One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment

Re:One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment by lostgame on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:18AM (#21584091)

If I could pay somehow on a per-article basis, for the articles I stumbled upon - I would. I don’t regularly read NYT and would have no use for a monthly subscription as HN is the only place I see (unfortunately) regularly posting from NYT.

What we need is some kind of universal pass for articles that you pay a monthly fee for, and then as you read the articles from the sites it supports, it pays that publisher.

Additionally, the poster asked for a workaround - not to be lambasted for their choice to do so. :)

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Re:One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:07AM (#21584505)

Dutch startup Blendle tried to do this, working with national newspapers to sell articles on a per-article basis. NY Times was one of their investors.

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Re:One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment by Aloha on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:40AM (#21585433)

https://launch.blendle.com

They still are doing it - the issue of course is blendle wants me to be the portal from which I read all my news - and I want to read it from wherever, my account bring debited when I read a blendled page.

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Re:One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment by lostgame on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @12:33PM (#21586133)

>> the issue of course is blendle wants me to be the portal from which I read all my news

Bahaha, yeah, no. That’s not what I’m talking about.

Imagine we could also pay a generic monthly fee for e.g. access to Netflix, Disney+, etc, and the profits go to the services we are watching at the time.

All this celebration of Disney+ is honestly sad af, and shows just how out of touch people are.

We are in days worse than cable television, except that it’s on demand.

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Re:One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment by Aloha on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:10PM (#21586573)

I want the digital equivalent of a coin slot I insert money into when I'm on the nyt's website I can insert money into to read.

I think we want the same thing.

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Re:One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment by SuoDuanDao on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:21AM (#21584108)

Brave Browser is an attempt at something similar.

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Re:One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment by rb808 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:50AM (#21584365)

If you create an account you get 5 free articles a month so that should suit you fine.

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Re:One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment by ISL on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:58AM (#21584422)

I'd do it (and indeed have done it, but don't use the account), if I didn't have to be tracked in order to read....

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Re:One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment by lostgame on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @12:29PM (#21586073)

Yup. This. No, I don’t need yet another company having my info - I’m demanded to sign up on a brand new computer I just set up - I don’t even get a free article anymore.

Tested it on a VPN to make sure, even.

I think ‘quality journalism’ can do without stopping to this level.

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Re:One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:26AM (#21584708)

Like Brave?

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Re:One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment by corebit on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:20AM (#21584105)

Sounds like Brave's BAT!

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