I think a lot of them just want whatever community or information hub their sub represents to exist at all, but they know their userbase isn't actually committed enough to migrate to another site against the grain of network effects.
Models of cars that are easy to hotwire, for example, get stolen at a higher rate.
'Having a garage' is up to the consumer and often impractical and/or expensive. That's pretty different in various ways from a company having to follow some standards for implementing encryption.
Having your car broken into or stolen because it has a lock that is useless would suck. This seems like one of those times a basic consumer protection regulation would make the most sense.
I do like the idea of streamlining donations to open source projects directly through a package manager, and crypto seems like a good fit for that (decentralized, uncensorable). The issue here seems similar to knowing what charities are properly using funds; making a system to make decisions about how to spend money is hard when there's so many people looking to misdirect it to themselves, and the point of this would be to relieve the people who would be donating the money from putting effort into doing the research themselves, so that big problem has to be solved.
The browser had a built-in RSS button that would display in the browser location bar when any website you're on had an RSS feed available. Clicking the button would then take you to the RSS feed for that web page
How would this work? Do websites with rss feeds normally publish the url to that feed in some standard place? Are there any third party extensions that do it?
Yes, it's extremely powerful. For example I recently had an idea for a script to merge cbz files into a single document so I wouldn't have to clutter my ereader with many individual chapters. The LLM had almost no issue writing the whole thing with only one revision, spent less time and thought on that than I did googling around to see if there were existing solutions. It's really nice being able to create programs like that just on the high level concept and without mentally getting into the weeds of implementation details. If I wrote it myself I would have had to refresh my memory on stuff like regex and sorting syntax and it would have been way more time and effort. It basically lets me write custom scripts for any trivial problem where they could be useful where otherwise it might be too much trouble.
The historical snapshot is not worth that much because it is already available for free, there are torrents etc. The deal is iirc an ongoing payment for access, which will be relevant because AI trained on old data is always going to be stuck in the past.
They will be the only way to transact without being surveilled or without requiring the permission and approval of banks, payment providers, and governments. They will continue to displace banking systems in parts of the world where those are corrupt and do not have basic functionality. They will continue to enable people to do business and cooperate across borders. If we remain long enough without a unified world government, I believe the credible neutrality of cryptocurrency, which is higher than any fiat currency can have, will likely cause one of them to become the global reserve currency.
Market competition is fine, but corporations are specifically obligated to focus on profits over other considerations, and in this case that is inappropriate and creates perverse incentives. Consider people like in the OP who have cynically bought in (or are in some retirement fund that bought in on their behalf) and now their financial wellbeing depends on hospitals continuing to be allowed to extract significant money out of people. Are they going to vote for candidates pushing actually effective measures to reduce how much people pay for medical care, if that means the stock will go down? Probably not.
but it might cause some employees to quit who were making a lot more than that
Wouldn't this, in turn, create a competitive advantage for restaurants offering higher base wages (and including what used to be tips in menu prices to begin with)? Or, if they are too stubborn for that, and good employees are lost to the industry forever and quality declines, maybe people go to restaurants less. In general I don't like the food service business and go out of my way to avoid it altogether, but I think that paying into an exploitative thing like tips just because you and the worker have been put into that kind of manipulation isn't the right decision. That said a campaign to stop going to restaurants that do tipping seems like a good idea also.
Doubt that's going to be enough, I think if you want to make a sexually objectifying 90s magazine ad that appeals to female nerds you're going to have to break out the homoerotic innuendos
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I think a lot of them just want whatever community or information hub their sub represents to exist at all, but they know their userbase isn't actually committed enough to migrate to another site against the grain of network effects.