it sounds like they don’t intend to declare “sold out” but delivery is at a slower pace because they’re facing the same hardware shortages as everyone else
New Reddit is clearly a reference to desktop reddit, though yes, mobile reddit is intentionally even worse to push you to the app (it can be trivially defeated by requesting desktop mode though, or there's always i.reddit.com ).
Right on, but you forgot to mention the other part of their business model with is to sell out their customer's financial information to the highest-paying bidder.
In addition to TurboTax, Intuit owns Mint.com, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and other services. All of these services are covered under Intuit's global privacy policy, which states that Intuit uses personal information in multiple privacy-violating ways:
> For joint features, sales, promotions and events. We may share your information with third-parties companies who are jointly providing features, sales initiatives, promotions or events with us.
> With financial services providers. We may share personal Information with collection agencies, credit bureaus and loan service providers, and payment card association members. We may also share your personal information with other companies, lawyers, credit bureaus, agents, government agencies, and card associations in connection with issues related to fraud, credit, defaults, or debt collection.
> We may share your information with our affiliates and subsidiaries for everyday business purposes as described in this Statement, including for marketing purposes.
Considering that Mint.com and Credit Karma are free of charge, it's obvious that Intuit is using personal information harvested from these services to generate revenue in the ways described. TurboTax and QuickBooks are mainly paid products, but have the same privacy policy.
On Intuit's privacy statement page [0] there is a "How We Share Your Information" section which contains the following paragraphs (amongst others):
> When you connect with an Intuit Platform partner. You may be provided with offers, products, and services from third-party companies who integrate with our Intuit Platform (“Platform Partner”). If you choose to interact with a Platform Partner, apply for their services or offerings or otherwise link or sync your account to a Platform Partner’s product or service, you consent and direct Intuit to share your information, including personal information, to the Platform Partner providing the service or offering.
> For joint features, sales, promotions and events. We may share your information with third-parties companies who are jointly providing features, sales initiatives, promotions or events with us.
> With financial services providers. We may share personal Information with collection agencies, credit bureaus and loan service providers, and payment card association members. We may also share your personal information with other companies, lawyers, credit bureaus, agents, government agencies, and card associations in connection with issues related to fraud, credit, defaults, or debt collection.
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I stopped using turbo tax a long time ago because of their privacy policy. I use olt.com now.
doesn’t really matter what the problem is attributed to when not enough is being done about either way (at least in the case of the US, can’t speak for Germany)
I'd be all for attributing it to not sweeping forests well enough if that actually got the funding to start seriously combating the issue, it’s a positive feedback loop that needs to be mitigated
No, how about we be honest with ourselves first as to what the real root cause is? Answering "Yes, but...climate change!" to "Is the cause actually due to poor forestry management over the past 50 years?" doesn't actually solve anything.
If it is bad forestry management, we can fix that and it's much easier to hold the people responsible for that job because it's a defined role that they failed at. Compared to how much climate change will supposedly cost us to fix and that it's much more arguable who is responsible for what...
Not hopeful in that, because it wasn't like California did good forest management with what we knew, but there were better strategies available. They did bad forest management, even compared to what we already know, and somehow they're going to do what they should have done already...
this is the problem… “california didn’t do this” “it’s not X it’s Y” - meanwhile forests burn; we’re going to die arguing. I’m going to go call my congressperson and end this frivolous argument! no offense!
Nothing has been done about “poor management” either so why exactly does it matter? Blame it on me for all I care, just convince half of congress do actually do something
Can you describe more of what you mean by that? What part of letting the richest companies on earth set up shop in your city and using little to none of that wealth to establish helpful social programs is progressive?
This is obviously farcical because SF does not exist in a vacuum separate from the federal government or the desperately poor conservative areas that siphon tax revenues from the progressive cities. Let alone the fact that SF hyper capitalism is about as far from progressive economic beliefs as possible.
But by the same vacuum-logic, Kansas under Brownback is what conservatism looks like in practice: a massive, unmitigated failure so big that even the conservatives themselves raised taxes. And that’s with all that free tax money from well run states helping out.
Well said, and great counter-example. People in this thread think "progressive" means "vaguely liberal west coast city," regardless of actual policy, economic systems or the broader context of what's going on in the entire country.
(my comment was hyperbole. it meant that 'solving' the climate crisis will become a problem for the 99% cuz the rich will not stop making money for the sake of the future of the planet. if they had to stop, they would've by now)
the first door in their video is built that way because you can choose which way it opens… a lot of poor ux is a cost cutting effort. It can be frustrating to find building fixtures that exist between lazy low-end and overthought high-end. Maybe because of how the middle class has been hollowed out?
Sure...but it would cost less in materials, packing space, and machining, to replace a handle with a plate. Yes, standardizing both sides to be the same may offset that, but we're talking negligible amounts at that point. You'd actually save a measurable amount on an interior door if you went with metal or hollow core.
it’s a race to the bottom, no one thinks about the door usability so the cheap glass one wins (they might even eschew a push plate because of potential fingerprints on the glass) - when you’re building cookie cutter offices no one cares about how the door works. The primary concerns are appearance and cost.
Reminds me of a quote by a guy named Gordon Bethune, the former CEO of Continental Airlines: "You can make a pizza so cheap that no one wants to eat it."
