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by hraedon 1y ago
"Working" is a pretty generous description of a policy that, at a cost of 3-4% of GDP, has raised the fertility rate from its low of 1.23 in 2011 to about 1.55 today. That 1.5ish TFR is pretty stable, too: there's been almost
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by hraedon 3y ago
This is the theory that people (on HN and elsewhere) have used to argue that Apple's App Store represents a monopoly that should be broken up. It makes no more sense here than it does in that context.
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by hraedon 3y ago
This is true of the switch, but there are versions of both the PS5 and Xbox Series that don't have the ability to play physical media. Do they skate because users can pay more to get a version of the hardware that has that capability?
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by hraedon 3y ago
This is what I mean! "You, as someone who isn't an Apple customer, can't use this one service" is not evil , for fuck's sake.
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by hraedon 3y ago
Apple restricting a free service to Apple's own users is not even remotely the same as Microsoft's various forms of skullduggery and I don't know how you can make the comparison seriously. It has never been easier to switch
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by hraedon 3y ago
Not providing every differentiating feature to Android users, primarily
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by hraedon 3y ago
This is such an insane take to me. Apple hasn't done anything but provide a feature that some subset of their customers in a single digit number of markets finds compelling. Do you really think that teenagers in America wouldn't b
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by hraedon 3y ago
If I want to "interoperate" with friends and family who use Android, I have zero issues doing so. SMS works fine, and the default experience being "bad" is really completely unrelated to any sort of antitrust concern. If
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by hraedon 3y ago
The relevant example here is that Apple supports the lowest common denominator standard: SMS. iMessage is what makes the experience "magical" on iPhones. The total failure of any open messaging standard to capture the market seems
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by hraedon 3y ago
This is a silly argument: Microsoft's bundling of IE resulted in real damage to another company (Netscape) that had a viable and independent competitor product. Beeper doesn't have an independent product: they have a hacky workaro
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by hraedon 3y ago
The colors functionally denote the features available in the chat. In group chats, having a single non-iMessage user devolves the features available to the group chat to the SMS level. You also lose E2E and high res pictures and video. The
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by hraedon 3y ago
I mean, Musk said that years ago on a podcast (and has maintained that position since): "I think the most profound thing is that if you buy a Tesla today, I believe you are buying an appreciating asset – not a depreciating asset."
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by hraedon 3y ago
The current subscription price is $1.50 a month or $10 a year, so presuming the same profit the cost would have to jump to a bit more than $5 a month or $53 a year. Apollo also had a lifetime tier that would have to go away, because it was
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by hraedon 3y ago
Assuming away all of the constraints that led to this situation in the first place does make solving the problem easier, for sure
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by hraedon 3y ago
I mean, are they wrong? Elon promised coast-to-coast summoning in 2016 with a time horizon of two years! there were supposed to be a million telsa robotaxis by the end of 2020! Like, putting aside everything else, it had to have been very o
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by hraedon 3y ago
Coal plants aren't profitable to run if they're required to retrofit for carbon capture, not many new coal plants are going to be built in countries that care about climate change (so requiring CCS on new builds has minimal utilit
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by hraedon 3y ago
It isn't an attitudinal problem, it is the logical outcome of our political systems. In political science it is known as Duverger's law: single ballot, winner take all systems inevitably tend toward a two party equilibrium. Changi
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by hraedon 3y ago
A judge imposing any penalties or restrictions on Google over Google allegedly—and maximally—scraping data from a third-party site for use as part of Bard's training corpus would be outrageous.
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by hraedon 4y ago
The median in April 2020 was supposedly around $75 (1), but it of course wildly varies from host to host. The common perception is that they significantly increased during and after the pandemic, but that as far as I know isn't reflect
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by hraedon 4y ago
I think we have already waited long enough with Twitter to conclude that the emperor, in this case, has no clothes. Twitter isn't like SpaceX or Tesla: there aren't enormous government contracts, subsidies, or climate credits to p
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by hraedon 4y ago
Twitter needs to generate roughly a billion dollars a year in additional cashflow just to service the debt Musk saddled it with. They already weren’t profitable, but let’s say that they were breakeven and that ad revenue would be sufficient
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by hraedon 4y ago
An adult is going to have very few instances where they are forced to spend hours of time around their abuser(s) relative to a child in school. "Training" someone to deal with being regularly bullied just means adding abuse from a
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by hraedon 4y ago
Because "solving it" can look radically different depending on the definition or group trying to do the "solving." Platforms enforcing their terms of service to ban, say, holocaust deniers, is not what I consider "c
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by hraedon 4y ago
Did you suffer any sort of consequence for your responses beyond being deprived of the ability to continue accessing their Facebook page? If not, you're really straining even the most generous definition of "cancel culture" b
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by hraedon 4y ago
One of his cited examples of actual "cancel culture" is the shouting down of Ilya Shapiro, an act he characterizes as "fascist and contemptible," and two others are either cancelings within social justice spaces or invol
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by hraedon 4y ago
That's a pretty tendentious view of both Popehat's expressed opinion and the NYTime's article. Popehat is pretty clearly against what he defines as "cancel culture," and the NYTimes article is primarily about journa
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by hraedon 5y ago
Even if the war ended right now, Ukraine has hundreds of thousands of refugees to move and shelter, huge amounts of destroyed infrastructure to repair and work around, most of their army expended, and a lot of civilian losses. They also won
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by hraedon 5y ago
Responding to huge events that were unfolding in eastern Europe? I get that the Euromaidan protests are inconvenient to Russian propaganda efforts, but why is it at all sinister that a U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eur
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by hraedon 5y ago
The point is that international affairs are complicated enough to make any principled stand difficult, and the world should be commended for rallying behind the idea that unprovoked wars of conquest are enough to get you excluded from globa
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by hraedon 5y ago
Ukraine has more reason than most countries to want to be a part of NATO, given that Russia invaded it in 2014 and seized territory. This war, to the extent it was provoked by anything other than Putin's hubris, was because Ukraine wan

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