Right, hold the most clandestine organizations in the world to the same standards as petty theft. Do we really expect the NSA to be trailing HN in knowledge on zero-day vulnerabilities?
I've been doing this too. I'm also doing this with NYT, WSJ, FT -- all publications behind higher and higher paywalls, all publications I tried, but ended up leaving because they still serve you ads on their mobile apps.
Now the question is this: if I didn't care or it wasn't worth reading, why did I click on it in the first place?
Perhaps I don't care about this content as much as I thought anymore. Maybe we've been addicted to reading content, rather than actually making use of most of the content anyway.
PS: I'm trying out The Guardian now. No ads for premium users on mobile.
I wish they finally could so I could stop being held hostage through multiple rounds of visual recognition tests -- how long is it going to take me to prove I'm human when I'm senile?
Honestly, I wasn't expecting this when I clicked on this story, but for me the next logical step ended up being to promise myself I will not read a single article about or sourced from instagram ever again.
I realized I removed the app to get away from it, and that I'm only reading about it because other people haven't. They're just looking for interesting ways to write about where they spend their time. I don't actually have to read this stuff just because it shows up here. I get that now.
The article is so cringy... made me say 'aww' a few times.
I don't know - sure, it's an outsiders take. Alright.
I kind of want my 6 minutes back, why is this even here?
I loved the article, but even if it were valued at $0, would that decimate and "shutter" the Vision Fund?