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"We’re sorry. Extra Crunch membership is currently only available for readers in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and Spain". Well, I'm not in any of these
by atemerev 7y ago
"We’re sorry. Extra Crunch membership is currently only available for readers in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and Spain".
Well, I'm not in any of these countries. I am in Switzerland. And for some stupid reason I can't read this.
The Internet was supposed to transcend the national boundaries, but they seem to persist. We need to either fix this Internet, or build the new better one.
- marvin 7y agoIt’s not the Internet that’s the problem here though, it’s a combination of stupidity/laziness (the easiest part to fix) and bad incentives, business practices and regulations. The latter part is very hard to fix, because it reflects very diverse human motivations...
- dmos62 7y agoI'll add that internet is also in many ways a combination of "stupidity/laziness (the easiest part to fix) and bad incentives, business practices and regulations". Actually, you might be able to say that about any public resource, because the bad parts of most things are some configuration of those problems.