Seems insane that the funeral rule exists, but then click to cancel doesn’t. It’s legally required a funeral home gives me pricing over the phone and support many specific requirements, but my ISP requires a long phone call to end a subscription.
Waste of resources from my perspective - is this really a good use of government resources? I’m not even on that side of the fence.
Transparent pricing on other things would also be good. But the funeral rule exists because you are not usually an emotional wreck when dealing with your ISP.
There is a saying that regulations are written in blood. Regulations get written when somebody has been harmed. It takes a long time, because they have to balance a lot of different perspectives. They tend to keep the focus narrow.
Funeral homes had a particular deceptive practice. It harmed enough people that the FTC got involved.
Deceptive subscription practices are also harming people, and the regulation is being developed. But it's no surprise that the FTC didn't just invent it on its own, because that's not how they work.
So we get one and not the other because regulations are developed piecemeal. It would be great if regulators had more freedom to rewrite regulations to remove "code smells", but that's not how it works.
It's why regulators get antsy when people complain about "regulation" as a general ill. The regulations aren't always well designed, and even when they are, things change. But people get the idea that every inconvenience is some kind of conspiracy against them, without even trying to consider why the regulation came about and who still might be harmed by removing it.
I’m not in the target market, but most people have no idea what gpt-40-mini is so while it might make sense to list it in the HN title it probably doesn’t make sense to use that term in the dashboard. AI likely makes more sense, or just machine learning
I thought you were about to pitch 3 dimensional space. Like iPhone app pages but instead of a few pages left to right, it’s a 3d cube? Sounds useless and no different but also very exciting
The research goes beyond observing spaced repetition it shows that essential features of memory formation like encoding and retention of temporal patterns occur outside the nervous system.
This seems like pretty weak evidence compared to what’s shown in other sources like Venona. Regardless - if someone does not do the spy work themselves, but is aware of, married to, and likely supports in some way a spy.. have they committed any crimes?
B2B is kind of weird in advertising - you are still just selling to a person. So even Facebook advertising is used in b2b because targeting by job title/interest area is strong there.
IMO there isn’t much of an upper limit, as long as roas is decent the limit exists elsewhere (manufacturing, people, etc) and any gains in those areas means more advertising spend is viable.
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