Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

The exact opposite of argument from poor design!

It should be illegal to give someone money to advertise your product.

We should just use tags and upvote-based algorithms.

Advertisement is a form of brainwashing.

TODO find Sergey Brin quote bout advertising being a form of perverting search engine ranking neutrality. In other words, there are neutral metrics to what people find good, like links and upvotes. And then advertising is a way to pervert that to someone's profit.

Sometimes Ciro Santilli thinks advertising should be on-subscription only, but that is too restrictive, e.g. imagine the local business owner who wears a t-shirt of their business.

"Arm on tracks" refers to a variant of the robotic arm robot form factor in which the position of attachment of the robotic arm can also be moved around linearly or with more degrees of freedom.

E.g.:

TODO how to calculate

TODO how to calculate

"Game" is a bit of a stretch as there are no player choices at all.

A more precise word would be simulation.

More precise, this "game" is exactly an absorbing Markov chain.