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Comment · 5 months ago
I don't understand the reasoning, scanning a qt code provides a URL that the user may or may not visit. How is this an issue? I do agree that passkeys are problematic, though.
Comment · 1 year ago
I started putting nohello as my status message, but soon after I found nometa and replaced it with this.
Comment · 1 year ago
Or better yet, can we stop putting money into ai?
Comment · 2 years ago
Same, never found any glitch.
Comment · 3 years ago
A resident that works from home earns a salary that is calculated according to the economy where he resides, whereas a digital nomad, tipically chooses a destination with a lower cost of living, while earning a salary that was calculated for the economy of his original whereabouts. The digital nomad creates inflation and makes it impossible for locals to live on their own region, while someone who works from home does not have that ability to tip the economy.
Comment · 3 years ago
Tourism provides money to these local economies, true. But what airbnb, and digital nomads, did was to subvert these local economies to depend on the to survive, turning whole cities (some of which are world heritage sites) into amusement rides for tourists. Have you ever stopped to think what is life like for the locals who work in the resorts (to take your example), and can't afford to live nowhere near their workplace, having to commute for over an hour (in the best case scenarios) only to smile at tourists that become upset because they can't speak their language? It's lovely to say that businesses should pay locals a decent wage, but that very rarely happens, the "decent" is a very debatable number. And anyway, no one in the world needs your suburban US money, please keep it to yourself and your suburban US economy.
Comment · 3 years ago
You forget that the people who can afford to have a place to rent, usually are not the majority of the population of the place where the rental is located. I live in a city that was very welcoming to tourists before airbnb, and where locals are now starting to behave in a hostile way towards non-locals, due to the affordability crisis (myself included, I had a 70%+ rent increase this month). You can try to make yourself feel better by saying you're not the problem, but you are, and locals everywhere are starting to hate people like you. My advice, unsolicited as it might be, is to relocate yourself to near where you're working for, as it's the economy for which you are being paid, and continue building great software, but with the world (and not yourself) in mind.
Comment · 3 years ago
Baby formula is not expensive because of labor costs. It's expensive because of the same reason we exploit these people for cheap labor: capitalism.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm paying and I will cancel if this is forced upon me.
Comment · 3 years ago
Is it known how many of those new subscriptions were made only to take advantage of the free trial?

For the record, l will be cancelling my account as soon as I'm not allowed to share my password. I pay for it, I can share it with whoever I want. It's on Netflix to make people want to sign up, not force them.

Comment · 4 years ago
I see it more of the pain brought by the advent of remote work. I used to be in favor of it, but this turn of events changed my mind.
Comment · 4 years ago
I found a lot of new music in the early 2000s with last.fm, their suggestions algorithm was incredible, and I haven't found anything like it ever since, unfortunately.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Having lessons by a professional make a lot of difference. In Europe, not only France, we learn to drive with respect for the rules, and for our fellow drivers.

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