Are you suggesting the market for omg.lol URLs intersects with the people who like to buy burnt coffee?

I only find it curious that there is just no limit to how cheap people on hackernews can be, despite being supposedly higher income earners.

Even if it was $10/year, people would still cry foul.

I don't think pointing out "this is a web directory full of links submitted by people willing to spend $20/yr" is being cheap, per se, the same way I don't think paying to be "verified" on Twitter means your content is worth paying attention to

There was a time where "willing to pay for access" was a decent spam control mechanism, but that was long ago

Agree. Recently I’ve noticed the complaints with paying for Kagi search [0]. HN loves to moan about how bad Google is but paying $10 ($5 if you want a tiny plan) is apparently too much for something as critical as search?

As you say, those coffees seem to keep on selling…

[0] https://kagi.com/pricing

Everyone wants a Starbucks coffee per month from you. Even if you're on FAANG compensation, there's a finite number of coffees you can afford to pay for.

If you’re on FANG compensation, and you earn roughly $200k after taxes in one year, and you spent it all of it on Starbucks coffee, you could buy roughly a century worth of coffee if you drink one a day.

If on the other hand, you spent the $200k on leasing an omg.lol domain in perpetuity, you could hold the domain for 10 millenniums.

If we were in the Dune universe, that means your omg.lol domain would expire roughly around the same time as the Butlerian Jihad starts and the thinking machines are overthrown.

Better yet people will still buy coffee they can't afford and complain about how they can't afford coffee.

FWIW I'm a happy paying customer of Kagi search for quite a while. I am very much not opposed to paying for things _if paying = value_

This :D

X is just one cappuccino, Y is just 3.5 bagels, Z costs not more than a pint, A costs almost as much as a nice meal … and so on. God's sake! :)