I run a language learning site / web app that is totally free, no ads too, going on about 8 years now. It's for one specific language that has not had much attention from the software community but could use it.
I've never tried to promote it and have never updated it much, but there have been some random people over the years who have given me money. I had a few people send me 50$ unprompted, plus some people I met IRL pay for dinners and things like that when the topic came up.
Reddit can't even handle copy-pasting into the comment box unless the cursor is at the end of what's typed already. It starts to run up my i7 if I have just a few of those comment boxes open at once.
Navigating back to the list of submissions, which are already in the DOM and are literally visible through a transparency, takes like nearly a second.
Of course the back button doesn't work in most cases. It's pretty embarrassing if it's not intentional.
> until our offsprings are old enough to carry on (30 - 40 years)
I see this all the time. If you saw how pre-modern (extended) families actually function, you'd know that the survival of younger offspring is strongly influenced by what the 40+ year old members of the family are or aren't able to do.
> Especially since the advent of much more powerful synthetics which addicts seem to prefer and demand, there's little doubt we have no choice but to keep these things out of the hands of people.
Nobody wants to get fentanyl-spiked heroin, dangerous synthetic cannabinoids, or random phenylethylamines with no history of human use when instead they could be respectively smoking opium, growing their own marijuana, and taking mushrooms as has been done for thousands of years.
> While some highly conscientious slice of the population can handle some recreational use (i.e. a few burning man friends)
So your asshole Burning Man tech-bro friends can get a pass, but the lower classes must pay for the same transgressions.
> If we increased addiction 20x via legalization, and then had to roll back legalization in order to deal with the crises, the 'cartels' that would appear would have 20x the market.
It's absolutely absurd to think that addiction would rise 20x. For a lot of drugs and their current rates of usage that's probably not even possible! Actually think about it, if heroin suddenly became legal would you personally just go out and buy it? Because of where I have lived for the last decade it would be easy to get high-quality heroin within 30 minutes, with no risk other than a $5 bribe, but I have never had any urge to go out and buy heroin. Why would I? I have even tried heroin once in the distant past and used other drugs frequently like cocaine, mushrooms, LSD, MDMA, opium, etc... I could still get most of these but have no interest.
This comment and the other you've made on this article are so filled with contorted arguments that it's difficult to even start.
the same is true within the styles of music that I like. It was compounded by the fact the other centralized file hosts, like Rapidshare and Mediafire, were forced to delete TONS of content on the same day that Megaupload folded.
There are many obscure demos, rehearsals, etc. that disappeared from the internet and most haven't reappeared since. I knew some bloggers who had uploaded probably in the range of 5000-10000 old metal demos, and these guys were careful to not post copyrighted material, but it seemed like if they got even a single strike against their account, everything was deleted.
I hope someone imaged those servers, otherwise a lot of that content might be lost forever.
If the operators seem reasonable, you contact them privately with the IP and point out the implications. If they don't seem reasonable, you post it on Reddit and destroy their reputation. Unfortunately, quite a few operators are fools, knaves, or both.
I've never tried to promote it and have never updated it much, but there have been some random people over the years who have given me money. I had a few people send me 50$ unprompted, plus some people I met IRL pay for dinners and things like that when the topic came up.