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Yes, that's great! A site similar to this for anything related to sleep seems to be: https://www.sleeplikethedead.com/ https://www.sleeplikethedead.com/ It co
by epivosism 3y ago
Yes, that's great! A site similar to this for anything related to sleep seems to be:
https://www.sleeplikethedead.com/ https://www.sleeplikethedead.com/
It covers pillows, mattresses, etc. Labor love, makes no direct money, committed to and open about how frequent manipulation is in the industry. I followed its recommendations ~1.5 years ago when furnishing a new house and was very happy with the results fitting out 3 bedrooms.
Big Q: why is this still a niche situation? Why do only a few sites have this trait? I think it has to do with culture, habits, and laws for each language & culture. Does it vary by language or region? Are some industries more manipulable than others?
Similar: amazon somehow gets away with defaulting their search result page to "Featured" which means "people pay us to lie to you". They still do provide the option to sort by "best selling" which at least theoretically is better. I'd expect a mature citizenry to rebel and force them to have a better default, or at least let you configure your default.
I'm very interested in characterizing variation on these axes across the world and time. Is it really zero sum and always identical? Or do some habits and traits of a region, language, culture, education system make "better" systems more likely to survive? Can we even actually fairly characterize better systems? It sure feels like we can, but I've also seen people arguing that for example there is no actual difference between rent-seeking and "productive economic activity" on a theoretical level.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> Big Q: why is this still a niche situation? Because - at least in the short term - you can make more money by selling your users.
- epivosism 3y agoBut I'm asking why in some markets there are known relatively trustable sites, but not in others. What causes that? I also assume it varies dramatically by culture, language, region, population, period in history. Why? If you deny it varies, what maintains that? There either is a conservation principle (which must have some mechanism for maintenance) or there isn't (in which case variation probably relates to other aspects of reality, and what are they?)
- PhasmaFelis 3y agoSounds like we need a meta-site to catalog all these sites!