throwaway49274
Re:APIs for content sites must be free
on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @04:03PM (#36331768)
Please explain to me where Reddit is no longer free for Joe Consumer?
It's the subreddit mods who are making the data inaccessible to you, NOT Reddit.
Re:Roblox: Ten-year-old spent £2.5k of mum's money without her knowing
on Monday May 22, 2023 @11:24AM (#36032638)
So, a child stole and it's the business's fault?
Re:Blink-182 Tickets Are So Expensive Because Ticketmaster Is a Disast...
on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:05PM (#33290415)
And the REAL real problem is that the market will bare a lot. I once sold tickets for a Die Antwoord concert I couldn't attend due to illness. I advertised the tickets on Craigslist for $100 for both, the retail cost being $50 each.
But when I arrived at the venue to sell the tickets, the buyer put $200 in front of my face assuming I had meant $100 EACH. My greed got to me and I took the money.
My conclusion was, ticket buying is not rational, and the ticket market is extremely liquid, so without tying tickets to an identity like airline tickets there isn't a good solution.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work
on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:38PM (#29970055)
The study aside, it would reduce MY willingness to work and I have to imagine there are a lot of people, working a lot shittier jobs, out there who feel the same. In the end, the jobs still need to be done, so wages will need to go up, and the cost of the thing these jobs produce will go up, and then, inflation. Isn't that obvious?
Re:Carbon removal hype is becoming a dangerous distraction
on Thursday July 08, 2021 @09:09AM (#27771450)
I don’t understand why the intellectual narrative is “CO2 reduction at ANY cost… as long as we’re not wasting money on those expensive nuclear power plants”
Re:Closing the world's schools caused children great harm
on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:49AM (#27632273)
My kid is <6 and goes to a private daycare run by a publicly traded company in partnership with my wife's employer, a large biotech.
They figured out PPE and distancing protocols about six weeks after initial shutdown and all kids were back in class. To our knowledge, there were no known covid outbreaks (all parents and staff are emailed when a staff or student is diagnosed).
Capitalism wins again.