paublyrne

I believe that there are many in between the two extremes you mention for whom the draw of connection is far from benign, which is why I would not be so dismissive of addiction concerns.

> Why would anyone want to spend time trawling obscure library database systems only to find the library doesn't stock the right books or that someone has taken it on loan for an unknown period of time ?

You're setting up a bit of strawman, I don't see anyone arguing the internet is inferior to the library, but that library usage (for example) doesn't trigger the dopamine release cycle in the way refreshing a frequently changing webpage does.

If it's already not allowed to use data in this way - thus the fine - what purpose would allowing and revoking the right to do so serve. It's already prohibited.

I'm in a train station in Berlin right now and every billboard is Apple.

> Citation needed?

Op is making a bet not a claim.

I don't see how it's so traumatic for the engineers involved, unless the company culture in Fastly is really awful and there are punitive repercussions, or attempts to pin responsbility on individuals rather than systems, which I doubt.

Many here have been responsible for web service outages albeit on much smaller scales, and in my experience it feels awful while it's happening but you quickly forget about it because so does everyone else.

> If it weren't for the value of the bundle I'd likely not care as much though.

Surely being paid to use Spotify would represent even better value.

> Is it for people that are exposing themselves to potential carriers in unsafe ways?

It's this largely. The most obvious group in the UK are MSM men. It has to be taken more or less all the time by people who expect they may have encounters in which they could potentially be exposed, similar to the birth control pill.

We're too tired to get upset about things.

> It has produced poor people easily to be able to store their wealth something that they can both afford and isn't constantly being debased

I can't get excited about people too poor to have access to banking putting their money into something as severely volatile as crypto currency.

There is room for new financial companies supporting mobile banking and banking in the developing world, but I don't see why crypto needs to be involved.

I don't see why it couldn't be removed from a future release after a period of deprecation.

There is a lot more to making good quality recordings then having good equipment. There's arrangement, mic placement, room acoustic treatment, mixing and EQ, mastering.