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by isykt 3y ago
DAC circuitry is a solved problem, any USB-C DAC will do. Apple makes one. Even their lightning adapter got good reviews. They are $10 each. They can be attached to the end of your headphones and forgotten about.
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You think Apple was dragged kicking and screaming into being able to sell the same accessories they have already developed but with a different connector? Once the EU signaled they were going to mandate this, there was no reason to do it an
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> It is akin to someone knee deep in credit card debt taking a second job only to use the new income to open another credit card account and load it up with more debt Any time an article compares government financing to your household fi
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> But this has no bearing on the question of whether it's rational to assign higher prices to naturally produced diamonds. Sure it does. In economics, it’s called a negative externality, and it’s a common topic when discussing prici
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by isykt 3y ago
Companies are staffed by hundreds of people whose entire job, day and and day out, is to influence how you think about their products. You are not immune to advertising, and thinking that you are is naive. If your goal is reduce how influen
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Agreed, and it has been enabled by the expectation that women are perfectly capable of earning a living. There’s work to be done on the procreation part, though.
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by isykt 3y ago
Neither autographed memorabilia nor original paintings are regularly produced through the systematic exploitation and murder of entire populations, and neither autographed memorabilia nor original paintings had their value fabricated throug
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by isykt 3y ago
Is the market for lithium going to collapse in 10 years? I’m confused why something taking 10 years is a problem.
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by isykt 3y ago
The Canadian market is crazy, but comparing it to the US is not very illustrative. The US market is far more expansive, due to the amount of usable land and having 10x the population. A better comparison might be Canada to California.
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If the expertise is to be developed, is it better for the US to develop it on their own deposits, or on the deposits of a competing nation?
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Apple makes high quality speakers and headphones, that’s the cross sell.
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I’m not familiar with web platforms. Would you be willing to share what you mean about it being disrespectful of it?
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Sniffies. It’s far better than Grindr in almost every way. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniffies
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The user called catpolice worked there. Here’s a comment they made a few years back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783828
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The classical market is primarily older, wealthier, and willing to pay for quality physical media.
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This is a meme but it’s not a bad metaphor at all, and the Senator was unfairly maligned for using it. He was fairly maligned for being against network neutrality, though.
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by isykt 3y ago
People have all kinds of sex for all kinds of complex reasons, and have throughout history. You’re right that the repression of same sex attraction / expression / intercourse has led us to a place where “Born This Way!” Is the saf
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by isykt 3y ago
The idea that homosexuality (or heterosexuality, for that matter) is a permanent state the persists through everyone’s life not only ignores the existence of bisexuals but is also ahistorical and probably an artifact of certain societies ne
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by isykt 3y ago
“Tech”? What do you mean by “tech?” Do you expect Apple to remove the camera, storage, and networking capabilities of all their devices? That’s the “tech” that enables this.
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How are individuals re-victimized with every share? That makes no sense. Your LinkedIn profile photo could be on a billboard in rural China, what would it be to you?
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Goodreads was acquired and is kept on life support to funnel traffic to Amazon and keep competition for online book reviews from impacting the Amazon sales. It’s not clear that anyone even works on the site anymore, it’s a zombie.
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> About 85% of American consumers with bank accounts are comfortable making recurring payments using those accounts, said John Anderson. He is head of product at Plaid, a fintech company that links vendors with customers’ bank accounts.
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by isykt 3y ago
Disagree and commit is a leadership principle at Amazon. That’s why he used those words.
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The headline of the article is "Remote work is here to stay," and I'm ecstatic about that, because my employer is one of those that will probably never give up their real estate footprint. I get the flexibility to work from h
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by isykt 3y ago
As someone who relocated himself to be closer to an office, I’m ecstatic about it. I live within walking distance of my office, and I basically have it to myself most of the time. A bright, clean, air condition, professionally managed place
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by isykt 3y ago
Regulation always benefits incumbents, as they are already positioned to both shape and comply with the regulation.
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by isykt 3y ago
Note that Experian runs their own protection racket called “Credit Lock” that is different from a freeze. It costs money. The freeze doesn’t cost money only because congress mandated that it be free. That’s right, these fuckwits are so irre
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You can have winners and losers and also quantify the non-capital externalities in order to account for them.
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What Adblock features are missing on iOS?
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>I've realised this entire calculus is broken, because you feel good or bad based on people's reactions which is something you cannot control. Yes. A thousand times this. It has taken me years to create a situational intuition

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