I genuinely fear the day where gaben steps down

I hope he has things in place to prevent his successor to completely fuck everything up

Abuse report is sent

and a couple hundred requests deleted from the queue sigh

What a bunch of slopped together crap

It’s mostly their “pay later” stuff, which is quite predatory and has horrible terms for the users

But they had trouble with shitty behavior towards customers, employees and bad data privacy in the past as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klarna#Regulation_and_controversies

Might as well have been a teaching moment.

“Here’s 20 bucks, let’s run some ads and see how it impacts your channel”

“Didn’t change much? Well, wouldn’t you rather spend that money on something else instead?”

Part of teaching kids about the Internet is showing what ads are, the way companies use them and that there’s always a reason you’re getting shown them

As a kid I wanted some shitty toy and my mom went “well, if that’s what you want to spend your allowance on, sure. But I think it’s probably not as good as you think”, only for me to realize that she was right after I got it

You’re in luck. It’s linked in the article

klarna is a shit company for everything else, sadly

They are arguably worse than paypal nowadays, in regards to consumer treatment

Should they have been in the printers with access to the buttons? No

agreed, the kid absolutely should not have had access to it. And Google explicitly forbids it. But the dad put the kid in front of it anyway and said “you can use it, but only up to 20 bucks” and walked away

sure, I agree with that.

doesn’t change the fact that the credit card and ad service was used as intended

If I stab myself with a knife, I don’t blame the knife manifacturer about how shit they are because I stabbed myself by user error

It’s just a really shitty situation overall

Dave said that after the boy complained about views, he set up a roughly $20 promotion and talked through the steps aloud: set a budget, select who sees the ads, hit run. The boy then created his own campaigns, and Dave said his son did not understand the $20 as a limit. “The credit card, it just says approved every single time,”

YT has a simplified interface to promote videos. It’s not as complicated as a regular Google ad campaign setup

In your comparison, the store would not see that it was a 9 year old

It was the Google account of the dad, and he stored the company’s card in his account payment details

And spending 100k on something is not unusual for a company card, or a big company running an ad campaign

You should also look up what astroturfing actually is

Always a bit amusing of steam sometimes still requiring me to enter my birthday on some store pages, when my steam account is 23 years old

agreed. The audio books really take it to another level.

and I’m glad they managed to get Jeff the voice role of donut in the upcoming tv show (although it would be absolutely hilarious if they let him ADR every single character)

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mappings but not the weights?

yup

And I can’t imagine how we would get those. You’d need to snapshot a live brain in an instant to get anything useful. even reading all of the connections one by one would be useless

Although I wonder if it’s possible to reverse engineer them my giving the real brain an input and train the NN to replicate the reaction

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It starts by using cubes for counting

Time to grab the flame thrower

OP stated it was still a could days away