The one in the picture is a reduced scale prototype. Then they hope to build a full scale plane. And then roll that out five years from now.
Given how many years we've been hearing about this, I wouldn't hold my breath. I personally give it less than a 50/50 shot at even getting the prototype into the air.
That's a fair point of cause, but if you need a VPN to hide from your government, then you need to be extremely careful about which VPN provider you pick. Potentially your VPN provider could be forced to, or voluntarily, hand over data to your government, without your knowledge, leading to a dangerous false sense of security.
You certainly shouldn't be running your own VPN either, because that would be much easier to track, seeing as your traffic isn't mixed in with that of others.
Those of us in free democracies have little need for VPN providers. For those who do not, I'm not sure that I'd trust a VPN provider how targets gamers via YouTube ads.
I use Mac for work (MacBook Pro 2017) and windows for personal projects (HP Envy 2018) and posts like these makes me wonder: are we both using the same Windows? Because the windows that I am exposed to finds the most inconvenient time to install updates, slows down for no apparent reason and, as of late, turns on two keyboard cursors at the same time causing me to type in two different locations of a document at once. Why Windows?! WHY?!?!?
Comments like yours make me wonder the same thing. I almost never notice Windows updates. May be once a month when I shutting down my PC, I'll notice that label changed from "power off" to "install updates and power off" and that's the only difference for me. I never experienced forced reboot or something like this. I don't have any slow downs and I never saw two keyboard cursors (apart from Intellij Idea multiple cursors feature).
Have you set your active hours for updates (to not be applied during)? Mine are pretty broad, like 7am to 9pm M-F and I think a bit later on the weekends. Also, I dont leave unsaved work outside of active hours. I'm on Pro at home, and I think Pro allows you to set longer active hours than Home.
Funny how as soon as I realized that Gmail and Google Sheet aren’t working properly I rushed to HN to figure out what’s going on. I love this community!
Google doesn’t mention the source of data. You can setup display campaigns to optimize for more conversions, click through rates etc. It’ll serve the ad based on either audience or goals
Well maybe continuous subconscious exposure to an ad is causing me to discuss a product with my friends and I am acknowledging the presence of the ad only after having talked about it.
The only problem with the parameters you listed is that you get served with the most random ads at the most optimum moments. I once saw an ad for Swiffer mop moments after mentioning casually to my friend that I am thinking of buying one.
That of course is suspicious. Do you sometime receive random ads that are completely out of the blue that you haven't talked about? (I'm asking because if you get shown 100 random ads per week, for how many can't you attribute them vs. how many seem to be related to some (online, offline) activity? Is it only by chance, and we just remember the 0.1% where it worked?)
I completely understand your point. Maybe I am noticing those ads only after I have consciously made the decision of buying the product. Or maybe the ads of that product are sub consciously nudging me to buy those products. Most of the display ads are meant to do just that
There's a cognitive bias toward noticing things that coincide like that, so it's quite possible you are getting Swiffer ads other times but notice it when you were just talking about it.
> you get served with the most random ads at the most optimum moments
If coincidences are just coincidences then why do they feel so contrived?
How many things have you casually mentioned and not seen an ad for? Maybe the Swiffer ad stood out to you because you had just talked about it? Maybe the reason you were thinking of buying one is because you saw an ad for it previously?
