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andrewducker) wrote2019-06-06 12:02 pm
andrewducker) wrote2019-06-06 12:02 pm
Entry tags:
- ai,
- airplanes,
- austria,
- california,
- civilservice,
- conservatives,
- crime,
- crowdfunding,
- design,
- disability,
- doom,
- europe,
- euthanasia,
- fail,
- funny,
- glasgow,
- goodnews,
- government,
- harassment,
- history,
- humans,
- ikea,
- independence,
- insect,
- japan,
- journalism,
- kickstarter,
- labour,
- lgbt,
- lies,
- links,
- manufacturing,
- movies,
- netherlands,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- robots,
- scotland,
- security_theatre,
- simpsons,
- society,
- technology,
- trade,
- turing,
- tv,
- uk,
- usa,
- viadrcross,
- viaelfy,
- violence,
- weather,
- wwii,
- xmen
Interesting Links for 06-06-2019
- Kickstarters can go wrong in a variety of ways. This one really hasn't had a good time
- (tags:kickstarter CrowdFunding fail manufacturing austria )
- Boris Johnson failing to appeal to floating voters needed to win election
- (tags:Conservatives uk doom )
- The UK will probably never be as ready for no deal as it was in March
- (tags:government uk europe doom CivilService )
- Friends, Simpsons & Stranger Things living room, now available at IKEA
- (tags:IKEA TV simpsons viaElfy )
- Trump's post truth communication techniques cement his supporters' beliefs
- (tags:society lies politics usa )
- The Weather Forecaster Who Saved D-Day
- (tags:weather wwii history uk )
- Watch the former head of the WTO, back in 2016, pointing out the damage Brexit is going to do to the UK
- (tags:UK Europe Doom trade )
- Ann Widdecombe's one-woman show pulled by theatre after gay therapy remark, saying it will not 'provide stage for these vile people'
- (tags:LGBT )
- A disabled person talks about how they came to support Scottish Independence
- (tags:disability Scotland independence )
- Glasgow drives huge fall in serious violent crime across Scotland
- (tags:crime Scotland violence GoodNews glasgow )
- Labour will not win general election unless it backs second Brexit referendum
- (tags:UK Europe Labour )
- The euthanasia that wasn't
- (tags:euthanasia fail journalism Netherlands uk )
- California has 6,000 square miles of ladybugs
- (tags:insect California )
- Heathrow scanners will mean liquids can stay in bags
- (tags:airplanes security_theatre Technology )
- The Stigma Against Women who Report Sexual Harassment
- (tags:harassment OhForFucksSake )
- I'm curious how they lost the ability to make good X-Men movies
- (tags:movies xmen fail )
- The cutting-edge of cutting: How Japanese scissors have evolved
- (tags:design Japan )
- Robots pretending to be humans pretending to be robots pretending to be humans
- (tags:robots humans funny AI turing ViaDrCross )
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I sort of thought eventually they might relax security theatre. I guess finding a technological solution is one way to avoid so much hassle. Whether or not the solution really helps.
I guess we're still limited on water, just we don't need to unpack it.
"Kickstarters can go wrong in a variety of ways. This one really hasn't had a good time"
Oh dear. I do wonder how many projects at the "good prototype, willing buyers, no experience making a big manufacturing run" stage actually succeed -- it feels like even if the product is good, there's a lot of things that can go wrong at that stage.
I don't know if they'd have done better to cap the number and stick to the original goal. If that would have been smoother, or if they'd have had the same problems with less economies of scale.
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Oh dear, now I worry I got more sympathetic to the "must protect consumers from themselves" point of view that was reluctant to allow things like kickstarters in the first place (and still is an impediment to offering backers any monetary return if a risky gamble does succeed).
I don't know if people are just weirdly gullible, and willing to back products that look good, with no idea whether the creator will be able to make it a reality. Or if it's a numbers game, and every individual backer is reasonably cautious, but people who exaggerate their chance of success (deliberately or against their efforts to avoid it) find enough people for whom *they* look persuasive.
My experience is coloured because I've only backed a few kickstarters, fairly cautiously, and all have gone well. But Rachel seems to have been equally cautious, and backed kickstarters that looked like a good bet to me, and they were all a disaster. Or mum had a similar experience with ebay -- the first three things she bought all just never arrived, but as far as I could tell, there weren't any red flags. So I don't know.
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May I recommend https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-reader-view/
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