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The ad-based internet is dying, and it's getting worse in the process [video]
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#845Earlier quoted context omitted.
as an user, xenoforo seemed fine? But then I never had to deal with the admin side of things
Xenoforo is OK, but it has the same problems of any other forum: - Time-based comment and post ordering means you're reading a lot of spam like "bump" and "first" - If there is more than one conversation in a thread, they don't flow as well as they do in a hierarchy format like on HN/Reddit - Because of user profile pictures, comments take up a lot of space and you can only see 3-4 comments on one screen - Not very m…
bump/first style comments are more a problem of moderation/community culture (personaly, on the 3 forum-based communities I've been part of, I've never met this issue)
I agree with the other issues
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I keep asking this because I don’t understand - how is Elon “killing” twitter? I’ve frankly not seen any difference, at all. If anything there’s slightly more activity
Driving away lucrative advertising, replacing with much less sustainable premium subscriptions. Then there's cutting the moderation and safety teams to the bone.
Why does a social media site need to enforce "safety?" What is "safety" anyway?
It's not "opinions I disagree with," I hope. Because labeling that "unsafe" is a new level of Orwellian.
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> Tons of products are made with byproducts from the refining process Fun fact: Gasoline only became the fuel for cars because it was a refinery byproduct that had no real economic value, and so was very cheap. Before that, cars ran on alcohol or electricity, but oil refining was still a pretty large business anyway. If we stopped fueling cars with gas, refineries would still operate to provide all of the other produ…
Having worked for the upstream research arm of a major US oil company, I can confidently say this is no longer the case regardless of what the industry may have looked like when Esso was still a business. Modern oil companies are extremely proud of the additional revenue streams they have invested to consume oil byproducts. The most disgusting of which, in my opinion, was the humble bragging that Hershey's chocolate…
I wasn't claiming that there wouldn't be a large economic upset. There obviously would. I was only claiming that oil refining would remain as an industry. Probably a much smaller industry.
But all of that would only be for the good.
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I don’t think Ayn Rand gave up on humanity at all. Just the worthless nonsense and the people endlessly consume it.
Aynd Rand criticized the welfare state and then went on welfare. She was a complete fraud.
I think that actually makes total sense in the context of her philosophy. Her objection to welfare comes from the "non-aggression principle," e.g. that she felt it was immoral to use any type of force, violence, or aggression to make other people participate in something they don't agree with. To her, any type of taxes backed by legal penalties was "aggression."
In her view, it would actually be helping right the wrong to accept welfare, especially if you had ever had to pay taxes in the past against your will.
To be clear, I am not trying to argue for, or convince you of her position, but to argue that I believe she faithfully lived by the principles she espoused. In fact, I think much of the problems in her personal life make a pretty strong argument against her philosophy.
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Infuriatingly, Hulu sometimes shows ads even with their more expensive "No Ads" plans: https://help.hulu.com/s/article/ads-no-commercials
>Due to streaming rights, a few shows in the Hulu streaming library will include a short ad break before and after each episode for Hulu (No Ads) subscribers. Man, that is aggravating. Blaming it on "streaming rights" as well, what a crock!
Considering how odd it is and how few shows out of their catalog I'm sure it is an issue with streaming rights with a few shows.
A few shows probably tied payments to the associated ad revenue and they wanted to ensure that didn't go to 0 with ad free streaming.
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A problem with many paid services is that they still have ads. Was watching something with my wife the other day (I think it was on HBO streaming) and there were ads? I'm like "hang on we're paying for this, and still have to watch ads?"
Infuriatingly, Hulu sometimes shows ads even with their more expensive "No Ads" plans: https://help.hulu.com/s/article/ads-no-commercials
On a single show out of 2500+, Grey's Anatomy, because their license to that show predates the "no ads" offering.
This should not infuriate anyone.