Mane25

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[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 12 points 2 years ago (14 children)

No, if it was unlimited, I should be able to pipe /dev/urandom to it for fun if that's what I choose to do. What's this about "gluttony"? They sold the service as that.

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 41 points 2 years ago (28 children)

Why, you know there isn’t mythical endless and free source of crab legs right?

If there's not then they have no business selling an unlimited supply of it.

Nobody should reasonably think there is. “Endless” is advertising.

Where I'm from services should be as advertised, legally so.

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If they were just honest about it and say "this is expensive so we need to put the prices up", I would have a lot more respect for that.

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 56 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember in the 90s, my dial-up provider started offering an "unmetered" plan with no per minute charge (for younger people, believe it or not we were once charged by the minute for connecting to the internet). After a short while we were inundated with emails from the ISP complaining that people were "abusing the service" by going on the internet for "hours at a time". Just reminded me of this and how it's an old excuse.

No, you can't "abuse" an unlimited service by using too much, it's unlimited.

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I was also, initially, a little bit confused with how this was being framed. I understand now having read it more closely, but on first reading of the line "The idea is to provide one more alternative – beside the Tor Network – to browse the internet with more privacy" because of the word "alternative" I thought you were suggesting it as a replacement for Tor.

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interesting, I remember there was a CGP Grey video on this if anyone's interested: https://vid.priv.au/watch?v=SumDHcnCRuU

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

I mean, 100% of posts get an automatic upvote because they all start at 1 instead of zero!

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If you upvote everything isn't that the equivalent of not upvoting anything?

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 10 points 2 years ago

I'm not familiar exactly with your posts, but I wouldn't necessarily assume the downvotes are for the reasons you think they are. Sometimes I'll downvote a post because I don't think it's relevant to the topic or that it's simply not interesting (and I really do view it merely as a vote, nothing personal). Then the OP will sometimes respond with "I can't believe I was downvoted because of x, y, z" where x, y, z really had nothing to do with the downvote. If I disagree, I try to upvote because it's on-topic and reply with my disagreement (which I have just done right now).

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

Of course yes, but it is mildly infuriating. :)

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Those are questions of metaphysics, and you're right they can't be answered by science. But you have to ask yourself, if they can't be answered by science, that is they can't be measured or falsified, then what meaning do they really have? If you think of an unknowable, non-interventional god, their existence is the same to us as not existing, so it has no meaning. Same with any meanings of life, or questions about whether we live in a simulation perhaps, anything you can't measure is just a story essentially, until you can measure it.

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

Like a federated god?

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