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Probably because some kids will grab the most complex book they can find and read it without being able to understand anything.

People don't pay for little utility apps anymore since Apple/someone else will always end up providing a better version for free.

There is still plenty of money to be made in more powerful apps though. I recently spent $15 on Procreate (A drawing app) and it is currently ranked #1 in its category. The other alternative is subscription pricing which is also very popular with apps these days and often bypasses the Apple tax

We are about 10000 steps away before worrying the power usage of websites. Transport and energy generation changes are many many order of magnitudes more important

God that would be useful. The least enjoyable part about using an iphone is all the media elements that show up blank because it uses vorbis/vp9

The problem is how do you prove you didn't base your ideas on what you saw? If you never saw it then its easy to say you can't have copied it.

A real improvement would be to reduce the amount of grain we need to produce. Cutting down on beef consumption would have a huge impact.

One of the things I love about my city is it was designed with a ring of parklands around it so even people living in the city without a car can access fairly undisturbed nature.

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Didn't hangouts have a business version as well?

I'm not exactly deep in the fountain pen community but it looks like to me that fountain pens are the pen version of mechanical keyboards or mechanical watches. The ordinary person doesn't own one and would likely see no benefit from one but a bunch of enthusiasts continue to keep them going.

I think I witnessed the exact moment cursive officially died in my area. I was born in 1998 and some time in primary school (Don't remember when) the school was teaching non cursive to the lower years and cursive at about year 5 (I think) the year I reached that year they had removed it from all years and it was never taught for the rest of the time I was in school.

Yes but there is a version without the talking

IMO discoverability is an anti feature. Having random people drop in constantly means you can never have a real community or users that are even familiar with the rules.

I love things like IM groups/discord servers because they are somewhat hidden and hard to find. You get invited by a friend or see a link somewhere and join and when you do join you tend to stick around for a while.

How many last straws is reddit up to now?

I only know her from the song.

Is it pathetic that we find 100+ year old buildings and designs beautiful? Aesthetics are reasonably consistent outside of design trends and hype. The old macbook was and always will be very nice.

Imo the core mistake is that it replaced the top row of buttons. Those media keys are super useful very frequently. Having to tap the expand button and wait for an animation makes them much less useful. They had plenty of space to leave the old row in and make the touchbar for application specific buttons.

Music streaming doesn't have many real players. Spotify got in first, apple and google use their huge userbases to push their product and everyone else is irrelevant. If you wanted to make a new music streaming service you could never get anywhere close to big.

Spotify would probably be dead by now if Apple and Google didn't do such a poor job.

Yes there probably is some blame on the hospitals for not securing things well, but there is a huge difference between preventing something from failing, and preventing something from being actively sabotaged.

If a hospital had random power cables everywhere and someone tripped over one and unplugged an important device, that would be far far more on the side of the hospitals fault than an attack on the computer systems.

Terrorism is a buzzword that means "Person I don't like" now.

I think phones have largely become good enough for a while now. Apple is selling less phones every year because people are holding on to them for longer. The strategy now seems to be getting users to get all the accessories / ipad as well as a phone.

If tech was actually paying enough to raise the cost of living significantly over the entire country than people would flood to it lowering the pay enough that this was not an issue.

The end result will be a huge equalization in pay. People in low cost of living areas will become a lot richer and those in high cost of living places will become a lot poorer.

Likely those high cost of living places will quickly drop in cost as most people spread out.

Reddit is now bigger than twitter and is still growing. Their new platform is constantly pushing advertisements / forcing the app/signups which likely drives their profits up even higher.

Most of the severe cases are old people, most old people are vitamin d deficient. This could be a whole non finding.

So it looks like the youtube-dl repo owner has made no effort to reject the DMCA claim which github needs them to do before they can restore the project.

I'm just saying it doesn't matter how the internal economics of the company work. Look at the end product and think "Is this providing enough value for its price". Trying to track a $3 cost savings through a complex supply chain is fruitless.

If the savings really did just go to C level pockets then the product next year would be less compelling than the competitions so you would logically pick the other offerings.

It seems like the price is fixed. Apple has done the research to know exactly what price they can sell the phone for. The only variable factor is how much stuff they put in the phone. When manufacturing costs go down they add in something that was previously cut due to cost.

It is weird that they keep selling the XR but while I was at the store they didn't even show that as an option. It was just the SE, 11, 11 pro, 11 pro max.

They also moved OLED to the regular phone and added 5g. Without internal information its impossible to know what cost what. I doubt the brick and airpods cost anything more than $4.

Every single brick I have had on an android phone for the last 10 years work on the iphone. The last 5 years of phones my family has got have come with usb C bricks too.