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DAC circuitry is a solved problem, any USB-C DAC will do. Apple makes one. Even their lightning adapter got good reviews.

They are $10 each. They can be attached to the end of your headphones and forgotten about.

You think Apple was dragged kicking and screaming into being able to sell the same accessories they have already developed but with a different connector?

Once the EU signaled they were going to mandate this, there was no reason to do it any sooner. When Apple changed from 30-pin, there was an uproar. “Now my iPod Alarm Clock doesn’t work with my new iPhone!”

Now gets it both ways: more sales, no blame. “The EU made us do it…”

> It is akin to someone knee deep in credit card debt taking a second job only to use the new income to open another credit card account and load it up with more debt

Any time an article compares government financing to your household finances, you can stop reading. The author is either misinformed, being disingenuous, or both.

> But this has no bearing on the question of whether it's rational to assign higher prices to naturally produced diamonds.

Sure it does. In economics, it’s called a negative externality, and it’s a common topic when discussing pricing the output of industrial processes.

>But unless they can all coordinate and change the market price in unison…

They don’t need to. We have governments that do that, through mechanisms like taxes and tariffs.

Companies are staffed by hundreds of people whose entire job, day and and day out, is to influence how you think about their products. You are not immune to advertising, and thinking that you are is naive. If your goal is reduce how influenced you are by people who sell things, understanding how they influence you and why is a better strategy.

Agreed, and it has been enabled by the expectation that women are perfectly capable of earning a living.

There’s work to be done on the procreation part, though.

Neither autographed memorabilia nor original paintings are regularly produced through the systematic exploitation and murder of entire populations, and neither autographed memorabilia nor original paintings had their value fabricated through a sales campaign which leveraged romantic conventions of western culture.

It’s not really a reasonable comparison.

Is the market for lithium going to collapse in 10 years? I’m confused why something taking 10 years is a problem.

The Canadian market is crazy, but comparing it to the US is not very illustrative. The US market is far more expansive, due to the amount of usable land and having 10x the population.

A better comparison might be Canada to California.

If the expertise is to be developed, is it better for the US to develop it on their own deposits, or on the deposits of a competing nation?

Apple makes high quality speakers and headphones, that’s the cross sell.

I’m not familiar with web platforms. Would you be willing to share what you mean about it being disrespectful of it?

Sniffies. It’s far better than Grindr in almost every way. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniffies

The user called catpolice worked there. Here’s a comment they made a few years back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783828

The classical market is primarily older, wealthier, and willing to pay for quality physical media.

This is a meme but it’s not a bad metaphor at all, and the Senator was unfairly maligned for using it.

He was fairly maligned for being against network neutrality, though.

People have all kinds of sex for all kinds of complex reasons, and have throughout history. You’re right that the repression of same sex attraction / expression / intercourse has led us to a place where “Born This Way!” Is the safest way to pose it.

I have met men who didn’t find other men attractive in any substantial way under their wives died. I have met gay men who married women because they fell in love with a certain woman, and sexual attraction resulted.

Prisons, gender segregated societies, and single gender schools are places where homosexual acts happen. It doesn’t really say much about the people themselves.

For some people, maybe most, attraction is “stable,” but whether that has something to do with their innate being or the conditions they live in, it’s hard to say.

As this point, personally, I see sexuality as less an identity or state and more of just an expression of what a person happens to desire over a certain period of time. Sexual desire isn’t all that different from hunger (the ASL signs for these are almost identical). A person could spend years of their life really into a certain set of foods, and then discover they’re into others. I used to hate mushrooms, now I love them. Hormones, environment, society… all of these impact “sexuality.”

The idea that homosexuality (or heterosexuality, for that matter) is a permanent state the persists through everyone’s life not only ignores the existence of bisexuals but is also ahistorical and probably an artifact of certain societies needs for categorizing people. I suspect capitalism has something to do with it.

“Tech”? What do you mean by “tech?” Do you expect Apple to remove the camera, storage, and networking capabilities of all their devices? That’s the “tech” that enables this.

How are individuals re-victimized with every share? That makes no sense. Your LinkedIn profile photo could be on a billboard in rural China, what would it be to you?

Goodreads was acquired and is kept on life support to funnel traffic to Amazon and keep competition for online book reviews from impacting the Amazon sales. It’s not clear that anyone even works on the site anymore, it’s a zombie.

> About 85% of American consumers with bank accounts are comfortable making recurring payments using those accounts, said John Anderson. He is head of product at Plaid, a fintech company that links vendors with customers’ bank accounts.

Plaid, who got sued for abusing their access to people’s bank info. Fuck that guy.

Disagree and commit is a leadership principle at Amazon. That’s why he used those words.

The headline of the article is "Remote work is here to stay," and I'm ecstatic about that, because my employer is one of those that will probably never give up their real estate footprint. I get the flexibility to work from home if I want and the option to come into an office that is cleaned and maintained by someone else. I can easily afford where I live, and it's in near other non-work things that I enjoy.

I don't work in the finance department. The company stock keeps going up and I'm enjoying my job. If either of those stops being true, I'll re-evaluate.

As someone who relocated himself to be closer to an office, I’m ecstatic about it. I live within walking distance of my office, and I basically have it to myself most of the time. A bright, clean, air condition, professionally managed placed where I can just focus on work, and when I’m done, I leave it all there. As soon as I badge out, I’m in family mode.

If a colleague decides to come in, it’s like seeing an old friend from college. We catch up, get some work done in a different way, and maybe get coffee.

I’m not concerned about productivity either way. What will get is what will get done, and I’m happy about it.

Regulation always benefits incumbents, as they are already positioned to both shape and comply with the regulation.

Note that Experian runs their own protection racket called “Credit Lock” that is different from a freeze. It costs money. The freeze doesn’t cost money only because congress mandated that it be free. That’s right, these fuckwits are so irresponsible and greedy that congress actually got off their sorry asses and made a tiny piece of legislation that actually protects consumers.

You can have winners and losers and also quantify the non-capital externalities in order to account for them.

What Adblock features are missing on iOS?

>I've realised this entire calculus is broken, because you feel good or bad based on people's reactions which is something you cannot control.

Yes. A thousand times this. It has taken me years to create a situational intuition around this. Another thing that I have had to learn is that people aren’t thinking about you nearly as much as you think they are. Like, take whatever amount of time that you think someone is thinking about you in any social situation, and divide that by 10. That’s still more than they are thinking about you.