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Re: Nobody cares

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Post by xigency »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #377
donatj wrote: post #328

I set up a weekly auto-buy for a stock about a year ago with Cashapp. I noticed the stock was way up today so I logged in to sell. Well, turns out the auto-buy has just... Not been firing... For a solid year. I have two purchases and then it stopped. It still says I have a weekly auto-buy set up, but I have not been charged. In a just society, I would be owed my potential winnings for these unprocessed purchases, but…

As HN loves to quote Hanlon's razor: > First, assume that they shares were purchased, but not correctly credited to your account. Second, confirm that with CashApp. (Doubt it -- but try that first.) Assuming CashApp is a US-based brokerage, I would first raise a complaint with CashApp. If you get the blow-off (which I fully expect), send a written letter to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and CC CashApp lega…

This is great advice I hope GP follows, but this also highlights something that I wish the original article addressed: not caring is contagious.

The reason corporate interests push a façade of not caring is so that many customers will also not care.

Between binding arbitration and other legalese-fu, the process for remediation slowly chips away at people who at first thought they cared.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by dspillett »

bruce511 wrote: post #400
Aeolun wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s nonsense. Some businesses exist purely to fund the ability to do exactly that thing as well as possible. Making money is a means to an end. It’s just that they always seem to lose to those that optimize for money.

I think some small businesses start because the owner wants to do something well. Sometimes this aligns with some group of customers and it's sustainable. Most small businesses fail of course. Usually because while they do a task well, they're bad at the business part. Once you get large (McDonald's in the parent thread) the focus is necessarily on the business part. At that scale it's not "doing the thing as well as…

> Most small businesses fail of course. Usually because while they do a task well, they're bad at the business part.

Some small businesses fail because larger ones see their initial success and compete by making a slightly worse product a bit cheaper. Sometimes a significantly worse product. Once the superior but smaller competition is either out of business or has been forced to reduce their quality to try compete on price, the bigger business can either reduce the quality & price further (the big business will usually win in this sort of race-to-the-bottom because they can afford to take losses on individual products for a time, where a smaller business cannot) or bump their price up to improve margins.

It sometimes isn't that the small business is bad at the business part, but that they refuse to play dirty even if playing dirty is the only way to compete. It is easier to rationalise some tactics in a bigger company, because there is no one who has to look the customer in the eye who is also making product quality affecting decisions.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by kevincox »

lqet wrote: post #610
azeirah wrote: post #210

> The McDonald's touch-screen self-order kiosk takes 27 clicks to get a meal. They try to up-sell you 3 times. Just let me pay for my fucking burger, Jesus Christ. The product manager, the programmer, the executives. None of these people care. I was working in this space! And I got fired for refusing to work on more upsell features for clients like Coca Cola and such. I don't want to work on adding fucking ADS into c…

> That is fucked up. Yes. Our local IKEA recently started doing this. During self-checkout, you have to click through hot dog, ice cream, cinnamon buns and drink offers, and the inevitable offer to get an IKEA family card before you are actually able to pay for your furniture. Seeing this after waiting in line for 10 minutes, navigating a sluggish, unresponsive touch screen terminal and unsuccessfully trying to scan…

Last time I went it was only one food upsell. But it is still really annoying. Before this they had basically a perfect self-checkout, fast and easy to use. But now it is adding crap and I fear that I'm going to have to stop shopping there like many of the other self-checkouts around me.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by dspillett »

cbsks wrote: post #314
spc476 wrote: post #310

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I've found books that had ads inserted into them [1]. It seemed to be a thing from maybe the 1960/1970s. The ad page was a different type of paper, and no text from the book was on it (that is---the ad wasn't on one side and book text on the other). [1] One example: https://boston.conman.org/2002/12/31.1

My dad has some old sci-fi books with full color cigarette ads in the middle. Crazy!

Sometimes ads end up in the actual text, without the authors permission or even knowledge: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/q1wbie/the_time_te...

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by dspillett »

People are often not compensated enough to warrant the mental energy of caring more, or the effort or making those around them care.

Sometimes people did care, but they left because they didn't want to deal with the rest who didn't any more, and found better conditions elsewhere.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by giantg2 »

Rhe bike ramp thing is likely intentional. You don't want a bike doing 20mph on a sidewalk with pedestrians and the ramp forces bikes to slow down.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by dspillett »

barnabee wrote: post #581
whycome wrote: post #336

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So far, Kobos are the way better option in my opinion. No ads, and it's much easier to add your own books. It's (currently) a much more open system. But, not without fault. They've shut down some older readers for no good reason.

The Onyx Boox readers have a feature called BooxDrop which runs a web server on the device when you enable it that provides file management and upload. It simple, wireless, and works great. The readers work perfectly fine without an account and the Poke 5 I have is a fair bit smaller than the last Kindle I had with the same size screen. It runs Android and I also use Termux plus a bluetooth keyboard with it for a rat…

I've been tempted by their products in the past, but unless they've improved their stance on their use of GPL covered code in a non-compliant manner I don't want to support their business.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by presentation »

helboi4 wrote: post #586

I really do not care but that is because the economy has incentivised me to get into work I don't care about. It is completely unprofitable to do things I do care about. So I don't do them. So everything I do do, I don't care about. Of course, I would hope if I was a doctor or sth where I really affected people's lives, I would care just for their sake if nothing else. But I'm a developer. It's really not that deep.…

If everybody followed their hearts deepest passions, we’d all be starving.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by presentation »

ilaksh wrote: post #471
Dracophoenix wrote: post #298

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> I asked myself the same question when I saw exactly 1 homeless person in all of Tokyo Homelessness in Tokyo looks different than homelessness in a major US city. Often enough, it means freeters sleeping overnight in manga cafés. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_café_refugee

According to the article, living in an internet cafe can be as little as $420 per month. But where does someone who has no work that month get the $420? Does the government have a minimal support program?

lol that’s actually more expensive than a lot of small apartments in Tokyo.

That said there is no shortage of work in Tokyo. Far more work than the number of people available to do it.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by csomar »

lloeki wrote: post #529
a_e_k wrote: post #477

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The funny thing is, in my neck of Seattle (the city this post is complaining about), I've seen some of the harsh white LEDs that went in switched over to a warmer color. I remember being quite shocked when I pulled into a city-owned parking lot one night and realized that all of the lights around were all now a warmer color instead of the harsh white. The lights in my neighborhood also seem to have been switched over…

In my city they started turning off all streetlights at midnight outside of major driving lanes and active center areas. It's weird and somewhat unnerving at first but brilliant. I'd argue road-wise it is possibly even safer because headlights work so much better when it's pitch black by virtue of the human eye having so much dynamic range. Pedestrians can't miss cars as they're blasting light through the dark; cars…

> The experience is highly cognitively dissonant and counterintuitive.

Hitting the next homeless person and throwing them 10 meter in the space will be quite the experience.

Honestly, this is not shitty experience because of regulation, this is just councils cutting costs everywhere except their salaries. Los Angeles these last couple days has showed what it means to do that. You'll literally be on fire some day.

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