mrgordon

The issue is the resale value for actual working GPUs is higher so the miners will often buy the normal cards anyway

The vast majority of W-2 workers can't deduct unreimbursed employee expenses. So it’s not even that they don’t incur them, but rather that “employees” aren’t eligible

You know Samsung lost a billion dollar lawsuit because they stole the entire iPhone UI right?

Yes but Samsung copied the iPhone so closely that they lost a 7 year $1 billion lawsuit and ended up settling out of court after appealing to the Supreme Court

They almost exactly copied the major UI features in violation of the patents so it goes well beyond whether someone had made any kind of tablet before

The Galaxy Book Pro (well at least they changed one word from Mac Book Pro) has always been a close emulation of the MacBook line as well

This doesn’t change the fact that Samsung always immediately clones whatever Apple does

I strongly disagree. The maps add tons of variety and the objectives force you to have team battles instead of just one vs one landing to last hit minions all game. Shared XP is another part of making it less about winning your one lane

The issue is they were late to MOBAs and made the game entirely free so there was no reason to really support the game. Eventually the finance people notice

Think of it this way, they could have bought something for $10,000 at the beginning but now that $10,000 item would cost $15,700 and they only have about $13,810 or less depending on state tax. (That assumes a 23.8% tax rate on the $5000 in “gains”)

So assuming whatever they bought doesn’t degrade, it would have been better to buy it in the beginning rather than invest and make less than inflation after tax

“The state has since given up on connecting LA & SF by high speed rail”

We are going to need a citation here because I’m pretty sure this isn’t true

Sure but the person I was replying to was talking specifically about Silicon Valley versus SF.

There are many cities out there that will attract people certainly. I don’t live in the Bay Area anymore so I can relate.

Maybe you should check what some of their houses are worth lol

Because the younger talent they’re trying to attract prefers a lively city to the suburban sprawl with good schools

This doesn’t solve the problem at all. Many of the NFT sites are hosting their own IPFS and many of the images have already gone missing from the IPFS because no one is hosting that file still.

https://twitter.com/checkmynft/status/1371633090318249984?s=...

https://twitter.com/scanlime/status/1371509988179464196?s=21

If you Google you will find that a lot of NFT art has already gone missing

Well when artists are pretending to sell art for $69 million to their business partners to create hype for NFTs and lure in clueless people who will lose their money on a pump and dump virtual asset then people start to feel like it’s a scam not just “excessive spending”

I mean this artist is now the third highest paid artist alive and it seems like he just pretended to sell the art to his business partner and the money transfer may not have even happened. That’s not excessive spending if true, that’s lies and fraud

> Diamonds are a great example. They are in fact scarce, which drives value, and the reason artificial diamonds don't retain value is because they are less scarce. Now work backwards.

Yep exactly. Quod erat demonstrandum

Sure but one bank went under in 2008 versus how many crypto exchanges that stole or “lost” deposits since then? The scale of issues is not even the same order of magnitude, likely at least 100 to 1 given how many banks there are and how many crypto scams there have been

Nobody said it’s what the people wanted all along. I miss the days where my songs don’t just disappear from Spotify because they renegotiated a contract. But there’s no risk of being sued and it’s cheap enough so it’s easy to subscribe even if it’s not your preferred solution

The WSJ has a ton of dubious articles. The Opinion pieces are garbage compared to the average one in the Times although of course both have misses

The WSJ has much worse editors than the NYTimes. They really allow a lot of bias.

I guess they see it as a small price to choke out the competition through acquisitions

Well plugging an iPhone 11 into the wall with the included cable would be 5W and the phone itself only supports up to 18W. So yeah plugging it into the wall will be super slow too.

So yes some people will buy a USB C to lightning cable for their older iPhone and a better wall adapter but most people will just use the included charger.

It has nothing to do with syncing. Many people charge their phone off their laptop using the cable.

The lightning is the iPhone end, that hasn’t changed to USB C. The USB A that goes to either the wall block or your computer to charge only became USB C three months ago. People constantly plug their phones into their MacBooks or other computers in order to charge them. It’s often not convenient to plug the phone into the wall and use it since the outlet may be behind furniture. It’s much more convenient to use the phone while it’s plugged into the laptop you’re already using.

It’s not about syncing at all

If you don’t understand this use case, then I wouldn’t make bold claims that *most* users never use USB A as it’s certainly false

Do you really believe most people don’t use USB-A devices anymore? Even the iPhone 11 is USB-A and that was the newest until like three months ago lol

What took so long?

Wanted to read the article but got redirected to a scammy pop up ad on iOS saying I have a virus etc

Anyone else?

Sad a major domain would appear to be running this malware

Haha guess it wasn’t such a good example then, I had no idea. But I do think Slack or Discord works as well as native Mac apps from the user perspective. I can’t really tell the difference between Atom and say the old Sublime Text or Textmate. If you told me they were all Electron I’d believe you other than Textmate being so old that it couldn’t have been when I used it

Oh I had no idea, thanks

Many cars like 4WD require all tires to be replaced at the same time to avoid weird issues like this with the automated systems

There is this meme that Electron is so bad but as an end user I have much better experiences with Electron apps like Slack and Discord then I do with Microsoft Teams or other competitor apps that don’t use Electron.

Is Microsoft Teams supposed to be the fast, efficient alternative because I don’t think so...