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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by joe_the_user on Monday October 10, 2022 @03:19PM (#33155393)
Sure but that's just more of an argument that an "everything app" hasn't succeeded even in China.
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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by numpad0 on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @05:31PM (#33169494)
Yeah, I’m thinking it’s more like “extreme scope creeps in private real-time text console sometimes works”.

Like there had been the famous PizzaTool in SVR4, countless hacks over modern history with IRC, server status reports with pagers, prepaid topups over SMS, or food deliveries and micropayments with WeChat, on and on. The common denominator of those isn’t China or Asia. Sorry I didn’t post it as a top level comment, maybe I should have.

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