Marcus Persson (Notch) answers an offer to track people across the internet

soundhaudegen · 2012-05-25T01:02:03.095013+00:00

Hmm, makes sense. I guess our retail niche (or retail in general) just doesn't fit the overall idea of retargeting. In our case we figured that people had just already made a choice to purchase with somebody else, and then they're done - hence the crappy performance.

soundhaudegen · 2012-05-24T21:44:29.658361+00:00

How well does retargetting work for you? A company I work with experimented with it a while back (e-commerce site) and it didn't convert well at all.

mepper · 6 days

The differences between our alcohol prohibition and what's happening in Mexico are not lost on me; their situation is indeed a lot more far gone than ours ever was. I realize that ending prohibition wouldn't end the cartels over night, they will still be a huge problem for Mexico.

I still firmly believe that this is largely due to the environment created by drug prohibition, and that ending prohibition would scale those problems back significantly.

I don't live in Mexico so I don't know their situation first hand; but I do live in central Texas, and the cartels are already here - so you can understand that I am amply concerned with this whole matter.

It's only a matter of time before these cartels become emboldened enough to start leaving mutilated bodies on the streets where I live, too. Prohibition is making them stronger ever day, it is one of their main roots and we need to sever ASAP it because it's already taking growth here.

mepper · 7 days

Yes, of course. That's why we have such major problems with the violent alcohol cartels here in the US today, because once they started shooting each other over it, it never ever stopped, right?

mepper · 7 days

You're whole premise seems to be that legalizing the drugs won't stop the cartels from killing eachother over drug business; this premise is flawed.

These organizations resolve their disputes violently precisely because there is no legal means by which to resolve disputes.

Legalize the business and the violence surrounding it will decline dramatically. Will the cartels whither and die as a result? No, because they've already made billions upon billions of dollars from prohibition, and they've already invested billions upon billions into other unrelated criminal rackets like human trafficking. There's no undoing that.

But it is still a step in the right direction. Ending alcohol prohibition didn't make the Mafia go away, but the violence surrounding the illegal alcohol trade did stop and I doubt you'll find many people who would argue that ending prohibition did more harm than good.

Kobrazx · 10 days

No problemo, thanks for taking my comments constructively.

Kobrazx · 10 days

It's not what you said, but how you said it ... "fucked her twice last night" is a fairly excessive way to mention your healthy sex life, and comes off strongly as bragging.

Kobrazx · 10 days

http://i.imgur.com/JNSBV.jpg

WayneSchlegel · 14 days

Doesn't yawning also equalize the ears? I wonder if perhaps the dog yawns as a natural response to the pressure changes.

TimKearney · 29 days

I can think of worse ways to go :P

TimKearney · 29 days

Nope, this was in Texas.

TimKearney · 1 month

Sorry Mods about the lack of a [spotted] tag, didn't know about that until after I submitted :-/

smaule · 1 month

Ah, gotcha. Your previous post just struck me as sort of dissimisive of the issue.

smaule · 1 month

There are certainly some bigger issues out there, but this is still a major one. Quoting Revvy from a different branch of this thread:

It's not about drugs, it's a huge individual rights issue with far reaching implications. It's a major issue of government corruption, the sanctity of law and, the subversion due process.

maxwellhill · 1 month

You make good points, and my statement was an oversimplification of the failures that made 9/11 possible. Certainly efforts should be made to check for serious weapons and prevent acts of agression every step of the way - this is not a wild concept.

But it needs to be done within reason, and what the TSA is doing is way outside the bounds of reason. There is no evidence that they've done anything at all to improve deterence. There is no evidence that we are any safer. And we're not just talking about planes, mind you - the TSA is setting up unannounced road block check points and conducting random searches on public buses.

This does not protect America - it destroys it. The founders of this country created the Constitution explicitly to prevent the government from doing what it is doing now, and they warned heavily against the people allowing themselves to be scared into compromising our freedoms - and with good reason.

maxwellhill · 1 month

So, you believe in the rock that keeps tigers away?

You're goddamn right I'm going to focus on reported instances, rather than imagined instances. Deterrence and prevention? We didn't exactly have rampant terrorism before the TSA. Of course 9/11 was horrible, but it was able to happen because the feds didn't communicate and follow up on the intel they already had - not because we didn't have nudie booths at the airport.

edit: removed previous edit.

maxwellhill · 1 month

Read around. Not one single known instance in which the TSA prevented an act of terrorism. Unkown instances? Possible, yes, but I base my judgements on available information, not indeterminable possibilities. And considering how they tend to perform when their security measures are tested, I'm not about to give them the benefit of the doubt.

edit - missed a word.

lepercq · 1 month

Shit, I thought your post was serious. I hadn't realized you were mocking the parent post earlier.

And now that I've read over your post in context - it's still disingenuous and asinine. 34679 is talking about people shopping at a different store if the one they normally frequent adopts a policy that the shopper doesn't like. Your attempt to analogize that to people leaving the country because they don't agree a new law is so absurd that I can only assume that I'm feeding a troll right now.

maxwellhill · 1 month

We need to get rid of the fucking TSA. We have never needed them. They have never prevented an act of terrorism.

The TSA exists for the sole purpose to violating people's civil rights, and getting people used to their rights being violated.

Derelyk · 1 month

This is absolutely correct, and scary as hell.

lepercq · 1 month

Yeah, pretty weak argument.

All citizens are free to leave the US and renounce citizenship should they disagree with the rules.

As if one could just wander into some other country and happily live there for the rest of their life? No, that is not even a remotely practical argument.

There is not a single habitable, accessible peice of ground left on this planet that isn't claimed by one country or another. Getting citizenship in another country usually isn't a simple process, nor is integrating into a new culture, nor trying to find a job in a different country.

screaming4metal · 1 month

Thanks & uptokes!

screaming4metal · 1 month

I realize it's not directly related, but this seems like a good time to trot out the Good Cop Greg I whipped up a couple of months ago :D

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