> Sorry, until your industry sets professional standards your crying has zero emotional pull for me.
Oh, sorry if I mislead you. I'm actually not in the industry at all. I used to be a publisher though, had my own website until I sold it. My comments were me empathizing and seeing things from the point of view of a content creator. That's for whom I argue.
At home I block all ad server domains with a host file on my router. This triggers the Adblock wall. When I am at work or on the road I get a message "Thanks for turning off your adblock."
However, at least Forbes is only deluding themselves and not their clients. There are eyebrow raising demographic issues with internet ads.
I block ads because "native" ad producers like Taboola, Outbrain, Revcontent, ... you get the point. These advertising companies like to show NSFW content at the end of news articles at some sites. Therefore I block ads for the same reason I block pornographic sites.
This was pretty liberating because before "native" ads I felt a pang of guilt for blocking ads.
If Google wants to stop ad blockers they should hide sites that use these obnoxious "native" ad networks.
> If Google wants to stop ad blockers they should hide sites that use these obnoxious "native" ad networks.
This would instantly and Google in court for anti-competitive practices...and rightfully so. Imagine if Google suddenly said, "we are going to punish any publisher that doesn't use Adsense within organic search listings." Holy cow that would be bad, and the scary part is that Google could easily do this without even announcing it.
Does opera bring in 18 billion dollars a year from advertising? Anti competitive is a much easier sell against Google, since advertising is their core business. I don't see how this has much to do with influence.
This comment prompted me to investigate why these ads still showed up for me on Mobile Firefox, despite having AdBlock Plus installed. In the AdBlock options, there's a check box to allow "acceptable" ads.
Sorry other allegedly acceptable ads, but I don't need trashy clickbait at the end of every news story so you all lose out.
There's no futures symbol because coal is inherently worth different values based on location. It's a solid, it doesn't spoil (sometimes it spontaneously combusts), you need a whole lot of it to do anything useful. These difficulties fragment the market. For example there are futures for: Australia coal, South Africa coal, Wyoming powder basin coal, Illinois basin coal, etc. It is transported by train or on a dry bulk ship.
Well, the same is roughly true of oil although it's a little harder to store and ship. There's at least two futures markets (Brent and WTI), various oil grades etc. People seem happier assigning a single "oil price" despite local variation.
coal is in the process of consolidation/deleveraging/bankruptcy and they would be making this decision anyways. congrats on extracting social justice points from your business decision.
Hey, I know this is silly because the fund isn't event taking these actions explicitly for environmental reasons, BUT if they were, your comment would be a great example of an Internet debate fallacy that I try and fight.
If an entity is doing something 'bad', reducing the scope or amount of that behavior is neither hypocritical nor pointless. It doesn't matter if it's a big company that pollutes, or an individual trying to reduce a bad habit. Movement in the right direction is an essential part of things getting better.
According to that standard then if you got rich selling illegal drugs so long as you then start doing "good" things with your illicit gains after that, nobody can criticize you? Sure, I guess...
Of course they can criticize you for selling illegal drugs in the same way you can criticize Norway for getting rich off oil. He's saying that praising that person for doing something like giving money to charity or anti-drug efforts isn't completely inconsistent.
I disagree that it can't be hypocritical. If Norway was doing this for environmental reasons I think it'd be quite hypocritical. That doesn't mean it's not a good thing to do though.
That's not how the chemistry works. Most of the energy's in the hydrogen bonds, and the ratio of carbon to hydrogen is much higher in coal. The same amount of energy produced by coal produces much more CO2 than oil or gas. That's not even touching on higher heavy metal contamination and fly ash.
However, methane is a greenhouse gas in its own right, and 100x worse [1] than CO₂. And some unknown amount, I guess 2% to 10%, of methane leaks into atmosphere during the mining and transport and use of natural gas. Depending on the exact amount of this leaking, natural gas might even be the worst offender, per unit energy produced.
[1] 100x worse on a 20 years time scale, 30x worse on a 100 years time scale.
Only, but only a little gas gets out. It's ok. Coal is the enemy mainly because you can see it. Natural Gas requires infrared camera to detect. No this isn't snark/cynicism: we regulate the opacity of a scrubbed coal plant's output.
It simulates a sunrise and sunset with bright LEDs. I always wake up before the audio alarm starts. Before this I was very difficult morning riser. I may be more light sensitive than you, but it works for me, and has some medical research to back up the idea.
In my bedroom I use knockoff RGBW LED lightbulbs (I found some on amazon for $30 that work with a semi-sketchy app called Magic Home). You can set timers for different colors on the app, so in the morning they go bright blue and before bed they all go red. They also have a brighter white LED for daytime usage that's only slightly dimmer than normal bulbs.
It's pretty nifty. They're controlled over some UDP protocol that some people have had some success reverse engineering as well.
The goLITE BLU is a serious and very useful mostly conventional light therapy device which helped me go from 7 to 8 hours of sleep, although recently I've found an even more conventional type like this makes an even bigger difference, enough to maybe get off a drug I've been taking for a decade (weasel word "maybe" because I'm off it but still seeing if I can get back to a regular 8 hours): http://www.amazon.com/Carex-Health-Brands-Day-Light-DL2000/d...
The grandparents post is an alarm clock. The blue light things you use during early morning like with breakfast to prevent SAD. I found the alarm clock to be amazing for about a week and then not much different than other alarms after I adjusted to it. That said I still prefer it to other alarms.
I have tried using this exact same model. It didn't make waking up any easier for me. I simulate it now also using hue bulbs but nothing can snap me out of my rhythms.
Yowza, sick burn on your coworker! Since we are talking about hiring practices have you read this section of Joel's Guerilla Guide to Interviewing?
"People who are Smart but don’t Get Things Done often have PhDs and work in big companies where nobody listens to them because they are completely impractical. They would rather mull over something academic about a problem rather than ship on time. These kind of people can be identified because they love to point out the theoretical similarity between two widely divergent concepts. For example, they will say, “Spreadsheets are really just a special case of programming language,” and then go off for a week and write a thrilling, brilliant whitepaper about the theoretical computational linguistic attributes of a spreadsheet as a programming language. Smart, but not useful. The other way to identify these people is that they have a tendency to show up at your office, coffee mug in hand, and try to start a long conversation about the relative merits of Java introspection vs. COM type libraries, on the day you are trying to ship a beta."
Sorry, until your industry sets professional standards I will continue to block ads and not feel bad.