I have extensive experience bidding on eBay auctions, I probably engaged in 10 auctions a month for several years in a row.
The first few times I definitely encountered winners curse. But the real/only solution is having accurate price discovery and having a game plan. I will do research to find the current market value and bid in the bottom end of the range. If I miss it, the market is liquid enough such that I can try again and if i hit it, then I am happy because I got it for a low price.
On items with lower liquidity and availability I still need to be patient and disciplined with my bidding. This is the only way to do online auction bidding.
I really don't know why eBay hasn't "solved" this.
In real world auctions, bidding continues until no one bids. This eliminates sniping as a tactic.
My favorite auction site was ubid.com, which had this policy. There always needed to be a 5 minute period of no bids for the auction to end. This way, you can comfortably tell the automated system your max bid and not worry about snipers.
The solution isn’t to celebrate how families need to live in tiny apartments. The solution is to expand new housing outside of the main areas into new developments, and create new business centers or allow for remote work.
The whole online ad industry is based on users honestly clicking on ads so that advertisers get some sort of feedback as to its effectiveness. If extensions are silently clicking on ads, it renders ad metrics and tracking completely irrelevant.
In college, I was always the first one out of my friends to “get” a concept, like fast Fourier transforms, anything with signal processing or even coding or any labs we had to do etc so I would spend time teaching them in the library. However I never did any of the exercises, mostly due to laziness and not arrogance. They would get A’s and I would get C’s and D’s.
I emphasize this story to my kids because knowing isn’t important because everyone eventually figure it out. It’s the ones who can do the problems and get good marks that succeed in the end.
I think this shows a lack of self-doubt, which can be deadly. Those problems acted as verification to yourself that you understood the theory and its application. If you truly understood the material, then the problems would be zero effort. However, if you struggled with them it's a signal that you don't know what you think you know.
As someone who had an a similar experience to whom you are replying to, this was definitely not the case. The problems were easy, but were not "zero effort". Even if it takes you only a few minutes to do the steps and show the work per problem, then that could still take you 30-60 minutes to complete the assignment. That was time I'd spend doing things I wanted to do (fun in the short term, a nightmare in the long term).
I think usually the easy problems are just the "burn-in" time to solidify understanding, but there's usually a couple hard problems that take way longer to work through and those will teach you the intuition. Doing simple calculation is different than being forced to conceptualize the entire path from starting information to system to evolution to result.
This is kind of interesting to hear because I was the other way around. I found the best way to understand something was to teach it to others. That way I took what I already understood and was able to see what other people misunderstood, which was often something I'd never expected to be an issue, and add their experience in learning the topic on to what I already knew which expanded my overall understanding.
Then again, in the process of teaching I always found myself teaching people to work problems, which required me to be able to work the problems myself. In a way, it's kind of impressive you managed to avoid doing that.
Does anyone honestly care? I can’t think of anything less important than any tweet that is more than a few days old. Literally trillions of tweets could be deleted and no one would care
Tweets are embedded in tons of news articles as primary sources, and often require the image to make sense. Like it or not, Twitter is a primary source for a significant proportion of history worldwide, as it contains a lot of first-person reporting and evidence.
Twitter's not just about documenting what you had for breakfast; it's also about documenting civil war atrocities.
I would care. There’s an active community of artists and developers who regularly post images of their work, as well as educational material. I can also conceive of other such communities that I’m not aware of whose members would feel the same. Losing years of those resources would be a great loss.
Twitter really has a PR issue. So many people still see it as the place to post “ate a sandwich for lunch today”, when it’s so much bigger than that.
I can’t vouch for it, but the article I read yesterday stated that the police department violated a federal law governing how law enforcement seizes information from journalists. If so, the feds could become involved.
Basically go up the food chain. This corruption is probably more on the magistrate who signed the warrant than the police who served it, but that gets investigated by the state or the DOJ.
The FBI, but they're too busy grooming mentally disabled people into fabricated terror plots, because real terrorism is far too rare to justify their inflated headcounts and budgets.
If you watch and enjoy YouTube in any capacity you should be ensuring that the creators get paid otherwise you’re robbing yourself of content.