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Cashing in on loneliness is big business. Singles bars. OKCupid. Half of the self-improvement/self-help world.

For many people, feeling like one has exhibited kindness is a strong reward.

All the humans who couldn't deal with tiktok are dead?

I don't know of countries that mandate a minimum price. If you are doing high volume you are free to work directly with carriers. If you are drawing as much billable traffic as you are sending, then that could even be a wash.

I can pop into almost any phone shop around here and walk out with a free SIM card, which I can top up for cash.

Most people using Signal - and particularly most people likely to donate - are not using it to hide their identities, but to decrease the chance of unknown parties reading their conversations. My Signal account has my full name on it, and checking my top contacts, most of them do too (some only have their first name).

We really are doomed because some people like to think of ways that we could kill fewer of each other?

Is it so hard to believe that other people may have different opinions from yours?

I've never knowingly clicked on an ad in my life.

I am very aware of how law enforcement, political consultants, and other organizations purchase targeting data from ad companies.

I don't want to be part of it because I don't want to be part of it.

> I'd be surprised if there was much, if any, fallout from the disappearence of Meta from the EU space.

One sure exception would be Whatsapp. It's really baked into society in many countries, including here in the Netherlands where it's the normal mode for most person-to-person communication, including customer-business contacts.

There's so much babysitting required.

I've managed to wean all but one of my clients off self-hosted email. They are paranoid and insist on keeping it in-house. It's such a big time suck to deal with spam filter tuning and blacklist removal requests and the like, but they keep paying the hourly rates for it.

How much can Meta ditch before its all-important network effect starts to implode?

Threads hasn't really gotten off the ground, and I'd say a good part of the reason why is that it excludes the EU, which is full of very online-engaged people.

It's not only browsers though. The OS has a root store which is used by other non-browser apps. I also want my email program not to be susceptible to government MitM attacks. And whatever else I'm running. Apple and Windows could be compelled to limit the degree to which that store is mutable or even visible.

More and more it looks like Linux on the desktop is the only option.

If it doesn't exist already, surely this would be demand for this as a browser extension in the event that article 45 passes.

Same here. If I can't walk to things I want to do and people I want to see, I feel like a prisoner.

I believe it's coming to Instagram soon. Haven't heard about plans for Whatsapp or Messenger. Threads isn't in Europe anyway.

I think it asked for €12.99 on mobile, then I deleted the app, then it asked for €9.99 on desktop. Maybe they're experimenting with prices too.

I'm from the Netherlands.

I know, I know, 'free rein' not 'free reign'.

One question: couldn't the 180° look be created algorithmically after the fact, freeing them up to use a wider ISO range?

This is normal for countries near the equator. Why would you use daylight savings time if the length of the day barely changes?

If you punched the right extra holes could you get a larger refund?

Isn't anything that can be circumvented ineffective?

Or, looking at it the other way, if you put a small sticker that says "do not do X" and even one person follows that, isn't that therefore an "effective" method?

Can a $3B nominal stake in Anthropic actually be liquidated for $3B?

I agree with almost all of his points, but it turns out I don't agree enough to forego the convenience of doing without cash.

If bitcoin weren't so stupid I'd gladly use that instead of highly centralized corporate payment systems.

Even if you use one of those Thunderbolt/USB-C expansion dongles?

The longer battery life is genuinely useful to a wide range of people in a way that being able to connect 38 external monitors is not.

I recently went on a 5-day trip and forgot to bring the charger for my M2. The first day I thought I'd have to rush around and find one. By the fourth day I still had 8% and then finally realized I could charge it via USB-C instead of magsafe.

Brings me back to all the time (and paper) I wasted in the 1970s writing programs to do abstract ASCII art on line printers. Watching those patterns made me feel like a child again!

> Please note that cash payments are not at all popular in India

I was just in India, and while I didn't do very many of the transactions that a resident would, I used cash for almost everything (except for supermarkets where I paid with my non-Indian credit card).

It didn't feel at all difficult to get by with cash.

Somehow I have decided that being paid 2% by the credit card company is a fair exchange.

Same here, haven't touched cash in the Netherlands in years.

It's interesting to see how it varies in other European countries. In Germany and Belgium you kind of have to carry some cash or you will find yourself unable to pay at many small restaurants and shops.

On the other hand, in Sweden, Spain, UK, etc., I also never touch cash. I have been to Sweden multiple times and I have no idea what Swedish money even looks like.

I get the sense that if it's connected, your brain will figure out how to make it work.