I don’t know if I’d describe safeguards against misusing electrical systems as dystopian. If a system is made for a specific purpose and misuse is highly dangerous and disruptive, I’d certainly support reasonable safeguards.

Can you spell out more why we need it now?

To settle endless discussions like these! ;-)

Or maybe we should throw them in jail.

I agree, but because the coffee is crap

And ridiculously expensive

I’d love to see a poll asking Americans: “Do you want to maintain the status quo?”

Looks like their net profit globally is like $90-100B per year. If you think of the share of profit that's coming just from the UK, this is probably very sizeable as a penalty.

Is it? What do you think?

Question for everyone:

Are you using delivery services regularly? How many times per week? Do you care about the cost?

I understand it’s popular, but I don’t use it and the people around me don’t really use it, so I feel out of touch with reality here.

I use it maybe once a week or every other week. It's maybe 10$ more than if I'd go pick it up myself, which isn't worth it if I'm ordering a burrito, but if I order for me and my fiance, then I'm usually getting like 50$ worth of food, and the convenience is absolutely worth it.

Also, given my salary, if I'm working late, it's absolutely worth it to order doordash if I'm tired. I wouldn't do it every day because it's harder to eat healthy and only a subset of food doesn't degrade in quality when delivered.

Imagine if you are paying to publish an ad. One ad platform sends your ad to everyone, the other allows the most affluent users to avoid ads. If you choose the platform where affluent people won’t see your ad, you’re likely shooting yourself in the foot.

Same here. I was shocked when I first read the offer and am still shocked now that I get such a large cash back rate. It easily pays for itself.

Spoken language descriptions of how to do something are incredibly underdetermined. Many people are likely familiar with the meme of following exact instructions on making a PB&J where a phrase like “put a knife in your hand and spread the peanut butter” can result in stabbing yourself and rubbing peanut butter on the wound. More than half of my job is helping other people know or otherwise determining what they really want a program to do in the first place.