comice's comments

comice | 1 month ago | on: Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study

The comment was about heroin. Were you offered heroin?

Is cocaine and marijuana available from the government too? If not, what relevance is your comment?

Was this the first and only time you were waiting at a bus stop in Switzerland? If so, perhaps a notable story, if not then we'll need more information to conclude how bad this thug problem really is in Switzerland.

comice | 9 months ago | on: Player Piano Rolls

I came across a player piano in a charity shop - they really wanted rid of it and I bought it for cash I had in my wallet, and much less than it cost have a piano movers deliver it for me (which was surprisingly cheap itself tbh!).

It's in quite some state of disrepair, with most of the tubes rotted. I'm (very slowly) restoring it. It's fun but it's a piano too, so that part needs restoring first, and then the player mechanism next. So many small parts to attend to.

Anyway, they can be quite cheap to get if you're happy with a broken one, because they're hard to move (they are even heaver than a normal piano!). Just try get one that at least works ok as a piano!

https://johnleach.co.uk/posts/2023/06/27/i-went-to-the-denti...

comice | 1 year ago | on: European Cloud Computing Platforms

Democracy is the rule of the people.

Companies and banks aren't interested in investing where the people have power. They want to invest where the companies and banks themselves have power.

So long as the companies and banks can influence the gangsters, they don't care.

comice | 2 years ago | on: Bluesky's stackable approach to moderation

Not to be nitpicky but it's not quite that simple. BlueSky is a Public Benefit LLCs which is explicitly for-profit but does have some other limits - so it does count for something. I can't find exactly what BlueSky's public benefit is claimed to be though.

https://theintercept.com/2023/06/01/bluesky-owner-twitter-el...

"Liu, who answered some of my questions, did not respond when I asked for the exact language the Bluesky PBLLC used to describe its public benefit mission when incorporating the company. She also didn’t say whether the company would publish its annual benefits reports — reports that PBLLCs are required to create each year, but PBLLCs incorporated in Delaware, where Bluesky was incorporated, are not required to make them public."

comice | 2 years ago | on: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

if you want your stuff to stay online for 100 years, then the question should be: is this wordpress deal the most likely way to achieve that (within your budget).

Do you know of an option that is more likely to succeed, for the money?

comice | 2 years ago | on: We raised a bunch of money

yes very common. therefore it's highly unlikely to be what OP is asking about.

by this point, it's hard not to conclude that OriginalMrPink and I are being wilfully misunderstood here.

OP is interested in more details about the deal, particularly what power the investors might have, to ascertain for himself to what extent the investment might change the business.

comice | 2 years ago | on: We raised a bunch of money

you are telling us what fly will be spending the money on.

what OP is asking is, what did the investors receive in exchange for giving fly the money.

comice | 2 years ago | on: We raised a bunch of money

yes and I reread it a few times in case I was missing something. I even turned my adblocker off in case it was removing the section that answers OP's questions but it didn't appear.

It's obviously perfectly fine if you don't want to or can't answer those questions and nobody is owed answers to them.

Just, you're known for a straight talking style so the omission is conspicuous.

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