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- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 1 day ago:
But someone pointed out that Hyundai (the subject of the video) is in this group. One wonders if they are there to sabotage it.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 2 days ago:
Please seek help
Yep, bully, as I said. An entitled one.
And you conveniently avoided the software example (basic vs pro).
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 2 days ago:
I would prefer you discussed the point rather than trying to bully me into agreeing.
It is quite possible that the current seat warming arrangements are such that it ends up cheaper for those who want it (since it isn’t custom installed physically) and is of no consequence to those who don’t want it.
If it was enabled for everyone the price of the car could conceivably go up for everyone. Admittedly that may not necessarily be how it works out but it is a possibility.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 2 days ago:
But his comparisons because people don’t buy the car expecting the seats to have the warming feature. It probably is even offered as an option that the customer rejected upon purchase.
When I download software and pay for the basic tier it has the pro features built in anyhow. I can pay to unlock those pro features but I don’t expect to use those features already just because I already have them.
- Comment on Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West 4 days ago:
ProPals are the ones who redefined it. Just because you are essentially in an echo chamber here doesn’t make you correct.
- Comment on Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West 4 days ago:
No, you made that up.
It is merely a term for having a state for (primarily) Jews in the Levant.
Some Zionists want all of the Levant including parts of Egypt, Jordan, Syria. Unfortunately there a few of these in government currently.
- Comment on In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technica 5 days ago:
And isn’t the winking smiley the most relevant for sarcasm?
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 5 days ago:
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 6 days ago:
Some of those options are easy to retrofit, others require assembling to order.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 6 days ago:
Two sets of cars, not seats.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 6 days ago:
You wouldn’t have a warm seat anyhow if they only installed the seat for prepaid customers but it is possible that those customers would pay more because it would cost more to make two sets of cars. Or four sets if you include optional fancy suspension, or eight sets if you include digital radio, or sixteen if…
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 6 days ago:
Risks exist. Be informed.
He is revealing the risk, he is informing. He is indignant that it is a risk which is deliberately obscured by the manufacturer.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 6 days ago:
You make it shine like football team loyalty.
I am pro fairness, not pro-consumer. I don’t think the consumers are justified in their entitlement in this case.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 6 days ago:
Of course you can do business that way. If the heating costs $x, and half the customers pay for it but $5x is charged then that is a profit.
The alternative would be to make two sets of cars (with and without heating). Or four sets of cars if another similar optional feature is shipped like this. Or 8 permutations if there are the features etc
It can certainly be cheaper to install them by default even if not all customers pay to enable them.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 6 days ago:
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 6 days ago:
OK I accept the analogies are not good equivalents.
It is not necessarily true that everyone has already paid for the seat warmer hardware. The car may cost the same as if it didn’t have the hardware installed.
The manufacturer may find it cheaper to just install it for everyone and wear the cost in the hope that enough people will pay for the warmer to be enabled.
Of course it is possible that everyone pays for the hardware anyhow but it is not necessarily the case.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 6 days ago:
It is like having a grandstand at a football stadium which costs extra to use. Do you resent that?
- Comment on Spanish court orders Meta to pay nearly half a billion euros in damages to media outlets 6 days ago:
I don’t have a solution but more transparency for starters. If I put money on the line I want to make sure the judge isn’t corrupt.
“Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. It keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial”
Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832, English Jurist & Philosopher
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 6 days ago:
even disabling things remotely that are there but you didn’t subscribe to. This is bonkers.
I don’t understand the consumer outrage about that though. It is like paying to unlock satellite TV reception (even though we are receiving the signals the whole time).
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- Comment on Spanish court orders Meta to pay nearly half a billion euros in damages to media outlets 6 days ago:
If you sue and lose it could cost up to a million dollars in your own legal fees and having to pay theirs.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 6 days ago:
This week I noticed Google and gmaps rubbi6ng slowly on a non-Chrome browser. Unusable level of slow.
- Comment on How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA 6 days ago:
accounts with non-US banks have also been partially closed.
I wonder what that means.
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- Comment on Spanish court orders Meta to pay nearly half a billion euros in damages to media outlets 1 week ago:
Not peanuts. 20% of actual revenue (not income) in Spain.
- Comment on Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy 1 week ago:
Are you sure Spain band graphene? AFAIK police are merely biased against graphene because they presume drug dealers use it.
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- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 week ago:
I can’t tell from that ad what this terminal does. Makes the command prompt act like Unix bash?
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, at least fix the bugs first.
- Comment on AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’ 2 weeks ago:
art vs product
product vs process
How something is made may become the new curiosity, especially when novel approaches and instruments are used.