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ddhboy t1_j98dzm8 wrote

Reply to comment by I_Like_Driving1 in Meta announces paid blue verification tick on Facebook and Instagram: Details by northmania

Especially when this has effect on rankings in the algorithm. Twitter shot itself in the foot on that one by making the analytics public. If the people that I follow with tens of thousands of followers are only getting 300 or so impressions per tweet, then what hope do I have with a much smaller follower count? Now you want to me to pay for the prospect of screaming into the wind?

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OriginalCompetitive t1_j98dkfp wrote

Reply to comment by PopCultureWeekly in Meta announces paid blue verification tick on Facebook and Instagram: Details by northmania

Not at all. The ability to publish a tweet to the world is nearly worthless to most people, but incredibly valuable to some. How much would Nikki Haley have paid, for example, to publish her candidacy for President to the world? $100,000? More? How much would Trump pay per tweet? How much would McDonalds pay? Hundreds? Thousands?

Charging commercial users a hefty price while letting normal people tweet for free is an obvious move, and makes perfect sense.

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BeKind_BeTheChange t1_j98ccfu wrote

Reply to comment by MendocinoReader in Only 50% of iPhone Casings Made in India Meet Apple's Quality Standards by Majnum

I don't think so. It's a lack of quality control. There are experts in every facet of manufacturing and quality equipment suppliers, along with Six Sigma and ISO procedures that are readily available. The only excuse for poor manufacturing output is a lack of desire to put out a quality product, usually caused by greed.

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try_cannibalism t1_j9888kl wrote

Reply to comment by zosolm in MIT team makes a case for direct carbon capture from seawater, not air by MotorDrive

If you're making new forests our of desert, it could be considered permanent sequestration if you assume none of the biomass will biodegrade, be burned, harvested, or otherwise released.

If you harvested 100% of the biomass and locked it away in a non-biodegradable product, like concrete.

But 99% of the time, you're only replanting the forest that was cut last year, most of the biomass is wasted, and all the products are either immediately consumable or eventually break down (how many wood buildings/furniture products even last 100 years these days?)

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Neutral-President t1_j988006 wrote

Reply to comment by LoveThieves in Only 50% of iPhone Casings Made in India Meet Apple's Quality Standards by Majnum

Even the Chinese factories seem to only put out quality products when their foreign clients demand only the highest quality control standards.

Left to their own devices, they seem content shipping really inconsistent stuff. I can’t think of many Chinese-owned brands have made a big impact internationally.

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nibor t1_j9850ul wrote

Reply to Got a tech question or want to discuss tech? Bi-Weekly /r/Technology Tech Support / General Discussion Thread by veritanuda

Is there a good sub for general Technology discussion?

I'm specifically interested in the growth in ML but pretty much any web, web 3.0 or digital focused subjects are fine if it needs to be be more specific.

With ML I'm looking at the reaction to chat GPT and the consensus seems to be will be a game changer to severely impact Google but like search I expect ad-tech will severaly impact usefulness the way the SEO cold war with the most prominent example being each online recipe requiring a life story for ranking juice.. Or it will just be a paid service limiting adoption and potentially breakign the free web as we know it.

I have thoughts, I want to get others take on the situation so recommendations welcome.

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