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2024-02-22

Singapore

33-year-old Singaporean woman killed in Batam go-kart accident

Singapore Sky Lantern customers demand refund after organiser skips fire lanterns release - permits from CAAS had not been obtained

3 weeks’ jail for maid who slapped & kicked employer’s 8-year-old son with ADHD

Nearly 40 people under probe after victims lose $1.8m to fake buyers on Carousell & Facebook

4½ years’ jail for mother who saw son sexually assault daughter but did not report him

UOB junior staff to get 1-off extra month of bonus to cope with rising living costs

BTO flats in Tanjong Rhu & Holland Village to go on sale in June

Survey shows fresh university grads get higher salaries, but fewer find full- or part-time work

Zika possibly being transmitted in Boon Lay Place - residents urged to protect themselves

Chee Soon Juan issued POFMA order over comments on HDB policies

Health

Too much protein actually damages your arteries, scientists find - it can cause atherosclerosis

Education

Singapore: New internship programme allows ITE students taste of life in public service - in other words it'll teach them how to be useless drones whose only skill is sucking up to their immediate boss

People

Wendy Williams, 59, diagnosed with aphasia & frontotemporal dementia

History

^ A glimpse of Paris in the 1910s via colour photos

Music

Singaporean pianist Jessie M, 16, is youngest recipient of Young Steinway Artist title

Travel

Japan's foreign visitor boom not a good thing for some locals

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New Post has been published on All about business online

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Holiday firms urge PM to allow watchdog to fine airlines

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Holiday companies have urged the prime minister to give extra powers to the aviation watchdog to directly fine airlines for service failures.

In a joint letter along with consumer organisation Which?, they called for stronger enforcement action if airlines fail to uphold consumer rights around refunds and cancellations.

It claims thousands of passengers have been subjected to “unfair treatment”.

The industry body for airlines said aviation was already highly regulated.

Many holiday providers cancelled flights and package deals this summer due to issues such as air traffic control restrictions and wildfires on Rhodes and other Greek islands, leaving British tourists in limbo.

If a service is disrupted, airlines are supposed to re-route passengers – even on a rival airline; or offer food, accommodation and in some cases refunds if a flight is cancelled.

The Department for Transport recently recommended that the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) be given stronger enforcement powers, including the power to fine airlines that fail in their duties.

But the letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak claims that too many people are being let down and urges him to lay out a clear timetable for when that might happen.

The CAA regulates airlines in the UK, but it currently has no power to directly fine them.

Instead, it can to apply to the courts for an enforcement order to force the airline to comply with laws around delays and redress. If an airline refuses, the court process can potentially end in an airline paying a fine.

Companies including loveholidays, On the Beach, Riviera Travel and Thomas Cook called on Mr Sunak to use the King’s Speech in November to introduce a Bill which would boost the CAA’s powers.

‘Ruined plans’

“As a coalition of consumer advocates and travel companies, we urge you to show your support for British holidaymakers affected by this summer’s air travel disruption by agreeing to strengthen the CAA’s enforcement powers”, the letter said.

“This summer has seen the all too familiar sight of holidaymakers’ plans ruined by air travel disruption; this time through UK and European strike action, thousands of summer flight cancellations, and the terrible environmental impact of wildfires.”

While it acknowledged that some of these issues were outside of airlines’ control, the group added: “They are routinely failing what’s in their control: to uphold their customers’ legal rights to rerouting and refunds, and provide clear and timely passenger information.”

Signatories on the letter also included organisations such as the Advantage Travel Partnership and the Association of Independent Tour Operators.

They called on the prime minister to “take immediate and definitive action” on behalf of holidaymakers.

The government declined to comment further on the Department for Transport’s recommendations following the letter to the prime minister.

In other countries, such as the United States, airlines have been hit with fines worth millions of dollars for failing to pay refunds for cancelled flights during the Covid pandemic.

The CAA’s joint-interim chief executive Paul Smith said the watchdog had “long called for a stronger enforcement toolkit to bring us in line with other UK regulators”.

“The plans recently announced by the government would achieve this and help ensure that the UK Civil Aviation Authority is better equipped to hold the industry to account in meeting their obligations to passengers,” he added.

But the organisation representing the aviation industry, Airlines UK, said the sector was “already a highly regulated and competitive sector, with airlines working hard to deliver for their customers”.

The industry body pointed out that the latest CAA consumer survey showed passenger satisfaction rates of 80%, which it said compared well with other types of transport.

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The Cloud Computing Future

Cloud computing[L1]  is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. With the help of this technology, businesses can save money and enhance the productivity of their employees. In addition to the traditional data centers, it is also possible to have hybrid cloud services with the use of container technology.

Public cloud services will account for 51% of IT spending

In the next three years, cloud will replace traditional solutions for more than half of IT spending. A new report from Gartner identifies the key factors driving the cloud market's expansion. It forecasts end-user spending to approach $600 billion in 2023.

The report cites the rapid growth of hyperscale edge computing as one of the disruptive factors. It also predicts traditional markets will grow more slowly than the cloud. As a result, Gartner recommends technology and service providers explore new high-growth cloud opportunities.

According to the survey, 51% of IT spending by enterprises will shift to the cloud by 2025. This includes both infrastructure-related segments and enterprise applications.

Most organizations are using multiple cloud services simultaneously, as well as hybrid cloud models. Among respondents, 39% said they already ran at least half of their workload in the cloud.

Hybrid cloud services offer more security

Taking the hybrid cloud strategy allows organizations to take advantage of the advantages of public cloud computing without having to sacrifice control over their data. By combining the best of private and public clouds, they can increase their deployment flexibility, provide more data security, and offer more resource options.

A key aspect of a successful hybrid cloud strategy is a strong network connection. This can often be achieved through a dedicated networking service.

Another important consideration is a clear operating model. This will outline the roles and responsibilities of all the parties in the hybrid cloud ecosystem. Lack of clarity can lead to unaddressed capabilities and unmitigated threats.

Security is a major concern when deploying a cloud solution. A multi-layered security strategy is necessary to provide reliable protection for contemporary workloads. The strategy must include data authentication and encryption.

Serverless computing

Serverless computing is a new way to develop and run applications. It provides a means to run code on cloud servers without the need to manage and maintain the infrastructure. However, it is not for everyone. While developers enjoy the simplicity of serverless cloud computing, it can be costly. There are many tools that can be used in serverless scenarios.

One of the most common forms of serverless computing is function as a service (FaaS). This allows a developer to use the cloud to deploy and run code. When a function is invoked, it is charged based on how many times it is executed.

Other services include backend as a service, which includes user management and storage. These functions are similar to those provided by a PaaS platform.

Container-as-a-Service

Containers are a powerful tool for rapid deployment and agile development. They add flexibility to the application lifecycle by offering a virtual environment at operating system level.

The container format offers a scalable and cost effective solution for hosting applications on the cloud. In addition, it allows for the use of multiple identical clusters to manage peak workloads.

Cloud computing services can be divided into two main categories: PaaS and CaaS. Both are subscription-based. Users pay only for the resources they need. However, there are differences between the two models.

PaaS is a cloud-based application platform that helps developers write and deploy software. Developers can then manage the infrastructure behind their applications. Unlike other cloud computing services, it's not tied to a particular code stack.

Storage capacity will double this year

The storage capacity of hard disk drives is on the rise. Hard drives and SSDs continue to make headway in the data center. But as newer technologies, such as flash, and hybrid storage solutions emerge, the focus will shift to their nascent competitors.

While HDD and SSD pricing are still far apart, they will continue to shrink. That's good news for the HDD makers. It also bodes well for solid state drives, which are still fueled by long-term declines in NAND flash prices.

Kryder was not the first to suggest that we would soon see significant increases in hard drive capacity. Former Seagate executive Mark Kryder's work on the 100 gigabit per square inch (GBps) disk drive earned him a place in the history books.

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Container as a Service (CaaS) Market 2022 Statistics, Share Price, Growth Prospects, Industry Trends till 2028

Global Container as a Service (Caas) Market Size Was Valued At USD 3.16 Billion In 2021, And Is Projected To Reach USD 21.72 Billion By 2028, Growing At A CAGR Of 31.7% From 2022 To 2028.

The container as a service is an emerging technology that enables IT departments, and software developers to upload, organize, grow, manage, and execute containers through container-based virtualization. It is referred to as a software package that consists of all necessary components such as code, runtime, configuration, and system libraries and it operates on any host system. For the establishment and expansion of the containerized apps to rapidly high availability of cloud infrastructure, container as a service allows the software team. The most crucial advantage of the set of containers is it can manage a variety of responsibilities or different code language ecosystems. The demand for containers as a service in the IT sector is high owing to their cost-effectiveness and high productivity.

The global Container as a Service (CaaS) market research investigates the market in-depth and offers a comprehensive analysis of the major growth determinants, Container as a Service (CaaS) market share, current trends, key players, and their future predictions. In addition, market demand and supply, each geographical region's growth rate, and market potential are all included in the Container as a Service (CaaS) Market study. Raw materials, marketing channels, client surveys, industry trends and proposals, CAGR status, product scope, Container as a Service (CaaS) market trends, major leading countries/regions, market risk, and market driving force are all included in the market research. The market prediction was based on a thorough market investigation completed by several industry experts.

Read more: -https://introspectivemarketresearch.com/reports/container-as-a-service-market/

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Drone specialists

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The CAAS (Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore) has brought in aerial rules and regulations that need to be abiding by for legally flying drones. So, if your company requires drone shots for the short term the cost-saving solution is to hire drone specialists from a drone company. However, if your business requires the use of drones for its operations in the long term, you can hire your very own drone specialists, form a team for them and also purchase drones for your company.

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Precisely what is aerial video footage?

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Drones have totally revolutionised the video output industry; capturing video clips that traditional video camera work can just dream of.

Whether you might want to showcase the proportions & scale to your operations, obtain excessive angle shots with an upcoming event and survey a property with regard to record-keeping purposes, drone technology lets you dvd bird’s eye photos that will simply really your audience.

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Some of our CAA approved pilots hold all the vital qualifications to properly operate drones, producing us a ‘one stop shop’ answer for all your video manufacturing needs. What is aerial?

Aerial simply identifies footage captured in the air. It’s quite often combined with ground based mostly footage; helping to arranged the scene together with put the overarching video into circumstance.

Where aerial locations in the past required some sort of helicopter or crane (not forgetting some blockbuster budget), the utilization of drones make them noticeably cheaper and sooner.

From factory manufacturing unit through to live activities, incorporating aerial inside your video helps to allow viewers a different mindset that may not end up visible from the earth up - increasing the quality of your entire movie and setting the idea apart from your competition.

And requiring the usual permissions locally, anyone doing work a drone must obtain a Permission meant for Commercial Operations (PfCO) and follow tough Health & Protection guidelines set out by way of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

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Other artists-Peter Schwenger review of his book -Asemic the art of writing.

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"How does the noncommunicative communicate? This is the seemingly innocent question Peter Schwenger unpacks. At once storehouse and treatise, Asemic has the clarity of a dictionary entry, its sagacity delivered with deceptive ease, revealing a domain vaster than anyone would have thought: a Copernican marvel."—Jed Rasula, author of History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism

"Asemic is a long-overdue study of poetries that occupy liminal spaces between art, like Twombly's paintings, and recognizable words, like Michaux's poetry. Peter Schwenger offers an extended theory and an introductory survey of contemporary asemic writing by Michael Jacobson, Rosaire Appel, Christopher Skinner, and others. From this book one can learn to read and, by extension, teach a-semiological texts."—Craig Saper, co-editor of Readies for Bob Brown's Machine

"This is the first full-length exploration of the history and meaning of asemic writing. Important figures such as Michaux, Twombly, Barthes, Jim Leftwich, and Rosaire Appel are included, as well as examples from Chinese culture. Well-chosen illustrations accompany Peter Schwenger's insightful text. This book is a solid first map of a territory previously unknown to academic study."—Tim Gaze, publisher of Asemic magazine

"What emerges in Schwenger’s book is an aesthetics of language, and of reading in par- ticular, that draws attention to how asemic writing lets us dive into the untapped possibilities of incomprehension."—Literary Review of Canada

"The Art of Writing,Peter Schwenger’s engaging and groundbreaking book focused on the asemic as a cultural phenomenon and ratified genre of modern and contemporary art."—Art in America

"Peter Schwenger offers a history of the practice, linking modern era pioneers like Barthes, Henri Michaux, and Cy Twombly to lesser-known contemporary practitioners Michael Jacobson, Rosaire Appel, and Christopher Skinner. Pulling examples of asemic writing from a diversity of fields—across contemporary art, comics, notation, and even nature—he demonstrates poet Michael Jacobson’s fitting definition of his field: “Without words, asemic writing is able to relate to all words, colors, and even music, irrespective of the author or the reader’s original language.”"—The Brooklyn Rail

"Peter Schwenger offers the first book-length academic study of this vibrant field; it is an important and valuable start to the formal study of asemic writing."—Rain Taxi Review of Books

"Vital and fateful . . . engagingly international."—CAA Reviews

"In a clear and in-depth way, Asemic: the Art of Writing can be seen as a first official notation of that dance, excelling in the ability to bring to a wider audience the intricacies of a subject often seen as a niche of encrypted doodles legible only to a few."—Electric Book Review

About the Author

Peter Schwenger is resident fellow at the University of Western Ontario’s Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism. He is the author of several books, including The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects and At the Borders of Sleep: On Liminal Literature (both from Minnesota).

https://www.amazon.com/Asemic-Art-Writing-Peter-Schwenger/dp/1517906970

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Unsafe driving behaviours, notably speeding, on the rise, says new CAA survey

Unsafe driving behaviours, notably speeding, on the rise, says new CAA survey

Ontario’s roads are becoming increasingly unsafe, a new survey by CAA South Central Ontario has found. Source: CP24

[classesandaspects]

I think this will be about my final analysis on this test, unless I get a ton of new responses.

tl;dr When comparing quizzes to each other, the most accurate aspect test is the Extended Zodiac (by quite a wide margin) and the most accurate class test is either Page of Hopes (except fan classes) or inaniloquacity.

Class Quiz Accuracy

In the time since I made these observations about quiz accuracy, the trends have pretty much solidified.

Page of Hope's Enneagram-based class test is more accurate by a wide margin... as long as you don't get one of the six fan classes, which unfortunately excludes about 1/3 of the population.

Second up is inaniloquacity's MBTI-based class test, but that doesn't seem to mean much - less than 1/2 of inaniloquacity's quiz-takers got a class that they felt was accurate or close to accurate.

homestuckexamination's Mythological Class Test was pretty good at finding results that were close to accurate, but also had the fewest number of exactly correct results.

Aspect Quiz Accuracy

The Extended Zodiac won in aspect accuracy by a landslide, and I wish I asked more questions to find out why. @desireddefenestration's survey helps a bit - it found that about 27% of their survey-takers let the result of the EZ quiz choose their classpect. That's pretty high! So these results are likely skewed because the EZ may be the cause of someone's classpect, rather than its quiz result being a mere effect of that person's classpect and quiz responses. From the same survey, only 15% chose a classpect based on other fan quizzes. Split that up among all the fan quizzes over the last ten years and it's obvious that the EZ has the advantage.

Not only was the EZ the most accurate, it was also the least incorrect of all the quizzes and didn't receive a single "HAHA what the FUCK??" response. Are fans reluctant to disregard the canon Homestuck/Hiveswap quiz created by Andrew Hussie himself? Or did the most diehard EZ-haters see that the EZ was a required question of this survey and refuse to take it at all? The world may never know.

Other results were not so impressive.

Inaniloquacity took second place again, and was again not very close to the front-runner but still better than the other quizzes.

Page of Hopes surprisingly didn't do well at all. It only tied with RLabs when the 4 fan aspect results were excluded, while the vanilla PoH ended at the bottom or within 0.5% of the bottom in every category. I haven't calculated margin of error or any of the real statistical, uh, statistics, but I'm fairly certain that 0.5% is not a significant difference.

Quiz Recommendations

This question allowed survey-takers to choose multiple answers and/or write in their own responses.

The Extended Zodiac was the most-recommended quiz and the only one recommended by more than half of all quiz-takers, followed by the Mythological Class Test and Page of Hope's test.

Inaniloquacity looks pretty bad in this graph, but that's because a lot of survey-takers skipped that test. Of the 37 people who did take the test, 11 (about 30%) recommended it, putting inaniloquacity's test just behind PoH. (You may notice a slight discrepancy between these numbers and the ones shown in the bar graph above. 2 people didn't take inaniloquacity's test but recommended it anyways. I checked.)

(To clarify, inaniloquacity was taken by 37 survey-takers (54% of all responses), PoH by 56 (82%), Myth by 60, RLabs by 64, and Zules by 65. So it's possible that PoH and Myth should have slightly higher percentages, but they're already on the high side, and RLabs and Zules wouldn't change much at all.)*

RLabs and Zules are the least-recommended tests, in that order.

The unweighted Extended Zodiac was suggested by one of the write-in responses.

The last 6 write-in responses (10% of total responses) are variations on "take the quizzes but ignore the results, do your own classpect research instead."

* Note: The numbers in this bullet point are missing one most recent response, since I didn’t feel like going back and calculating them again.

(Aside: Extended Zodiac Weighting)

I wanted to see how accurate the EZ is and how the weighting might affect that. The EZ weighting, in order, is: Time, Space, Heart, Mind, Hope, Rage, Light, Void, Breath, Blood, Life, and Doom. For example, if you tied between Space and Breath, the quiz would give you Space and you'd never even know that Breath was another possibility.

55% of survey-takers got the same aspect that they entered as their own classpect at the beginning of the quiz.

22% may have gotten caught by the weighting - for example, a respondent who put Breath as their aspect but was given Space. But there's no way for me to tell how many points towards Breath that person actually got, so I can't be sure it was the weighting's fault.

15% were passed over for their aspect - for example, a Space player who receives a Breath result. Space is weighted higher than Breath, so we can know for sure that the quiz-taker did NOT get a plurality of their points in Space. But there's no way for me to tell how many Space points that quiz-taker did get, or how close it was compared to Breath.

8% got the "wrong" aspect - either caught or slipped by the weighting - but said that they had seriously considered (or were seriously considering) that aspect, so it's not exactly a wrong result?

So the weighting system affects a maximum of 22% of quiz-takers.

Ultimately there were not enough respondents for any single aspect to identify significant trends by aspect.

Every Light player and almost every Time player were correctly identified. If you didn't receive Light or Time on the EZ, your aspect probably isn't Light or Time.

Light was incredibly overassigned, given to all 8 Light players as well as 8 non-Light players.

The EZ is shit at identifying Mind players. Only 1 out of 6 Mind players actually got Mind on the EZ. Meanwhile, the EZ also assigned Mind to 3 non-Mind players.

Void was only assigned to actual Void players, so I guess that's good? No one mistakenly received a Void result. Most Void players received a non-Void result, though. ...Also, the EZ only gave Void twice, so I'm sure it would wrongly give Void more often with more results.

Most Breath players got Breath. Huzzah.

The EZ did not often give a Blood result correctly. Only one Blood player got Blood. Another was a Blood player who had been seriously considering Mind anyway.

The EZ identified most of the Life players, but also gave Life to several others: 2 Hearts, Void, and Blood.

No one got a Doom result from the EZ. The Prince of Doom got closest with Life, though.

Conclusion

When comparing quizzes to each other, the most accurate aspect test is the Extended Zodiac and the most accurate class test is either Page of Hopes (without fan aspects) or inaniloquacity. 

But looking at the numbers by themselves, you only have a 30% chance for the best quizzes to find your class/aspect correctly, or 60% chance for a quiz to find a class/aspect that is correct or that you've at least seriously considered. Meanwhile, about 10-20% of results you get from quizzes are just going to be dead wrong.

Personally, if you're still looking for your classpect, I'd definitely recommend the Extended Zodiac. It's only a few questions long (about 16 total? I don't remember how many questions there are for lunar sway) and it's a nice user-friendly presentation that will immediately give you your results and a description, and a sign, and a title. That's a bargain.

If you're willing to go more in-depth, I'd suggest checking out the scoring behind the Extended Zodiac and seeing what some of your top aspect choices were. This isn't just the unweighted EZ, which will give you your highest aspect score even if it only beats out another by 0.25 points. I mean actually count up the scoring that @katanahime​ discovered.

(I’ve just finished making a google form that I’m fairly certain works correctly based on their scoring. Fill out the form here and then check your results in the results spreadsheet. Like the earlier unweighted EZ form, you’ll need to highlight and drag down the colored cells on the right (columns Q through GB in this case, please do not unhide the hidden columns!). Your aspect scores will show in the blue cells.)

Page of Hopes is good for class, especially if you already know your Enneagram type and don't even need to take the quiz. Inaniloquacity is mediocre for class and aspect.

The others... well, you may as well take them for fun, I guess? They're short, and sometimes they're right.

Thank you to everyone who took the survey! I enjoyed it and I hope you did too.

Survey is here, although I won’t be doing more analyses unless the trends drastically change from what I’ve found in this post.

Summary of responses is here.

Detailed spreadsheet is here.

Most unexpected result of survey: memorizing the spelling of “inaniloquacity”.

[inhindinews]

MOTN: CAA-NRC से मोदी सरकार को नुकसान, कांग्रेस को फायदा - Mood of the nation pm modi government lose congress lok sabha election caa nrc india today karvy insights survey

MOTN: CAA-NRC से मोदी सरकार को नुकसान, कांग्रेस को फायदा – Mood of the nation pm modi government lose congress lok sabha election caa nrc india today karvy insights survey

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303 लोकसभा सीटों से घटकर 271 सीटों पर सिमट सकती है BJP

एनडीए का वोट प्रतिशत 45% से घटकर 41 पर पहुंच सकता हैः सर्वे

नागरिकता संशोधन अधिनियम (सीएए) और नेशनल रजिस्टर ऑफ सिटीजन्स (एनआरसी) से मोदी सरकार की लोकप्रियता में कमी आई है.  इंडिया टुडे और कार्वी इनसाइट्स के सर्वे के मुताबिक अगर आज लोकसभा चुनाव कराए जाएं, तो भारतीय जनता पार्टी और एनडीए में शामिल दलों को नुकसान उठाना पड़ सकता है.…

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सर्वे: देश में 62 फीसदी CAA और NRC के पक्ष में 65.4 फीसदी लोग

हाईलाइट

असम के 68 प्रतिशत लोग सीएए के खिलाफ हैं

65.4 फीसदी लोग एनआरसी के लागू करने के पक्ष में हैं

देशभर में नागरिकता संशोधन अधिनियम (CAA) को लेकर बवाल मचा हुआ है। इस बीच एक सर्वे में एक बड़ा चौकाने वाला खुलासा हुआ है। देश में 62 प्रतिशत लोग नागरिकता संशोधन अधिनियम का समर्थन करते हैं। असम के 68 प्रतिशत लोग इस कानून के खिलाफ हैं। वहीं लगभग 65.4 फीसदी लोग एनआरसी के पक्ष में है। जबकि असम में 76.9 फीसदी लोग चाहते हैं कि एनआरसी को पूरे देश में लागू होना चाहिए।  66 फीसदी मुस्लिम समुदाय ने इसका विरोध किया है। यह बात आईएएनएस-सीवोटर के एक सर्वेक्षण में सामने आई है।

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[lol-jackles]

How do you know if a show has a good streaming rating, if the streaming platforms don't provide their data? I mean, ok, there are rating data like Nielsen's, but they only provide the numbers of views on TV and not the numbers of those who watch online from sites and apps. It's correct?

You’re correct, Nielsen only provides number of total online minutes viewed  through a router directly attached to a TV, not the laptops or apps.  Even then Nielsen doesn’t say how many people actually watched the the whole episode or just a few minutes, or what their demographics are.  

So the only way to suss out if a show has good streaming ratings is by studying the behavior of streaming companies and the behavior of others around them, like how scientists find black holes by studying the behavior of surrounding stars. When CW licensing rights were up for renegotiations, the reporters noticed that Netflix was “bidding hard” and eventually won a agreement from CW that is “the richest output deal in tv history”.

Companies by Parrot Analytics study 4 level of consumer actions and give each levels different weight according to time spent. So social media like tweeting and commenting are given less weight versus watching the (pirated) show itself are naturally given the most weight.

PA’s 14 minute explanation on they survey the shows’ popularity here.  Note at 4:30 he specifically talked about filtering out the small number of fans who are loud and skew the perception of the popularity of the show which actually isn’t the true indicator of the demand for the show.

CBS International and CAA signed subscription deals with Parrot Analytics to help gain understanding about how popular subscription video shows are and gauge audience demand for specific content.  CBS International handles distribution of shows created by CBS Television Studios, which ofcourse you know produces Walker.

[arcticdementor]

[This is the fourteenth of many finalists in the book review contest. It’s not by me - it’s by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done, to prevent their identity from influencing your decisions. I’ll be posting about two of these a week for several months. When you’ve read all of them, I’ll ask you to vote for your favorite, so remember which ones you liked. If you like reading these reviews, check out point 3 here for a way you can help move the contest forward by reading lots more of them - SA]

What went wrong in the 1970s? Since then, growth and productivity have slowed, average wages are stagnant, visible progress in the world of "atoms" has practically stopped - the Great Stagnation. About the only thing that has gone well are computers. How is it that we went from the typewriter to the smartphone, but we're still using practically the same cars and airplanes?

"Where is my Flying Car?", by J. Storrs Hall, is an attempt to answer that question. His answer is: the Great Stagnation was caused by energy usage flatlining, which was caused by our failure to switch to nuclear energy, which was caused by excessive regulation, which was caused by "green fundamentalism".

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Before reading this book, I thought flying cars were just technologically infeasible, because flying takes too much energy. But Hall says we can and have built them ever since the 1930s. They got interrupted by the Great Depression (people were too poor to buy private airplanes), then WWII (airplanes were directed towards the war effort, not the market), then regulation mostly killed the private aviation industry. But technical feasibility was never the problem.

Hall spends a huge fraction of the book on pretty detailed technical discussion of flying cars. For example: the key technical issue is takeoff and landing, and there is a tough tradeoff between convenient takeoff/landing and airspeed (and cost, and ease of operation). It’s interesting reading. But let’s return to the larger issue of nuclear power.

Nuclear power started off well; “the cost of nuclear plants was decreasing by about 25% for each doubling of capacity in the 50s and 60s”. Then, in 1977, Jimmy Carter established the Department of Energy. Costs immediately skyrocketed, and never came back down. It’s hard to briefly convey the regulatory issues because it’s death by a thousand cuts.

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Why is regulation so crippling? The public is wrongly terrified of nuclear energy, but they shouldn’t be. Radiation killed 0 people at Fukishima; the radiophobic evacuation killed >1000 (“Some 1600 of the evacuees died from causes ranging from privation in refugee camps (notably loss of access to health care) to suicide”), and the tsunami/earthquake killed >10000. Hall quotes an estimate from the Guardian that Chernobyl - by far the most serious nuclear disaster - killed “approximately” 43 people.

Why are people so terrified? Hall says we were a victim of our own success from World War II. Before the War, America was an individualistic nation. Then  came the Depression, the New Deal, and most of all the War. America won the war with a “completely centralized bureaucratic government structure” - and it was a huge success. And for a while, that worked: the generation forged in the war had a “cooperative “same boat” spirit” that “[made] the centralized corporate structures work.” But then it didn’t. Hall blames the hippies:

“The Baby Boomers—my generation—split into two cultures which, as far as I can see, not only didn’t agree on values but which fundamentally couldn’t even understand each other. Ask any Boomer what was the greatest, most pivotal event of 1969. Half of us will say the Apollo 11 moon landing. The other half will say Woodstock. Both sets, hearing the other’s opinion, will emit an honestly uncomprehending “Huh!?!?” From the Fifties to the Seventies, the average American followed the lifecycle of Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt from conformity and cooperation to non-conformist rebellion in a search for personal meaning. The corporate state worked with the cooperating, self-sacrificing Greatest Generation. It didn’t work so well with Aquarians.”

His theory, basically, is that the next generation - the Baby Boomers - got spoiled. Automation had come into its own, and people didn’t need to struggle for survival anymore. America was on top of the world, and there weren’t enough real challenges to work on. But people need challenges. So they made some up.

Hall says the most damaging strain, still common today, is “green fundamentalism”, the idea that human agency over nature is fundamentally bad. An early example is Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which got DDT banned on the grounds that it was causing cancer; in reality the cancer increase was from smoking, and from technology improving living conditions (the healthier you are, the more likely you’ll survive long enough to get killed by cancer). “The Green religion has essentially superceded Christianity as the default religion of western civilization, especially in academic circles”. Hall is dismissive of climate change, citing an estimate that it will cost only a few percentage of GDP by 2100 even in the worst case. (This is something that always confused me; there’s such a big gap between quantitative economic estimates of climate change and qualitative ones. My impression is the quantitative ones are way too optimistic. Hall does not agree with me). Anyway, he says, climate change is all the more reason to embrace clean nuclear power and flying cars (highways use a lot of land; if flying cars replaced highways, that land could be returned to nature).

The upshot is there is strong intellectual skepticism about increasing energy usage. As government has taken much more centralized power, “we have let complacent nay-sayers metamorphose from pundits uttering ‘It can’t be done’ predictions a century ago, into bureaucrats uttering ‘It won’t be done’ prescriptions today.” As a result, “a lot of inventiveness and engineering resources got shifted from doing new things, and doing things better, to doing the same old things, usually not as well, but using less energy.” Our machines use less energy, but they don’t work any better. Is single-mindedly improving efficiency really the best use of our time? And anyway, the efficiency gains - while real - are basically on the same trendline as they were before all this regulation. The difference is that we used to have efficiency *and* more energy every year; now all we get is efficiency. The twin tragedies are that so many talented people went into activism instead of engineering, and that the activism was so often opposed to progress.

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Hall blames public funding for science. Not just for nanotech, but for actually hurting progress in general. (I’ve never heard anyone before say government-funded science was bad for science!) “[The] great innovations that made the major quality-of-life improvements came largely before 1960: refrigerators, freezers, vacuum cleaners, gas and electric stoves, and washing machines; indoor plumbing, detergent, and deodorants; electric lights; cars, trucks, and buses; tractors and combines; fertilizer; air travel, containerized freight, the vacuum tube and the transistor; the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, movies, radio, and television—and they were all developed privately.” “A survey and analysis performed by the OECD in 2005 found, to their surprise, that while private R&D had a positive 0.26 correlation with economic growth, government funded R&D had a negative 0.37 correlation!” “Centralized funding of an intellectual elite makes it easier for cadres, cliques, and the politically skilled to gain control of a field, and they by their nature are resistant to new, outside, non-Ptolemaic ideas.” This is what happened to nanotech; there was a huge amount of buzz, culminating in $500 million dollars of funding under Clinton in 1990. This huge prize kicked off an academic civil war, and the fledgling field of nanotech lost hard to the more established field of material science. Material science rebranded as “nanotech”, trashed the reputation of actual nanotech (to make sure they won the competition for the grant money), and took all the funding for themselves. Nanotech never recovered.

Flying cars didn’t have the same issues; they were being developed privately. But regulation doomed them. Harold Pitcairn was almost successful in developing a flying car, but then in World War II the government nationalized his helicopter patents (they promised to give them back after the war, but reneged) and he spent the rest of his life in court. He won, 17 years after his death. Bruce Hallock had a promising design, but he sold a plane to a missionary group in Peru and was arrested as an “arms trafficker”. Robert Fulton had a successful prototype, “however, Fulton’s financial backers had become discouraged with the seemingly endless expense of meeting government production standards, and they withdrew their support.” Molt Taylor “was actually in serious negotiations with Ford as late as 1975 to have the Aerocar mass-produced. The monkeywrench was thrown into the negotiations by the FAA and the DOT. Taylor already had an airworthiness certificate for the Aerocar, granted by the CAA (predecessor of the FAA) after a delay of 7 years from its first flight. He claims that the agencies turned thumbs down on the Aerocar ‘because everybody would have one, and we couldn’t handle the [air] traffic.’ Airplane regulation has only gotten stricter: “The entire F.A.R. / A.I.M., which every airman is responsible for knowing, is 1085 pages long. At least it was in 2013; a new one comes out every year.” So in the end, we have none of these technologies. No flying cars, even though they were prototyped almost a hundred years ago. Some nuclear energy, but crippled, aged, feared, and hated. 3D printing, but no nanotech. No level 5. Because the state needs legibility, and progress is not legible. The bureaucratic incentives are to calcify. If no one does anything new, no one will do anything wrong.

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The book is 550 pages long, so there’s a lot I didn’t cover. I thought the political/social analysis was its weakest aspect, basically a strongly worded but conventional version of the libertarian case against regulation, although I appreciated the detailed examples of how regulation harmed flying cars and nanotechnology (And I’ll admit I haven’t heard the libertarian case against funding science before!). I’m more convinced than ever that not embracing nuclear power was one of humanity’s worst mistakes (partially because I’m more afraid of climate change than Hall is). I found the book most valuable as a statement of “definite optimism” - a concrete vision of attainable yet extraordinary technological progress. I recommend it on that basis.

[atlanticcanada]

Stamp of approval: Vaccine certificates may be needed to travel

As more Canadians become vaccinated, the desire to start travelling again is on the horizon.

There are still many questions in terms of how vaccine passports could work, as different countries will have different policies in place, says Julia Kent, director of public and government affairs with CAA Atlantic.

“We want to make sure that whatever travel we’re doing, whether it be interprovincially or internationally, that it's safe," Kent says.

“There’s certainly appears to be perks for fully vaccinated people, not just in Canadian jurisdictions but around the world.”

For the time being, Canadians may want to hold onto the vaccine certificates that some received after getting their shot, as they may be needed in order to travel.

“I think that will play a role as we first open up…whether we’re bringing in people from other provinces or from the U.S., we would want to have an idea that they’ve been vaccinated,” says New Brunswick’s Premier Blaine Higgs.

The topic of vaccine passports will likely come up in future meetings with the prime minister, says Higgs, though he is doubtful that official vaccine passports will be needed.

“The last discussion we had was a week or so ago and there were provinces that were very much against it and provinces that said 'look we’re fine if someone’s carrying it… the passport may be your slip showing that you’ve been vaccinated',” says Higgs.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expressed concerns about requiring Canadians to show proof of vaccination, meaning it may be up to each province to implement vaccine passports or certificates when entering.

Liberal opposition leader Roger Melanson believes there needs to be a mutual understanding between all countries in terms of what is required from travellers, in order to avoid confusion.

"The government needs to take this seriously, including the premier of the province, and look at a national initiative in regards to a passport or some sort of a vaccination certification that would be recognized around the world,” says Melanson.

A survey released last month by Leger, a market research and analytics company, showed that the majority of Canadians are in favour of providing proof of vaccination when travelling.

Its data shows "82 per cent of Canadians would be in support of a vaccine passport” says Dave Scholz, executive vice president of Leger.

“There is this definite desire for some sort of recognition that you've been vaccinated and that it allows you to get back to what used to be our normal."

Though the federal government has not yet required an official travel document for those who are vaccinated, New Brunswick’s premier believes vaccination certificates may be all that is needed to travel.

from CTV News - Atlantic https://ift.tt/3pH511N