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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> land value, I’m not sure about that. Real estate in Western Europe isn’t really cheaper. Also I doubt any of this is particularly related to individual construction workers, their motivation or lack thereof.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Today’s changes remove the Runtime Fee for games created “with any currently supported Unity versions.” This is in the article.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> more importantly, insiders have been selling a ton Hired execs always do that because they are paid in stock. They couldn’t even afford to pay their taxes without doing that.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Aren’t the fees pretty much the same? Besides the 2.5% revenue option.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Just like 7% inflation isn’t that bad because it could be a whole lot worse?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> getting low quality disposable clothing from Bangladesh isn't "more efficient" It might not be more efficient environmentally but it’s certainly more efficient economically (from the perspective of consumers in rich coun
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Yeah, I suggesting that at the very least it could be, if it means more Americans have access to an airport and airlines served a larger percentage of the country Why would it mean that? It obviously didn’t work that way before deregul
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Even these regulations can increase prices, for example by driving market consolidation or reducing price transparency Or (as they occasionally do) they can achieve the complete opposite. Making such an argument (from both sides) compl
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
If the regulations are arbitrary and pointless of course. OTH if they for instance increase safety longterm you might expect demand for air travel to increase.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
If the market is uncompetitive the adverse effects for consumers should be minimal.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
So unless you have 3-5+ of towers in every area what prevents the company which owns them from charging whatever it wants? As pong as that whatever is less than the cost of building a tower yourself? It makes about as much sense as having m
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> there isn't a lot of competition between carriers there and they were just sticking the roaming fees in their pockets before, Yes. Now they can’t do that so prices are lower. The regulations didn’t really make the markets more com
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Living in utopian abundance would be even better but sometimes not every option is feasible, especially in the short term. The objectively inferior option might still be better than doing nothing.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> This leads to shortages Or lower margins. After you spent millions/billions on R&D, testing and approval, why would you purposefully decrease your product just because your margin now is not 2500% but 1000%? Of course this mig
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> That prices were falling prior to deregulation and did not fall even faster after deregulation proves that deregulation wasn’t a factor No, this on its own doesn’t prove anything.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> The world's climate has been consistent for most of the history of modern humanity That really was not the case. Most major civilizational collapses (Bronze age, Rome) can be linked to climate change (of course premodern societies
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Just like Apple? I do agree with you overall but 30% is still excessive
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Funnily enough the medieval “ Lingua Franca” creole language used in the Mediterranean was primarily based on Italian dialects with some Occitan and Catalan mixed in.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
For most indies prices shouldn’t really go up that much and for some others this is actually a discount (the 200k limit is now per game and not company and you already had to upgrade to pro after that). For 90-95% if not more of their users
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> slice of revenue like Unreal does, China (and some other countries). They won’t declare their full revenue and you won’t be able to find it out, it’s expensive to admin and there is hardly any legal recourse anyway. Also their biggest
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
One might argue that Christian European culture is a thing and that US was/is part of it. > From inside one of those new cultures (who are cool and unique in their own ways, sure) it can be easy to miss the significance. A lot of as
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> the populations reduced by ~90%. Specifically in the Americas, not the whole world. Also I don’t see how climate change was the cause. European population had already recovered to its pre black death peak by the 1400s and had significa
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Switzerland still seems to have significantly higher average salaries than US? $90k vs $56k Of course if you start comparing individual states it would be quite different. I think a lot of the tables which compare household income etc. are
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Franco-Prussian happened after the civil war and had a much bigger influence.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Feels a bit like dot.com
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> wasn't like Labour was Remain, and Conservatives were Leave I wouldn’t even say that Labour’s top leadership was really pro-remain at the time. Cameron was at least being honest (in this instance).
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Not at the time. The situation changed, though.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> elections are for. Making an effectively irreversible decision after single vote won with a slim majority seems like not the brightest idea. They should’ve had a referendum to approve the negotiated deal and if that failed started the
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Hacker I think he ran a tennis ball factory before EA. He really has no background in tech..
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if Unity adopted the per install price model to strangle AppLoving because they’ll waive the fee if you use Unity’s ad network. They seemed very desperate when they tried to “buy” Unity last year (they were really ac

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