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by taurath 3y ago
One thing that strikes me as missing is the suggestion of people having trouble in general with their lives, whether mental health, personal relationship problems, or financial struggles. This is especially the case when going over the “unr
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by taurath 3y ago
> But also there have been a load of really good CRPGs in recent years and there seemed to be a pretty low ceiling to how much interest they could get CRPGs aren't a genre, but RPGs are. wRPGs like Mass Effect, Fallout, TES, The Wit
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by taurath 3y ago
> Thinking that Reddit is not gamed by marketers or bought/sponsored influencers in 2023 is just completely wrong I didn't claim its free of gaming, but I am claiming the quality of search results for "x" vs "x r
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by taurath 3y ago
The alternative is places where people congregate. Google used to be a great place to find relatively objective information, but being ad driven it’s all gone to commercial advertising. Word of mouth (IE searching with “[…] Reddit”) gives f
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by taurath 3y ago
Maybe we could say that advertising revenue is toxic to community spaces? If they really want to be the town square, well nobody wants a town square that’s primarily billboards and advertising. People who actually live in New York don’t go
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by taurath 3y ago
And the process of “reviewing the seller” (IE reporting them for bribing you) is made extremely difficult by Amazon. It’s nice that Amazon has gotten the government to enforce policy for them in their platform, it must be a lot cheaper to p
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by taurath 3y ago
This gives me big yikes. There may not be anything wrong with their thinking, or a defect in their “mental machinery” or personality. Humans are more complex than that. It’s completely reductive of the value people have.
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by taurath 3y ago
There's a step before this. They're losing a lot of money because the choices they made to take investment to earn more money. They could've gone the route of wikipedia. They could've stayed extremely lean. They took $1.
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by taurath 3y ago
Without power users Reddit dies and something more useful will take its place eventually. The internet is still full of possibilities. There will always be a place for geeks to go and share.
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by taurath 3y ago
> I don't think these orgs really care much about third-party clients other than a nuisance consuming some fraction of their userbase. Is it not the fraction that uses and posts on reddit the most though? The first party mobile apps
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by taurath 3y ago
Because the squeeze is happening, and the only winners are the executives and investors. Everyone who works a labor job, even in software, see's that the idea of a steady job is being destroyed by management at companies. It is churn t
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by taurath 3y ago
This works unless you can't find a large enough group of people that share your goals, values, etc. Those are the people that end up staying in cities regardless, and there are plenty of active communities for those folks.
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by taurath 3y ago
The Psychology Industry takes good basic ideas from individual work and builds out Programs and Apps and Do's and Don'ts for mass audiences. Because it gets more clicks it connects with the self-critical parts of us that tell us w
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by taurath 3y ago
There's no guarantee of resolution, we can just as easily go even deeper into a capitalist-feudal state. The truth is we have enough resources to solve all these problems, and mitigate all this suffering and yet we don't, and the
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by taurath 3y ago
> Tech skills and tech jobs are now seen as a status symbol Its about $$$, there's been a ton of disillusionment about all the companies especially unicorns who've taken billions in investment and still have yet to prove that t
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by taurath 3y ago
> If you really want to fight something fight companies that send jobs and dollars to the same people who don’t live in the US. There is no way to "fight" corporate power structures though outside of unionization, the barons an
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by taurath 3y ago
Executives don’t lose. They get paid when the company is doing poorly and they have to make “hard decisions” to do layoffs. They get paid when the company is doing well. The most downright destructive executives I’ve ever worked under are s
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by taurath 3y ago
If inflation on what you spend your money on is 10%, then yes. The price for eating out has increased 15% in a single year. Its not hyperbole. Also this assumes someone who's able to afford a mortgage
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by taurath 3y ago
Give it 10 years and we'll have actual walkouts for a company that slashes worker pay in the face of huge inflation, unaffordable housing, and record profits. The older generations that still drink the company koolaid are holding back
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by taurath 3y ago
Its not hard to beat microsoft packages, they've been under market rate for a while
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by taurath 4y ago
The other part of it is - there is no hope of things changing any time soon. There is no generational change happening, the old people are still in charge and will be for a long time. Until they start to actually go away nothing will change
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by taurath 4y ago
Content platforms are inevitably reduced in value by monetization
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by taurath 4y ago
> "reborn/reincarnated/transported to another world as a _____" has matured and gotten popular to the point of being its own genre with associated tropes, rather than just being a trope that would sometimes appear in
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by taurath 4y ago
Supermarkets in my area have a near monopoly and don’t meaningfully compete anymore - they can charge whatever people will pay. It’s all owned by Kroger and the nearest non Kroger supermarket is a dozen miles away.
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by taurath 4y ago
Does anyone else feel like they won't have a job for very long?
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by taurath 4y ago
Comparison kills. Humans are not supposed to be competing with other humans for attractiveness across the entire planet. Putting numbers on things has warped the value that we give to people. Will also note that the views of the author and
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by taurath 4y ago
Can we also end cargo cult interviews
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by taurath 4y ago
I remember being a teenager. I was stressed all the time because EVERY decision I made had a consequence and I wouldn't feel that consequence sometimes for a very long time and had no scope or scale of how much any mistake would fuck m
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by taurath 4y ago
Do you have any examples of well trafficked sites with good UIs doing things well? It would seem that there might be outliers you might be able to point to
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by taurath 4y ago
The landscape for non SPAs don’t look great either - Amazon and other e-commerce sites come to mind. It’d be nice to show some examples of who’s doing things well while also being complex, and having a nice UI.

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