I can imagine a world where big tech is proud of being so enticing, so invaluable, that a country codifies a right to use their kinds of services into law. - My two cents there on a different HN comment talking about regulating some service providers like utilities.
Escalation to their buddies inside the company failed, that’s the wild bit in a huge way.
Most interesting speculation was probably someone saying something about anti-money laundering laws more or less including gag order-style provisions. So if the gift card thing tripped a filter, then maybe no one at the company would be able to help, and at that point, I suppose they’d need to take it to the courts(?)
Food for thought:
![Hacker News comment thread: rvnx: "Lot of arrogant people here who think they are safe and better than anybody and blame OP. It is totally normal in today’s world to depend on cloud services and reasonably difficult to do without it. In China: no WeChat you are practically dead. […]" | Waterluvian: "I’ve interpreted it as a sort of head-in-sand coping mechanism for those low-likelihood, high-consequence events people feel powerless over. It’s less distressing to be powerless if you decide that the real issue was a fault by the victim and not a powerlessness you have in common with the victim."](https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/221333f8-60cc-4eed-a1a1-837c99f6f996.jpeg)
Always room for disagreement
Tangentially, this reminds me of some advice I read on whole home water filters. Get this one or get that one. but get it from a local business who’s been in your area for years and years. You will have a problem with it. You are going to need someone to call. And they say, just plan for that from the start.
UHG not that
Almost rather someone do a bad smiley (you know what I mean :)
I don’t bother with vowels or spaces, never mind punctuation kill me please(?!?!)
I gotchu long as your clipboard works:
Great points
Hey ya think if the coolest thing ever were rejecting consumerism it’d make it palatable? Like your kids’ friends relish in having only three high-quality outfits or something, and read library books for fun… (like their parents)… then maybe your kid doesn’t beg for the cool new toy.
Pipe dream ya just thinking in that case if commenting about rejecting consumerism helped spur a trend it might be OK. Think TikTok driving Stanley thermos sales but the opposite
Edit: “can we get minimalism viral again”
clears throat Don’t you think we should ask for more than a million dollars? A million dollars isn’t exactly a lot of money these days. Virtucon alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year!
The people who said bad things I mean didn’t have an excuse, like they were just worried about what it would mean for any family farms
ahahaha PSP Fat!!
some people acted like it was a bad thing that they were girls
& guessing they weren’t rural farmers or born in 1800 or anything
Different guy here, finished reading all comments—just happened to read though.
Any thought on editing your title just to add [AI] or [Generated]?
So folks don’t scroll past and mention this image to a friend later and get “bro that wasn’t real!!” (how embarrassing ;) )
Impressive. And perhaps also clever, depending on whether that was what you predicted would happen! :)
And you never mentioned anything related to litigation, it was just a polite recording request? Maybe you mentioned the dishonesty, or kept it generic…