Any solution that requires a bunch of independent actors to go against their best interests will certainly fail. You need to find another option

Then they should stop complaining that ticket prices are too high. If they were too high, they wouldn’t be going, I guess.

They have determined, with mathematical precision, the exact maximum fans are willing to pay. Not legally a scam, but still unethical and should not be rewarded.

Stop going to shows. Cancel consumption subscriptions. Quit eating and drinking garbage.

Unfortunately, panis et circenses are what the masses want, and we're all the worse for it.

You shouldn't have been downvoted.

What would you suggest we do?

Vote?

Protests?

And maybe strongly worded letters to our congressmen? /s

Funny, but have you actually tried that?

When enough people do, it’s easy to figure out who’s representing you, and who isn’t.

“I don’t think we should spy on Americans and I don’t think we should kill people without human oversight but I still have respect for the guy willing to do that”. Please, make it make sense.

It’s not you, it’s me.

Or just use a vector store like LanceDB or Turbopuffer and be done with it.

This right here is the answer. Also a big part of the reason for ageism, which is BS but so is corporate life in general.

Interviews are easy, offers are hard.

This happened much sooner than I expected and living through it, believe me it can happen to you.

It’s been 16 years. Move on already.

“If this was not remotely like what it is it would be an instant buy for me”. Ok.

Not true.

Apple made a non-technological and purely artificial and somewhat capricious decision to not sell a product that was worthy of the Apple brand.

They continue down this road because next quarter is more important than next year, and sycophants continue to buy unusable products just to show off the Apple logo to people who don't view it as a Veblen good.

Apple could choose to sell to everyone, but instead sell to a minority. This is a choice. During recessions, it is not a good choice, and we have been in an almost persistent global recession since 2008.

As long as Apple can claim they have a $1T market cap, nobody wants to hear that the emperor is buck naked.

How so wrt Signal?

What are donations being spent on, who makes those decisions, what's the roadmap, what's up with MobileCoin, why the hell do they put so much trust into Intel SGX when there are so many known vulnerabilities, …

I've been a Signal/TextSecure user since day one and have convinced many dozens of people to switch to Signal but, man, they don't exactly make it easy to be a fan.

Isn't their CEO well known?

So?

You said you don't know who makes the decisions.

Meredith Whittaker is not a techie AFAIK. Either way, I'd just like to know more about the thought process going into Signal's product and engineering decisions. The Signal team seems extraordinarily tight-lipped and that doesn't exactly inspire trust from where I stand.

Have you heard her speak? She seems pretty bright to me.

Their blog has (or had?) some extensive technical explanations, for example about their implemenation of features utilizing SGX.