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capital is also an abstract concept and doesn't commit sexual assault. the two categories have little in common and it's a bizarre comparison to draw.
People draw that comparison because the fundamental primitives of Marx's theory are capital and labor (aka people). I'm not passing judgement on the validity of that theory, merely explaining why the two are so often compared.
Can someone explain how the first chatbot was any better than an interactive form?
I'll add to what others have replied - there are literally billions of humans who have never filled out a web form, but are comfortable texting. Even tech-savvy people might even prefer doing things that way. Interface style is incredibly important from a user experience perspective and can mean the difference between people using the service and people not using it.
Computers are closer to the first mental model than the last---they don't understand the full context of any situation, and when it comes to things like 'understanding' your typical app is programmed to a level less than the average 4 year old.
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Of course I don't blame anyone for being an economic migrant. It's a very natural thing to do: search for a better life. It's what I would do. Economic and technical development has progressed in Africa and Asia so that larger numbers of people than ever are able to consider migration. We see that now on the Libyan coast. However, particularly for European governments, it's now becoming visible that there is a select…
On the one hand we're told to better ourselves. On the other people are villanised for being economic migrants.
Does bettering oneself mean the same thing for economic migrants as it does for Europeans, in your mind? I gather from your comment that it means "attaining greater material wealth" for economic migrants. What does it mean for Europeans? Does it mean sharing their material wealth with the less fortunate, at their expense and the expense of their progeny?
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On the one hand we're told to better ourselves. On the other people are villanised for being economic migrants.
What should happen when there is a conflict between Europeans "bettering themselves" and economic migrants "bettering themselves"? Would you like to see Europeans roll over and ignore their own economic interests? Or do you believe no such conflict is possible? Does bettering oneself mean the same thing for economic migrants as it does for Europeans, in your mind? I gather from your comment that it means "attaining g…
The guy who created the parking fine chatbot did so because he kept getting parking tickets. He could quite simply have stopped parking like a cunt. Shameless self-publicity disguised as public service from an arrogant, self-entitled man.
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This is partly a consequence of phone manufacturers implementing notification APIs for native apps first, and on several years later in browsers. Although somewhat it's just the nature of the beast that these things take a little while to percolate into each browser. I don't know how complete support is for web notifications, but eventually it will be a larger number than Facebook installed base. You can sometimes ge…
Are you using native notifications with websites? I'm really annoyed by the trend of actual websites asking for access to the notification feature when I just want to read an article then leave. The last thing I need is more notifications.
I agree the notification requests in browsers are too obtrusive. In an app store they have the property of only asking when you choose to install. On the web there is no install so the request for access is not in response to any action you took, which is annoying.
I think they should make the notification request block the whole app so that sites only put it up when it's the main thing they want to show.
That aside... the point ia for some apps, like messaging, it is necessary.
I am building an app for selling food, people need to know when to start prepping an order. notifications are a must.
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Are you using native notifications with websites? I'm really annoyed by the trend of actual websites asking for access to the notification feature when I just want to read an article then leave. The last thing I need is more notifications.
You don't get notifications for messaging? Text, email, etc? And phone calls? Those are all things a person might want a web app to handle. I agree the notification requests in browsers are too obtrusive. In an app store they have the property of only asking when you choose to install. On the web there is no install so the request for access is not in response to any action you took, which is annoying. I think they s…
I don't know what's the correct balance is but for my own usage I'm ok using emails as a notifications spooler and only use native notifications for some specific usages (mostly chat and email clients). What's sure is that I don't care about notifications from my browser.
Btw I can only say for myself, we all have different way to use our tools. If your clients are happy with your notifications, great. I know I would disable them.