This sets things up for all sorts of problems when people don't notice that the IDs aren't exactly the same.
At the moment, Google happens to be choosing car dealers as a fallback, but what if it instead fell back to a page "transaction a67cedf has been confirmed"?
I couldn't see any way for me to specify my location, to ensure I could actually buy the plants.
Upon clicking one of the plants, I see it was only American sites.
I get that this is just a hobby for the moment, but even if there was just a note somewhere, "USA only", that would have been appreciated.
It still irks me how Americans tend to treat the other 96% of the world as though we don't even exist on the same planet; that we're some sort of exotic tourist destination, or a spawn point for immigrants.
To be fair to OP, this is a work in progress and it seems reasonable that they have not yet internationalized it. The plants are listed with their binomial names front and centre rather than localized names, but the prices are in $, there is no flag or currency symbol at top right and its a .com domain.
Parochialism isn't the preserve of the US although I still chuckle at being congratulated on my command of English by a shop assistant in Naples (Florida). I just thanked them rather than pointing out that I am ... actually ... English!
>I still chuckle at being congratulated on my command of English by a shop assistant in Naples (Florida). I just thanked them rather than pointing out that I am ... actually ... English!
Thanks for the feedback - sharing this project has really opened my eyes to my own bias there. Still thinking through how to best expand the site to other countries but in the meantime I'll make sure to mention that the site is US-centric when I share it going forward.
This project seems wildly unscaleable − how much money and carbon emissions go into growing one piece of coral under this setup?
A government or philanthropist somewhere is throwing cash at corals, trying to keep them alive, without fixing the root cause of why they're dying in the first place.
I'm guessing this "solution" could even be net negative for world coral populations.
For all the trash-talk about .ai domains, it's disappointing that the authors fail to clarify that .ai doesn't necessarily stand for "artificial intelligence".
What did people do before Google Image search and the Internet existed? Let's block everything because a few entitled hobbyists no longer have a world revolving around them.
I assume you'd go to the library and find photo catalogues, but this is inconvenient and before my time. Nobody is suggesting everyone use this blocklist, but it's here for the hobbyists who want to use it.
Idk, if your aim is to find the "best talent", then what's the chance that they stumble along and you treat them like shit?
That's what's going to happen when you say "out of this other group, this 99% of people who I didn't want anyway, many of the Google Voice people were fraudsters".
Same thing for asking people to reverse a linked list on a whiteboard, or getting them to re-do their résumé, but in your HTML form instead of just emailing you their pdf. If you do ever get your dream candidate, you've pissed them off.
With most interview processes, your aim is to have a high degree of certainty that you will find someone in the top 1% or so of people, not to find the absolute best person. Given that, arbitrary filters that save your time are very much worth it.
When I lived in the US, I primarily used Google Voice, as I could still use it in foreign countries.
When I had asked T-Mobile to enable international roaming on a particular date, they said they would, but then didn't end up doing it, messing up my travel plans because I didn't have Internet when I arrived. Luckily I was in my home country (Australia) where I could speak the language, but it was a foreign city.
I eventually used someone else's phone to speak to a T-Mobile rep and was sent through a credit check, asking me my American social security number. I'm not American, I don't remember off-hand what government ID I was given there. Luckily I happened to have taken my social security card with me on vacation. I told them, if I can afford to travel internationally, you'd probably think I could also afford a phone plan; why am I being put through this bullshit and why can't you just keep your promises?
Not all advertising is for capitalist GDP maximisation − as a member of a political party, our biggest challenge is informing people that we exist, and that they don't have to vote for the incumbent parties that have kicked problems along the road, for decades.
If you ban advertising, be careful what you wish for.
I write all the content for the Non-Human Party, explaining how we can transition to a digital-first, opt-in society that respects robots, plants and animals.
At the moment, Google happens to be choosing car dealers as a fallback, but what if it instead fell back to a page "transaction a67cedf has been confirmed"?