I'll see your payola and astroturfing, and raise wining and dining newspapermen.

The point here is not that intelligence is somehow the super property where if you have slightly more intelligence then your neighbor that means you are better even if they are stronger, need less sleep, are more dexterous, are more mentally resilient etc. The point is that intelligence is an advantage.

But they might be pushing in the wrong direction.

> utility of the product falling down to 0.

Today a bank really sent me a legitimate email about trying their new site. Went over, it was their site alright, logged in with correct username and password - poof, instantly blocked for suspicious access (from my usual home machine), call helpline to fix.

Now that's safe ... and useless. But safe.

Reminds me of repl.it, which perma-blocked my newly created account before I even had a chance to type in e-mail verification code; in fact the notice about account block came before the one-time e-mail verification code.

I still wonder what did I do wrong (support isn't responsive). But it's true that we're both safe from having a user/vendor relationship now.

This happens to me when I inherit phone numbers previously flagged for fraud, then try to sign up for new services. My email is clean (I'm not a fraudster) but they ban me on sight based on association with a bad number since I never bother with the transfer process.

I always have to deal with this for the first year after changing carriers.

Where is the EFF, what have you done with it?

Killed it and made just another shitty "progressive" sockpuppet, like what happened to Amnesty International?

There is stuff conservatives can support, but some shitheads decide they just must make it a "progressives only" club. Hurray for inclusion.

In this case, "Ick, no!"

> old wives tails

Please, can I have that for my typo collection?

> faffing around

Sheesh, let the lab mice have a breather. Want them to solve physics during the trip?

> I've really thought hard about

Yeah. Financialize the economy presupposing a global open market, then subvert, boycott and bomb said market. So clever.

That was a highlights grade comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights )

And the last comment by 'oraguy' - I hope he just picked up another id because "never work for Oracle again" ...

what a horrible horrible read :|

Clearly shows that either no one understands the whole picture anymore or that it became so diverse custom, that this is the only way of handling this now.

I think though that these companies are more business companies than tech companies and move themselves into this nightmare.

"The first thing we do, let's AI all the lawyers" ?