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by graeme 3y ago
The problem is no one has made a smartphone with that open model. Just as no one has made a video game console with that open model. Anyone is free to enter the hardware market with an open platform. There are some devices for sale which al
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I could be mistaken but I think your micro biome mostly doesn’t depend on external input in the form of microbes. Rather, you have microbes, and these depend on external input in the form of nutrients. There are exceptions such as yogurt an
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That doesn’t seem relevant to the question of whether Apple’s fees are in line with fees on other platforms such as on video game consoles. Plausibly iTunes 30% was chosen because it met the same goal: high enough to earn a good amount, low
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by graeme 3y ago
I was referring to video games consoles as well as android. They’re estimated to take around 30%. There’s no world in which Nintendo and apple are colluding to set rates.
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> Because what stops Apple from making this 40% or 50%? 30% is a fair price? Competitive pressure. 30% is pretty in line with what other platforms charge. Apple has had the same 30% ever since it launched the App Store, back when it was
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You can remove your work from a search index anytime you want. Not so with work included in a training set
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Anyone know why the agency might drop funding midway through? It doesn’t sound like there was a cost overrun. Sunk cost fallacy doesn’t justify spending, but the project is now much cheaper than it would be to start afresh.
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There's no good option to import something, you pay through the nose where brokerage fees greatly exceed the value of taxes collected on most items. The fees are deductible, but it's still an expense. In theory he should have been
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Which lawsuits? Newspapers are free to remove themselves from google at any time. You might be thinking of newspapers’ political campaigns such as C-18 in Canada, which were done in bad faith. The newspapers wanted links to stay but wanted
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This isn’t correct. News media can, if they want, completely restrict google/meta previews or even disable google. Meta/google are huge revenue drivers for media. But through a complex narrative the media has pretended that google
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That’s not the only reason. Google search is also transformative and non competitive with the underlying publications. And that is why the opt out is important. If you feel google competes with your site you don’t have to sue Google: just t
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by graeme 3y ago
Any publisher can opt out of google. Publisher also have substantial control over titles and snippets shown in google, whether an article appears in google news, etc Paraphrasing is also known as cloning and is often a copyright violation
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You aren’t allowed to do that, but the iPhone is not a monopoly product. Market share is about 57%, just barely over the minimum threshold for a monopoly finding. But crucially the phone market is quite competitive. People can easily switch
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That’s included in the projection. Also there are fewer young people in the rest of the world, the birth rate has declined worldwide.
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The US isn’t immune to this, merely better placed. Projections are that the US will move from 3 workers per retiree to 2 workers per retiree by 2050. (You can project these things pretty well as the new generation is already born.)
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Have a look at a population pyramid, especially for countries without mass immigration. There isn’t much of a next generation. When people retire they become dependents. Each worker will need to support an increasing number of retirees.
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Yeah they merged browsing into ChatGPT and it worsened the experience. I dread seeing the browsing icon show up to a question as the ai will get dumber.
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If Android is perceived as a place where normal people get fleeced, then the logical recommendation for non tech literate people will be “get an iphone”
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Sure, but no one was arguing that ought to have been legal or that the phone system would be in the wrong to attempt to patch exploits found by hacking. Their Blue Box efforts were very cool! So is the coding that let Beeper do this. But it
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by graeme 3y ago
>what about all the mail spam — physical mail like catalogs and email advertising/marketing? You can opt out of junk mail. Varies by area. Likely can be done by a "no junk" sticker, or by opting out via your postal service
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Sure. For one, prohibition keeps the equilibrium price higher, which reduces equilibrium consumption. This RAND report from 2000 estimated a free market cocaine price would be 3% of the price under prohibition. https://www.rand.o
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Those stats aren't per capita. That page says 902,000 Americans use heroin annual and 14,000 die. That is a 1.55% fatality rate. And that is strictly overdoses. Any death to which heroin contributed but isn't an overdose isn'
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by graeme 3y ago
>I tend to agree, we saw bright and clear as day with the “war on drugs” that being more vicious to addicts didn’t work and the problem only grew. Drug use has grown much faster under the current regime of tolerance of drug use. There we
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by graeme 3y ago
This doesn't really address the comment. Decriminalize = production is criminal, consumption is legal. Legalize = production is legal, consumption is legal. The parent comment was complaining that legal consumption made the environment
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by graeme 3y ago
Perhaps you mean a third factor causes both cognitive decline and high blood pressure? There is no world in which losing cognitive capacity directly increases blood pressure. Further, it could be a third factor causes both, but also that hi
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The govt is actually not applying C-18 to google. That's the deal that was signed: google makes an annual payment, and the govt doesn't designate them as a news provider. So just like in Australia, the applies to nobody. The text
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Meta is still out. No news media in Canada can share their articles there anymore. And Google has been exempted from the law - that's how the govt and google reached an agreement. The law called for google to bargain individually with
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Meta left news in Canada and isn't set to return - no news media can post to Meta platforms. Now media outlets have lost a good chunk of their organic business model and are reduced to begging. The government implemented a large media
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I'm Canadian. It's obviously extortion. Unless you take the position that linking to someone on the internet harms them. In the regular world, people pay for links. Google had to ban the practice of paying for links because link
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Especially because people only focus on the one time that the clock takes sleep. Certainly, studies show that heart attacks rise that day. But also during the year, you gain an hour of sleep. Studies show that heart attacks fall that day. P

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