[aspyct]

"made purchases of things that I didn't know about that looked interesting"

Interestingly, that's precisely the reason I hate targeted ads. They just make me buy more things I didn't otherwise need.

I see your main point though, it's nice to give the choice.

[ponker]

jedberg likely has a lot of cash to spend on random shit, he ran Site Reliability at Netflix which pays its entry level engineers $400K.

[obmelvin]

just for other people's context: "entry level" in netflix is not the same as entry level even at other big companies (i.e. FB or Google), they only take experienced engineers

[bigbubba]

Frivolous overconsumption is harmful to society and the environment, not just to your wallet.

[hated]

The large amount of debt ceded from society to jedberg in exchange for aiding and abetting the pollution of peoples' minds is morally reprehensible and disgusting to me

[ponker]

You think Netflix is polluting people’s minds? What’s OK with you, reading Wittgenstein over backgammon?

[hated]

Watching ads

[ponker]

Netflix doesn’t have ads.