Honestly, I'm not particularly impressed. There are a lot of other trading edges that could be found for a lot less hassle and money, but I guess that's also the beautiful thing about the market - more ways to skin a cat than anyone can imagine, and it's also not a zero sum game.
Indeed, it's negative. While the big funds steal money from small investors the waste of energy and the pollution caused by launching satellites remains.
I barely use Edge in Windows 10, but whenever I do and I go to any google site I get constantly badgered about 'downloading chrome' even though, a) I've already downloaded Chrome and have it installed, b) I've click such notices away 1000 times. More than mildly annoying and aggressive.
My biggest take away after reading this thread is that almost everyone seems to agree that there is a very significant problem, while at the same time there seems be a complete lack of universal agreement about cause(s) or cure(s). Sort of unsatisfying that way. :-|
The problem is, as far as the causes go, everyone is right and no one thinks they're wrong. My experience of the world has taught me that people shy away from complexity in favor of simple explanations. So if everyone mentioning a possible cause is, to a degree, correct, then we need to figure out what underlying systems are connecting and driving those causes.
I have no idea whether it is or isn't, but why would you expect a computer repair shop to be pro-Mac? I would expect Mac's to be much more likely to be unrepairable (and thus unprofitable) than other hardware
Deleted original comment, and btw - all the comments attached to this just underline the fact that the piratebay is not exactly user friendly AND ALSO BTW - A VPN doesn't in any way guarantee that your IP address can't leak out in a number of ways.
The torrent being "trusted" has absolutely nothing to do with whether your ISP is spying on your traffic. Paying for and enabling a VPN service is step 0 of torrent client use because it eliminates this issue.
“Trusted” is referring more to where the files came from. Is it a real account associated with some movie ripping group? Or is it someone pretending to be them and distributing malware?
BitTorrent is peer-to-peer. Anyone can join a swarm and see the IP addresses of other computers they’re communicating with. Knowing the files came from a trusted a trusted uploader won’t hide your identity from that.
Like many others here, Steam/Netflix/Spotify have largely stopped me from torrenting anything. But we continue to slide toward needing a separate streaming service for every single TV series, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see the piracy pendulum swing back the other way.
It's been a few years since I bothered torrenting much, but if you don't change the defaults on your torrent client, even then you'd get flagged pretty quickly. Biggest thing used to be not throttling upload speed; almost all consumers are going to be downloading wildly more than they upload, and even heavy users of upload bandwidth are going to primarily be shooting it to well-known destinations. If you start uploading at 100MB/s to random IPs, that looks suspicious.
PirateBay is probably the most common place to find torrents watched by rightsholders. Doing illegal things in general is dumb, but if you're going to pirate, go do it over the free wi-fi at McDonald's or Walmart.
Yeah, you don't torrent hollywood shit, that's well known. For that you either pay the troll toll or take the high road. I've personally chosen to just not watch hollywood movies and my life is a lot better off for it.
I don't see for all the world how this isn't an utter failure for both the management for this project and the ultra combative style that the previous and current California gubernatorial administrations approach just about any and all dealing with the feds since Trump was elected. Have a feeling this might be where 'more red meat for the base' might have met it's match in terms of cognitive dissonance for at least some California voters.
UPDATE - : CA Governor Newsom this afternoon (via Sacbee): "The Trump Administration’s action is illegal and a direct assault on California, our green infrastructure, and the thousands of Central Valley workers who are building this project,” he said. “Just as we have seen from the Trump Administration’s attacks on our clean air standards, our immigrant communities and in countless other areas, the Trump Administration is trying to exact political retribution on our state. “This is California’s money, appropriated by Congress, and we will vigorously defend it in court"
Exactly the type of rhetoric, attitude, and threats that help push this situation in the first place (well, along with the gross mismanagement by the state for years) and he still can't quit digging.
