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by jdminhbg 3y ago
That’s fine, it’s not worth it to me either. But if it’s not worth $5 to anyone, then why is anyone even talking about it? If it’s not $5 of value, why would anyone care if it disappeared?
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> My comment was mostly about the comment about developers underpricing their apps. If all apps would charge a minimum of $5 there would be a lot fewer app users. Not all apps are worth $5/month, but this particular one that people
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
Without double-checking your prices, you're off by a factor of 10. 50x, not 5x.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
There’s no reason for $5/month to be what the average user pays. It’s for power users who spend way more time on the app. Netflix has introduced ad-supported tiers where you pay less. That’s the same here, those users can use the websi
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
That's fine. If you can't or don't want to pay, you can look at Reddit's ads. I do not use Reddit very much, so it's not worth $5/month to me. But why would I expect to get a third-party ad-free client for free
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> Even if I only kept subscription users, the average Apollo user uses 344 requests per day, which would cost $2.50 per month, which is over double what the subscription currently costs, so I'd be in the red every month. I just don&
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
I have also heard urban legends.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
You don’t need to do it every day, and it takes 15 seconds.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> google's advertising relationship with tesla Tesla spends $0 on advertising with Google.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
That’s a fun niche use case but most people just drive to work and school and back every weekday. Having to stop for 20-40 minutes on the odd occasion that you need to drive 340 miles in a day is worth never having to stop for gas for your
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
The CAP theorem.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> Superstar substackers make upward of $1M a year and can afford the team. $1M means $100k in Substack take, how much of a team are you going to buy for that? Yes, you might be able to contract a team to set you up for less than that, bu
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> Everyone in the world masking (with effective masks), distancing a bit, and using standard sanitary practices edit to add, because I forgot - for two months, and a few with immune compromises spending some more months isolated, would e
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
In this case it looks like probably not, at least in the short term, because it's all extremely personalized.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
I mean, it's an obituary. They don't really need to spend an additional paragraph about their opinion on climate change, given that they have articles that are about climate change all over the rest of the magazine. The idea that
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
Seems like no, it does not count, because they're explicitly saying he was wrong: > the reality of man-made climate change
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> if necessary, be willing to use conventional strikes on AI-training datacenters in the countries that refuse Why settle for the maybe-catastrophe of AGI when we can have the definitely-catastrophe of world war?
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> But you do have to compete with grid hookups for pricing in data centers. You do, unless you sign a contract with a large datacenter operator that's willing to pay above market price for the PR benefit/green energy credits of
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
Yeah, removing your uninsured deposits from an insolvent bank (which, marked-to-market, they were at times), is not customer irrationality.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
Guess how many disruptions humans are causing per day in SF
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
It should still help, in that debit cards can have limits set. But you're right that it's not a full solution.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
California uses "jungle primaries" where the top two vote getters regardless of party advance to the general election. You can't blame the two-party system here, voters could easily choose another Democrat if that's what
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Because he represents their views and is an extremely powerful senator besides?
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> Any termination of employment before then is either a with-cause firing or a layoff where severance is required. If they're paying you until that future resignation date, it's not a firing or a layoff, is it? The part that y
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
I had the exact same problem and ended up with the same solution. I know people who have had somewhat better experiences backing up to something like a Synology, but the $Xk investment wasn't worth it for me without also needing it for
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
It might, or it might be cut across the board, meaning you paid more by having profit recorded during a time of higher rates. Congress can do anything with those rates.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> (since progressive income tax means that 5 years of tax at $800k < 4 years of tax at $1 million) This is corporate tax, not income tax, so is not progressive.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> So... are the "it's transient" people owed an apology? Not really, the transience predictions were for inflation to ease a year ago.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Mastodon only has about 1.2M active users, so if most of your community is on there, it’s an unusual community. https://mastodon-analytics.com/
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Programmers have been assisted by assemblers, compilers, and interpreters, and pay keeps going up.

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