In theory, yes, in practice, that just means the commercials are compressed to the single loudest part of the TV show they accompany. Net effect: Nil. The commercial still sounds louder than everything else.
> The question is are they obligated to give the best advice?
I didn't get this from the article.
I understood the issue to be:
1. It is undisputed that the lottery is required to display odds (return $$s per $$s spent).
2. It is undisputed that the lottery displays the theoretical maximum return given optimal play
3. The lottery supports a feature that does not play optimally
4. The issue: Should the lottery be required to display the rate of return given the use of auto-play?
My ebook purchases also skyrocketed after I got a Kindle. But it didn't rise because the kindle made it easy to buy ebooks, or even because I prefer ebooks (for technical stuff, I actually don't). It's because I was reading a lot more. I went from 1 or 2 books a year (if even) to 1 to 2 books a week.
My experience is anecdotal, but it might be worthwhile to ask your acquaintances why they buy so many ebooks after buying a Kindle.
Clojure(Script) reads Rubyish to me in the sense that I can't read the code until I understand every primitive. Contrast this with Python which almost reads like a natural language (which I don't say is better, but more explicit IMO).
There is nothing implicit about that. You are instantiating an anonymous class (that's the reify) implementing 3 interfaces (presumably you looked these up since they're user libraries) that you are defining inline.
Compare this to something like a Django Rest Framework:
class SnippetList(APIView):
"""
List all snippets, or create a new snippet.
"""
def get(self, request, format=None):
snippets = Snippet.objects.all()
serializer = SnippetSerializer(snippets, many=True)
return Response(serializer.data)
def post(self, request, format=None):
serializer = SnippetSerializer(data=request.data)
if serializer.is_valid():
serializer.save()
return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)
reify doesn't require any special knowledge that class doesn't. The Python code here is subclassing a single abstract class (APIView) instead of 3, but it has the same "problem" in that you have to know what methods to override. Again this is user code so you probably looked up what APIView needs to work just like you looked up with InitState, IDidMount, and IRenderState.
reify vs class in Clojure vs Python is a matter of idioms. You can definitely create an actual class instead of reifying in clojure, it just isn't necessary. Likewise, you could create an anonymous type in python via type(), but you'd probably get fired and/or shot in most circles for doing so.
In order to have a remote idea what's going on, I need to know about channels, what `events`, `sub`, `go`, `loop`, `recur`, `<!` are. In Python, it's easy to tell syntax and primitives from library classes and methods, but here I'm not sure which is which. That's what I mean by Clojure being dense. Of course it's stupid to assume you read the source without understanding the language first, but “Python after you know some OOP“ is still easier to read for absolute language beginner than “Clojure if you know some FP”. Again, I don't imply that Python is somehow better because of that.
State lawyers are well versed in state law. As this is a state case, involving state law, a Texas lawyer would be required to make knowledgable statements on the case. A lawyer of another state or country could likely recognize some similar language, but would not be well versed in Texas law.
This would be like someone commenting on a Java article by saying, "I'm not a programmer, let alone a Java programmer."
Without being too specific, you should assume that Large stores already do this. Any store claiming to have "in store wifi" is almost guaranteed to be tracking you through your mac address.
The system that I'm familiar with only tracks where you're going. It didn't (as of a couple months ago) have any way of linking your mac back to a consumer profile.
name
sex
marital status
nationality
place of birth
profession
identity document type
identity document number
street address
city
state
country
cellular phone number
name of cellular provider
landline phone number
email address
barcode from your boarding pass
If you think that this is an April Fool's joke, I can assure you that it's real. Some of the above are optional on the form that's shown, but other airport ISPs in Brazil do insist that you fill in a lot of fields like the above.
I'm happy to say that the trend in the United States and Canada has been toward less or zero information for using wifi. Less than 10 years ago, it was quite common to see all sorts of questions to use wifi. And Internet cafes used to demand ID in the United States and Canada (and they still do in Brazil).
At Beijing airport if you're not Chinese they require a scan of your passport photo page at a special kiosk where they then give you a unique access code....
I also remember checking into a Brazilian hotel, where they wanted Brazilian guests, at least, to specify their highest level of formal education (!), as well as profession, date of birth, and the city from which the guest arrived and the city to which the guest planned to travel next.
I wonder if the last two are specifically meant to aid law enforcement investigations.
So they'd learn my name is Al Kapone, my nationality is the proud citizen of the glorious nation of Kazakhstan, my place of birth is the South Pole, my profession is a lion tamer and I live in 666 Fake Street, Garbadedataville. What they're going to do with this information?
Requiring email confirmation assumes the fact that the user can already connect to the Internet to access his/her email to read the message, throwaway account or not, so that wouldn't work too well...
It's not that, trust me. They make good money with your data. Take it as a way of payment for the "free" wifi.
It helps the same purpose as the loyalty cards, especially the ones that outgrow the original business (I'm looking at you both Tesco ClubCard and Nectar Card). Getting "points" by using those at other businesses like petrol stations helps them profiling you for "better" advertising. They also keep you a bit more loyal to their associated brands, but we already knew that bit :)
I wonder when that better advertising would actually come along. They keep collecting the data but so far all the ads I've seen is either utterly irrelevant crap or "you visited shoe store so our network would show you the same shoe store's ads for the next 3 months, because it can't be that you don't need buy new shoes every day".
