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The medical condition is a predilection to addiction, alcohol or otherwise. Shame doesn't cure cancer or make you recover from a common cold.

A nice trivia fact I learned is that East Germany made the world's best selling digger. There's a fun documentary (in German) that covers this. The machine from the DDR is discussed starting at 27:53

Link = https://youtu.be/4TqJu0RS32w?t=1674

For a tech-focused discussion, it's interesting (and incorrect) to focus on labor vs. the outputs of labor: productivity. Productivity has outpaced the minimum wage over the last few decades, thanks to technology and other advances.

As someone else said in response, the first chapter of a HS economics textbook is not sufficient to explain the modern economy.

Do you have a camera in my home? This is eerily accurate.

None of these rules are for digital advertising as this article was written in 1982. This is also an advertisement, not a paper on JSTOR so you're not going to find citations. Many market studies are proprietary as there's no reason to provide information you paid tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for to the competition.

You are, however, correct, in that there is such a thing as advertising that is wasted. This waste is what has sparked the creation of the hypertargeted ad market we live in today.

Keep in mind this was written in 1982 and was therefore based on work done for Mercedes-Benz in the late 70s and early 80s. I don't know if this was an Ogilvy ad, but it purports to be from 1980:

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c3/21/d5/c321d520ec1207059c42fcbca...

By the 2000s, their dealerships' guides for top-end models (i.e. G class) spoke about how you had to get a new style once you bought a G class as you had become a new person.

Perhaps MB should go back to their roots.

> give me a videogame with one price tag that's made to just be a good game

I suggest you look into the Nintendo Switch, which has not only good games but also a wide screen and a headphone jack. And buttons!

I'd also add that any search should be for metadata attached to that piece of content. If I search for Jackie Chan, I want to see Jackie Chan films (or appearances in TV episodes) vs. the only film with Jackie Chan in the title.

It's a matter of scale in relation to your audience and data. Your local news site with users in the tens of thousands, is unlikely to have the capital to invest in geographic and demographic tracking necessary to provide a robust ads business. Easier to plug into a number of providers who already have that data about their visitors.

These sites have to do that to remain competitive.

The Friends minifigs are terrible! Their hair never stays on.

Every major retailer that sells Lego sets will likely carry or stock some version of a "classic" set which is 1000+ bricks that are the same as the ones from 40 or even 50 years ago (just available in more colors & perhaps some bricks introduced in the 80s or 90s). There's no license, stickers, software, etc.

Most of these sets are sub-$50, so relatively affordable.

Today's Parent dot com, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent article were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

With that out of the way, let me try and address this article, as someone who played with LEGO bricks in the 1980s and 1990s and has offspring that do so today:

1. The Instructions: There are more instructions in sets that are complex. The Model Team truck and helicopter set had 1,000+ pieces and tons of instructions almost thirty years ago. [1] There are still sufficient sets that are not complex and a wide variety of sets that come with no instructions. Not a valid argument.

2. The sets: Again, another fallacy. Non-branded sets still exist. Branded sets existed twenty years ago. This is a complaint about bad parenting (giving in to every demand from your children), not Lego.

3. The building method: Another fallacy. The building methods are up to individuals. You are free to buy whatever set you want and build whatever you want. You are, in fact, still allowed to take apart sets the day after you make them. (I notice that my children are very excited to do this as I was at their age but I am not).

4. Gendered toys: I have pored over local bylaws, UN directives, and have asked my priest. You can buy a Lego Friends set for your son, and a Lego Speed Champions set for your daughter. This is a parenting problem, not a Lego problem.

5. The advertising: This may be a valid point, but not for this argument because it does not affect the toys themselves any more than I could buy Legos at Toys R Us thirty years ago but not today.

6&7. The blocks & minifigs: Simple blocks are still available and you can build exclusively with those if you wish. Minifig choices are better as it allows to build different things (i.e. the cast of Top Gear UK).

8. Branding: I don't like branding in Lego, but this has been the case for at least twenty years. If you don't like the branding, you can buy unbranded sets.

1 = https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=5590...

Not to rain on your specific parade but I think enough "sharing" options have emerged (whether through regular chat, Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, let alone existing social networks) that I'm not sure what this is trying to solve. Looking at your first five features on the landing page:

I already have a set of grouped contacts across different apps ( Circles, Private Interactions) all with encryption (Encrypted Posts) and it's trivial to switch across apps to share anything, especially via the phone, which stores any media I'm sharing ( The Vault).

The friction from downloading a specific app then also getting all of my different contacts on that app so I can replicate functionality that already exists makes this seem like a non-starter for me.

Is there some additional functionality or hook I'm missing? Not trying to be snarky, asking genuinely.

They may already have recurring revenue that justifies this price.

This also occurred with IMDB. At one point the first Harry Potter film was rated #1 on the Top 250.

I agree with this statement but the solution is not solely crypto nor does that provide any inherent value to residents outside of those nations.

Those complaints have been raised for the last two decades and weren't heard.

Sony (the studio) is an "arms dealer" and works with many different streamers. No reason they can't do the same on the gaming side and release, say, Spider-man, on Gamepass or Stadia after sales on their own consoles slow down.

Stadia also has a lot of indie games but thanks to their sales, you end up with a comparable price to Steam sales. Disco Elysium, for example, went on sale for US$18 vs. ~$23 on Switch. Steam's sale price was ~$20.

In terms of what's available in an mass market electronics store, sure. Is it best in class compared to a receiver set up with casting and $2,000 speakers? No, but that's not the problem Sonos is trying to solve.

Sonos does part of this: when you set up the speaker it sends out pings that are picked up by your phone which you have to wave around like you're doing a cleansing ceremony. To my knowledge it doesn't do this dynamically.

It took your comment for me to realize what happened

XKCD #538 ("Security") explains this succinctly.

https://xkcd.com/538/

There's also only one Mona Lisa. Copies and images of it are just that.

I also can't think of the last time I saw Twitter's Failwhale, which almost became their default mascot at one point.

(Yes, I know they discontinued it, but I haven't seen the service "over capacity" in some time. I say this as a casual web user of it, not an active account holder or app user).

Amana is owned by Whirlpool. Viking is owned by Middleby.

> Edit: to add on, bikes are like 1-2 orders of magnitude cheaper than cars too, both in upfront and ongoing costs also. It’s super unfortunate that it still gets the stereotype as a “rich white people” activity when it’s really so much more financially accessible than a car.

The thought that biking is only for the rich is especially galling when I hear it said about NYC cyclists. The person saying this is thinking of the lycra'd-up dentist riding a Pinarello Dogma. The Manhattan Bridge had 180,000 bike trips on it this June. Williamsburg had 230,000.[1] Cycling is much more prevalent than non-cyclers think.

1: https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bike-counts.sh...

What I find interesting is that the writer goes through the trouble of answering a question that OAG has already answered[1], and he uses OAG as a source.

1: https://www.oag.com/blog/billion-dollar-route-jewels-in-the-...

Apple has FanDuel, DraftKings, MGM Sportsbook, etc. So it may follow the 5.3.3. rule, but it's certainly gambling in spirit if not in practice.

> As a result Apple missed out on the user-generated content wave, which was owned by YouTube and then TikTok.

I don't disagree with your take on Apple's perception. However, I don't think UGC is the end-all be-all. UGC is only useful for companies in the sense that it drives advertising. By changing its Privacy policies, Apple has managed to triple its advertising revenue in the last six months, now at $5B, with expectations of reaching $20B in three years.[1]

UGC is nice, but so is having the hardware and OS that the UGC runs on.

1: https://www.ft.com/content/074b881f-a931-4986-888e-2ac53e286... ($)