That's what happens when you only fix the p1 and p2 bugs and let the other ones sit in your bug tracker forever. Eventually the "little annoyances" grow up and are overwhelming.
If you have good useful hardware you will survive and beat the big tech companies
You can also say that with Kickstarter and 3D printing, it's never been easier to sell niche hardware. There are so many more types of hardware available now compared to 20 years ago.
Because software teams only fix critical and important bugs. They have tons of bugs left in their bug tracker, and some of them happen to be security bugs.
Now if Facebook offered an optional $5 per month subscription that gets you ad-free, no-tracking access, some people might do that. But even that would only work if it were optional, because the value of Facebook comes from nearly everyone you communicate with being willing to pay whatever the cost is to access it, and if that cost is too high, the value plummets.
I think we need to make it easy for people to host their own websites and content. The way the internet was originally intended. Friending someone means "subscribe to their RSS feed."
Either you don't know how to use the internet, or you don't know how to tell a reliable source from an unreliable source. Hint: If it's an opinion, it's an unreliable source.
The problem with natural fertilizer is that it can (and does) make people sick. If you have doubts on this, the internet is available to clear your doubts.
When was the last time a consumer got sick from glyphosate in their food? Because people get sick from organic fertilizer all the time. The famous example is Chipotle.
Natural fertilizer tends to be more poisonous than glyphosate. The glyphosate breaks up in the natural environment, but the natural fertilizer too often remains around.
You can cite the problems of Patron all you want, and I will counter with a single point: in the real world, it is actually managing to fund sites without relying ads. Now, it may not work for all use cases, but it's better than advertising.
"if productivity increased immensely since 1970s, yet real wages have decreased, where has all that value gone to?".
Mainly to pay for increasingly expensive healthcare plans (quality of healthcare has increased dramatically, too), and people taking more and more days off. Total compensation per hour (including things like healthcare) has increased immensely since the 1970s.
Patreon is really the latest attempt at that sort of thing, and for a large number of use websites it's turning out to be successful.
The internet would be a better place without ads. Fake news would mostly disappear, along with a lot of other worse-than-useless sites, only designed to get page views.
Slashdot Mirror
That's what happens when you only fix the p1 and p2 bugs and let the other ones sit in your bug tracker forever. Eventually the "little annoyances" grow up and are overwhelming.
Intel has been outsourcing since the 70s.
There is no practical need.
Their rocket program is largely funded for military reasons.
Because you never tried.
If we want something that can provide the value (to the user) that FB provides, it must be packaged in an equally accessible format.
I think this can be done in an open way.
If you have good useful hardware you will survive and beat the big tech companies
You can also say that with Kickstarter and 3D printing, it's never been easier to sell niche hardware. There are so many more types of hardware available now compared to 20 years ago.
Because software teams only fix critical and important bugs. They have tons of bugs left in their bug tracker, and some of them happen to be security bugs.
Bitcoin isn't convenient. But there isn't going to be a convenient solution when payment processors decide not to serve you.
They'll force bad products on us? What I shame. I don't know how I'll endure the burden. Bad products oh no.
Now if Facebook offered an optional $5 per month subscription that gets you ad-free, no-tracking access, some people might do that. But even that would only work if it were optional, because the value of Facebook comes from nearly everyone you communicate with being willing to pay whatever the cost is to access it, and if that cost is too high, the value plummets.
I think we need to make it easy for people to host their own websites and content. The way the internet was originally intended. Friending someone means "subscribe to their RSS feed."
Either you don't know how to use the internet, or you don't know how to tell a reliable source from an unreliable source. Hint: If it's an opinion, it's an unreliable source.
Yeah. The only way around that is with bitcoin, which is what Wikileaks did.
The problem with natural fertilizer is that it can (and does) make people sick. If you have doubts on this, the internet is available to clear your doubts.
Yeah. Without advertising the Internet would be a better place.
When was the last time a consumer got sick from glyphosate in their food? Because people get sick from organic fertilizer all the time. The famous example is Chipotle.
Natural fertilizer tends to be more poisonous than glyphosate. The glyphosate breaks up in the natural environment, but the natural fertilizer too often remains around.
So add an extension. Problem solved. Not everything needs to be (or should be) in the core.
I'm afraid that the "fraud will be forced out of the market by competition" optimism is one of the notable errors of Libertarian politics.
Who said that? I said that companies who fall for fraud will go out of business. Learn to read.
You can cite the problems of Patron all you want, and I will counter with a single point: in the real world, it is actually managing to fund sites without relying ads. Now, it may not work for all use cases, but it's better than advertising.
"if productivity increased immensely since 1970s, yet real wages have decreased, where has all that value gone to?".
Mainly to pay for increasingly expensive healthcare plans (quality of healthcare has increased dramatically, too), and people taking more and more days off. Total compensation per hour (including things like healthcare) has increased immensely since the 1970s.
Imagine how different Google would be right now as a corporation if they had been funded by Patreon instead of ads.
So what happens when companies market their products, or politicians make policy decisions, based on that contaminated information?
The companies who make decisions based on bad data will be more likely to fail. As for politicians.....can they really be worse than now?
Patreon is really the latest attempt at that sort of thing, and for a large number of use websites it's turning out to be successful.
The internet would be a better place without ads. Fake news would mostly disappear, along with a lot of other worse-than-useless sites, only designed to get page views.
A small little browser with out all the crud.
Yeah, I don't like CSS, either. Oh, wait!
Is your goal to get people to treat your property well, or to get good reviews? It depends on how the system is set up.