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by ajkjk 2mo ago
Yes.
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
Sounds great. Ideally things are beholden to the value the process for the customer rather than to their ability to trick people into clicking on them (SEO optimization etc) in order to get money indirectly via ads. Some form of micropaymen
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
Well, the populace. But yeah presumably via politicians. It certainly might require winning a few elections.
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
I'm hoping we can mostly ban ads in my lifetime (on the basis that companies should not be allowed to freely try to manipulate unconsenting strangers. and that it makes the world suck to live in and we don't have to put up with th
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
and a moral responsibility to do otherwise. Or, well---whether or not you agree that it is the case in some cosmic sense, it is still how we get to judge him. Ironically he seems to be very sensitive to this judgment. You would think he wou
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
That's not what I said. I said: note that you are not obligated to maximize profit and you can give away more features for free and that it generally makes the world a kinder place to do so. The point being that they have a choice. Con
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
I don't care what you suggest. If a person asks what they should do I'm gonna give them what I think is the most moral answer.
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
and everyone is suggested milking it for every dollar. it's gross. this attitude is why so many things suck.
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
My suggestion is be generous and make a bit less money as the cost of making the world a kinder and more pleasant place. There's no rule that says you have to play ruthless capitalist.
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
well that's just like, your coordinate system, man
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
My understanding is that you ought to take melatonin in small doses (0.3 or so) an hour or two before sleep in order to get tired , whereupon you sleep (normally, ish, unless you take too much and then you get crazy dreams or sleep paralys
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
I agree, somewhat, but that is a much more evidence-backed stance---they're obviously useful in a sense; the debate is over what worldview / posture one ought to adopt as a result of that. Whereas the RTO stuff was a debate betwee
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
Same. HN comments would (maybe still do) accuse you of astroturfing if you said you preferred an office. Not that much stock should be put in strangers accusing you, but, it was telling how ignorant it was.
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
There are 4-5 competing ISPs in my area. And no, they'll lower prices to prevent losing customers preemptively as well. But only if you ask them to
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
It is probably not that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180901 posted yesterday explains it well.
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by ajkjk 2mo ago
Perhaps you saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180901 on here yesterday?
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by ajkjk 3mo ago
that's one way of doing the calculation, which I do not subscribe to. The economic theory that markets develop according to the aggregate effects of rational actors does not invert into a moral imperative to you should do what money te
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by ajkjk 3mo ago
mostly unrelated but amusing: I keep getting fliers from Google fiber trying to get me to switch. Every one has this one bizarre line in it: "our customers have never had their rates go up!"---as if I am too stupid to realize that
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by ajkjk 3mo ago
The other part is: if there really is so much money in these, it should be easy for the companies to produce an actually good deal. Everyone can tell (after all these experiences) what bullshit smells like, when the deals are full of tricks
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by ajkjk 3mo ago
It's strangely meditative to read the prose of someone who was so willing to absorb every single fact about something and to have a considered opinion on each of them. It is a strange type of mind to interact with. I feel slightly clea
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by ajkjk 3mo ago
Don't see what's wrong with it...
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by ajkjk 3mo ago
Related: https://acoup.blog/2020/07/03/collections-the-practical-case...
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by ajkjk 3mo ago
For as long as the sparkle emoji has been in use I have taken it to be a red flag, the telltale sign of "buttons not to click". I can't imagine how a designer could justify including it at this point.
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by ajkjk 3mo ago
I like it. Bring back thus as a normal word. Also thusly.
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by ajkjk 3mo ago
Well, it is technologically not that hard to imagine a solution---the problem is social, getting everyone to agree on how to do it, figure out the policy around it, etc. And the situation is getting so bad that maybe it is time for someone
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by ajkjk 3mo ago
It feels like there is fundamentally missing infrastructure here that is needed to make these problems go away. Basically bots need to be (somehow) paying for the traffic they create, or prevented from creating it, or told to go away and th
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by ajkjk 3mo ago
It's funny how similar this is to a human reaction to the same thing. It's the right level of incredulity, to be sure, and the first thing you do is you start re-reading the conjecture to makes sure you didn't misunderstand t
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by ajkjk 3mo ago
well if he said it then it must be true
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by ajkjk 3mo ago
What do you expect from a person other than the generalizations they see from the experiences they have had...? What 'evidence' could possibly be given other than extensive anecdotes?
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by ajkjk 3mo ago
Happy for the individual, sad for society

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