once your wheels leave the road, its hard to slow down. Just getting to zero mph before flipping 100 times and rolling over would be immensely useful.

we already have it, it's called the Villages.

it's not a new thing

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/postage-is-due...

There have been various proposals for it before.

I never understood the rationale for not doing it.

email was included by ISPs as a service, people continued to expect it for free.

other networked systems (EDI VANs) charged traditionally per document, sometimes even per character.

though I mean people literally PAY to PRINT PHYSICAL CRAP and MAIL IT right to my junk box. half of my mail is junk.

how much is an email worth?

I get 2 or 3 pieces of junk physical mail, vs 2 or 300 pieces via email.

the higher, better, more up you go, the fewer jobs there are. that's why big league people at normal (not fang) ask for parachutes. there's not that many XYZ companies in XYZ area that need a CFO, CTO, Head of ABC. Anyone can get an entry level job, but the higher you move, the harder it is.

Also - do people who write ruby books make companies more money?

I wrote 90% of the code that processed multiple billions of dollars worth of payments just last year. By myself to start with, then with the robot once the patterns were established and I could be sure it wouldn’t break anything.

The company charged for each of these payments, netting them something around 0.5-1% per payment. You do the math.

Ever see Office Space? You missed an opportunity

yes the elixr market isnt exactly hot

it's like Uber, for lawyers!

how much 'novel' tasks are there in law?

next we need to end captive portals. Don't tell me there's an invoice, fucking send it to me!

"There's a new [some thing] that needs your attention" where the only email content is a log-in button needs to genuinely die.

Right? I understand maybe there are concerns about security, but at least let me opt in. Email delivery != email notification. I should be able to receive, digitally or not, mail from you, to my inbox!!!

Don't you all automatically delete any email from noreply@.* ?

so in order to unsubscribe from go daddy, you must also opt out of the 9.99/mo virus scanning?

This is actually a hilarious point. Some companies might end up making the sign up process more complicated in order to make clear that their cancellation process is equally "simple"/"easy". I guess godaddy is ahead of the curve on this one.