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Tbh I worked in customer service for a long time and almost always we would give a refund for whatever the customers asked except in rare cases.

And exactly like you said if the customer cares enough to reach out, just give them what they want. Best case they are super happy and recommend you and if you don’t comply they might go ballistic and do all kinds of stuff that will damage the business way beyond what the refund costs (very little)

At the same time you’re underestimating it. Before covid almost no small businesses would offer card payment; now it’s common.

Sure there are some that are against digital payments and they won’t accept Wero neither, but I would argue the number is very small. And sure in bars/clubs/nightlife it’s cash only but that also won’t change - it’s for tax reasons.

People don’t like PayPal and only use it for the lack of a better alternative. EC is widely used and I bet that Wero will be as well.

Source: lived last 15 years in Berlin

Nah I sunk many thousands of hours into these accounts; definitely not a small cost. Sure I could get a new account and pay twice for the game I already purchased multiple times - that would’ve ground my gears too

I was forced to create multiple as part of the mojang migration - truly a nightmarish experience to use their AuthN, haven’t seen something quite as bad since

Thanks for sharing that, and I think it’s a bit more complex comment but just my thoughts from the top of my drunk head:

I think most of the sub cultures you mentioned are now firmly in the mainstream culture - it might just be my bubble/bias - but gay/black/furry/genderfluid/fandom/rave/techno culture is nowadays so prevalent that it doesn’t even register as something unusual.

To me that is a huge difference to 10-15 years+ ago and tumblr besides the chans is definitely one of the places that drove this change; also all the other significant social media’s of that era also had an influence of course. But the anonymity that 4chan provided was kind of unique and so the more extreme/unusual cultures gravitated there I think. Tumblr was special too for sure.

100%

It’s really hard to predict what becomes relevant - I would have never guessed that the “chad/stacy/virgin” archetypes are now so common place that even my grandma knows what it means.

Whereas other huge memes from back then like EFG never got popular.

“Winning” in Cuba would also be very difficult. Sure Venezuela looked cool but what really changed?

Liminal places like 4chan are upstream to mainstream culture/sentiment.

Most of the incel, anime, doomed, and bro culture that was prevalent / nascent there 15-20 years ago is now super mainstream.

Why should they?

Cuba is completely insignificant beyond some ideological value.

If I have the choice of being tracked by my government or a private profit driven company I’ll choose the former any day.

The company will sell all data to my government anyway if prompted.

Of course no tracking at all is the best option and I’m a huge proponent of cash - but it’s not always practical.

Not really: https://noyb.eu/en/fines-resulting-noyb-litigation

Sure 50 M or even 1 B might be peanuts for faang but still there is real progress.

Support Noyb at all costs

The alternatives still exist, there is just less and less reason to use them because they charge extra fees.

Something like Pix is a great blueprint for the future imo.

I don’t want international private companies controlling payments, better have my own elected government manage it.

Idk it’s just my experience from having worked in both roles 5+ years. YMMV

Of course all roles have aspects that suck. But for me FTE is so much less stressful than sales - but I make less money. alas

No I was confused that they wouldn’t count the browser users when there is no good reason to when they try to eval their user base? MAU commonly includes web users as well.

I blame TechCrunch for creating a website that I can’t read but yea fair criticism I didn’t read the article.

I didn’t question GP i asked if they knew why web users aren’t counted.

Do they explain in the article why they would only count mobile users as MAU?

Weird why not? I can’t read the article due to some nightmarish anti Adblock software they use wtf

You aren’t logged in on the browser when you use it?

Technical sales and customer growth also don’t get the cut of sales that usually the actual sales reps do.

In general i think sales reps make more money overall but have a much more stressful job and can get axed whenever they underperform for a quarter etc

Yea we also handled it ourselves the first couple years but it was so painful. Literally the same thing you described happened - as well spending weeks+ how we need to file it as tax when we pay bounty to someone in Pakistan etc.

This and the pre-triage are the only reasons we even use a bug bounty platform.

If paying out bounties was easy I would do it all via email; but as you said it’s almost impossible to do (unless you are maybe bigcorp and have a team just for that)

The “just choose to avoid” (because they are stupid and evil?) is very reductive.

I work at an open source company and we always avoided using APGL for many complex legal reasons - most of our user base would use something else if we were to switch license to APGL.

May they all heard too much FUD or are plain stupid but imo the reason is more complex

100% and I think this is echoed across the thread. It does apply to many many things that are uncomfortable/hard. You somehow have to power through the part where you suck a lot and don’t worry about it. Mastering that is a huge advantage in life

IMO I’m getting a lot of small stuff done that I wouldn’t have touched previously. It’s a little bit nicer for users but I would say the difference is marginal

You can already flag threads

It is what it is

But it’s not only toxic to the greedy corporations but all the others as well, hence

Isn’t that literally what the comment you replied to was saying?

That is horrible but robbing a liquor store dressed as a clown is pretty funny (in my head probably not irl)

Consequently 99% of software written is to make it easier to buy stuff (at least in web dev).

They say the internet is for porn but it’s really to sell/buy stuff

Edit: even with LLMs the “killer” application is to make it easier to buy things xD

He does look a lot better than his American counterpart