Yet another instance of a private company shitting up what should be a public utility

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    According to Unseen Japan, NERV is under X’s “Basic” API plan, where it can post 100 posts in 24 hours. This costs around $100, while the next step up requires users to pay around $5000 a month for usage of its API.

    Level 1: $100

    Level 2: $5000

    stonks-up

    Also, imagine if an American weather/disaster app was named after a fictional deep state organization. The devs’ lives would be in danger lol

    • GinAndJuche
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      HaHa, I'm in danger: a telecom employee that just saw an RV pull up

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    What a great time for this to happen, during a natural disaster

    Also is it really called NERV? Come on now. shinji-mug

  • GaveUp [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Does one of the richest countries and most technologically advanced really not have a public service/budget/team for this? The citizens have to instead rely on a private company running at a loss which is why they can't afford a higher Twitter tier?

    • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      The citizens have to instead rely on a private company running at a loss which is why they can't afford a higher Twitter tier?

      People used to see disaster prevention-related ads next to those tweets before those advertisers dropped Twitter, right? For big companies like Uber or Twitter (before Elon bought it), "running at a loss" was mainly an accounting trick, I thought

    • Hohsia [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Japan is even more cyberpunk than the US, no?

    • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Germany only got a disaster prevention app (NINA) after the 2021 floods in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Japan does have some civil protection features through its public broadcasting to my knowledge, but I suppose it works like here, that there are redundant firms offering the same service, such as the app of the German Weather Service (DWD), partially at least for disaster prevention services being underfunded.