Do people raise kids in college dormitories?

Not to my knowledge. My point is that that is probably closer to what is needed for a lot of the dream cities than people acknowledge.

Granted, college dormitory is a hyperbolic. More realistic, will be your standard smaller apartment blocks.

Surely it has to be somewhat ideological given that adblockers exist? Have you seen your high paid engineer friends actually watching the ads?

I would rather pay a fee than watch ads, but as long as “do neither of those” is an option I’ll be picking that. If they remove that as an option I’ll either pay or not watch YouTube.

Probably not watch.

I pay for email, and was paying for search until something about the way kagi integrates with safari annoyed me. I’ve been paying more for a seedbox than Netflix costs for longer than Netflix has existed. That’s part for ad avoidance as in it initially replaced free to air tv but ad avoidance is just one factor in the best experience for my time and money trade off I’m trying to make. So i know I’m willing to both pay for things i can get ad supported from Google and also pay for a better media experience.

When it comes to that best experience for my time and money trade off though, even with money being set at zero, the vast majority of the YouTube i watch is already in the negative. Most things i watch on there, i regret the cost of just the time it took to watch the content before ads or money even gets in to it.

Which i think is a big part of the issue with ad supported internet going fee based. YouTube and so many ad supported sites and games are already just super low value and derive most of their consumption not from people making intentional lifestyle choices of “i want to be the kind of person who watches garbage all day while playing crap” but rather people making bad short term vs long term trade offs and falling in to holes of recommendations and fun looking thumbnails.

Paying for something leads to asking yourself “is this worth $x?” And i know that for at least myself $x is a large negative number. I’d pay more than the current cost of YouTube premium to definitely NOT be able to watch YouTube.

One of the biggest “services” expenses, i think maybe the biggest, comes in the form of employees.

Afaik the EU is regulated much more heavily in that area than the US, like here in Australia.

It makes sense to me that some amount of the US’ economic advantage comes from their ability to more efficiently match employees with the work currently demanded by the market.

I've never had a complaint about anything I put in to a form requesting a quote for insurance. I just get the quote back. Did you write that in the comment expecting an insurance salesperson to call you up and argue passwords with you? Call their back office and say "hey this guy says our password question is crap, get our best guys on it!"?

I just cant imagine any outcome other than it was translated to just a "no" and increased your premium over what it would have otherwise been.

I've also filled out insurance quote forms several times to see the interplay of the questions and price. Quite often many of the questions do not change the quote. So the existence of the question in a form does not imply a change in price, or any true guess at the magnitude of the change at all.

Going to let us burn because not doing so would be regressive.

I use the api because i don’t use chatgpt enough to justify the cost of their UI offering.

At least for me it’s more like “this guys career is still way better than mine so it’s hard to think of his situation as suffering”.

It's still hard. Maybe he or she has had better luck and opportunities than you, but that doesn't mean they don't suffer just as much when bad things happen.

We're all on this rock together, and either nobody's pain is worthy or everyone's is.

> We're all on this rock together, and either nobody's pain is worthy or everyone's is.

This overgeneralizes IMHO. While the pain of being laid off due to something other than your own actions is fine, there are certainly folks out there who cause a lot of pain to others and aren't worthy of universal sympathy when their own pain comes along.

> This overgeneralizes IMHO. While the pain of being laid off due to something other than your own actions is fine, there are certainly folks out there who cause a lot of pain to others and aren't worthy of universal sympathy when their own pain comes along.

Everyone thinks that when they're angry or upset with someone. Ultimately people are people, and everyone deserves sympathy when bad things happen to them. Note that i don't always accomplish this, but I certainly think it's worth trying.

Sorry, but I simply don't agree. You're overgeneralizing again with "everyone thinks..." but no, you will trivially find folks who believe that someone (as an example) who murders or facilitates the murder of innocent people does not deserve sympathy when they suffer the consequences of their actions.

It is not true that all rational people believe that all people deserve sympathy for all causes of suffering.

> all rational people

As soon as you find me one of these unicorns, I'll concede the point.

Like, ultimately you don't have to show compassion for other humans, but in general, life will be better for all of us if we all do.

What are you referring to by unicorn? I claimed that not all rational people believe such in all cases. There's trivially at least one such person in the world (as evidenced by this discussion).

If someone much richer and with a better career than me got punched in the face i would still see that as suffering. I don’t know why someone’s situation being better means they can’t be suffering

>while the old guard starts to use it as a notification board

It sounded to me like that’s been the intention since it was started. The in person meetings are the point and the whatsapp group exists to facilitate that.

Has something changed recently that all of your theoretical concerns are now in play when they weren't for the last 14 years?

Trade is a positive sum gain and Bitcoin makes it easier.

Which trade, specifically, is Bitcoin facilitating in practice?

Darknet marketplaces.

It's responsible for facilitating a ton of fantastic trips amongst myself and friends.

We had extra money. There were some people on the Netherlands with some extra lsd. We swapped using Bitcoin. Value was created.

I genuinely believe this is a valuable use of cryptocurrencies.

That said, I would wager enormous sums of money that on net, they have been dramatically negative. Once you factor in the vast quantities of energy wasted (even using up energy that would have otherwise gone to waste simply decreases the demand for batteries or competitiveness of other marginal-value uses) and all the funding of crime such as theft, fraud, hitmen, blackmail, money laundering, scams, and so on it’s very hard to see “I was able to get LSD” as compelling.

And I love LSD.

As an example it's much easier and cheaper to send money from a bank account in US into a bank account in another country when you use bitcoin as the rails for this. All of this can be done fully legally, using companies like Strike, Revolut, Relai or similar. If you ever tried doing international wire or even using Wise, you will definitely appreciate bitcoin.