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It sounds lovely, but it doesn't work out this way.

Companies dont't open their own stores, and sell the games there cheaper than at a competitors store. They only sell it there.

How is having to navigate N stores, because all companies want to make more money off you, better for the consumer?

High end phones from most manufacturers cost the same.

That's awful to hear. Did you try to do a chargeback?

Yeah, parent is a bit out of touch with reality. Especially funny, considering:

1. In lots of places most manual work is done by white people, who as I've heard can't be targets of racism.

2. Manual labor can be a very well paying job.

And? Is it not true? Manual labor is not a profession where you're dressing to impress. Their clothes are functional, but are quite ugly.

I did manual labor for a while, and guess what: my clothes sucked too.

No laborer is going to get offended if you tell them that their clothes are not good looking.

Stop getting offended in the name of a random group of people.

So not wanting to wear cargo pants because I think they look like shit makes me classiest and racist?

This kind of behavior where people are labeling anything and everything racist is very much harmful, and makes every sensible people less sensitive to racist claims.

> There is no money in fasting, intermittent or otherwise.

It seems like there is: https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/20/big-sky-health-raises-8-mi...

While I'm on almost exactly the same diet they're promoting, I have to agree.

I considered going to them, when I was first starting this diet, but their prices are absurd: three times what I'm paying for consultation to an already very expensive private doctor.

It's very sad that there doesn't seem to be a player in this field (nutrition) who's impartial and not motivated by monetary gain, that you can trust.

[3] is very much not correct. Your brain can just fine on ketones.

Your body is also capable of making it's own glucose, for the organs that need it: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Biological_Chemistry....

This is true for every diet. If you get gain weight on your current lifestyle, start dieting and go back after you lost it, you'll gain that weight back.

There's no magic pill, if your current lifestyle makes you fat, you need a lifestyle change.

> Heck all I want in Nutrition is some objective data. Someone be that scientist.

This makes me very-very sad, but unfortunately that doesn't exists. Not only are studies are mostly observation, where you have to answer questions about what you eat (I can barely recall what I ate 3 days ago, not 3 months), and are usually funded by a corporation. You can basically find a study for everything and it's complete opposite.

And would you trust them not to store them? I certainly wouldn't.

You mean those streaming sites, where the page is 3/4 advertisements? Yeah, I image those have porn ads, but adblock helps there too.

You mean you turned the safe search feature off, and you got unsafe results?

What's the Nordic model?

There are quite a few free VPN apps, so getting porn would be only one more step away.

I generally agree with you about the effects of porn, especially on children, it definitely had an effect on me.

But, this kind of age verification bullshit will not help anyone. The politicians will be able to say they did something, and the parents will feel that they don't have to worry about this, making their children even more vulnerable.

I think porn addiction, and its effects are a societal issue, that can not be solved by legislation, only by making it a non-taboo topic, and talking about inside the family.

Edit, ps: your replies are marked as dead for some reason when you make them, and I had to vouch for it before being able to reply.

Where is porn pushed onto anyone in the internet now? I don't think I seen anything remotely porn-like without looking for it.

I think you get the percentages wrong: 95% of kids who want to watch porn will easily find a workaround.

Why would it change? It's not like officially not being able buy alcohol stops anyone who wants to drink from drinking. We can pretend that this is the biggest danger that people under 18 face, but let's be real, much worse things can happen to them, than watching porn.

This shouldn't be solved at the government level, but at the family level. By parents talking to kids.

Also, unless they implement something like the PRC's firewall, it will a 100% be an inept solution that's easy to get around.

Alcohol and cigarettes are restricted to people above 18/21 in most places. Yet somehow I see 14-15 year olds drinking and smoking (even weed, which is illegal).

I think I first saw a porn magazine before I was 10.

Where there's a will, there's a way. You can't use technology for this, because there will always be a will, so they'll ALWAYS find a way.

And at the same time you'd give your NSFW internet usage patterns to your credit card company. I image they'd love it, even more information to sell about you!

I couldn't find much information, but in this case, doesn't the government directly have access to the sites you used this feature on?

The difference here, that parent was pointing at, is that you eat every single day. You might need to fix your toilet one day, or get a house a few times in your life, but eating is something that you can't get around.

Just like you shouldn't depend on someone to dress your, bathe you and wipe your ass for you (even though that's a whole profession too), depending on someone else to cook for you because you can't, puts you in a vulnerable spot.

As an iPhone user, I'm very happy that apps can't implement their own push notification systems, or have persistent background connections open, as it's one of the main reasons I get good battery life.

Unfortunately the approximations are not that great, requiring you to route all your network traffic through an unknown company.

In what way? It definitely appears less user friendly, and has the "typical open source look".

Why did you use a burner account in the first place? DHH's reaction is not the best, you're not exactly helping clear things up here.

> For the first point, the app can explicitly tell the user what their login is, or otherwise assign some unique identifier the user can use when contacting support. The app can also offer to contact support for them, which can pre-fill the user identifier.

as thomaslord said, this is an enormous overhead, where a lot can go wrong.

> For the second, that’s entirely the user’s choice. Your app can also allow them to associate a new email address for this purpose (which strikes me as exactly what you actually want since the real unstated motivation here is getting the user’s email).

Even more overhead, and more data to manage.

> For the third, don’t make me type in someone’s email. The exact same issue as described happens if they have multiple email addresses too. Just let me use my OS’s sharing mechanism to send a special link that they can open to establish the sharing connection. An invite to share, as it were. Not only does that solve the problem, it’s significantly more user-friendly.

For native only apps, this would also add an additional overhead, as you need to develop a server to handle this.

The point is simple: if you want to protect your email address, that's on you. I personally use a different email address for each service, because it's important for me. But I don't expect everyone will bend over backwards to accommodate me, and neither should you.