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So one week of coffees is not worth great search for a month? I dunno, as much as I love coffee I can do without. And I can certainly do without 5 out of every

by Aeolun 2y ago

So one week of coffees is not worth great search for a month? I dunno, as much as I love coffee I can do without. And I can certainly do without 5 out of every 30 days. I’m not saying you shouldn’t decide against it. Just challenging the assertion that 5 coffees constitutes a large amount of money (I think I can get 7 coffees in Japan for my $5).

wkat4242 2y ago
No probably not for me. I really don't use search an awful lot. It's not that important to me for my internet use. What I do a lot is read sites like HN here and find things I like and then dig down and keep notes. My notes are higher in my priority and I do for example pay the $4 monthly for Obsidian notes (though I'm considering to set up my own sync server, not really to save costs but to have more understanding and control). And that's while I have OneNote available to me too (but I don't use it anymore because it's terrible especially on Linux where only the web client is available). But search, it's just not that high in priority in my workflow. The coffee thing was just to put the Silicon Valley: "It's just one starbucks coffee" into perspective, to show it's not like that all over the world :)
- carlosjobim 2y ago
  Now I understand. You don't want the product and you're not interested in that kind of product. Then of course any price asked is too expensive for your taste. I don't like breakfast cereal. That doesn't mean that they're too expensive, it just means I'm not the customer. But there are people who like the product and to them the price asked is cheap. When I go to the super market I walk past thousands of products which I'm not interested in. The same for any store or virtual market place. So it's not about $5 being a "considerable" amount.
  - wkat4242 2y ago
    Hmm if it was $20 per year I'd do it. Just saying. I'm not interested in the product for the price. It's just not $60 per year important to me.

by Aeolun 2y ago

wkat4242 2y ago

No probably not for me. I really don't use search an awful lot. It's not that important to me for my internet use. What I do a lot is read sites like HN here and find things I like and then dig down and keep notes. My notes are higher in my priority and I do for example pay the $4 monthly for Obsidian notes (though I'm considering to set up my own sync server, not really to save costs but to have more understanding and control). And that's while I have OneNote available to me too (but I don't use it anymore because it's terrible especially on Linux where only the web client is available). But search, it's just not that high in priority in my workflow. The coffee thing was just to put the Silicon Valley: "It's just one starbucks coffee" into perspective, to show it's not like that all over the world :)

carlosjobim 2y ago
Now I understand. You don't want the product and you're not interested in that kind of product. Then of course any price asked is too expensive for your taste. I don't like breakfast cereal. That doesn't mean that they're too expensive, it just means I'm not the customer. But there are people who like the product and to them the price asked is cheap. When I go to the super market I walk past thousands of products which I'm not interested in. The same for any store or virtual market place. So it's not about $5 being a "considerable" amount.
- wkat4242 2y ago
  Hmm if it was $20 per year I'd do it. Just saying. I'm not interested in the product for the price. It's just not $60 per year important to me.