He mentioned cars. Can't wait until personalized ads show up in cars.. "visit McDonald's drivethrough in 0.5 miles, buy your favorite, the McRib(TM), and get a free drink with code xyz! Only 2 minute detour and the drivethrough currently has 2 cars in it!". And it will have user profiles and knows the driver's gender, etc, and shopping preferences. Child seat fitted since 2 months but weight sensor suggests no child…
Tesla already does that where you can let Tesla suggest activities like where to eat, movies to watch, fun places to be in your particular location.
I can imagine a future where these suggestions get wrapped in SPONSORED CONTENT.
But how much cheaper is it to learn a profitable skill? In the 1980s I’d have had a much harder time learning to code. I learned essentially for free. A traditional, hand holding education is more expensive, but information is virtually free.
You picked one skill -- computer programming -- which just happens to be the one the internet is built on. It should come as no surprise that the internet is a great place to learn that for free. The further you get from that, the worse teacher the internet is. There are many skills I've learned which are hard to find information about online, and a few which don't seem to exist on the internet at all. Not every prof…
For every hobby now there is a least one big watering hole that the prosumers gather into and it is full of amazing info and how to tutorials. Right now you can become good enough in any skill with two week deliberate practice.
The price of dumb TVs has also fallen dramatically.
Can you even get a dumb TV anymore? I found it surprisingly difficult when I replaced mine 2 years ago. So far I've been OK with simply not plugging it into the Internet.
Piggybacking on this, I contemplating the same problem and was wondering whether I could create a new wifi network which can only access hbo go domains and let the TV use that network only.
Is something like this possible without any additional device in the loop? Just tweaking the (ISP) router and forget about it?
But how much cheaper is it to learn a profitable skill? In the 1980s I’d have had a much harder time learning to code. I learned essentially for free. A traditional, hand holding education is more expensive, but information is virtually free.
You picked one skill -- computer programming -- which just happens to be the one the internet is built on. It should come as no surprise that the internet is a great place to learn that for free. The further you get from that, the worse teacher the internet is. There are many skills I've learned which are hard to find information about online, and a few which don't seem to exist on the internet at all. Not every prof…
This is true and cheese making is one of those things. However, I have learned an amazing amount about cheesemaking simply from reading wikipedia, learning chemistry from Kahn academy, reading patents, reading papers that are online. watching videos of tours of creameries on Youtube and asking questions to professional cheesemakers that happen to be available on social media. I reckon if I wanted to become a professional it would be within my reach if I was willing to put in enough effort (and had enough capital ;-) ). I doubt there are many professions that are not accessible (possibly making bamboo whisks for green tea ceremonies -- there are only 18 people in all of Japan who make them ;-) ). It's an incredible time to be alive.
What sucks is that the cycle of falling prices and models being replaced is so fast that they become not worth repairing -- or impossible to repair -- within a few years. I trashed an otherwise perfectly good 4-5 y/o 49" television last year because something on the IR receiver board failed. What leads I could find for a replacement board (a) had them listed around 50% of what a comparable replacement television cost…
TVs keep getting so much cheaper so fast, I keep putting off purchasing a new one. I still have a 9-years-old 640p(ish) 42-inch TV mainly used to rotate through my photo collection. It's still "good enough" and I don't watch that much TV on the big screen anyway, although once my daughter gets older I'll probably finally bite the bullet and get a modern, high end TV. If I want to watch something with high resolution…
Depending on the technology used in the TV (ie plasma vs LCD) it might have quite a big power draw when running for long times. Newer TVs have usually much lower consumption, so it might take financial sense to upgrade from this perspective as well
As soon as I read the title, I knew the answer. It's because you can no longer buy a "TV set". What you can buy is yet another sort of snooping device, which happens to show TV. > But the most interesting and telling reason for why TVs are now so cheap is because TV manufacturers have found a new revenue stream: advertising. If you buy a new TV today, you’re most likely buying a “smart” TV with software from either t…
you can use TV just as display, that's my primary use of TV, it's just hooked to HDMI cable from laptop, rarely playing some Netflix/Youtube videos to children you can use whatever is your prefered Android or STB box without ads, just hook it to HDMI and you are done, TV will next time automatically start with selected HDMI output and you will see nothing preinstalled by manufacturer
I do exactly the same thing (apart from desktop vs laptop). Just don't connect TV to the internet, feed it from trusty HDMI input and it will be great value with 0 annoyances.
But if folks are too lazy to launch videos themselves with few clicks then 'you will be served'
>With less demand for actual TVs, there’s less reason for manufacturers to price them even more highly. I don't buy this reasoning. Tablets and phones supposedly replaced laptops and desktops (or so I've heard), yet the prices for those hasn't really budged in the past couple of decades. >But the most interesting and telling reason for why TVs are now so cheap is because TV manufacturers have found a new revenue stre…
> Facebook's average revenue per user is $25/year
The right comparison is probably to US Facebook Revenue and that's on track to exceed $100/person/year for 2019. Globally, $25 does seem to be around the average.
Dealerships generally can't conduct a real credit check unless you give them an SSN. You can absolutely still pay cash for a vehicle if you have it, but with interest rates so low right now it's wiser for most consumers with good credit to stay liquid.
Yeah figured they need an SSN, but remember last time I was looking it up someone claimed there's some way to run credit with a driver license... Which they make a copy of before a test drive. Not sure how true but I know there's some companies like LexisNexis with massive databases on people, so wouldn't surprise me if there's some some other way to gather info on people. Then I heard some luxury dealerships can be…
Insurance companies can run a sort of mini credit score with just a name and address. It doesn’t show up as a credit inquiry and has a more limited set of details about each item.