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by Panzer04 3y ago
But there's effectively 0 barrier to moving to something else, right? The simpler the API, the less lock in effect you get.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Interestingly enough, this guy solves that problem by... not selling it. Which rather defeats the point I'd imagine, for most thieves.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Is the implication instead that children should have two parents? Ie. Sharing the burden, more perspective and the like cause the benefits? If so, given that most children are born of conventional couples, it makes sense to say they should
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Thanks for the reply, I get where you're coming from. I think I mostly just wanted to bring up the implicit assumptions that are made about the problems a certain group can have. I suppose a lot of these issues come down to these subtl
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by Panzer04 3y ago
What makes you say the problems facing people other than man are far worse? I'm genuinely curious, because often conversation around these topics will go along the lines of "well, women have to worry about getting beaten up"
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Oh, very interesting. I'll have to look into it.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Thus is how some video encoding algorithms ans the like sort of work, iirc - you encode interface differences under the assumption that any particular part of the screen isn't likely to change much. Encoding algorithms end up getting s
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by Panzer04 3y ago
JPEG is lossy though - I'm pretty sure these theorems only really apply to lossless compression, because if you allow lossy compression you can do all kinds of things to different t types of data (pictures being the classic case of per
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by Panzer04 3y ago
It is easy to say from the outside.. but everyone else seems to make it work. What makes reddit so special it shouldn't be able to afford to pay for itself? It doesn't make sense. Every social media company with this kind of mass
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Reddit is a forum. It should not be hard to make money selling ads on the most popular forum on the internet. Hosting costs should be jack shit, developing costs should be pretty low, etc. Reddit must be funking up in a pretty fundamental w
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by Panzer04 3y ago
"Core" user base != tyranny of the majority. Alienating a huge amount of clearly passionate reddit users in favour of Joe schmoe browsing on the train home sounds like a dangerous decision - reddit sti needs all those people who p
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Reddit destroyed any trust they had, so I'd guess it doesn't matter that much what they say in response at this point. It's too little, too late to say you'll keep API free for some people at this point. I think there&#x
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Really? That's very interesting, and good to hear. I'll have to look more into it, because that's really my main concern long term. Not that I have any real control, but I'm reticent to support platforms that could still
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Er... Windows PC says hello? Arguably Microsoft isn't "fully" open but Windows PC gaming is as open as it gets, and for all the complaints it is glorious compared to almost all other alternatives, if we're honest.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
You can't remotely compare how hard it is to get some things on apple hardware vs pretty much anything else. You can get emulators for pretty much everything on android, the same doesn't exist on iPhone. I don't get the point
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I would have imagined an apartment block would be by far the most valuable thing a developer could put on a property if permitted and in the right area. At worst, usually you'll do better with 4-6 units on a single block than a single
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Fair points. That being said, I'd value the participants more so than the run-of-the-mill lurker. One creates the content for the lurkers to consume. Reddit makes money on the lurkers, but the NEED the commenters and mods to maintain t
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by Panzer04 3y ago
What's better? A site where people love your service and aren't looking for alternatives? Or one where you've pissed off a decent portion of your userbase, encouraging them to be on the lookout for alternatives to move to? Re
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Worth noting many subs actively voted for the shutdown. It's very much a case-by-case basis. Also, shitting on your userbase only works for so long. You keep consuming people's trust and you eventually reach a tipping point where
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by Panzer04 3y ago
The concern I have with these federated instances is I don't see how they resolve the long term problems of stability. Content on instances can disappear at a moment's notice if it goes down. My favorite part about reddit is the a
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Flooding the housing market with credit is only an issue because there isn't enough housing so prices are demand driven rather than supply driven.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
More a way for already engaged users to start another conversation while in the same channel. It doesn't serve the same purpose as reddit. Regardless of anything discord does, the lack of searchability will always be a core problem com
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by Panzer04 3y ago
It's standard for corporate loans. The point of a loan is to pay interest for cash, and it's not really helpful outside of consumer lending to amortise the loan principle over the term rather than simply pay the full amount when d
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Discord won't make it. I find reddit useful because for any particular query I want a mostly user-based answer for I can google term + reddit. Discord jsut doesn't have the same discourse because it's designed for quick back-
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by Panzer04 3y ago
What’s the problem with HN mobile?
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Reddit massively benefits from the existence of the community. They are sacrificing goodwill in the hope that the higher revenue per user is worth the backlash.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Not if they are designed halfway reasonably. Any good LED should be driven with a PWM driver at high frequency, with low frequency mains AC (the source of the flicker) completely separated from the LED. This costs slightly more than alterna
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Eh, DC barrel jacks suck too in my experience. Laptops rarely have sufficiently robust versions that it's much better than USB C.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I think the usual issue is a mirrored surface is not robust enough to absorb extreme levels of energy for very long before it becomes a poor mirror. I expect the counter will be more along the lines of having sufficient ablating material to
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I use Apple devices despite iOS, not because of it.

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