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Isn't that recycling instead of destroying?

Just state your argument.

"A computer can never be held accountable

Therefore a computer must never make a management decision"

-- Internal IBM training manual, 1979

there -> their

(Sorry, I couldn't resist).

I don't think it's aimed at them anyway.

I like to call that dark number the "conversion aversion".

A Belgian ethical hacker showed how insecure these phishing platforms are: https://inti.io/p/how-i-infiltrated-phishing-panels

(By the way, the perpetrators are closer to home than Nigeria).

Because you want to support the platform or because you don't want to see ads?

It's about the poem by T.S. Eliot.

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

They even used to say ads were a bad idea [0].

[0] https://indieresearch.net/2014/03/30/advertising-and-mixed-m...

Aargh. I've been wanting a large poster of Missile Command for a while now, but can't seem to find one at a decent price. Having one printed is difficult too as I can't find high-res, large image files of it.

Thereby forgetting that some people like to open links in a new tab.

Oh, that's interesting! I always thought French-speaking people (I'm from the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) actually expected this type of language.

Choice quote from the opposition in the article you linked to: "If social media is shut down, the country will become chaotic."

I learned about it through Freaks and Geeks, so I was in the right mood when watching The Jerk decades after its release.

Where was the cutoff point?

Adding noise to the signal here, but "Don't look at the balance sheet as the game. Look at the people and the assets as elements used to stage a show, and put on a show that people want to believe in." is a quote I want to remember forever.

Please don't do this here.

It makes you wonder whether they use the app themselves...

Why sell tickets then? :)

Cookie popup keeps popping up if I allow only necessary cookies on an article about frustrating interactions with technology. (FF on Android)

This investigation is about them defrauding the government, not their customers.

Them (allegedly) having it both ways is very cynical, but entirely predictable. It's utterly amazing someone believed a service like health-care should be driven by profit to ensure the best outcomes.

One reason for the existence of albums were distribution costs: it was cheaper to produce, ship and store 10 songs on a single disc than shipping 10 separate discs.

Didn't he also bring out a song where the lyrics were algorithmically generated?

I have a similar annoyance: the obvious ways marketeers try to get me in their funnel (I call it conversion aversion). It's hard to measure, so it's not taken into account by marketeers, but I'm quite certain the amount of people annoyed by conversion optimization tactics represent a lot of potentially lost sales.

Spoken like a real Theodore Levitt-fan!

I've been reading up on 70s and 80s technology firm histories (including game consoles) and it strikes me that marketing back then was much more strategic, much more about understanding the market, the value customers seek and how to deliver it.

Marketing today feels like a grift.

Maybe the law should impose quality and environmental standards instead of tariffs. But no, that would hurt domestic businesses.

A civil servant's job is not just to do what the executive branch asks them to do.

I don't know whether you can tie that inflation to ubi-like measures(alone). The whole world suffered high inflation, not in the least because of the global disruption of the supply chain.

The latter.

(I really liked both movies by the way).