You're both right. Sounds like a law that hasn't been updated yet for online ads.
>The laws that prohibit foreign nationals from spending money to influence U.S. elections do not prevent them from lawfully buying some kinds of political ads on Facebook and other online networks
While in one sense true, the Fortune article seems to be reading the word “television” (or perhaps “audio or audiovisual content”) into the phrase “cable, broadcast, or satellite” as a distribution mechanism when it is not, in fact, present where that phrase is used in FECA, as amended (FECA does have radio and TV-specific provisions, and they expressly name radio and TV, and they aren't the ones of interest here.) Absent case law to the contrary, which is not cited, it would seem by it's plain language to cover most real electronic media including the internet (advertising on a isolated RFC 1149 network would not be covered, of course, nor would ads in plenty of pre-telegraph “old media” like dead-tree-only newspapers.)
and if that Russian company was an agent of Russian government ( 101 chances out of 100 that it was, i.e. any reasonable person would think so :) then FB doing that company's bidding was acting as an agent of Russian government, and doing so without registration as such a foreign government agent sounds to me (not a lawyer though) like a violation of another item of the federal law. At least it looks like doing such thing was a violation before the current administration - now they seem to accept "retroactive" registrations, at least from their own folks - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-trump-campaig...
You can take your assertions further -- every Russian, national or not, is an agent of the Russian government with 101% certainty at that. Furthermore, everyone who associates with Russians is an agent as well, with a reasonably high degree of confidence.
perspective: finished first year @ wharton mba and taking a year off before second year to do an ms in cs (background is quant but not super computational - I'm really enjoying diving deeper into the latter now though).
1) Only do the eMBA if you can get BIGCO to pay for it. Price is unreasonable because it's expected to be expensed to an employer and it is a serious time commitment. I don't think it'd be worth it unless BIGCO is invested in you enough to sponsor.
2) 11-12 year experience upon entry is late for full-time MBA (mean is 5, max is 13). The MBA won't give you the boost to executive management - no one hires fresh MBAs for exec roles. MBA or not, that'll only come from hustle.
3) No empirical data, but my working theory is f(work incredibly hard, be kind to people and foster both friendships and partnerships, always be seeking out opportunity)
Misc: the coursework can be really useful/fun depending on the program. For example, Wharton lets me do the coursework equivalent of a grad degree in statistics w/i the mba. Lastly, the ready access to such a diversity of smart, ambitious people mid-career is really cool.
Happy to chat further if you'd like or put you in touch with MBA or eMBA students/adcom folks.
Many economists are applied mathematicians and the microeconmics crowd is specifically focused on understanding consumer and firm behavior. This checks out.
It's interesting now no book in the section about AI is an actually technical book (something like Russel and Norvig). They're all about philosophical conjectures about AI. Doesn't inspire confidence in other lists on that site tbh. :/
The class is also holding a number of seats for those who aren’t affiliated with Stanford but who are keen to help some other “region of the world build a ‘blitzscaling’ ecosystem.” For those class hopefuls, there’s a separate application link right here [https://airtable.com/shr8W8KW44BrUeGe3].
I don't know much about running a public company, but my guess is that he has an obligation (maybe a legal one?) to his shareholders to not hint to news like this before the company is officially announcing it.
So the original author transferred ownership (incl. github page) to a the uBlock community, in reality to one of them. It turned out he handed it over to s kid who in turn made some weird source code changes and asked prominently for money/donations.
This scheme seems to popular with adblockers, afaik the original AdBlock and the AdBlockPlus had a similar "relationship". And later a German company took over AdBlockPlus in a similar manner and is doing big business in a gray area (whitelisting domains costs ad networks a lot of money and is absurd for an adblocker!?)
Devices in millions [2011,2014]: 0.2, 1.3, 4.5, 10.9
Revenue in millions [2011,2014[: 14.5, 76.4, 271.1, 745.4
Paid active users in millions [2011,2014]: NULL, 0.6, 2.6, 6.7
I realize they sell more than just pedometers, but their core product is a 3-axis accelerometer that calculates a dubious step count w/o really actionable insights. Imagine what this can be once there start to be useful applications/more of the data.
Believe me, I thought the FitBit was a stupid device when I heard about it, but then I got one for free from work. Having it on your wrist all day and tracking all your activity really did make a difference for me and for my friends that have it - to the point where I convinced friends to get the FitBit.
The effectiveness of the FitBit, just by my anecdote, is that it tracks all your steps, even for little things such as walking to the bathroom, and shows you your total activity. Second, is when at the end of the day your are close to your target, its easy to convince yourself to go for a little walk to reach the target. Without tracking, you wouldn't have done that extra walk at night.
I do agree with sentiments of others that the lock-in of data is pretty annoying, but the device and app work great for what they do.
> Second, is when at the end of the day your are close to your target, its easy to convince yourself to go for a little walk to reach the target.
Having an external locus of control can make a huge difference for some people when it comes to exercising more or eating better. It helped for me.
> ...but the device and app work great for what they do.
That was NOT my experience with the app. I think it's pathetic they decided to try to be their own ecosystem instead of being part of HealthKit, but that's not their big sin.
In the two or so years I used a Fitbit the app only got worse. Food logging was repeatedly changed, losing features, and getting harder and harder to use. They later changed exercise entry to make it work better for runners and harder for everything else. They took FOREVER to update from iOS 6 style interfaces to iOS 7.
But the big thing, the KILLER thing, was that all my data was corrupted by a bug they knew about and refused to fix. There was an option to adjust your daily calorie goals based on activity (or something like that). Having that on used to be the default, but it caused all sorts of problems. I only found that out after noticing tons of my old data had almost exactly the same calorie count each day. Like within 10 calories.
After numerous support emails (their support system was terrible) I was finally told to turn that option off. They knew it caused issues, that's why they started turning it off by default. But they didn't tell people who had it on about the issues it caused or detect if they were hitting the bug. They fixed it for new users and left older users screwed.
So I have 2+ years of useless fitness data in FitBit. It doesn't matter if it can be exported for free or put in HealthKit, the data is junk.
I don't remember having a single positive interaction with FitBit over support or other problems. They were at best neutral. My opinion of them went lower and lower and lower over time.
To be fair, they make it nearly impossible to get your data out of their servers to do anything interesting with anyway. Which is another huge failing on their part IMO.
They have a resilient, stable API. We use it for a number of clinical trials evaluating incentives for walking, and it works fairly well. Better than most of their competitors.
But now, the big question is can it compete with Apple Watch? I didn't really "get" the idea at first, but now that I have an Apple Watch I have actually paid attention and enjoyed the activity app for all the reasons you stated above.
Why not get the Apple Watch instead, and enjoy all of the other features you can have too? I think the comparison in a comment above to camera/video camera is spot on. It's a great feature for this other all purpose computing device I happen to have. I don't expect it will be a standalone product 5 years from now in any significant numbers.
> The effectiveness of the FitBit, just by my anecdote, is that it tracks all your steps, even for little things such as walking to the bathroom, and shows you your total activity. Second, is when at the end of the day your are close to your target, its easy to convince yourself to go for a little walk to reach the target. Without tracking, you wouldn't have done that extra walk at night.
Your use of the word "effectiveness" implies you desired a particular result having used your FitBit. So, what precisely is your desired result? That you do your extra walk?
Step counts are fairly accurate. From the Flex less so than their other devices, but still not too bad. Nike Fuelband is pretty bad. Pretty good figures at the link below.
Case MA, Burwick HA, Volpp KG, Patel MS. Accuracy of Smartphone Applications and Wearable Devices for Tracking Physical Activity Data. JAMA. 2015;313(6):625-626. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.17841. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2108876
As a response to both you and epmatsw, their core product could be their store of data. That's why they're not opening up to HealthKit integration. Granted, they're making their money from hardware as part of a really polished complete experience, and the data is only a moat against customers leaving.
But I'd be interested to know how they plan to leverage the data as watches and phones cut off their hardware sales. They could go more pro with sport-specific solutions, or the data could inform a next-generation leap in UI.
I find the automatic sleep tracking in the charge pretty valuable. And now there is the resting heart rate tracking. Also their step tracking firmware is one of the best. The aria is also useful.
Click bait with misleading headline. A better headline would be "Comcast plans to roll out personal broadband service at a higher fraction of current business plans."
>"Comcast's new Internet service absolutely crushes Google's offering, with speeds twice as fast."
It won't be symmetric like Fiber, so it's going to be (at best) 2x download and probably 1/x upload. This speed also only appears to be coming to Atlanta in the near future.
>"For those who don't live in Atlanta, Comcast plans to offer 1Gbps plans to almost all of its Internet subscribers in 2016."
This is bigger news, though it's still quite far away and not only will this not "crush" Fiber, where available, but will be strictly worse since it isn't symmetric, features Comcast customer service, and will surely cost many times what Fiber does.
