I think I understand a bit better now, thanks for your interesting comments !

I get that taste has a lot to do with it, but usually when I read one of the SF “classic”, even though I don’t like it I can see what other people like in it. Ubik is really one of the first where I didn’t understand this. I just read an article saying that what I consider a lack of connections between the different part of the story is in fact a writing effect, to make readers have a “dreamy feeling” while reading the book. I hadn’t considered it that way, and was looking to analysis like this, I’m not trying to tell people my taste is better, just wanted to have their input on the book

Exactly, this is known as the Jevons paradox

Who controls the couriers though

Not blockable by any government would be a positive in my book if it didn’t imply bloclable by a single billionaire with huge mood swing. Don’t forget how musk switched off starlink in Crimea at Putin’s request when the Russian realized starlink guided missile were heading towards their ships (Source

TBH he even started a concurrent of it, so he probably expected Twitter to lose value

Are you sure about that? Joinmastodon indicates 819k MAU, would you have a source you can share ?

“Millions of people” if only…

Negative pricing IS a demand shaping method, you need to have a certain % of the electricity produced that is consumed at the same time, otherwise you risk having an unstable electricity grid.

Nobody said we were holding you to perfection mate, we’re just enjoying your old ads

The kind of sentence you write when you’re still 20 words from the target your editor set for the article

You’ll never allow him to leave the sandbox?

Why Europe ?

Well this is dataisbeautiful, not dataiseasytoread 🤷

It’s already illegal in the EU, several influencers have had trouble with the law because of this in my country (France)

That’s very interesting, thank you! From the article it seemed that both company shared the same market cap in term of number of planes, but your message explain the caveats of it, thanks again

There’s no need to degrade performance to get a lawsuit, the simple fact of extrading data can get you in a tribunal, especially from customers with high privacy requirements, or with European sovereign clouds certifications

Would you say were you homelessnessing at a pro level or more at a hobby level ?

There’s an intern inside the server that checks every transaction by hand