This is all clearly a consequence of not enough supply
Question for anyone that knows: how does it end? Will some landlords go bust and get bought by 1 or 2 mega corpos, and then rinse and repeat until it's a McDonald's/Burger King monopoly? Will all rentals be owned by a single entity? Are they already owned by one? I heard all these corps are ultimately owned by Blackrock
I am just trying to see what possibly even worse crisis will spawn from this crisis. Population levels are expected to decrease over the coming decades. Will that trigger a collapse in rents? Where will "greed" move to, what novel forms of collusion and exploitation will we suffer instead of it being all focused on rent and property?
Edit: I just realised that the shift may already be happening in the form of other basic necessity industries colluding: utilities, car insurance, "public" transport, food
Theft is theft, don't matter if it's irl or online. As a developer who periodically witnesses users spending hours trying to circumvent 1 dollar payments I think that the time has come for the piracy culture to end. And I used to do piracy too
Copyright infringement is not theft -- false comparison.
Also, have you considered how likely the people who are trying to get around your payment would be to pay up if they didn't find a way? If what you say about how long they try is true, I'd say the chance is extremely close to 0%.
That's the dirty secret of the anti-piracy campaigns of rightsholders. The "lost sales" narrative is a load of made-up horseradish, and they know it.
Am I wrong in thinking that this is very bad? What are the chances 0.0001% of people downloading your app won't try to come and murder you in your sleep? And considering the meager pay devs can gain from selling on app stores, how are we supposed to afford the high fence and guard dogs required to prevent attacks?
That's another £30/month where I live (cheapest option). I get that they (the gov't) want to know where we live, but surely people downloading an app have no business knowing this? Or is it either pay £30/month or risk being murdered in your sleep? Is this the result of the mailbox industry lobbying the EU or something? I am being sarcastic of course, just a bit upset tbh
If you don't have 30$ a month your not going to have a good time developing iOS apps. At a minimum you need to stay up to date with devices ( I'd argue upgrade every 2 years or so ).
I mean, this might down vote me even further. But I am from Spain. I can taste it. I use olive oil on pretty much everything. I never ever use any oil other than extra virgin olive oil. Even for frying
In fact, I can tell you that the 5 * oil sold in luxury bottles abroad is no better than the plain extra virgin. And that is where the fraud mostly exists (besides mixed oil in tk maxx). I have never been able to buy luxury oil outside of Spain. All the luxury bottles abroad contain normal oil. But I don't really care for luxury oil anyway. Normal extra virgin fulfills all my health and taste requirements
At the end of the day, if this misunderstood awareness of "fake oil" benefits my fellow countrymen and helps them develop supply chains of verified, expensive higher grade oils (which are a waste of money in my view but nevermind) then I guess these campaigns are very good. People in Spain extremely rarely will use anything other than plain extra virgin. It's like eating caviar. And farmers really struggle to get a fair price, especially when selling bulk to foreign buyers
Plenty of studies have been done by purchasing a large # of bottles from supermarkets and they've all shown half or more of olive oils are either fake or rancid.
I have accounts on both. In 2018, I would visit Ancestry 80% and MyH 20%. MyH was good for post-1940 records.
Now it's ~99% A & 1% MyH. I try MyH when I can't find something on Ancestry - generally w/o luck. Most of my MyH hits are profiles from FamilySearch (probably ones that I made).
While we are on this subject, I am curious to know what people with hiring knowledge think of seeing side project mentions on cvs
I am tempted to completely not mention them in mine, even though I have hundreds of thousands of users
Why? Because they distract from the "clean track record" of working for big corp, and perhaps the hiring manager will think less of me because of them ("not devoted to big corp enough"). Worse, they might think I will quit my job as soon as I am able to make a living from them, which isn't true but not entirely false either
Startup CTO here, so can't talk about corporate hiring politics. But for me, side projects show that the interviewee actually gives a crap about coding and they demonstrate, that they can finish a project. They're less likely to be lazy codemonkeys and more likely passionate people that care about the project, have an understanding of the processes and why we sometimes choose business over tech.
Just a thought: if someone (like myself!) has a long list of repos of unfinished projects, this could an accrued realization that one has no time to do side projects; they have to choose business (as in having a life outside of coding) over tech. :D
And that's totally fine! It's not a hard criteria, I just love to see the style of code, how people organize themselves and stuff like that. It's actually a very good reason!
People aren't scared of STDs like they used to be. Even HIV isn't considered scary any more. Couple that with how good birth control is and easy access to abortions and you find unprotected sex is the norm now. For high levels of STDs you don't need people to be having a lot of sex; it only takes one time to catch something. So promiscuity and low condom use would account for it.
Ha! My anti-SEO search engine detected all the SEO junk when searching for "best air purifier for pet hair" that would otherwise show up in Google as per the article
Feel free to give it a try, one search per day is free
> This high-end purifier uses PECO technology to destroy airborne pollutants, including pet hair,
> dander, and viruses. It's also effective at removing odors and VOCs. While it's one of the most
> expensive options on the list, it's a good choice for those with severe allergies or asthma.
This brand was specifically called out by the main article for being overpriced junk by a company currently in a lawsuit regarding false advertising.
That's terrible! Yes, I can see one of the (general) summaries yielded that result. The SEO results were still thankfully down ranked. This Molekule manufacturer that went bankrupt has bankrupted my fun :'(
It's become bad to the point an indie dev can't even post to get feedback even when the thing he's poured his blood into completely matches the forum's topic. Extra minus points if he offers it for free (so suspicious!)
You are now expected to develop in the dark, without ever mentioning anywhere the thing you are working on and fully knowing that your "blog" gets completely ignored by Google
I personally refuse to host my blog on a "trusted" domain. I likewise refuse to use Twitter, Youtube, Tiktok, and whatever else works nowadays because search engines can't be arsed to tell the difference between legitimate content and spam AND because people's attention span have become smaller than a tadpole's
This is a sore point for me personally. That's why I went through the effort of creating my own personal search engine that filters out all this SEO spam and made it public for others to use https://www.aisearch.vip
I think he's referring to the justifications Steve Jobs gave to kill Flash. Apparently, it was because he really wanted a complete web standard that didn't revolve a particular framework. Apple then introduced the App Store and forgot all about its desire for (complete) web standards
So apple has killed both Flash and (useful) web standards and we are left with unnecessary, gate-keeping, expensive, price gauging App Stores. Hypocrisy at its finest. But at least it's got an Apple on it, so I guess it's fine
It used to be possible to "grow" stuff online. People made a living from developing Flash games (and websites). Aggregators competed and paid well for content. It's now all going to Apple's shareholders and Wall Street, and it's a complete waste of time to develop anything that needs publishing via the App Store. What a sad state of affairs
Question for anyone that knows: how does it end? Will some landlords go bust and get bought by 1 or 2 mega corpos, and then rinse and repeat until it's a McDonald's/Burger King monopoly? Will all rentals be owned by a single entity? Are they already owned by one? I heard all these corps are ultimately owned by Blackrock
I am just trying to see what possibly even worse crisis will spawn from this crisis. Population levels are expected to decrease over the coming decades. Will that trigger a collapse in rents? Where will "greed" move to, what novel forms of collusion and exploitation will we suffer instead of it being all focused on rent and property?
Edit: I just realised that the shift may already be happening in the form of other basic necessity industries colluding: utilities, car insurance, "public" transport, food