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insickness commented on Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video   zeit.de/wirtschaft/2025-1... · Posted by u/febed
creesch · 4 days ago
It really should be illegal. Companies aren't going to do it themselves as it is a huge potential revenue stream.

So much so that it effectively has become the main focus of some companies who we as consumers still perceive as online stores/marketplaces. Specifically sponsored search results apparently can become a bigger income stream than the one from actual sales themselves.

Which is great for these companies, terrible for us consumers.

insickness · 3 days ago
It's one thing to enforce contracts but another for government to dictate how private platforms monetize their own property. If ads make the service worse, the answer is competition and exit, not government bans. No one is forcing you to use these platforms.
insickness commented on Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment   gadgetreview.com/massive-... · Posted by u/loteck
jkestner · 3 months ago
The fact that people were uncomfortable with simply having their pictures taken and shown without their knowledge gives lie to the idea that "You're in a public place—of course you have no right to privacy." It's great to be given the chance to face your principles.
insickness · 3 months ago
Public photography is not a crime, nor should it be. However, that doesn't mean your likeness can be used for just any purpose.
insickness commented on Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean   phys.org/news/2024-08-din... · Posted by u/geox
MisterTea · a year ago
Simple rebuttle: the devil put those foot prints there to test their faith.
insickness · a year ago
I subscribe to Bertrand Russell's hypothesis that the earth was created five minutes ago. Events that you remember do not necessarily have to have happened; memories were put in our minds. Impossible to prove wrong.
insickness commented on Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern   hallofshame.design/ryanai... · Posted by u/popcalc
dabeeeenster · a year ago
I can never understand why people pay for Priority boarding! Would you rather stand on a runway/in a gangway tunnel/sit in a plane seat as opposed to sitting in an airport waiting lounge? It absolutely blows my mind.

Most people with priority boarding also queue, standing, at the desk the moment they get to the boarding gate. WHY?! You have a seat already?!

insickness · a year ago
The only reason I do it is because if you get on the plane last, there may not be any room for your bag in the overhead compartment near you.
insickness commented on Ask HN: Am I dead meat already?    · Posted by u/tHrOwAwAyXQWE
insickness · 2 years ago
Based on the grammar and spelling mistakes in your post, I suspect that your written communication skills might be holding you back. It's quite easy to paste those paragraphs into ChatGPT and say "rewrite this." It will provide you with a clear and error-free version. I recommend doing this for every email you send. It can significantly increase the respect you receive from both your current coworkers and potential employers. Even though I have good grammar, I still use it for half the emails I send to see if they can be improved.
insickness commented on US has the highest rate of maternal deaths among rich nations. Norway has zero   cnn.com/2024/06/04/health... · Posted by u/hilux
sshine · 2 years ago
> ... murder by a spouse ... is not what “maternal death rate” typically measures

That is a good example.

While perhaps unrelated to pregnancies, it is incidentally another difference between US and Norway.

insickness · 2 years ago
You can't say that from these statistics if the statistic in Norway does not include murder by spouse.
insickness commented on Covid Subcommittee Releases Dr. Fauci's Transcript, Highlights Key Takeaways   oversight.house.gov/relea... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
veidr · 2 years ago
You are. When there's an active pandemic killing thousands (would become a million, just in this (outlier bad at responding to it) country), "science" doesn't require having a peer-reviewed ten-year old study that has been published in Nature and survived challenges.

In such circumstances, just being familiar with the latest related science, and the fundamental concept of science, qualifies you to take your best (informed) guess. Making kids wear masks made sense in absence of data that showed it wasn't effective, because it's been so effective with other, similarly airborne-transmissible diseases.

> The “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation forced on Americans by federal health officials was arbitrary and not based on science.

Again, "we could wait to conduct studies whether 4 feet is good enough, or 9 feet is required; or we could take our best shot since thousands of people are dying each day", and base our decisions on scientific data previously collected, in extremely similar pandemic/transmissible-disease contexts, even if it might imperfectly match the present scenario.

insickness · 2 years ago
This is a slippery slope. These policies had a vast affect on the lives of millions of people. Business were shut down. Schools were closed. People were instructed to stay in their homes for years. Simply saying, "Well, we made our best guess," is absolutely not acceptable. When the government curbs human rights, they have an obligation to weigh and justify the costs with scientific evidence.
insickness commented on After Furiosa flops, Hollywood could be facing a biblically disastrous summer   bbc.com/culture/article/2... · Posted by u/UUjiasuqi
ameister14 · 2 years ago
There are a lot of reasons for this, but for me, a big thing is how absurdly long movies are now. I look at movies and at this point will reject some that just feel like they will take too much time.

I saw Furiosa, it was fine, but it was about a half an hour longer than it should have been.

It's 148 minutes long. For comparison, Mad Max was 93 minutes long, The Road Warrior was 96 minutes long, Beyond Thunderdome was 107 minutes long, and Fury Road was 120 minutes long.

insickness · 2 years ago
That's why I didn't see Dune 2 in the theaters. No way I can sit for three hours straight. It's just not fun after two hours.
insickness commented on AI Ruined Quora   jonn.substack.com/p/how-a... · Posted by u/orcul
insickness · 2 years ago
> Fully automated luxury mansplaining

It's surprising to see gendered, pejorative language thrown around in an article that has nothing to do with gender.

insickness commented on Man who mass-extorted psychotherapy patients gets six years   krebsonsecurity.com/2024/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
mocha_nate · 2 years ago
“After his attempt to extort the company failed, he emailed patients directly, threatening to reveal what they had told their therapists. At least one suicide has been linked to the case, which has shocked the country.“

—black mirror type stuff

insickness · 2 years ago
6 years is not enough jail time for this.

u/insickness

KarmaCake day2770February 6, 2011View Original