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It seems to not be true anymore. I checked last week to rent a car in France for the holidays, and all the cheapest options for small urban cars were EV (mostly Zoe).

Note that I only checked for big renting companies (Sixt, Enterprise, ...). I was very surprised!

Re:Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:45AM (#15969903)
I edited my comment to follow the guidelines.
Re:Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:12AM (#15969595)
My guess is no, because while they may take 30%+ of the screen initially, they don't represent 30%+ of the full page (see [0] for more details).

[0] https://www.betterads.org/mobile-ad-density-higher-than-30/

Re:Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @08:54AM (#15969456)
According to the article, the ads deemed "overly annoying or intrusive" are defined by "the standards established by the Coalition for Better Ads, of which it is a member". Since it's not Google actually deciding this, how is that anti-competitive?

BTW, the Coalition for Better Ads has many members [0], including Facebook and other big ads providers.

I'm personally not convinced this will solve the issue, but I believe it's a least a step in the right direction.

[0] https://www.betterads.org/members/

Re:Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @08:49AM (#15969417)
It's usually around 20€/month for that kind of plan in France (with unlimited calls and SMS).
Re:Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:51AM (#15969086)
The criteria is not discretionary. They'll block ads that don't follow the guidelines defined by the Coalition for Better Ads [0] (Google is a member, but there is a lot of other members, like Facebook, ...). So yes, they'll block a site which has non-conforming Google ads.

[0] : https://www.betterads.org/

Re:Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:50AM (#15969079)
No, they'll only block ads that don't follow the guidelines defined by the Coalition for Better Ads [0] (Google is a member, but there is a lot of other members, like Facebook, ...). Note that this may include ads provided by Google.

[0] : https://www.betterads.org/

Re:Debugging an evil Go runtime bug on Monday December 04, 2017 @02:00PM (#15846460)
Apparently, because it's shorter [0].

[0]: See https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/10/348

Re:Population-based training of neural networks on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @11:39AM (#15798786)
It is actually very different:

- AutoML is used to automate the design of the ML model.

- Population-based trained is used to automate the choice of the hyperparameters (e.g. the rate of learning).

If you wanted to use both, you'd first use AutoML to find a good design for your problem, and then you'd use PBT when training your network.

Re:Bottery – A conversational agent prototyping platform on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @11:55AM (#15594148)
Except it's the other way around. Their repo is 6 months older than yours.
If I remember correctly, the idea is to block ads that don't conform to the standards set by the Coalition for Better Ads [0]. Google is (as you can expect) a member of this coalition (just like Facebook and many other companies [1]).

[0]: https://www.betterads.org/standards/ [1]: https://www.betterads.org/members/

Less transportation required, which should be cheaper and better for the environment.
Re:The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @12:48PM (#14453946)
It doesn't fit.

Railway systems in Japan and France (taken as example in the article) are high quality and last long as well. Yet construction railway is way less expensive there.

Re:Amazon Polly – Lifelike Text-To-Speech on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @11:16AM (#13123621)
I agree, it doesn't sound "lifelike" at all to me. Compared to WaveNet[1] it's day and night.

[1] https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...

Re:Spawkfish: Neural network chess on Thursday March 03, 2016 @11:22AM (#11217844)
A very interesting project.

One remark: although I'm admittedly a poor chess player, I managed easily to get a draw by threefold repetition even though Spawkfish could have avoided that easily (and still destroy me). Am I correct to assume Spawkfish don't take past moves into accounts?