DarylZero

>I once talked with a Firefox engineer who felt like an initial urge for openness left them with a lot of API surface area that locked them into a lot of design choices.

LOL, as if Firefox provided a stable API to extensions

We talking tumors in the state of metastatic solid?

Despots make sure the people who care are killed off (or at least marginalized, say in prison), leaving only people who don't.

It's not much like a shovel, as it's fundamentally a means of deception.

Deception only has legitimate purposes insofar as "the ends justify the means," and they never do in this instance.

They're both cyclical.

> a world where there are no products and everything is an advertising platform

Maybe the advertised products will all be opportunities to make money. Occasionally job listings, mostly crypto coins.

When you have 20 consecutive listings that all have the same first 80 characters, you don't even read those 80 characters.

But the listing only shows the part you don't read!

Sounds like you're talking about a one-time thing then rather than a sustainable practice. I think if you loiter in front of a gas station you will be rousted by police in much less than a week.

For Uber, it's the drivers who provide the capital!

I guess they're not allowed on Google Drive either.

Domains aren't free, they're limited.

>Why would a person make $14.50/hour when they could make $15/hour applying directly to places?

Yeah, the generally wouldn't, which is why you have to conclude that they don't have the option.

> maybe that negotiated difference leads to the profit slice

Of course.

DUI example is strange. There are blood alcohol tests, can't really avoid conviction if you fail the test. What's the explanation supposed to be for all the acquittals?

The way you say it, it's like you think that more and more acquittals is evidence of guilt, but that doesn't make any sense to me.

Repeated arrests would be no accident of chance, but those repeated acquittals would even call into question a conviction in the future. Something is going on to generate false accusations.

Prison populations skew toward violent crimes because the sentences for them are longer. They aren't representative of the number of convicts.

At least, the staffing agency can negotiate a better deal than you could find and secure for yourself.