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by rootusrootus 4d ago
An alternative example would be Apple & the Mini 12 & 13. They made money on those, too, but here we are.
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
Some cars have gone so far on the isolation and sound damping front that they pipe back in a little bit of engine noise (but only the part that sounds sporty) via the speakers.
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
There's only so much you can do. A car is filled with funny angles, plastics, and a lot of glass. It's never going to be a particularly good acoustic environment even if you manage to shield 100% of the road noise.
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
Whenever I think about light speed being fast, I imagine myself standing at the edge of the solar system and watching a hypothetical photon travel from the Sun to the Earth and taking 8 minutes. Suddenly it doesn't feel like light is
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
> They're bouncing off the interior walls of it at like a 45 degree angle billions/trillions of times before it reaches the other end of the cable At the risk of exposing how little I remember from physics, doesn't light i
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
> I don't know that the Ghibli makes the point you want to make. What point do you think I was trying to make? ivraatiems compared what he paid for a used iPhone on eBay to a new iPhone four years newer, and then said this was an a
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
> Even Iran has a better payment infra than the US. That is a big claim. What would prevent someone from setting up something equally as good in the US, aside from the network effect and users unwilling to try something new for uncertai
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
This is where you find out which banks suck, and which do not. I will say that while USAA is a long ways from perfect, when someone swiped my wife's debit card and took $5000 from our checking account, they put that money back within
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
It is interesting the breadth of experiences in this regard. I pay basically everything on my card, to the tune of 5-6 grand a month, including utilities. The only time I have ever seen a surcharge is for things like contractors doing wor
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
There is some nuance there. Cash is hardly free to process, and I have seen arguments that it is not far from the same overhead as credit card fees. So people who pay in cash are not subsidizing credit card users. Maybe it could be argue
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
Many of us use it exactly that way, though the rewards (in my personal experience) are immediate as soon as a transaction clears and not yearly. Carrying a revolving balance is a quick way to spiral into bankruptcy because the rates are so
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
> has the purpose of taking money from the poor and giving them to the rich Are you saying it is intentional ? Is it not more simply explained as simple greed by two companies colluding to keep competitors out of their market?
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
I hope they're wrong, I need to squeeze out 6 years for this career. Fortunately I work for a big stodgy old company whose idea of fast tech adoption is measured in years anyway.
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
I use it informally as a metric for whether there is anything meaningfully bad that I should be aware of. If this is what people bitch about, then probably the product is mostly pretty good.
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
> This $2,000 phone does not seem 8 times better than my $250 phone. Well lets adjust the comparison you just made, then. > A $10,000 car and a $80,000 car are going to be markedly different. I can buy a Maserati Ghibli for under $10K
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
People like to complain about the GPS but I use it when running and it'll easily show me what side of the path I was on at any given point. And the path distance matches precisely with other sources of truth. Maybe there was a time w
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
First the complaint is that steps are not on the watch face. Then the complaint moves to it not being part of Apple's built-in complications. It seems more like nitpicking just to be contrary. The data is there and easily accessed f
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
> do you know want to argue that united states of america takes good care of its people I'm not downvoting you, but perhaps the people who are are taking issue with cherrypicking examples, which are well known for a reason -- they a
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
How do these compare to the AirPods 4 ANC, I wonder? Hopefully not too much better given that I bought a pair of those about a month ago... :-/
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
A tragic case, and maybe things were different back then. Now, Lilly caps their insulin out-of-pocket costs at $35/month, insurance or not. Walmart has cheap no-insurance insulin, too, I'm not sure if that was true in 2017 thoug
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
> Apple made smaller phones, but they don't sell. They don't sell when they are nice phones, but smaller, and they don't sell when they are cheap phones and smaller. They funny thing is that the sales numbers were only ter
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
> die because of insulin prices Where does that happen? Even without insurance in America insulin is like 25 bucks a month.
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
I take it you are opposed to using non-Apple apps? I show step count on my Apple watch face.
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
On the flip side, Apple blows them away on feature set, and often on data accuracy. There is give & take, different priorities for different people.
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
Recordings, yes, but this is transcription.
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
I can't really answer that because I'm not the target for this particular model. I'd rather have a new Mini. But I think this could be really appealing for a large number of normies who have a phone as their sole computing d
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
Depends on if it starts to get a crease after using it a while. I tend to assume that this is why Apple chose not to adopt folding screens as quickly as Android phones did.
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
> $2,000 for a phone? Holy price point, Batman. No thanks. Isn't that basically in line with the competition? Cheaper, even, than some of the competition?
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
They made a better version of a Microsoft product, this seems like par for the course.
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
They need to just do both, honestly, whenever possible. Both methods have legions of fans and detractors.

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