Classic. Instead of fixing the problems so there are no angry customers just make it so the angry customers can’t be heard. What could possibly go wrong.
I can't believe people are even having this conversation. As a civilization we solved this problem about a century ago. We know the solution. In the US labour law has been subverted and undermined. Thats the problem. It's not that nothing can be done about it. Lots can be done and has been done around the globe (but predominately in advanced economies, of which the US is one).
Propaganda is political, promoting your company is marketing. Besides, this seems to be more extreme in it's lack of fairness/ journalistic merit. It seems to be just like I said, weird propaganda, not really even masquerading as news. It looks auto generated, like a bot farm created a web site and got it on hacker news for the clicks.
This seems to be just weird propaganda from some intelligence company/person. How is this allowed on hacker news? This forum is fairly closely moderated, is it only articles critical of YC that get removed?
In fairness coffee is an amazingly cheap hobby compared to others. The difference between high end and low end in coffee (lets say 1 percentile to 98 percentile) is probably only about 5X. i.e. the worst coffee you'll buy is probably $6/ lb and the most expensive is approx $34/lb. So you can go hog wild for $34 per week or 2 weeks...
I own a coffee roasting company and I 100% agree with you. This is pretty trivial to test (even a blind test would determine whether it was subjectively better or worse for an individual) but there is no interest in doing it, everyone comes up with their own dumb "method" and then in a year or two everyone switches to something else.
A really good sign of this is to look at the various barista competitions from a couple of years ago and see how many of their amazing techniques are still being used.
Well actually, the goals of the attempt was to prevent their guy Trump from being removed from office. So in that regard it was a coup attempt. They were attempting to illegally wrest control of 1/3 of the government with force.
I'm not standing up for dark patterns here (as a person who runs a subscription business I hate them because it makes it harder for people like me to run an honest business) but there is a big difference between offering a virtual service (i.e. Slack) and shipping somebody a physical product like a Newspaper.
Thats a strange way of thinking about things. Why shouldn't the employee have power in the relationship. Employers are always giving ultimatums, no-remote, remote-only, 40 hours a week, $X/hr. But the employee/employer relationship is really only an agreement to do X much work for Y money. Everything else is secondary. Why shouldn't an employee's secondary concerns be just as important as the employer's secondary concerns ?
Only good single origin is better, one of the main reason for blending origins is to hide flaws. So only a small selection of coffee/chocolate etc will taste good on its own.