The car of my dreams from back in the day. After seeing this it's much easier to accept that I'll never have one: I probably couldn't live with all those minor quirks inside, no matter how cool it looks on the outside.

via Kaj Sotala

> My father was a serious alpinist in his youth, and taught us a few things about mountains when we were kids. For instance: you always say hello to people you pass on the mountain.

> Why? Because the mountain can kill you. “Hi” means “You are a human like me, and this mountain is our common threat. If you scream for help, I will come for you.”

> There’s a certain solidarity between humans that emerges when we’re faced with a potentially hostile natural world. If we passed on the street, we’d be strangers. There’d be no bond between us. We might even engage in conflict, under the right circumstances. But on the mountain, all of that falls away. By default, in the wilderness, a human face is a friendly face, a glad thing to see if you are lost or hurt.

> If you are in the desert and you see someone obviously suffering from dehydration, you’ll share your extra water with them. It won’t feel like some kind of altruism or charity, it will feel obvious. It’s instructive, if you’re used to thinking of giving as an unpleasant duty, to experience some situations where it’s natural to be kind. Kindness becomes practical and natural and obvious when the physical environment is hostile. Suddenly everything becomes simple: it’s human life against bitter nature, and nothing else matters. “All men are brothers” becomes a concrete reality.

via Peter Kasting

"…we plan to have Chrome stop showing ads (including those owned or served by Google) on websites that are not compliant with the Better Ads Standards starting in early 2018." (emphasis mine)

https://blog.google/topics/journalism-news/building-better-web-everyone/

Glad this is finally announced. I'm really excited about this initiative. The current state of web advertising is a race-to-the-bottom sea of crap. Chrome's goal is to make the web better, and we have the leverage to try and find a balance that serves users better while still letting publishers survive. With that power comes the responsibility to try and help. I'm glad we're accepting that responsibility and I'll be looking forward to seeing how this plays out.

Google's number one corporate principle is "focus on the user and all else will follow". Users are not being well-served today. If we can serve them better, they will be happier, sites will be better off, and Google will benefit as well. That's especially important in the long run. Protecting the web is not about next quarter's revenue stream; it's about what happens in twenty years. We are aiming to build a robust web that the world can depend on.

EDIT: And here's the Chromium post about it: http://blog.chromium.org/2017/06/improving-advertising-on-web.html

Eagle’s Path: On time management (2017-05-27)

Kurzgesagt > any other educational channel on Youtube