> Find another health app/service with more preferable terms if you don't like it It never ceases to amaze me how many people defend the Darth Vader style of buying a product: "I am altering the deal; pray I don't alter…
Adobe and everyone else. Many of those complaints resonated with me outside of Photoshop But as I've said in the past, I think there is a relationship between subscriptions and quality: with a subscription model,…
Related: https://newjimcrow.com/about/excerpt-from-the-introduction "Jarvious Cotton cannot vote. Like his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather, he has been denied the right to participate…
None of the ways of dying in wars sound particularly appealing to me; instant disintegration doesn't sound like the worst of them If we're going to move the goalposts, why don't we just move them to the logical endpoint…
Almost like a Prince Rupert's drop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert's_drop)
Let's also not forget how much fresh water has been ruined with fracking "Nuclear fission: the worst energy source, except for almost all the other ones"
I don't know how to fix the social contract that "the things you buy should work and not be rug-pulled" but I certainly refuse to normalize the idea that "the issue here" lies with the author and not Verizon
So you blame the victim and also admit you haven't explored the author's use case. Very helpful
This is great. I'd begun to conclude the pendulum swung too far towards "moneyball" and both approaches have trade-offs, but this is perfectly succinct
Can you at least explain the reasoning then?
Yeah, but do all those people get residuals? When you buy a real copy, who gets money from that?
Related point: try legally playing 4k content* on your PC * obviously I mean movies/TV/etc. and the like where you have to pay money (as in the article)
Or launch atop an unprotected flat slab of concrete
Maybe multiple things can be true Like when doctors insisted they didn't need to wash their hands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis#Conflict_with...) or "science advances one funeral at a time"…
Related reading (Exploration–exploitation dilemma): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration%E2%80%93exploitati...
Can you link to the source?
Peter Principle strikes again!
I don't follow the logic - because incompetent people are running the show, some other group of incompetent people can't be running the show?
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> Your shallow morals are disgusting Something sure seems to have touched a nerve. Maybe next time count to 10 first?
> Ya god forbid people want to have careers at leading tech companies so they can have a more abundant life built by their skillsets and discipline This seems like a fancily dressed up "fuck you, got mine"
Isn't there a drinking age?
Maybe look into game theory a bit
> Every nation that was a heart of an empire still has lingering class issues What nation on Earth doesn't have class issues?
I've never met a "privacy is irrelevant" advocate that doesn't close the door when they go to the toilet
> Find another health app/service with more preferable terms if you don't like it It never ceases to amaze me how many people defend the Darth Vader style of buying a product: "I am altering the deal; pray I don't alter…
Adobe and everyone else. Many of those complaints resonated with me outside of Photoshop But as I've said in the past, I think there is a relationship between subscriptions and quality: with a subscription model,…
Related: https://newjimcrow.com/about/excerpt-from-the-introduction "Jarvious Cotton cannot vote. Like his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather, he has been denied the right to participate…
None of the ways of dying in wars sound particularly appealing to me; instant disintegration doesn't sound like the worst of them If we're going to move the goalposts, why don't we just move them to the logical endpoint…
Almost like a Prince Rupert's drop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert's_drop)
Let's also not forget how much fresh water has been ruined with fracking "Nuclear fission: the worst energy source, except for almost all the other ones"
I don't know how to fix the social contract that "the things you buy should work and not be rug-pulled" but I certainly refuse to normalize the idea that "the issue here" lies with the author and not Verizon
So you blame the victim and also admit you haven't explored the author's use case. Very helpful
This is great. I'd begun to conclude the pendulum swung too far towards "moneyball" and both approaches have trade-offs, but this is perfectly succinct
Can you at least explain the reasoning then?
Yeah, but do all those people get residuals? When you buy a real copy, who gets money from that?
Related point: try legally playing 4k content* on your PC * obviously I mean movies/TV/etc. and the like where you have to pay money (as in the article)
Or launch atop an unprotected flat slab of concrete
Maybe multiple things can be true Like when doctors insisted they didn't need to wash their hands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis#Conflict_with...) or "science advances one funeral at a time"…
Related reading (Exploration–exploitation dilemma): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration%E2%80%93exploitati...
Can you link to the source?
Peter Principle strikes again!
I don't follow the logic - because incompetent people are running the show, some other group of incompetent people can't be running the show?
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> Your shallow morals are disgusting Something sure seems to have touched a nerve. Maybe next time count to 10 first?
> Ya god forbid people want to have careers at leading tech companies so they can have a more abundant life built by their skillsets and discipline This seems like a fancily dressed up "fuck you, got mine"
Isn't there a drinking age?
Maybe look into game theory a bit
> Every nation that was a heart of an empire still has lingering class issues What nation on Earth doesn't have class issues?
I've never met a "privacy is irrelevant" advocate that doesn't close the door when they go to the toilet