Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way

Post by dzikimarian » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 11:28 AM UTC

xg15 wrote: post #164

dzikimarian wrote: post #163

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Well corporations tend to push their worldview on the employees. I remember guy from Google who decided to defend their device attestation, they planned to put into Chrome (likely they still plan). His whole reasoning line was: "obviously advertisers have right to be sure real eyeballs are seeing their ads, so Google doing just that with some regard for the users are actually good guys" (because they could rip us fro…

Amazed they actually argued with the interests of advertisers so openly and not something like "well it could help crack down on insecure or hacked devices" or something like that. And yeah, there seems to be a baseline assumption in big tech companies that it's no problem if they get unlimited control and surveillance abilities, because they're the good guys and would never abuse their privileges...

I think it's because it was just engineer responsible for the thing, not someone pr-trained. Hopefully it was sobering experience for him.

Post by budman1 » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 3:36 PM UTC

brookst wrote: post #134

xg15 wrote: post #133

> "Therefore, this was done so that people would always need to buy more light bulbs." This is wrong, but it's the type of wrong that cites its sources and hides in the part you'd never think to fact check Just as a general point: I haven't seen a product decision that wasn't sold with some official explanation why it's "really for the good of everyone". Google's Manifest v3 was about reducing performance bottlenecks…

The macro point is that complex systems are complex and have competing priorities, so it’s facile to say “I don’t agree with the decision, therefore any reasoning that supported the decision must be 100% intentional malicious bullshit.” I’m old, I’ve had a varied career, I’ve been in small group meetings in startups and VCs and megacorps. I have never once heard the kind of “obviously this is an evil decision, but he…

I think every company does what they think will make the execs the most money.

Look at how many companies complied with the 'trump shakedown'.

Ethics are great, until it messes with the bottom line.

It only takes a little thought to come up with a reason why it is really 'the right thing to do, for the customers'. (customers need a good AI. so, in order to support that need, we are going to re-align our staffing to free up some cash. For the customers, of course)

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