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by cruano 4y ago
Ah yes, nothing more inventive than using the same drum synthesizer for 40 years! Also, I'm sure it's super hard to push the limits of all 127 values of dynamic range that MIDI offers, especially when you also write all your music
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by cruano 4y ago
> are usually distinct in packaging and form. That's the key point. It's deceptive (and should probably be illegal) to make a product look like medicine. It doesn't matter where you place it, if you put a banana on the sid
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by cruano 4y ago
There's a very big difference between gaming for 4 hours a day and spending the same amount of time in a single game. Watching ALL episodes of Friends takes 88 hours, you'd certainly call a person crazy if they watched Friends +60
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by cruano 4y ago
Yeah but isn't that a single player game ? Even if it had 100+ hours of gameplay, you'd have to repeat that so many times to get to 6000 hours Very different from someone that plays video games a few hours every day
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by cruano 4y ago
If you are doing that either you are sacrificing your work, livelihood or personal relationships. It doesn't matter what for, it's an insane amount of time. Not to mention the game in question has at most what... 100 hours of cont
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by cruano 4y ago
360? The cheapest Xbox is the current gen Xbox Series S, at £249.99. And you can also finance that for £20.99/mo for two years. And you can also re-sell it when you get tired of it.
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by cruano 4y ago
> Nobody was going to pay full price for games that evaporate the moment the servers shut down Eh that's true for Steam, Epic, GoG, et al. If anything, regular people trust Google way more than those other companies since they use t
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by cruano 4y ago
I mean, it's different bullshit at least no ? Not having to deal with dealerships, actual software updates instead of just abandoning software (BlueLink anyone?), pushing maintenance from every 6 months to ~2 years I don't own or
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by cruano 4y ago
But just look at that same behavior over time. Say you searched for car videos yesterday, and today you are searching for basketball videos. Old youtube used to be very simple and recommend similar videos to the current thing you are watchi
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by cruano 4y ago
I mean, this are competitive games after all. Racing against Max Verstappen on iRacing is not an issue, it's what makes those games interesting. You don't ban Federer/Nadal out of tennis, you let people compete to raise the b
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by cruano 4y ago
> they translate stuff and you can't know in the search results which video is in which language. I think offering alternative titles for each language is on the creators, not youtube themselves
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by cruano 4y ago
I got mugged a couple years ago, or attempted to: The thief asked for my phone, saw it was an iPhone and just gave it back. That to me is worth the whole phone bricking thing. And it's also not like I've gone through a bunch of th
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by cruano 4y ago
> there's no real cost to manufacture and distribute software Do you know where you are writing this? God, even if you managed to find people that are willing to sacrifice their >$100K/year for a good cause, "local stor
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by cruano 4y ago
Yes, but they care about the long-term money-printing ability of the whole ecosystem, and reputation can very clearly hurt that e.g. Facebook
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by cruano 4y ago
Between the screen and accessories this ends up being way more expensive than any used laptop that WILL outperform it while being way more comfortable. Not to mention if you don't already have a capable phone and/or a bunch of acc
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by cruano 4y ago
I mean, Michael B. Jordan is a good example of why you don't have a good example. Even if you share the name, you have to differentiate it somehow to be marketable.
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by cruano 4y ago
Not saying I disagree but in my country, the minute Uber Eats started charging for delivery and stopped giving out subsidized free food was the minute a bunch of competitors popped up So yeah, for a while it was only uber eats but they didn
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by cruano 4y ago
I think most tech people went from considering intel-based macbooks as a splurge, to the single best value proposition for consumer laptops. Before there were many tradeoffs for choosing a macbook, most of them around performance/cost,
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by cruano 4y ago
> the comment you replied to was about getting away from lock-in The comment was about them giving up on Apple because "I can't see the value in it anymore", and he pointed out how the value proposition changed with the no
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by cruano 4y ago
> fund schools well enough that teachers don't have to pay out of pocket for basic supplies like chalk and paper You mean funding the vacation plans of all the administration ?
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by cruano 4y ago
Have you ever dropped a plastic laptop ? if you think the aluminium enclosure it's just pretty then I don't know what to tell you
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by cruano 4y ago
If you don't use the App Store or an iPhone they don't track you, do you think I have a Facebook account? Well, I'm still getting tracked by them
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by cruano 4y ago
> But are they priced similarly? Meaningless question when they don't sell the M2 chip separately > Hmm .. Doesn't "for both" negate the argument I guess "for each" would be better ? But OPs point still s
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by cruano 4y ago
Good luck when google decides you infringed some TOS because you uploaded a youtube video with music playing on the background or some BS like that and just locks you out of all the services you registered with that feature
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by cruano 4y ago
45.89% down, that's insane I always thought it wasn't such a bad idea, it's a country reliant on remittances, and wire transfers and alternatives are expensive (I used to work at Xoom/PayPal) The other thing is that it n
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by cruano 4y ago
> android.com I'm sure they are not biased at all
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by cruano 4y ago
I guess 0.00001% is still < 5% Most people in tech still use @gmail addresses, do you think regular people bother to have their own private cloud for data storage ?
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by cruano 4y ago
The time thing is the biggest takeaway for me, not only I spend less time overall on Instagram but I also feel way more "productive" (Weird word to use, but you know what I mean) as I actually look at every story from my friends i
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by cruano 4y ago
That last line is probably the one thing I love about facebook, the "5 years ago today" posts that show you little snippets of your past activity. You probably wouldn't go and actively look for them, but seeing them is always
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by cruano 4y ago
It's _measurably_ worse in almost every way

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