I think the real issue is that only one course of action is being forced on ex-employees, while the same option isn't the one exercised by current employees. Besides that, personally, I would be very worried about "paying up front" and opting into a process that is not in my control.
A close friend who is a professional has been losing customers because he was too careful and wanted only the most reliable thing for every customer. Customers drifted away, and business dwindled. Our guess is that word-of-mouth publicity stopped because "he takes too much time to get anything done". Things have started improving ever since he pulled back his quality slightly, thinking that if say a "small N" out of 100 customers are dissatisfied, at least the remaining will retain business.
Is that what is ailing Firefox? I mean is Firefox losing because it tries to be safest and the best for every user, while Chrome just carries on with basic safety and nothing more?
Given the fact that Firefox was ailing long before mandatory signing, this seems like a clear no?
Besides, this isn't "safest and best for every user", just like the quality vs speed tradeoff in your friend's story is not something he can decide entirely on his own for his customers (though there are other complications in real life)
Good point, maybe it comes from who's paying for the browser, hence how companies behind browsers are incentivized. Google gets money from advertiser and Mozilla from Google and users donations
Was thinking more like John Crichton on Farscape, as Bob's copies diverge substantially and immediately, whereas John and his duplicate spend hours repeatedly drawing at rock paper scissors.
> I could have 20 holding pens in the house and they'd still lose their stuff, since the idea that you have to exert even a minor amount of effort <now> by putting stuff in its place to save yourself much more searching effort <later>, is either lost on them, or they just greatly value the present over the future.
That doesn't give enough credit to the original idea. I know it's an exaggeration, but 20 holding pens will totally defeat the purpose. The idea is to have one place in every room where you can put anything. This saves the mental effort of trying to recall what is the place for thing-at-point. There is a place, for all of them, don't think about it. Just dwim it into the holding pen.
I came here to say the same thing. It's something I have been actively working on lately. It's quite an effort to pay attention to the small things, something as simple as making sure I put the mouse into my backpack along with my laptop. But the pay off is enormous ... I get a really strong sense of relief when I do find things more often where they are supposed to be.
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