for three or four minutes and find at least two. Hell, the one we went to was across the parking lot from the Pathmark and it was pretty common for mom to send me and my sister to go pick out a movie or a game while she went through the checkout line.
The reality is that there just wasn’t a good alternative. Some people would use mail order catalogs but those came out with enough of a delay that it was never worth it. This month (or quarter’s) magazine arrives three weeks after Mission Impossible has hit VHS. And by the time the order is sent and arrives, it has been another two weeks. And then you either have a video for a week longer than you need or you need to remember to go to the post office on Monday.
It was The Internet that made this viable because you could see what was available the moment it was available. And your order was instant so you only had the shipping time to worry about.
But also? Once The Internet became available, there was almost no need to stare at shelves to figure out what movie you wanted to watch (I hear Harvey Keitel hangs dong in that one) because you could do exactly that from the comfort of your own home… so long as you weren’t expecting a phone call.
And it is not like people ever truly hated the idea of physical stores. Clothes shopping online is still a mess and that is why Amazon specifically have easily reasealable bags so you just buy three sizes of pants and return the two that don’t fit.
But also? Once you know the sizing for a given brand/range of clothes, you don’t need to do that anymore. You know what to order in what size and it will fit. Maybe you have to try stuff on if you try a new brand/store but…
Which becomes a problem because all those brick and mortar stores are now getting a few sales a month, rather than a couple dozen per day.
Which is also one of the things that make me (mostly) proud to be a climber. Obnoxious trust fund dirtbags aside, the vast majority of us will try to buy at least some of our hardware and gear at an REI or (better yet) an actual local store. Because yes, we are getting gouged a bit. But it means that the store will be there when we need to decide between four or five options or get fitted for snow shoes or whatever.
This has been the Infinitely Unfolding Paradox of Enjoyment that we’ve been experiencing since the Industrial Revolution. And it’s only become more acute as time has gone on. Things are becoming easier to access, we have more information than ever, it’s right at our fingertips, we have endless entertainment, we expect to be enjoying 100% of endless content—but this has made us angrier than ever at content we don’t enjoy, less able to enjoy the available entertainment, always looking for something better, he information at our fingertips is making us angrier and less satisfied (also somehow more misguided and ignorant—because that information is mixed in with absurd amounts of disinformation and it’s given an equal playing field), and our ease of access comes with an endless desire to access more and more while finding less and less we actually want.
Things are technically getting better, enjoyment is becoming a pinpointed prescription…but more and better is making us lesser and worse.
We need the bad to more enjoy the good. We need the inconvenience to enjoy the convenience. We need a lack of technology to enjoy the available technology.
Really, what this all boils down to is this:
Capitalism is destroying everything. In so many words. And if anyone can’t see how everything above is linked with capitalism and its driving force of profit (and endlessly growing profit, at that), I dunno how to help you. But I assume everyone on lemmy is pretty much very, very aware of this.
Back then it was something to do. Now we’ve gotten rid of all those things to do for the sake of laziness, but we have nothing left to do but sit around the house and watch/play downloaded movies/games. And everyone wonders why they’re bored and no longer have any friends.
Those weren’t necessarily seen as inconveniences at the time, because people had not experienced the “easier” alternatives to compare to. They were just seen as the way things were, and people made the best of them just we do with day to day activities now.
Going to the video rental place was part of the weekend routine for me, blended in with shopping etc. One of the rental places I used to go to also sold music, and tickets for local events. They also had a bunch of posters and notices up about local happenings. Customers would often bump into friends and acquaintances while browsing. The rental place also had a letter box that returns could be dropped in when the store was closed, so rentals would often be returned Monday morning on the way to school/work.
Media distribution has now changed a lot from then, and it’s become easier and more efficient. But it’s also changed how we interact with media, and with our communities, and perhaps not always for the better.
All the time and attention that digital everything saves us has been turned into ad space.
Doing something real like driving to blockbuster for instance used to be your time. Sights, sounds, someone’s hand in yours, a song on the radio. We used to own those moments, for free. Those things were your memories. Trading all that for “convenience” seems like a bum deal to me. Maybe I’m just getting old.
Gonna be honest: if your idea of date night is frantically playing a game for 24 hours straight to try and get your money’s worth, you are going to have a VERY small compatibility pool.
To be fair I would rather see them try to make money for investors this way than by cutting costs on labor and the other shady things companies do to make money. This is at least some kind of “innovation” for lack of a better term. Maybe it might be cool
Yeah, increasing profit by actually creating a product is great. Increasing profit by increasing costs to the customer or decreasing expenditures (in particular cutting pay or removing employees) sucks.
Makes sense. They have multiple franchises and they can either sell in Walmart and water down the franchise or make an exclusive store where they control the experience and increase the value of the products. Disney also has stores like that. As for the Squid Game experience it’s the local equivalent to Disney parks. Di’s I mention it looks like they’re copying Disney?
Same, but Disney has gotten so big and so loose with it’s cash that they are burning the clothes off their backs to keep the train moving. It was just not profitable enough to keep that arm alive I guess
The entire chain of Disney stores in the UK closed years ago. A bunch of other narrowly branded shops have gone too.
If the likes of Disney didn’t think stores were worth it, I’m not sure how Netflix thinks it could work. There’s can be decent margin on merchandise, but also a lot of cost in running physical retail.
The argument the idiots use is “We want to see government theft!” instead of just having a line item at the end of your receipt showing tax collected and the breakdown. It’s not like we don’t have toiletpaper roll length receipts already.
The kicker is we already do the “price at point of sale including taxes” thing at gas stations. If it’s $3.09 or whatever per gallon, that’s including state and federal sales tax.
We already see the line item thing on most receipts anyway. We basically do everything except roll the sales tax into the sticker price.
that would very much wreak havoc with caching since you basically can’t cache pricing including sales tax as it depends on your very specific location.
of course, for things like event tickets, it’s the venue’s location that matters for tax, so it works out to be a non-issue.
Fair, I admittedly don’t know how one would implement it, but the sales tax data is being used by their clients for something.
Looking into it further, some states, according to Shopify’s FAQ on the topic, have different rules with regards to destination-sourced vs origin-sourced sales. 🤷♂️
Maybe you could do more localized caching. Localities with different sales tax are finite and few. Cache pages based on those localities and then serve pages based on the IP of the client. It’s not ideal or as optimal, but it’s not that unreasonable in my mind. If it became the norm we’d build the infrastructure to sustain it.
Companies have no problem doing it to comply with EU regulations which require tax to be included, so I see no technical reason why they couldnt figure it out for the US.
It’s an imperfect solution. VPNs are an issue - and even if you don’t use a VPN, the API only knows the location of the ISP’s servers - which can be in a different state.
My point was that, the law should leave tax inclusion in pricing as optional. There is no way to implement automatic detection cleanly, other than prompting the user to confirm their location, which is a huge annoyance - so the ‘tax inclusion’ rule would not make things better or more convenient.
I cannot imagine a customer base that’s so ecstatic with Netflix’s service that they’re willing to give the company even more money by buying overpriced ultra-processed meals and branded coffee cups. Why people continue to sell their souls and open their wallets to these companies is beyond me.
And there’s nothing wrong with being a Pokeslut. When a hunky Pokemon trainer throws their balls my way, I’m always up for a little Squirtle in my Caterpie.
Who runs the Stranger Things experience? I bet it’s them under a different name or maybe sold the rights? Regardless of who owns it, it was super popular here in Seattle.
You can’t? Look at Disney World or Universal Studios. Sure they have rides, but a lot of it is the experiences involving people’s favorite movies/shows.
I can definitely see people interested if they get that part right.
Imagine getting a drink in a tavern from The Witcher. Or a fancy dinner in a palace setting from The Crown or the mansion from Umbrella Academy. Imagine going through a haunted house based around Hill House. Running an obstacle course from Squid Game. Themed escape rooms or live action shows based off Stranger Things or Black Mirror.
That’s not even getting into merchandising. Sure, people are probably not going to flock to buy a Queen’s Gambit chess set. But Castlevania or Arcane collectibles? Dragon Prince plushies? Literally anything from Netflix’s sizable anime collection?
There’s a lot of ways they could do it wrong. In fact it’s more likely they get it wrong than right. But I’m not going to dismiss the idea right out the gate, I do see the possibilities.
If they sell cosplay customes based on popular shows, you know people will be queuing up to throw money at those made-in-china products.
Having the rights to ship out the offical crap could be a gold mine for them.
Just take Squid Game. It’s a regular training suit and they already exist as costumes and they’re easy to copy, but you can’t find the real one because of all the copies.
Same idea as the Universal Studios parks. Just without the park, because the income is all in the souvenir shop anyway.
Sell their souls? 😂 you live in a completely different world than most people. hsrdly anyone views it that way, they view it as paying $18/month or whatever it is now
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