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I'm curious as to what pavlovian means here

I think the idea is to convey that just like a bell has no natural link to food anticipation of which causes salivation, the fact that x has always (at least as far as we remember) come with y which causes z means when we see x, we fear z will happen even though x and y need not necessarily have to come together?

I believe there are people who won’t forgive text drive / Joyent for their dishonesty and sincerely we must never trust the leadership at Joyent with anything as long as they roam the earth.

https://www.chargebee.com/blog/lifetime-plans-its-time-rethi...

Pavlovian conditioning [0]: "a learning procedure in which a biologically potent stimulus (e.g. food) is paired with a previously neutral stimulus (e.g. a bell)."

In my case:

food: losing all my data (or it becoming incredibly difficult to access / control / afford)

bell: uploading all of my data to a new internet product.

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Most companies have unsustainable business models (grow forever).

For startups, this is especially true (rapid growth forever).

This is a new internet company, but their whole shtick is that they have a sustainable business model. Given that data, maybe my bias is unfair.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning

https://www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html

The concept of (consumer-grade?) permanent data storage triggers some response from him.

They mean they've been conditioned to question or be suspicious of such a claim, likely through past experience.

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