Yup, and that's what I meant by them turning the pain dial all the way towards money. Presumably they can run A/B tests and will no doubt be able to prove that this change makes them $X more money (since it's 1/6 a full screen ad after all). At the cost of being a miserable tasteless change.
The YouTube team has been blindly chasing monetization at the expense of their website being useful and pleasant for a while now. Unfortunately it seems they can get away with it. I wrote this post to just shake my fist at the cloud
The thing Tom Brady is accused of (deflating footballs) is scientifically proven to be a result of the ideal gas law. The NFL admitted they had no idea that was a thing when they levied the accusations at him.
Even if you believe the NFL and it was "more probable than not" that he was "generally aware" of a scheme to deflate the balls, let's not pretend that accusation is even in the same universe as what Bonds and Armstrong did
"we have concluded
that it is more probable than not that Jim McNally (the Officials Locker Room attendant for the
Patriots) and John Jastremski (an equipment assistant for the Patriots) participated in a deliberate
effort to release air from Patriots game balls after the balls were examined by the referee
...
Our consultants confirmed that a reduction in air pressure is a natural result of
footballs moving from a relatively warm environment such as a locker room to a colder
environment such as a playing field. According to our scientific consultants, however, the
reduction in pressure of the Patriots game balls cannot be explained completely by basic
scientific principles, such as the Ideal Gas Law, based on the circumstances and conditions likely
to have been present on the day of the AFC Championship Game. In addition, the average
pressure drop of the Patriots game balls exceeded the average pressure drop of the Colts balls ...
...
Based on the testing and analysis, however, Exponent concluded that, within the range of likely
game conditions and circumstances studied, they could identify no set of credible environmental
or physical factors that completely accounts for the Patriots halftime measurements or for the
additional loss in air pressure exhibited by the Patriots game balls, as compared to the loss in air
pressure exhibited by the Colts game balls. Dr. Marlow agreed with this conclusion. This
absence of a credible scientific explanation for the Patriots halftime measurements tends to
support a finding that human intervention may account for the additional loss of pressure
exhibited by the Patriots balls."
Once, and in context it was "Tim [at] Apple", because he loves to name drop like that." Any future mentions of Tim Apple by the president are tongue in cheek.
Overtime pay? Is this common for oncalls? Never gotten it myself, every time I ask they reply with "just take the time back on another day" as if my time is fungible. Weekend time is worth far more to me than weekday time
Some companies do on-call bonuses, overtime pay for on-call incidents, or other schemes.
In my experience, it’s not a net win. They’ve budgeted the same amount for compensation either way, so you’re probably getting lower base comp if they’re allocating some of it for on-call.
It also creates an atmosphere where on-call becomes more normalized, because you’re getting paid extra to do it. Some people, usually young single people, will try to milk the overtime for as much as they can, dragging out the hours spent doing on-call work because every extra hour spent on the problem makes their paycheck bigger.
Agreed. Also just so you know, invaluable is one of those weird words that is intensified with in-, not negated. It means even more valuable, not worthless
NSA tapped the phones of the German Prime Minister.
They are the same spooks that intercept router gear in transit, flashed it with secret firmware, then put it back in the mail. Like, of course the United Stated Intelligence apparatus, agencies with an unlimited budget, a national security mission, and is completely exempt from all laws has 100% capability to spy on some tiny company in Sweden.
I agree there's a very high chance they and the majority of other VPNs are - or if not the US some other intel org.
The US government has form (what was that early crypto machine they sold to allies and it was backdoored?), and they'd be foolish to miss such a strategically obvious play.
>Unless there's some kind option where youtube or twitch signs a contract with select creators and then hands them huge sums of cash upfront for the costs of future content production
For the record this exact thing does exist for bigger streamers. See Ludwig for example, he switched to YouTube exclusively because it was a better deal than his twitch offer.
I've seen paid exclusivity deals from youtube before (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/youtube-reportedly-paid-usd160...) and while I'm surprised they paid a streamer like Ludwig to defect I'm pretty sure those kinds of deals don't exist for 99% of the content that gets uploaded to the platform.