Back in the day you could purchase a Kindle that was specifically an "ad-supported" model for something like $50-$75 less than the identical tablet without ads.

I respected the transparency at least -- to someone, saving that money might be worth it, while others are happy to pay the full amount for an ad-free tablet.

As long as it's up front and the consumer actually saves some money, ad-supported is perfectly fine. It's when we no longer get a choice that it becomes infuriating.

They should do tickets from the start as a Dutch auction -- the price starts high and descends as the tickets sell. Buy when you're ok with the price. Don't wait too long or you'll miss out.

Dora was ahead of her time!

Ummm.... a free TV? That's sort of the whole point of this service.

> And lets be real. The government CAN'T do anything efficiently.

People need to stop thinking this is a universally recognized truth. It's not. Privatized utilities, private prisons, privatized toll roads -- all are lower quality and higher cost than their publicly-owned counterparts.

"Government is a failure" is the GOP party line because **they** fail at everything they try.

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"Businesses are people my friend"

Check out the Slice app -- it connects you with local pizza joints who deliver with their own people and Slice just takes a service fee or whatever.

You can't say prices should rise to what the market will bear, without saying CEO wages should fall to what the market will bear -- not "well that seems right given how much responsibility they have."

If there are people qualified to be the CEO of a company and willing to work for 50x employee wage, then if the CEO is making 250x employee wage, then CEO wages are being propped up and we don't have a free market.

I feel like the fact that only 8% are trading above their initial offer price is more significant than 25% trading below $1.

Those odds would never be allowed in a casino.

None of those are necessary. Having any human at all in the loop excludes 100.00% of spammers. It's far too costly to meet someone personally for every bit of spam you want to post.

This is true with source code -- even a relatively large code base. But a large language model can be terabytes upon terabytes of data, and it's unlikely to have been scoured with the diligence of, say, the Linux kernel.

The obvious solution is to have everybody move over to the high side to rebalance the land.

Honestly?

People who think all government is bad government are an existential threat to a country.

If you're putting people in office who *don't* believe the government helps people, they're not going to help people when they're in office.

> If you don't trust your employer, maybe you should work somewhere else.

Some organizations, including government, keep logs of incoming and outgoing communications from employees, sometimes mandated by law, sometimes by choice.

Nobody wants their personal shizzle lingering around waiting to be unearthed at some point.

Also, the more entwined your work and personal life, the harder it is to separate them.