We attempted to create this last year with https://pleasesign.me. Definitely a case of waiting too long on a good idea. Ah well, it still has some features Google might not launch :)
Many, many, many years ago I operated pleaselocate.me when mapping SKDs and geoip were first becoming available to any kid with a website - it brought me some joy to see people are still using this style of domain
Interesting. Some real challenges getting started on day 1.
Now I'm seeing that the Github bot is created by something called Linovi Developments which has a busted ass website and fewer than 100 Github users authorized it... fishing?
I don't know. I just tell'em there a fee: $150 if we find you a lead / buyer from our site. They say stuff like, ok cars sucks and they get spammed to hell with craiglist and some say autotrader charges them a fee upfront. Then i gotta track them down, its not easy but i am making money. Next move is to figure out a upfront price. I just want to grab a slice from cars, auto trader, craiglist ONLY for used tesla cars.
Go watch some of the major streamers on Twitch. They're constantly trying to figure out why they're dropping frames or why SLI is suddenly fucking up. The illusion that the PC-Master-Race folks like to push is that maintaining and building PCs is easy. Having built many, and owned a computer repair shop, I know that it simply isn't that easy for your average consumer to troubleshoot a computer.
> I know that it simply isn't that easy for your average consumer to troubleshoot a computer.
I don't see how you can state that it's any easier to troubleshoot a console. Usually your only feedback is a generic error code which if you Google refers to 20 different problems all with the same error, or an LED blink code which is equally vague.
Sure, PCs have their own unique problems that consoles don't suffer from (e.g. malware on Windows) but I find that PCs typically have much more descriptive error codes, and usually lack the kind of design flaws present in consoles (e.g. Xbox 360 RRoD due to insufficient cooling).
See that's the thing. I've been a console gamer since the NES and I don't remember ever really having to troubleshoot one.
And since the hardware is fixed games don't have incompatibilities. None of the "this version of the driver causes this but that version of the driver causes that" issues. No worrying about system requirements. If it sold for the system, it will play.
I can't remember that I ever had the problem of not having the right driver since windows 7 or so. Since Windows 10 drivers are also "automatically downloaded and installed through Windows Update" ("for many devices").
I lived in Chile as the first cohort in Start-Up Chile. Problem I had with Collectivo's is that I had no idea what their route was. Having the ability to arbitrarily say "I'm here and I want to go here." is very valuable.
I think the commenter's point is that with technology, routes can easily be shared, even commented/collaborated on. Think of it as a more flexible form of public transit rather than Lyft Line / Uber Pool.
This isn't a valid argument. You pay taxes for thousands of public services that you may or may not use. You elect the government that decides these things for you. You don't get to choose.
Some perfect examples: pot holes and road maintenance, tree care in your city, national parks, etc. etc. You could sit home and use nothing and still pay, and rightly so.
I've already addressed this. This isn't a valid argument, by that logic we should socialize everything and live in communism. Why don't we start with subsidizing your blog? How about socialized netflix subscriptions for all? Clearly there's a point at which something doesn't provide enough value to the average citizen to be worth paying for in taxes, but which they can go out and purchase themselves. Finding this line is the goal. So my argument here is perfectly valid.
To address your point more directly, many of those things benefit everyone generally. CBC however is neutral or even harmful to public knowledge. It benefits no one, except for those who share its biases. Media consumption needs to be a consumer choice to prevent the government promoting a certain set of biases that favor them.
For the same reason we don't have socialized food or cars, we shouldn't have socialized media. The market does a very good job sorting the wheat from the chaff when it comes to media as it does in most other industries.
Worse still, this creates an environment for socialized propaganda. We don't need a government mouthpiece we're forced to pay for. It's harmful to civilized society at large. Media is the very last thing we should socialize and the fact it's partially paid with tax revenue is enough of an insult to Canadians already. This is a negative value to citizens.
I used to think this was the right move. Tax everyone personally and let corporations do what they do best.
These days I have trouble reconciling the notion that in the near future we're going to need guaranteed minimum incomes for everyone as more and more jobs are automated. With fewer people working traditional jobs there will be even more incentive to shift the tax base toward the corporation and away from the individual.
tldr: how does abolishing corporate tax jive with universal basic income?
This question sounds a little too close to "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" to me, but in any case I think it's Facebook, attempting to build dossiers on billions of people for profit, who need to justify themselves; not me for wanting to remain undocumented.
As far as concrete reasons go, I've had to deal with far too much fallout from being incorrectly flagged by braindead processes trawling private databases which I didn't even know I was in. Since lots of these databases share information, but not necessarily updated corrections, I still run into the same mis-flagging every few years, across utilities, courts, credit agencies, banks, letting agents, etc.
As far as Facebook goes, being a citizen of the CCTV-riddled UK makes me acutely aware of the power, and potential abuse, that facial recognition technology can bring; having images of my face tagged and fed into a database does not sit well with me.
Since I don't use Facebook, I don't even get the meagre upside of whatever services they build on top of this database (some kind of gallery, I presume).
