That seems infinitely better than the status quo. Having unnecessary procedures is much worse. With the former you can go to another doctor, with the latter they'll just run up your bill until you're broke or dead unless you're one of the exceedingly rare few who gets medical advice from multiple doctors (most can't afford that or do not have alternative in-network doctors).
Hacker News, where hackers beg a trillion dollar company to keep not allowing them to create apps on their own hardware without having to go through a bureaucratic process of uploading it to a store. You know, as hackers do.
I agree and I think the damage to humanity that the anti-nuclear movement has done is incalculable. So many years of progress have been missed out on... and while some of it was due to greed (fossil fuel industry funding), most of it was just misplaced fear, whether propaganda induced or from an inability to see the full picture.
The anti-nuclear movement is also still alive and doing well
but at this point it's like arguing over spilled milk, the damage is mostly done and a lot of is irreversible. We can try to salvage nuclear but we've already regressed to further impure sources in some countries so progress seems unlikely.
I wish more people knew about fraud protection and how not to trigger it. If you want to pay in an unusual way, ask support if it's allowed or causes issues.
If you just try and imitate the average customer you will almost always be on the happy path, but ordering multiple books with multiple cards in a short period... I think that would trigger any decent fraud protection and not just at Amazon scale.
For most services (I'd assume even Amazon) they likely wouldn't be able to tell you what would trip their fraud detection. Most of the time fraud detection happens at the payment processor or issuing bank level, and even if it is detected directly by the service, usually the support department doesn't have much access to the fraud department, and fraud departments are usually very protective around details of how they detect fraud.
To be fair, it seems like their only option was to look like someone running stolen credit card numbers, due to how two systems outside their control worked—the work payment system that issued one card number per transaction; Amazon not letting you buy more than one ebook at a time.
I tried looking for something like this but ended up doing over a month of sales calls and meetings.
One problem is probably that a lot of companies pull enterprise pricing out of their ass (or there's too many confounding factors that make it look like that), and the other big problem was already mentioned, they're trying to maximize your spending.
I've been using Ent for some time on a project and its been quite nice to just be able to write the schema in Go, testing has been a breeze with the enttest package, hooks work well, and everything feels intuitive to me unlike most other ORMs or ORM-adjacent tools.
My preferred package before Ent was Squirrel [1] but I definitely plan to use Ent for future projects.
There is no doubt in my mind that lesser privileged kids get bullied when they get invited to an iPhone texting group and they instantly break all functionality with cheaper Android phones. Apple downplaying teenage (hell even younger now) bullying for profit and people leaping to their defense is disheartening.
Speculatively tying your pet peeve to a serious social problem is an old and tired framing trick. That way if people disagree with your pet peeve, you can retort with “oh, I guess you don’t care about teen suicide?”
It’s obvious and it does little to advance your cause, while trivializing the actual serious problem.
Speculative tie-in? Google's claims are that Apple profits from peer pressure and bullying, I'm not sure but I would think that the people most bullied would be teens and then logically some would commit suicide because of it, I'm sure other bullying would be part of the bullying "package" if that appeases you.
It doesn't have to be RCS but Apple has made clear they don't want any interoperability, so that seems like bad faith.
> There is no doubt in my mind that lesser privileged kids get bullied when they get invited to an iPhone texting group and they instantly break all functionality with cheaper Android phones.
Sample size of one, but I asked my 13 y.o. daughter.
Me:
This guy believes kids get bullied for having Android phones
Daughter:
What guy
Me:
Random guy
As a kid, do people care about the blue vs green bubble thing?
Daughter:
No
Before I knew it happened when you texted an android i thought the green was special
lol
Another data point. I'm from Spain, and the ones who are bullied here are the iPhone users. Vast majority of people are Android users, and iPhone users are seen as snobs. That's among the adults. Nobody here would hand over an iPhone to a kid. It's not hugely expensive, but it's expensive enough.
You think so? It might be a tad dramatic but teens interface with the world through their phones and this purposeless "otherization" can not be having a good effect on society.
A trad dramatic? Ha, it's incredibly dramatic. If it isn't green bubbles, it will be the wrong hair color, the wrong video game tastes, liking the wrong instructor, a million other stupid things. The correct solution is to exacerbate differences within students to the point that cliques are difficult to create due to less in common, and absolutely not attempt to create increased conformity.
Increasing conformity only further increases the obviousness of people's differences, no matter how slight. An extreme example would be Japan, which was so homogenous that discrimination by Blood Type is a thing.
People getting around games ToS' will always be a thing - since Runescape is the example being used, it is expressly banned to both purchase and sell gold coins. This is not a problem exclusive to MMOs, it's a problem with any game with a leveling system, currency, or items that are tradable between players.
Examples: FIFA packs, Runescape/MMO gold, League of Legends accounts/boosts (names as well) , Valorant accounts/boosts, CS:GO items (names, accounts and boosts as well), Neopets items and gift boxes, Diablo 3 boosts/accounts, and on and on...
