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doing stuff normal people usually do

Steady on there. It is not normal or usual to give a handie in a theatre unless you're a teenager.

That's not the case. The following two statements can be simultaneously true:

• a sufficiently-good product would sell through word-of-mouth
• corporate executives are not satisfied with the small amount of purchases this would generate, because they want more profit.

Advertising is a way to generate morepurchases (and so more profit), but it might be increasing from a non-zero amount.

I don't think that the person you're replying to is entirely correct (some products or markets really do require advertising to make consumers aware), but they're closer to right than they are to wrong on a level playing field. But if the other side is using advertising, you basically have to do the same in order to remain competitive.

All but the last four were new to me, so thank you!

I would love to know more! Feel free to vent.

You can download it here!

Arguments about the definitions of Communism or Property aside - yes, my farm. As in, the one I work on. The possessive pronoun, despite the name, sometimes connotes association rather than ownership - I do not own my school, my country, my street or (despite what Republicans might wish) my wife.

Gamers are the only people who complain when something is improved for them for free.

In my first couple months, I broke Amazon so that no-one in Europe could buy video for a few hours. On a Friday, right before going on a week's vacation.

The way that the ensuing investigation and response was carried out - 100% blame-free, and focused on "how did these tools let him down? How can we make sure no-one ever makes that same mistake again?" - gave me a career-long interest in Software Resiliency and Incident Management.

Thank you for reminding me of my favourite Stewart Lee bit.

I think you're thinking of JavaScript, not Python. The closest thing Python has to a ternary operator is foo if condition else bar.

People complaining about a highly-upvoted post: we did it, Fediverse, we're finally at feature-parity with Reddit!

Good work, 47. Now get to an exit.