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> So, Microsoft Edge now comes with an equivalent to Apple’s Private Relay It's only 5GB for free. Microsoft doesn't have a paid option yet so we'll have to wait and see what that costs.
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In the US (I believe) Net Neutrality basically died. Even before that, it was allowed to zero-rate categories of apps (like messaging). That might be coming back now that the FCC has 5 commissioners again and can reinstate Net Neutrality. H
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I think another question would be: why are they in NYC today? Let's say that rents go up in NYC. Suddenly companies have a real incentive to leave and move somewhere with cheaper rents. What's to stop Manhattan from slowly becomin
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The current system discourages people from investing in the land because the more you invest in the land, the more it gets taxed. The Georgist assumption isn't that land in NYC (or wherever) is inherently valuable. However, I think we&
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Yes and no. If they aren't making money and aren't likely to be making a lot of money at any time in the future, it doesn't seem low - regardless of whatever impact you perceive. One of the problems that ARM faces is that peo
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Or just general Rover automobiles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_(marque)
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There's still a good amount of growth. Over the past 5 quarters, T-Mobile has added 1.3M to 1.8M postpaid customers each quarter (8M customers total, an average of 1.6M per quarter). Even if you're just looking at postpaid phone c
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It might be that Spotify pays per song rather than per minute. Songs have been getting shorter in length because longer songs mean less money for artists. If you have 10 6 minute songs, someone can only listen to 10 songs in an hour. If you
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I think the issue is that it might not be a small difference. Most companies don't make that much money on a profit per employee basis. https://i.imgur.com/SF6RGxX.png Amazon makes $21,000/employee per year and th
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They're not toll numbers. They're regular numbers. Mobile networks get paid a small amount of money for delivering SMS messages. Let's say that they get paid $0.003/message. Let's say you're a small mobile netw
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Part of it is that Apple has the margins that they can spend a little more on parts. They know they don't have to compete on price as much as PCs do. People aren't going to ditch the Mac over $25 or $50. However, people do regular
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iCloud Private Relay uses a variety of third parties for their network connectivity. If it's working fine, you might be going out via Fastly or someone else. The person who it's not working for is likely getting Cloudflare. With i
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If you do that, the driver might show up and then mark you as not at the pickup spot. Then you'll get charged the cancelation fee. It's really crappy, but a lot of drivers are figuring out how to work the system - as Uber figures
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I think for most people, they won't have even thought about trying a competitor - whether that's Google or Uber. They won't even know whether Uber has declined relative to their competition. Personally, I don't even know
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Things get bad slowly and it can be hard to notice at first. When companies slightly shrink their products or change to cheaper ingredients, most people don't immediately notice. To an extent, it's like the boiling frog analogy. Y
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In the US, drivers are telling customers to cancel rides (so that Uber doesn't take action against the driver for canceling) when they don't like the destination or don't think the trip is worth it. If you don't cancel,
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The thing I'd point out is that if you're taking 30% of revenue from 4 streaming services, you're getting more revenue than if you operated a streaming service. I agree that these boxes/sticks need some recurring revenue
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I'd expand on this to say that it's not just a campaign against science and facts. It's also a campaign that certain ways of living are a lifestyle or even essential. If something is essential, then even if it's killing
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I think it's hard for increases in mortgage rates to push home prices lower due to other things in the system. It puts a lot of pressure on potential sellers to stay put instead of selling. It makes keeping a place and renting it poten
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but it's hard to argue for another solution because why pay for Slack when we already have Teams "for free"? I definitely understand this argument and I definitely understand how it plays out in the real world. At t
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I'd echo this and add that I can't really see a BRICS "gold-backed" currency being trusted. Let's say that they launch this currency and 1 BRICSY == 1 centigram of gold (approximately $0.63). Therefore, if I have 10
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Totally! Too often console makers went with wacky things that developers didn't know how to get performance out of. Though that sanity was short-lived for Sony. The PlayStation 2 was a complex design that was a pain for developers. As
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Oh, Goldeneye was amazing. I think that the N64 just didn't have as many great games as the PS1. But Goldeneye was such a truly amazing game. I wouldn't even totally argue that the PS1 was the superior console. It came out first a
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I can believe Sony did it. The PlayStation hit a lot of the right buttons at the right time. Sega was dead by the time the Saturn landed. Sega burnt too many fans when they launched the Sega CD and 32X just to abandon them nearly immediatel
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Neon is a great suggestion. I'm just writing to add a bit more color. Neon is a bit different from PlanetScale. With PlanetScale, they're running Vitess under the covers. Vitess is a proxy that sits between you and the MySQL datab
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I feel like this misses the reason I like extension methods: discoverability. With an extension method, I can do `object.` and my IDE will tell me what can be called on object. With a static helper method, it isn't as easy to know what
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Anything can restrict traffic. SMTP has no lock-in and you can use your own domain, but Gmail could decide to send all your email to spam. Anything can just start ignoring traffic and not showing content. I remember when Google Talk used XM
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It's not a legal gotcha. "An extradition treaty between the United States and the Bahamas, where FTX was based, says a country must consent before defendants can be tried on charges brought after their extradition. Prosecutors sai
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I think this is a bit where Intel has an opportunity to catch up a bit. 3nm is costing 40% more than 5nm and we'll see how long it will take AMD to move to 3nm. It took AMD 2 years to move to 5nm after Apple started shipping 5nm phones
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The email is also from 2019. It might still be worthwhile evidence, but it wouldn't really pertain to the Activision deal in particular. If someone at Microsoft had sent an email a month before the Activision deal saying, "we want

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