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by learc83 6y ago
>It's not fair to the developers that don't make shovelware otherwise >In any case, crap apps would flood the market - consumers would get worse experiences, and be less likely to buy apps. Free apps will decimate quality ap
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by learc83 6y ago
>It isn't absurd - it's unfair to transmission manufacturers that they have to follow Toyota's rules! The horror! Everything should be allowed for everyone! Otherwise it's oppression! It's not my crappy business
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by learc83 6y ago
>If we took this argument and extended it, no business would survive. You can "extend" any argument to an absurd extreme. >This is like saying Toyota has a monopoly on it's car transmissions. of course it does - it deci
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by learc83 6y ago
That makes no sense. Apple didn't create the market segment, but because those people choose to use iPhone, you can't sell them an email service that doesn't work on iPhone. If 80% of people making more than $100k a year use
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by learc83 6y ago
>There are more on the android platform, and therefore enough for viability. Is that true for customers who are interested in a high end email service that costs $100 a year? I'd wager that the vast majority of people in that segmen
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by learc83 6y ago
If your market segment is customers who are willing to pay for a high end email service, Apple's share of that customer segment is probably much greater than 50%. Large enough that not offering an iOS app will cripple your business.
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by learc83 6y ago
You're forgetting about the people who find Hey through some other channel, but sign up through the app anyway. And because discoverability on the app store is terrible, of the people who sign up through the app, it's very likely
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by learc83 6y ago
The indie scene outside of Steam might arguably be called popular, but if revenue is a marker success, it certainly isn't successful.
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by learc83 6y ago
If the title "The Democratic Party" is consciously manipulative branding what is "The Republican Party" or "The Grand Old Party".
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by learc83 6y ago
There are multiple vaccine candidates that have passed phase I trials, have demonstrated they produce antibodies in humans, and have demonstrated they are successful in animal challenge trials. The chance's are good that we have a work
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by learc83 6y ago
That was a while ago though as you've stated elsewhere. The percentage of kids who score perfect or near perfect scores has gone up dramatically over the last 20 years. https://www.compassprep.com/great-to-good-the-dilu
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by learc83 6y ago
That's the average, which tells us nothing about the distribution. If you're looking at the top n% of scores, the distribution is important. Furthermore, those studies weren't looking at kids who were prepping for 2 hours a d
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by learc83 6y ago
>However with covid, all that is removed, It's very unlikely that this lasts more than another semester or so though. If you're looking to enroll in the fall or the next year, it shouldn't be a big concern.
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by learc83 6y ago
Rex Krueger is American, but he makes a lot of traditional English projects and uses hand tools.
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by learc83 6y ago
Zoom may operate in multiple countries. But they are physically and legally headquartered in the United States.
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by learc83 6y ago
Rust wants to be a serious contender for low level and embedded code. In those spaces sometimes you don't have much of a choice but to drop down into assembly.
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by learc83 6y ago
Youtube is better, but over the last few years, I've noticed that it's getting harder to find decent reviews, because the algorithm recommends so many fake review channels. It's better than a google search, but there's s
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by learc83 6y ago
>Sorry if I gave the impression that any job that enjoys psychic income would pay less than any other job — certainly this is not true. That's not the impression you gave. You gave the impression that garbage collectors make more th
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by learc83 6y ago
It goes way beyond government financing. The government gave them the damn land.
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by learc83 6y ago
There's really no point in debating someone like you. No matter what I say you'll just quote some unverifiable anecdote and declare victory. I'll leave you with some advice that helped me find my way out of libertarian ideolo
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by learc83 6y ago
How so? The only supporting evidence provided was garbage collectors make more than teachers. The OP posted a link showing that's not true.
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by learc83 6y ago
>Courts tend to take a dim view of well-monied people bullying the not-monied in courts Even if this is true in theory, it's so completely untrue from a practical perspective that it's pointless to debate.
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by learc83 6y ago
Telephone lines were almost always built following existing public roads or private railroads (that were built with government assistance and government land grants) even in the early days. There is no history of a successful, large scale i
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by learc83 6y ago
>Yeah, they are unenforceable in other states Yes there are other states that have similar limits, and many other states that don't. >and in all of them if they are determined to be unreasonable in court That's a tautology.
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by learc83 6y ago
That's true but the OP just destroyed the only supporting evidence you provided for your point. It might be that teacher's salaries would be below $37k if it didn't require credentialing, but that's not the case, so it&
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by learc83 6y ago
They tend to be unenforceable in California, they certainly aren't unenforceable in other states.
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by learc83 6y ago
You need government to build an ISP in the first place. No private company would be able to negotiate with that many land owners to build out fiber on a large scale. And once a company does build a network, absent government regulation requ
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by learc83 6y ago
Police unions have so much power that local officials are generally afraid to touch them.
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by learc83 6y ago
They line up more often than they disagree b/c most bills that make it all the way to a floor vote aren't objectionable to anyone. You're seeing a biased sample.
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by learc83 6y ago
>Donald Trump declared a national emergency so he could bypass Congress and raid the military budget to build a wall And how well did that work out for him? It took him his entire term to build about 1/5 of what he promised. And w

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