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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
What’s the price per unit?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> more productive" than communal childcare. Paying more money for the same services is also "more productive." That’s not obvious, those tutors might be doing something else which is more productive instead. Just spending
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Considering that Apple has been significantly more innovative (tech wise) than pretty all of their competitors I’m not quite sure what this tells about them.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
No, it’s not relevant when comparing ratios between stocks and bonds.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I really don’t think you’re making your argument in good faith. Is the artificial outrage really that necessary in this case? > charitable interpretation of your post, but I simply can't find one Most reasonable people would find on
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> If we barter it the economy doesn’t notice. It does. Of course it might not be properly reflected in the statistics but it still creates additional value in the economy.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> measure It’s not about how we measure it, it’s about actual productivity. Having some sort of communal childcare which allows the majority of parents to work full time will always be more productive. > work inside the home should ha
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Yes, if your (statistical) population is all the elements in the universe that would be the case. If your target population is all the metal deposits or all humans in the world you would come to different conclusions.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Humans are bipedal. And > Humans are right-handed. Not quite the same thing at all and hardly comparable due to pretty obvious reasons
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Not on those with a non-pro M chip.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Unless you’re Intel?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> connect 38 external monitors Just 2 would be enough. Which seems like a basic feature their competitors are are capable of supporting for a very low costs. They in fact are competing on checkboxes, specifically they are probably using
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The cost for adding an extra 8GB would be insignificant for Apple, though. The only reason they don’t is to upsell higher tier models
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> there’s a reason. Not saying I agree, just that’s how they operate. Almost always it’s maximizing profit margins rather than anything else.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
So? Intel doesn’t seem have any issues supporting it regardless of that.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
It’s a bit funny though that their competitors don’t seem to have any issues supporting this on pretty much all of their products.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> get the sealed, very tightly packed chassis they’re going for The Dell XPS 17 is only 0.1 inch thicker yet has fully replaceable RAM and 2(!) m2 slots. I’m pretty sure what Apple is going for is maximizing profit margins over anything
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Well the average VAT in Europe is about twice as high if not more than the average sales tax in the US. So I’d rather have to do some basic math but save 10% (of course different tax rates only partially explain the price difference, it sti
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Even without the taxes it costs ~$200 more in the EU. Admittedly mandatory 2 year warranty might play a role
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> It's meaningless, but many neurotypical people neither notice that it's wrong or understand why it's wrong, That’s a very bold claim and I don’t think it’s that accurate. Rather maybe “neurotipical” are less willing to c
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
To be fair not that many if you want alternative to the Air and size/weight is a priority. Also.. I’m not sure what are you trying to say? That there is something wrong about criticizing Apple’s design choices?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
One (but certainly not the only) reason is that Apple rarely discounts their products and even if they do it’s not by that much. It’s not that hard to find a high-end/$2000+ PC laptop for 40% or so off 1-2 years after its release, not
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Well yeah, it’s better that patent trolls can hold on to them. Apple at least is under some pressure to not abuse it’s dominant position in the market. And more importantly that patents in this case seem just idiotic and shouldn’t be valid
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
You have to also take into account income not just the unemployment rate. Growth has been close to non-existent if not negative over the last 40-50 years or so if earn below the median.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> to buy in the Bay Area where it's even worse Is it? If adjusted by median income Vancouver and Toronto are both more expensive than San Francisco or San Jose.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
However insurance companies have absolutely no incentives for pressuring the providers to reduce prices, the opposite in fact because they get to keep a share of the revenue..
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Or just copy the Swiss system (which is entirely privatized, more so than in the US) if you want to maintain a high degree of direct government involvement in healthcare which exists know you could also copy one of the functioning mixed pub
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
How do you calculate net income when they can just increase costs (CEO pay amongst infinite other things) to decrease it?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
It was perfectly obvious that I was talking about functioning CPUs. But sure congratulations on winning your imaginary argument
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> entire market Which is realistically only Chromium. Unfortunate as it is Apple’s policies are the only thing keep Google from entirely dominating the browser market.

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