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by DataDive 2y ago
Isn't that a natural consequence of getting a product for cheap? They have to do both: raise the price and deteriorate the service on their march to a sustainable value/price ratio.
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by DataDive 2y ago
Bubble tea, which is not even a sophisticated resource like coffee, is also over 5 bucks where I live, FWIW is not even a particularly expensive place in the US.
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by DataDive 2y ago
The longer you use Spotify, the less able you will be to do without Spotify. We can only guess what that will do with prices. FWIW, today, at $12 per month, the service is trivially cheap and unsustainable. A coffee costs 5 bucks. Complaini
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by DataDive 2y ago
Spotify is in the class of products with the least control over how much something should cost. They don't own any of the music they resell. They have no alternative supplier of the same products.
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by DataDive 2y ago
Wouldn't the approach benefit lawmakers even more? Lawmaker makes a trade; everyone copies them, and now the original purchase is even more attractive ...
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by DataDive 2y ago
it is not about explicitly voting down a Youtube channel to punish the creator for making exaggerated claims, that type of action does not scale what will happen instead is that people will develop an immunity to these types of thumbnails a
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by DataDive 2y ago
For example I think there is only so many gatcha games one can play in a lifetime. When the gatcha concept is new, everyone is on board and seems like a golden goose, but who will do it again and again? a generational amnesia is still 20 ye
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by DataDive 2y ago
It stops working as more people understand the tricks. Trust works only when most actors are trustworthy. Once you know the prices are jacked up just for "you", and once you know you are being "played," you behave differ
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by DataDive 2y ago
What nobody knows is what happens when everyone goes full ham with manipulations. All these techniques, from gamification to behavioral mining, were developed in isolation - when only one actor maximized their profits. Their results apply w
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by DataDive 2y ago
I read it a bit, but it seems the article is little more than a single person's anecdotal observations. I tuned out after reading about 40% ... there is no conclusive evidence presented, just one person's observations over their c
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by DataDive 2y ago
I largely agree here that of all the components in a stack, unicorn seems to be the least troublesome and almost invisible. I have never had a problem that I would have traced back to gunicorn not working ... On the other hand not having to
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by DataDive 2y ago
One of the common misdirections propagated by these articles is arguing that inflation dropped from 10% to 4%, so things must be better, why aren't people happy about that? but wait that 4% is on top of the 10%, the thing that matters
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by DataDive 2y ago
Honestly, I never understood why a mortgage would even exist at, say, 3% interest ... Why would anyone loan out trillions of dollars at 3% (that also includes the risk of default). The same money in an index fund produces 7% over the long t
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by DataDive 2y ago
50% of the time, they are right every time. Depending on which camp you are in, you have evidence that it works well or evidence that it does not. All it takes is a bit of selective memory.
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by DataDive 2y ago
The problem with these studies is that it is exceedingly difficult to correctly account for all the additional differences between people who do get tattoos and those who don't. Plus, if you don't find an effect, there is no paper
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by DataDive 2y ago
The problem with WaPo is that when it comes to certain topics, all their output already feels like it was AI-generated. Not all content - but (sadly) a seemingly increasing chunk of it.
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by DataDive 2y ago
Zawinski's Law: > Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. I think nowadays we can substitute email with chat/DM.
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by DataDive 2y ago
My gut sense is that is that over 50C you are getting into scalding territory. 50, which is halfway between 0 and 100, so that, too, kind of makes sense.
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by DataDive 2y ago
Did it kill price competition? My anecdotal observation is that there are more cheap phone plans now than, say, five years ago.
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by DataDive 2y ago
> Probably the easiest measurement change to get used to. here is a counter-anecdotal evidence I moved to the US 25 years ago, still hate F with passion I gave it a serious go. After trying to get used to F for 20-some years, I went ba
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by DataDive 2y ago
“A safer, kinder digital platform for more healthy and more equitable relationships." "Always putting women in the driver’s seat—not to put men down—but to actually recalibrate the way we all treat each other.”
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by DataDive 2y ago
https://archive.is/kpR5A
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by DataDive 2y ago
I don't know how prevalent my behavior is, but I eat out less since these random fees appeared. If the price were simply 15% higher, I think would not mind (again I am guessing, who knows really - needs some sort of experiment). I deep
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by DataDive 2y ago
I do think that it is an interesting thought - even if I don't necessarily agree. If you go to any home improvement store, you'll see walls of insect-killing products; most appear highly toxic. Many people also exhibit overly fear
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by DataDive 2y ago
But if it is all ineffectual, then maybe it has the opposite effect. If people think they are already doing something, they might see less need to make the hard choices.
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by DataDive 2y ago
> I sent an article to the NYTimes a few months ago and it hasn’t been printed by them yet. In my reading it is exactly the other way around, no? You sent something to NYT they published it and now they are not allowed to publish anyth
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by DataDive 3y ago
you misread what I am implying, based on all past evidence, she never wants to wear makeup, read her works and interviews, I have done it myself, these arseholes at Glamour made her do it, she is being forced into a role never wanted to be
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by DataDive 3y ago
What do you mean? That there are tasks out there that some ought to do for free if someone else thinks these should be done for free? The "pay what you think it is worth" model is not a scalable and viable approach. It most likely
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by DataDive 3y ago
Look up disposable income over the years, and you'll soon see that that "glory" era of the 70s may have been less rosy than you think The cheap housing of that era (even discounting the lead paint and asbestos-based insulatio
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by DataDive 3y ago
The key measure to compare everything is disposable income rather than inflation-adjusted this or that. Disposable income of the 70s was a tiny fraction, many orders of magnitude smaller than the disposable income of 2024. In addition, hous

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