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What 1k Days of Wordle API Data Reveals About How People Play(garbagecollected.dev)
2 points by ee64a4a 6mo ago|0 comments
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by ee64a4a 6mo ago
Hard to disentangle that from quarterly being the US standard, what with it being the most robust capital markets and nexus of major financial transactions.
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by ee64a4a 8mo ago
The Robber Barons weren't in the 1920s; that refers to industrial age monopolists (e.g. rail/oil), and culminated in the Sherman Antitrust (i.e. 1800s). Broadly, your point is still valid, though. Just a mild inaccuracy between th
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Valve Should Buy Discord (Before the IPO)(garbagecollected.dev)
4 points by ee64a4a 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ee64a4a 9mo ago
> Apple managed to become the most valuable company in the world without ads. Yeah, but what about next quarter? Jokes aside, they're not the most valuable company anymore. Nvidia is ahead, I think MS has jockeyed with them on tha
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by ee64a4a 9mo ago
Hi, thanks for pointing this out! Two questions: 1. Do you think that inaccuracy undercuts the point? If so, I'll correct the article; if not, I'll include it as a note in my planned follow-up. 2. Do you have the link(s) handy for
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by ee64a4a 9mo ago
Ah, okay, gotcha!
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by ee64a4a 9mo ago
> But I think your underestimating the significance of standing up Proton I don't think I'm underestimating it at all. Proton and SteamOS were huge, they were extremely well-timed, and they've been a boon for everyone in
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by ee64a4a 9mo ago
The "in reverse" framing was largely in reference to the fact that Apple built the software ecosystem after getting loyal hardware consumers, whereas Valve got loyal software users first and is now selling hardware to them. Othe
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by ee64a4a 9mo ago
Thanks for turning that up; edited into the article with credit to you!
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by ee64a4a 9mo ago
>> that this is actually Steam Machine 2.0. Valve already tried this a decade ago, and it flopped. > I find this framing to be beyond maddening [...] > It was also a thoughtful partnering with hardware vendors As numerous
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by ee64a4a 9mo ago
> I always laugh when a media outlet uses ProtonDB as an example I'm not a media outlet! Just some dope who noticed a thing and wanted to get the thought that wouldn't leave out into the world so I could use my brain for other
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by ee64a4a 9mo ago
I'm happy to edit to correct, but my own experience on Steam Deck has been that anything that's platinum (or native, but that goes without saying) basically just works, minor UI issues and the like notwithstanding. Considering tha
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by ee64a4a 9mo ago
> Well, Valve got seriously concerned about the Windows Store, like, a decade ago... Yeah, I briefly addressed that concern in the article as a comparison to Facebook; probably could've expanded on it, but it was already quite lon
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Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse(garbagecollected.dev)
148 points by ee64a4a 9mo ago|187 comments
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by ee64a4a 9mo ago
Excellent, another sector tending towards monopoly. As we all know, markets work best when everyone is allowed to merge with/buy out one another!
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by ee64a4a 4y ago
> Because you’re trusting both apple and the third party jointly, each of whom have different incentives. The cynical view, of course, is that Apple's incentive and the Third Party's incentive can become very much aligned for