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by beerlord 8y ago
None, Steam has an unchallenged monopoly.
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Epic make Fortnite and Unreal Engine. They already have their own launcher which is on tens of millions of PCs.
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Because its a monopoly platform (at least from the perspective of sub-AAA) charging monopoly rents of 30% commission on each game sold. They have no standards/barriers to entry, so the store is being filled with crapware - developers r
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I really hope they can launch their own store, with decent standards to entry, and a 12% commission. Steam is a dumpster fire.
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What ridiculous DRM?
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It probably helped, but piracy site visits were down 53% in 14 months. https://www.smh.com.au/technology/site-blocking-hinders-fewe...
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The industry generates a list of URLs which are submitted to an Australian court to review, then ISPs are instructed to block them. Of course there are loopholes, but a 53% reduction in vists to piracy sites after about 14 months indicates
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The websites offering piracy services or advertising/promoting the availability of pirated content should simply be blocked at a national level. It seems to be working well enough in Australia: piracy visits are down 50%, piracy volume
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Uber Planning Fleet of Food Delivery Drones 'As Soon as 2021'(engadget.com)
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Reload in incognito mode if you have reached your article limit, or read the same topic at the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/22/micropla...
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Microplastics Find Their Way into Your Gut, a Pilot Study Finds(nytimes.com)
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This is the general trend that pervades tech. Using algorithms to automate business tasks is good, but using the same technology to reduce demand for unskilled, backbreaking labour is somehow bad. I think its because it leads to uncomfortab
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Human ingenuity is amazing when applied to labour shortages. The Black Death, Brexit, the recent American Immigration Crackdown. All of these events reduced the supply of labour, resulting in increased wages and productivity. Goes to show t
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Reload in incognito mode.
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Steam devs speak: Maximum profits for Valve, minimum responsibilities(polygon.com)
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I think its more likely that they will eventually adopt USB-C completely, and the iPad Pro is a test bed for it. Being able to easily output video to a projector, TV or monitor will be a major feature for many professional iPad users.
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Unfortunately there is too much friction being generated by Valve's continued 30% commission and lack of curation/barriers to store entry for that to be the case.
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Highly intelligent and conscientious people (which I presume as a HN reader you are) having fewer children leads merely to Idiocracy :-( Look up the work of Richard Lynn, get that reversal, and do it for civilisation :-)
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Gentle answer: No, because there are millions of women who have an unmet need for contraception. You are simply helping them access what they already want. Additionally, having fewer children allows more resources to be concentrated into e
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I think its mostly just a political statement - that these workers don't like such technology being used for immigration control whilst President Trump is in office.
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At this point the only competition I could forsee is Epic launching their own storefront. They have a giant audience thanks to Fortnite, and could heavily integrate the store into the engine.
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I use Discord for business - I work with a lot of IT freelancers. Its great for voice conversation and chat. Much better than Skype. The store is overkill. It will further bloat the client, and had none of the features that customers want (
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I've found Twitter to be great to communicate with other professionals in my industry. Facebook to actually advertise to my customer base.
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“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.”
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What is the commercial motivation of Google to maintain AOSP now? They are just enabling their 'competitors'.
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Summary: slightly faster than a 1080.
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MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING Z Performance Review(hardocp.com)
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The recommended approach is to get to scale in terms of customer awareness ASAP - so you have public channels available, and fans, to complain about any unfair actions on the part of the platform owner.
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I think its also partly to take the attention away from their Uighur camps, and to paint the idea that they are 'anti-religion', rather than explicitly seeking to rid Uighur culture and religion from China.
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Also worth mentioning that product managers make great startup founders (particularly with a a great engineer co-founder). Sales, product development, customer and market research, internal management, marketing - these are all critical ski

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