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Hey bold_panda, I'm the Group PM for Monetization and Growth @ Reddit. I'm really sorry to hear you're experiencing worse CPMs from this targeting change. We definitely did not make this change to intentionally deceive you. You, the advertiser, are our the customer of our ads product. We certainly don't intend to reduce advertiser ROI, because at the end of the day if you are unhappy with your ad performance and leave that doesn't boost our ad revenue at all.

To clarify what happened here, around the time we released our new ads platform - 6 months ago - we made some changes to targeting. Specifically, we modified subreddit targeting so that recent visitors to a subreddit or a post from a subreddit could also qualify to see ads targeted to that subreddit. We did not make any changes to how users who subscribe to a subreddit see ads (subreddit subscribers have been eligible to see ads targeted to a subreddit as long as they are visiting safe for work content since this commit ~2 years ago: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/commit/f6a37b64c17579b82e22...)

The release of our new ads platform also coincided with a re-release of our help center docs, which detail how subreddit targeting works. You can see the specific page here: https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/advertising/targeti...

As noted there: "Targeting a subreddit means you are targeting the subscribers and recent visitors of that subreddit. Subscribers can see your ad while visiting the targeted subreddit and on other subreddits if they recently visited that targeted subreddit."

We made this change in response to advertiser feedback that they would like to see an increase in targeted inventory, the idea being that if you're interested in jerky when you're on /r/jerky you're also interested in jerky when you're not on /r/jerky. This change has helped a good number of our advertisers successfully expand budgets while still meeting their return on ad spend goals, specifically for advertisers that target smaller subreddits regularly. We of course also limit the subreddits your ads can show on outside of the targeted subreddit to ones that are similarly "brand safe" to the ones you are targeting. (e.g. if you are explicitly targeting only NSFW subs your ad will show up on other NSFW subs, but if you're not targeting NSFW subs your ad will never show up on a NSFW sub)

While we haven't done any sort of official analysis of CPM changes here, the expected effect of this change was that advertisers would be able to spend significantly more budget (a specific request of many of our advertisers). An expected side effect is that CPMs might possibly increase due to more bids on a per-impression basis, but since you're bidding on a wider range of inventory I would expect that you would be able to reduce your CPMs and still spend the same budget you were spending before, with similar performance.

If there's something I can do to help please don't hesitate to email me directly (jamie@reddit.com). In the future for ads problems we also hang out on https://www.reddit.com/r/redditads
It's a marketing fail. The commenting system needs a separate brand. If you were going to use Kinja or Chorus, you wouldn't assume you were dragging along the culture that its existing publishers have.

To an extent, "just use the subreddit's moderation" is a product fail, too. It needs to feel like a standalone product, not embedding another site that you might not completely understand.
YouTube stream ripping: the record industry is being thick again
Battery life seems to be almost entirely down to how much you're actually using it. My work Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) lasts several days (really) because I only look do email and calendar stuff on it, a few times a day.

My iPhone 6s often lasts through the day and half way through the next, when I'm not doing much other than playing Spotify and using a bit of WhatsApp. If I'm actively using it, though, I have to plug it in towards the end of the day.
>If someone steals your fingerprint, you can never change your fingerprint (same with your face).

Because you expect repeated attacks from the person who stole your fingerprints? Who are you, James Bond?
> I think people need to adjust their security policies to reflect the actual security threats they're likely to face, and for most people Touch ID or FaceID are more than adequate.

Sounds like you work for Equifax. (=

Look, real security threats are out there -- even if you don't want to acknowledge them. Phones have too much sensitive data, photos, bank accounts -- now the ability to pay via text message. It's just short-sighted to think the only threats people should be worried about are their kids or neighbours.
I'm not entirely sure if this is a joke or not. One of the fundamental functions of a bank is to increase the money supply by creating debt.
Snapchat is pretty good about this. They only send notifications for direct messages, not for sponsored content, stories, or group chats.
While I agree with Kahneman that it is easy to fool yourself by looking at studies with small sample size, the recent focus on reproducing existing research is, to my mind, misguided. It is extremely difficult to perform experiments exactly the same, even within one lab, much less between many different labs. For a good example of this, see this fascinating description of how several labs tried to standardize the way they handle c. elegans (worms) to identify compounds which extended the life of the animals: http://www.nature.com/news/a-long-journey-to-reproducible-re...

While some effort to standardize is important, it also waste a lot of time setting up a specific set of experimental conditions that may not have much resemblance to the conditions that obtain in the real world. In my opinion, we learn much more by taking someone's existing result, thinking through the consequences and then designing well-powered experiments that probe the assumptions, mechanisms and applicability of the result. With critical eyes and diverse systems, we won't fool ourselves.

One more note: if this topic interests you, please read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. If you are unfamiliar with the book, I guarantee it will completely change how you think about science as a human endeavour and make you much more comfortable with the existence of long periods of time where science just gets some things wrong.
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Subreddit does not mean that it only shows in that subreddit. That's the problem I outlined in my OP.

Their is no interest category for jerky specifically and Reddit certainly wouldn't be that proactive as to adjust my ad for me in my experience. It's an automated system...which is fine...but they swept this targeting change under the rug.
You could have it set up on the apple store, or you could use your computer, or you could (one can dream) use a phone from a different manufacturer?
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There's also in-kind redemptions for exchange traded funds.
Slack permissions seem excessive:

>UNUBO will be able to send messages to any channel or person on your workspace.

>UNUBO will be able to read all messages, files, and profiles that you can access.

>UNUBO will be able to receive all messages and activity that occurs in {company} as well as send messages on your behalf.
I live in San Francisco. Grew up in the South Bay. Last month I took a motorcycle trip up to Seattle along the California and Oregon coastline. I took my time, stopped a lot along the way. I was shocked at how friendly and inquisitive the people from the <5-digit-population towns were. Everyone was polite, seemed genuinely interested in conversation with me (a lot of questions about my motorcycle, but other topics too). Completely the opposite of the urban/suburban areas I was used to. This began immediately outside the greater Bay Area and let up only when going through medium sized towns or larger. Portland and Seattle were much like being back in SF.

Anyways, I'm also rambling, but just wanted to add another piece of anecdotal evidence to yours. It's almost enough to make me want to try living in one of these towns for a while, which never really occurred to me before (at 25 it seems like everyone I know wants to be as urban as possible).
You should review the concept of "fractional reserve banking".
It's easy, find a local biker bar and put your hand in a familiar manner on one of the biker's girlfriend's behind.
watchOS has “Scribble”: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206907

Or Siri dictation.
I loved their book and would be interested in this, but it looks like it requires a real-time presence that I can't fit in at the moment. Hopefully they'll make recordings available.
I love privacy. I love a well funded government even more.

Please pay your taxes. Thanks.
PM from Reddit here.

We limit the subreddits your ads can show on outside of the targeted subreddit to ones that are similarly "brand safe" to the ones you are targeting. (e.g. if you are explicitly targeting only NSFW subs your ad will show up on other NSFW subs, but if you're not targeting NSFW subs your ad will never show up on a NSFW sub). You are also able to exclude any specific subreddits you don't want to show up on.
>What you want is assembly.

Which you can code in a convenient way by using Lisp and Lisp macros to generate the <insert target CPU> machine language output using <insert target CPU> opcodes.
I get what you're saying, but Coinbase can't possibly generate 1099 as you could buy Ethereum, send it to another exchange, do a variety of transactions, etc. They could only speak to coin you buy, don't transfer out, and then sell all on their exchange.
> would Reddit ca. 2004 had done that instead of building their own?

Maybe, but probably not, largely because they could not fully control the content, like WaPo could do today.

In this day and age, commenting on the internet is pretty mature, and the best systems have years of data to feed their anti-spam algorithms.

Just like you can run your own mail server today, most people don't because it's a pain in the butt and it's a lot easier to take advantage of someone else's expertise.

It's the same with comments. It's a lot easier to let someone else do it.
>I am not sure why phones haven't been made with different profiles.

Because they're personal devices. And even if they had, 99% of the population wouldn't even know how to begin using them (like they don't have an extra profile on their laptop).

At most phones could use an easy "don't let the person I gave my phone to check some pic see my dick-picks" mode or similar.
> It's a game. Isn't betraying people just part of the game?

As someone who doesn't play the game I've sure gotten a lot of phishing emails for it, and an uninterested corporate response to boot.
It's likely exactly like a Kinect since they acquired PrimeSense in 2013.
No, because it introduces the free rider problem. It creates an incentive for any particular union member to defect from the union, because they no longer have to pay fees, but are legally entitled to whatever the union negotiated for.

It's like a law that prevents compulsory membership in a fire insurance plan, but also allows you to sign up for retroactive fire insurance after your house burns down.

It's sole purpose is union-busting.
I didn't read the article but my guess is because people will chop off your head to unlock the phone.
I think "nothing < passcode < touchid/faceid" might be true for a startling number of people. I've seen many people with ridiculously easy passcodes and even funnier Android patterns (e.g., one of my colleagues uses his first initial as his Android unlock pattern, and my mom uses her dog's name as her passcode).

So Touch/FaceID isn't better than a good passcode, but maybe it's better than a crappy passcode.
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>but I'm not a nobody and I really used them

Yeah, "nobody used them" in casual speech just means very few people. Obviously since they were made some people bought and used them. But the numbers were not worth writing home about -- and one would be hard-pressed to see random people using them in the wild (exceptions by field workers, some kinds of researchers, etc, mostly professional/factory/etc uses).
I haven't looked at vscode for a while, but intellij and it's ilk allow me to do everything inside the ide with the same interface. For example, for a django project, it has support for vagrant, SSH, django-admin tasks, remote debugging, DB inspection/modification, virtualenvs, package management, just off the top of my head.
I have a general aversion to giving anyone enduring access to my accounts, but I don't have a problem giving people I trust temporary access.

Regarding safety, I don't think it's unsafe but would be happy to have my mind changed if you have more experience with the relative risks of driver distraction: my hand is on the wheel with a finger held out and she positions the touch id button under the finger, so I've still got both hands on the wheel & have full control in the event I need to steer out of the way of a hazard. I'd only do it on a straight stretch of road with no obvious hazards (and on top of that it's rare that it's needed, usually just if we need a contact number that was sent only to me).

I'd definitely not use FaceID while driving because I'd be uncomfortable taking my attention away from the road to look at a phone screen (even if it's just a glance just like checking the speedometer)
Im not personally aware of who the The Judge is, but I'm assuming they were a high level director in CO2. The only way you could take over a Corp is to start a vote to elect a new CEO, and the to elect a new alliance leader you'd have the get the majority of CEOs to change their vote for lead corporation. Since there is no way for The Judge to the over CO2, the best thing they could do is take everything that isn't nailed down. There is no way The Judge would have the time to unanchored the keepstar and get a freighter there to safely extract it, so the only possible thing left was to meme CO2 and give ownership over to The Imperium.
What people want isn't necessarily what they need.

When people's needs are satisfied, they want more of that.

So let's satisfy their needs instead. Echo chambers are ultimately self-defeating as they bring on more divisiveness and intolerance.
Who you are (authentication) and what you can do (authorization). But for iPhone they are effectively one and the same since there's only one account on the phone. You can only authenticate as the phone's primary user, after which point you have full authority.

When, Oh When!, will my kids get their own home screen and separate sandbox, limits, etc. when I hand them my phone?!
I bought a series 0 the day it came out, and I've worn it literally every day since then. I don't really use apps on the watch, but notifications and complications are extremely useful, as is being able to ask Siri to do things (especially to turn lights on/off).
It's not that clear-cut.

The IRS does specifically state that 1031 exchanges don't apply to stocks or "securities of indebtedness" (bonds), or to personal property.

1031s are for property held for use in a business or for investment.

It's not just real estate. People use 1031 exchanges to defer taxes on artwork, collectibles, boats and commodities.

BTC and ETH aren't stocks and they're not "securities of indebtedness". The matter isn't settled.

Here's the IRS's statement on what's excluded: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/like-kind-exchanges-under-irc-c...
I was also going through the similar problem of search. How the open source has multiple products for various stuff, but for search and index creation, we just have lucene and tools on top of that like solr or elasticsearch. Not sure why we are not innovating in the search space with new algorithms, systems, open source systems/tools and so on.. Almost all search engines are on top of lucene and inverted index. Why is no one able to reverse engineer google/bing capabilities ?
I feel like this was always the case with hacking someone's wifi router. Just try a few IPs until you got the router admin page, and then the admin/password combo.
this example is extremely over generalized. Dyslexia comes in different forms and can manifest through a varience in ability on a scale of things, including math ability, remembering a sequence of numbers backwards etc. not everyone who is dyslexic has impairments with regards to seeing symbols order reading. I'm diagnosed as dyslexic but don't experience any of what's described here.
The 3G model of the Gear S2 is roughly the same size as the Apple Watch Series 2/3 42mm model.

The size increase in Gear S3 was more dictated by fashion than necessity -- after the Gear S2, Samsung had market data that their primary buyer group favors larger watches in general, so they decided to bulk it up and increase battery life. (A lot of men actually like that "yo-yo on the wrist" look, for reasons I don't entirely fathom. I guess it's sporty.)
Yes, that is exactly how it works.

When I buy GOOGL for $400/share, then trade it for APPL at a 1:5 ratio, if APPL on the day of the trade goes for $100/share, then my cost basis for GOOGL is $500/share.

Otherwise, there would be an obvious tax loophole where instead of paying taxes on my gains in GOOGL, I'd trade it for another stock, then instantly sell the new stock (Which made no gains between me acquiring it, and selling it.)

Just because I'm investing into magic internet money doesn't mean I shouldn't pay taxes on gains.
We need a phone watch like the Pebble with an ePaper screen.
Oh man that notch bothers me. I suppose maybe I'll get used to it, but is making such a drastic design decision really worth the extra few millimetres of pixels on each side of it? It just bothers me aesthetically looking at images of it.
I suspect it has to do with the 'magic' of the watch not having it's own phone number and piggybacking off the iPhone's.
we should note, there are multiple types of dyslexia, each are very different. I am pretty darn dyslexic, and the dyslexic fonts don't help me at all, in fact they make it harder to read. But my issue wasn't really with reading, I have more problems writing.
Don't worry just make sure you plug in your families 4 laptops, 4 sets of wireless headphones, 4 phones, 2 tablets, 2 ereaders. If you arrange it right you could have an entire shrine to technology.
Individuals publishing psuedonymous moderation would provide the necessary data, provided privacy concerns can be addressed.

I.e. as I upvote your comment, I publish the info that "user XYZ upvoted this comment" which you can use in your own user-local moderation schema (at your discretion).

What we have to avoid is when Potential Employer looks for info on "John Q. Smith", they can identify which articles he upvoted.
They make is so easy to login to the phone -- I'm still waiting for the ability to add multiple users. When I hand my phone to my daughter she should see her apps, my son, his. And when I hand my phone to my wife, she should unlock it and see.... her phone. If 256GB local storage and 11ac WiFi isn't enough storage and bandwidth to make this easy, I would be OK if it only kept the last GB of the camera roll.

Of course this sync should happen directly between our devices when they are on the same network. No need to go through the cloud.

By default if her phone rings it should only alert on her primary device. Unless she authenticates to my device at which point everything is there waiting. If her phone was ringing and she picks up my device and authenticates it should answer the call.

Ideally this is all smooth enough that we have matching devices and don't care which one either of us walks out of the house with.

The end game is that when networks are fast enough, the cloud mature enough, and homomorphic encryption performant, we get to the point where the phone basically lives in the cloud and anyone can pick up any iDevice, authenticate, and be looking at effectively their own device.
> like having a car that can get you to work and halfway home before going dead. Incomplete.

You mean a Tesla?
I should stop using these cheap parts...

But seriously, thanks. Just knowing my crazy isn't unique is comforting. Plus, any day that I get to see "See also:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" as a serious entry in Wikipedia is not a terrible day.

Between this and someone telling me about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala_hijack I'm starting to feel almost normal.
Case 1: "Look at the phone straight-ahead with your eyes or we'll beat you with the rubber-hose again"

Case 2: Hold open the eyelids with tape. Even if the eyes have rolled-back in their sockets they can be re-positioned with some manual adjustment enough to get the system to work.
We don't have the battery life to make those meaningful yet (and for another 5 years at least except if there's a huge battery breakthrough).

Plus, people don't like strangers with always-on cameras on eye level eyeing them (Glass-holes).

And people who don't need actual glasses, won't go around wearing AR ones, except if they're geeks and do it for the novelty.

Combined this makes them a non-starter.
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Doesn't work if they are holding your device and they point it at your face to unlock it.
Interesting. I thought it was more of a Quora like login to see anything model(but I think Quora has since removed it), which was why I was surprised.

I can't really find a fault with the current model of Quora, but for some reason $5/month sounds a bit high.
It doesn't have to be a repeated attack from the same attacker.

Imagine your fingerprint data is leaked to hundreds of hackers.
Absolutely this. I made some money in the first bitcoin bubble and paid taxes on it, but there certainly wasn't a "Bitcoin trading" option. I think my accountant set it up more or less as a misc capital gain.
Tonic with the 'ton' pronounced like 'on'is the only way I've ever heard it pronounced.

My wife is from Boston too.

I love stuff like this, I've lived in Texas 13 years and have been pronouncing taco wrong until pointed out to me.

They say itmore like tocko than tacko like Brits do.
I feel the same way. Usually after I have given out the unlock code to my wife for one time use, I'll rotate it.

My wife tells me the unlock code for her phone occasionally, and I never have bothered to commit it to memory.

My toddler son watches me unlock the ipad for him, in a few weeks or so, he'll be able to unlock it himself.
Yes. Apple is excited about the features they added to their products.
To add on another handy trick, `journalctl -o cat` or `-o short` will output less information. It's a simple thing, but it's something I use quite often and I don't think everyone knows.
And my response only pertained to them having only seen them in one place and how that might be selection bias. While not common, they were certainly in use outside of research labs.

Motion did pretty well with them and made great hardware.
"We of course also limit the subreddits your ads can show on outside of the targeted subreddit to ones that are similarly "brand safe" to the ones you are targeting."

How exactly do you evaluate "brand safe"? I can rarely get my own marketing department to a decision on this sort of thing in less than a few hours, yet you seem to be claiming you can do this on the fly for many advertisers.

Yes, I have noted that your definition of "brand safe" seems to be rather narrower than mine 8)
Your solution gives merit to the individual for making the comment as opposed to the the content of comment itself. Similar to a democracy where the individual is a representative of quality content.
And many of those hackers (or even one of them) care enough to (a) steal your phone, (b) fake your fingerprints with a cast or whatever?

Yeah, I'll risk it...
it can still be an issue with memory even if it isn't as blatant as "out of memory".

The easy example being a datastructure growing over time and getting slower to manipulate and query. This is a problem where being cavalier with the amount of memory you allocate and use will hurt you, even if you've got lots of memory to spare.