Is it not the ultimate goal of all human labor to progress past the need for certain menial jobs? It seems to just be the natural progression of technological advancement, not the rapture.
Nothing natural (as in inevitable) about it. The crossbow was put to widespread use because it was like a deskilled regular bow. Then muskets because they were even easier to train for.
I wouldn't say they're very rare. Go to literally any town in Wisconsin that's not Madison or Milwaukee and you will find an environment very similar to GP's description of Ireland.
Have you been to Ireland? It might be that they are rare compared to what he experienced, even though you think that it must be similar after reading a description.
Move to the Southwest. I moved to northern New Mexico and I love it. Nobody to bother me and miles of space for whatever I need to do. Gets hot though.
Weird, my chemistry teacher was the exact opposite. He didn't even have a degree in chemistry, it was in physics. He hated teaching that class but loved us as students so we did basically nothing all year. May explain why my knowledge of chemistry is equivalent to that of a medieval peasant. Cool guy though.
If they're concerned with the amount they lose to 3PAs, paying their moderators is a complete non-starter. The whole point of this is to increase revenue for the upcoming IPO.
Right, but the point of this change isn't really the _actual cost_ of 3rd party API usage, as much as the _opportunity cost_. They are way overcharging for the API, and they know it. Adding some expenses in the form of paid mods (let's be honest, probably off-shored to a 3rd world country and paid minimum wage) would be worth it, if it can guarantee the subs keep running.
This strip had a profound effect on my life after I read it for the first time. To this day it still means a lot to me. Thank you for sharing your story and to your brother for sharing his art.
It's changed so much in such a short time since the acquisition. The quality of responses that are boosted to the top are so poor that I frequently wonder just how those people get through the day. Not to mention that I constantly get notifications to subscribe to people who I've never once interacted with before. I've heard of BlueSky, do you know if it's any similar to the Twitter of the late aughts/early 2010s?
BlueSky is invite-only and it's something the previous Twitter founder is putting together. I am skeptical it will go anywhere, not just because of network effects asking everyone to switch to a new platform, but also because well, if he had all those years to fix Twitter and fiddled while Rome burned, why would his new venture be any better? Would it follow the same original path as Twitter? E.g. having an open api allowing app developers to make something for everyone, then remove it?
It also isn't a charity venture even though he is quite rich now (owns Square, etc.) It is a corporation, so it will be set up to monetize in some way. I like to think that people are getting sick of being the product for some corporation.
Pretty sure that a large # of those "people" you refer to are actually bots. If they're mostly noise and mostly tied to something political they're probably a bot. Take a look at a sampler. If they only seem to pop-up whenever Biden is mentioned or only ever talk about a single thing especially at odd times of the day..
I think something that would incentivize those longer-form interactions would be to remove the upvote/downvote system and replace it with something similar to what SA had back in the day, where you could label posts with "Insightful", "Funny", "Off-topic" and the like. I find that too many people will only say things that they know will get them karma, which leads to that hivemind that everyone hates. Having a system where you can put a numerical value on someone's "importance" to the site will only lead to users minmaxxing their responses.
That's a good idea. I think upvoting can still work though particularly if the platform can use your upvotes to infer what kind of content you like and give you more of that.
And really beyond rivals.com, your team-specific forum is even better. I was a frequent poster on shaggybevo before it became surlyhorns, and still hang around there. Though there are some absolutely unhinged posters on them (you get that with most smaller forums I've found).
