Usually slug, headline and teaser are all considered important parts to optimize. My wife works for a big online news company and while news journalists write headline and teaser, they have editors in chief who edit those again and a separate SEO team who will assign slugs.
Thanks for doing the detective work for your friends on mobile. This fact severely diminishes the message of this medium. I’ll check for myself later; but until then, I will hope it leverages the techniques it describes.
Yes. The people are supposed to do work. Believe me: ordinary people who strongly disagree with a lot of what's being said on this thread are doing the work, showing up and complaining about "defund the police" people being behind any limitations on ALPRs at all. I had to argue with them! You are responsible for engaging on this, because, contrary to the claim at the top of the thread, this simply is not a "red line".
That's the "magic" of democracy. It makes states stable because the government is theoretically representative which adds a ton of friction to the usual "we'll just throw the kind and his court off a cliff because they don't represent us and install some lords who do" workflow.
It did to an extent, they built the old copper network in tiers. I don't know the exact numbers and I'm sure they varied by area, but the general idea was - your home phone would connect to a local exchange, which served just dozens of local homes, and that exchange would connect to a bigger exchange somewhere higher up the network over a bundle of circuits. And that architecture repeated for a few layers.
But it wasn't 1:1, so you would have lets say 100 homes connected to a local exchange, and that local exchange would have say 20 lines to the next exchange in the network. That placed limits on the amount of concurrent connections you could have from one area - if 21 homes all tried to call people in the next city over, at least one of them would get a signal that all circuits are full and they would have to try again later. It drastically reduced the amount of lines you need between local exchanges though.
I guess it helped that phone calls were quite expensive, so people generally made very short calls. I haven’t really thought about this before but one of the main reasons for the pricing system could have been the facts that you mentioned.
In Sweden, the pricing system was tiered. Same area code (roughly: same municipality) = lowest rate. Neighbouring area codes = higher rate. Outside of that = highest rate. The rate was halved after 6pm. A reason for lowering the rates in the evening might have been that there were far less business users calling after 6pm.
One of the reasons I remember the pricing system is that my parents would not be happy if I dialed in to a modem pool before 6pm :)
Before I was born, the telephone company in Sweden (Televerket, later Telia) started to upgrade their system to use digital telephone exchanges (AXE). But there were of course still some kind of hard limit for how many concurrent calls they could handle, so I guess that’s why they kept the pricing system for a while.
This is partly speculation on my part, so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
Yep, that's right. The long distance trunks were a more limited resource so the telcos charged more per minute to use them. After digital exchanges came around it was less of a factor, but I think the pricing structure stuck around for a while.
You'd think that at least initially, individual towns would stand up fully connected (albeit small) but isolated networks. That before very long, the idea of connecting one town to the next would occur, and it would be realized that you only need a relatively small number of "long distance" lines, connected between the existing switchboards. At which point, if you were wiring up a city, you'd follow that pattern; tiered layers, as you say. It stands to reason then, that Stockholm's system must have started very early, and had absolutely explosive growth, to get to a situation like that tower.
They mostly did, but the limit on distance is pretty tight - according to Wikipedia [0] local loops were limited to 5 km in length (without extra equipment). I imagine that Stockholm's system here both started early and was in a very dense neighborhood of Stockholm, where direct wiring like this was still a tenable solution.
Usually I'd be with you. It's a big ship and even presidents have limited power to steer. But he is really doing all he can to sink it, so while one cannot blame him entirely, one can blame him:
- Firing a lot of federal employees
- Creating an uncertain business environment where no planning is possible via tariffs
That's just what he is breaking short term. There will be no way to reverse the long term damage his policies do.
I'm not arguing about goals, just looking at the execution.
We’re retiring something like this at work. The devices were manufactured between 2009-2017. They will continue to operate in non-smart mode until some other part of the device breaks. We’ve notified customers and no one seems particularly upset. To a large degree it seems like the fleet’s obsolete and we could’ve pulled the plug a couple years ago. There’s probably not a good answer in a general sense. It really depends on a host of things.
when will it replace the headline in editorial importance?