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Serious question - why do so many people remember our ICQ numbers? I don’t remember what user-facing function it served. Was that actually the identifier we shared with people to connect?

I suppose it also came at a time for a lot of us where things seemed to wedge into our brains more easily.

Is it really so hard for companies to provide a price range for Enterprise plan publicly on the pricing page?

Why can't I, as an individual, have the same features of an Enterprise plan?

What is the logic behind this practice other than profit maximization?

I'm willing to pay more to have unlimited high-speed GTP4 and Longer inputs with 32k token context.

EDIT: since I'm getting a lot of replies. Genuine question: how should I move to get a reasonable price as an individual for unlimited high-speed gpt4 and longer token context?

I like the slashes. I think they're fun and help differentiate from Os.

Can we get slashed 7s too? Maybe even slashed Zs.

I trust my ISP a lot more than cloudflare, in part because there's actual competition and I picked one with a strong privacy focus.

> Blaming cookies for tracking people is like blaming a bullet for a murder. It's the trackers installed on pretty much every single website that are the thing that tracks people, using cookies of course. The Google analytics or Facebook pixels, to name the top two offenders.

Yes. I agreed that the cookie law is partly dumb. The part of the cookie law that’s dumb is that it’s too narrowly scoped and should apply to all tracking technologies and techniques, for whichever purposes and vendors are or aren’t okay with the user. And it needs a systematic way for user-specified defaults across all websites, instead of leaving that to browser extensions.

Ideally this would be opt-in rather than opt-out for privacy reasons, but I do understand the valid argument that the subset of people who would explicitly opt in to tracking are not representative of the whole user population.

Probably the best balance of hassle vs privacy vs statistical validity is to require the major browsers to force a one-time explicit choice per purpose and/or per vendor without dark patterns involved, save those as defaults that get sent to the sites in a way that is legally mandatory for sites to respect, and allow per-site overrides using the same mechanism - instead of the current mess of shady consent pop-ups.

> I don’t see how this relates to GDPR. Please explain.

Both have more user-friendly requirements than people expect, both are widely violated in user-hostile ways, both are rarely enforced by regulators, and what rare enforcement does exist is slow, often reluctant, and with inadequate fines to change industry norms and sometimes not even much of the behavior of the fined company. They’re separate laws but with the same practical enforcement / incentive problems.