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rnet85 commented on Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterprise users petapixel.com/2020/10/12/... · Posted by u/apitman

bleepblorp · 5 years ago

It's notable how much consumer abuse is on the rise lately, with businesses cutting wages for their employees, increasing prices, and cutting services, to punish us for not buying enough useless crap.

In most cases, consumer abuse, like withdrawing 'unlimited' services, YouTube demanding users sign in, or Autodesk removing Fusion 360's personal use tier, net the abusive company little to no additional revenue. Their purpose is to exercise dominance over end users for not behaving the way the abuser feels entitled to.

rnet85 · 5 years ago

I love how there is always an aspiring fiction writer in the comments. Woefully ignorant of the story, has an unrealistic expectation of limitless sevices. It must be cathartic to write victim hood takes like this.

rnet85 commented on They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hAEdF... · Posted by u/notRobot

tikiman163 · 5 years ago

Anti-trust laws (and the concepts that are based upon) do not apply to free services, and portions of YouTube that do collect subscription fees do have a full support structure.

Your assertion that Google has a monopoly in this market is wrong for several reasons. The first is that there is no market for Googke/YouTube to control. Ad revenue which covers less than their overhead makes them a non-profit and YouTube in particular is closer to meeting the requirements for being classified as a government protected service than an anti-trust concern.

Second,nobody makes money in the free media hosting and distribution product domain. This is well known and is a large part of why they have virtually no competition.

Third, YouTube wouldn't even have a system that automatically takes down channels except that laws were written that required them to do so.

Google doesn't make money from YouTube, and they only acquired it for the good will providing a free service generates for them. Recently the head of YouTube has been making weird even retarded decisions, but it's still a free service that operates in an application domain that basically can't make money by definition.

rnet85 · 5 years ago

sad to see this get downvoted because it does not go along with the youtube bashing sentiment, the amount of people who think other video platforms will not have copyright claim problems is ridiculously high.

rnet85 commented on They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hAEdF... · Posted by u/notRobot

tartoran · 5 years ago

I think so too. If they were not a monopoly they'd have content creators fleeing the platform for how they handle these type of situations but for many youtube provides a decent source of income. Content creators respected their part of the bargain and worked hard to build their channels and Google benefitted quite well. But they're not only not equal, one zero power and the other one has all of it.

rnet85 · 5 years ago

Flee to other platforms and get their videos taken down too. It’s so ridiculous to see the majority of the comments here not to understand the simple reality that other platforms also have to adhere to these copyright laws.

rnet85 commented on Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S. wsj.com/articles/microsof... · Posted by u/doctoboggan

dartdartdart · 5 years ago

I remember tech CEOs complains when h1B visas got cut bc they loved the cheap labor. Silicon valley only jumps in if it benefits their bottom line or for good PR

rnet85 · 5 years ago

“Cheap labor” people with visa in FANG companies get paid the same salary as the non visa people, and it was the FANG ceos who complained, so I’m not sure I understand your comment.

rnet85 commented on How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled npr.org/2020/09/11/897692... · Posted by u/everybodyknows

GhostVII · 5 years ago

I'm not convinced that it's actually a bad thing to dump plastic and paper into a landfill. You just cover it up with dirt and plants every 20 years and build a new one, pretty low impact as long as you have it properly sealed off. Even gets rid of some CO2. Probably better than putting lots of energy into recycling when it isn't actually efficient to do so.

rnet85 · 5 years ago

Except plastic breaks down into micro plastics and seeps into the ecosystem, unless you’re willing to hermetically seal hundreds of thousands of acres of land

rnet85 commented on AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine study put on hold due to suspected adverse reaction statnews.com/2020/09/08/a... · Posted by u/aaavl2821

mrfusion · 5 years ago

This sounds pretty harmless. Any idea how they got a bad adverse event out of it?

rnet85 · 5 years ago

It sounds harmless because it omits the incredibly complex process of developing immunity.

Your body basically is trying to do a sort of brute force/random combination of immune cells on the retrieved virus spike proteins until it comes up with the right combination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_hypermutation

This process can result in B cells that produce antibodies which stick to virus proteins but also stick to your own cells. The B cells are essentially permanent, that’s how you develop lasting immunity, that unfortunately also means you have lasting immunity on one of your own cell types — autoimmunity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune_disease

rnet85 commented on Moving from YouTube to PeerTube battlepenguin.com/tech/mo... · Posted by u/djsumdog

ekianjo · 5 years ago

I'm sure Google needs your financial support.

rnet85 · 5 years ago

I’m constantly surprised At how people think video hosting costs nothing.

rnet85 commented on Lost Advanced Civilizations overcomingbias.com/2020/0... · Posted by u/headalgorithm

jungletime · 5 years ago

Archaeologists have discovered a 7,000-year-old well built by Neolithic farmers in what is now the Czech Republic.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-well-oldest-wooden-stru...

rnet85 · 5 years ago

7000 years is pretty modern, it’s almost 3k years after agriculture started being adopted in multiple regions. There are older artifacts than that, intelligent humans have been on the planet for a long time.

rnet85 commented on Trump says he is considering pardon for Edward Snowden reuters.com/article/us-us... · Posted by u/elliekelly

lazyjones · 5 years ago

It has a name now... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_derangement_syndrome

rnet85 · 5 years ago

> The use of the term has been called part of a broader GOP strategy to discredit criticisms of Trump's actions.

I agree, TDS is a pretty catchy term when you want to deflect from trumps corruption.

rnet85 commented on Trump says he is considering pardon for Edward Snowden reuters.com/article/us-us... · Posted by u/elliekelly

devtul · 5 years ago

> <Person I despise> does something I like > No! It doesn't matter, his motives must have been terrible.

I will never understand this kind of reaction, when you get so emotional about something that all pragmatism goes out the window.

rnet85 · 5 years ago

What a reductionist argument. OC’s argument is perfectly reasonable considering trump’s history and his previous actions. I’ll never understand why certain people feel the need to feign ignorance about reality and make false assertions that such criticism comes from disdain, and not from a simple observation of past behavior.