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by mikeash 7y ago
One problem I see is in determining the amount of time before resuming. You have to be sure that all possible inputs will take less time than what you request, but you don’t want to wait forever. You also have to be robust against disturban
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by mikeash 7y ago
Was this before or after North Korea, with an economy around the size of Botswana or Afghanistan, assembled a nuclear arsenal?
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You’re saying, they don’t price discriminate because they can’t. I’m saying, the fact that they don’t proves that it’s not necessary. These two statements are perfectly compatible with each other. Again: I’m not arguing for or against price
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by mikeash 7y ago
You certainly can have losses overall, but there’s no way you can have losses in just certain regions, unless your per-unit price there is only a few cents.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Developer salaries and rent are the same no matter how many copies you sell. Each ten-cent copy sold brings you closer to covering those costs. If you don’t make enough to cover costs, you’re not selling at a loss, you’re just not selling e
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by mikeash 7y ago
“Selling at a loss” is about the marginal cost versus the price. I’m not “labeling” anything. That’s just what it means. It’s perfectly valid to talk about overall profitability when accounting for non-marginal costs, but that’s not the phr
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by mikeash 7y ago
They’d allow a third party candidate now if they did as well. To qualify, a third party candidate need to poll at 15% or above and be on enough state ballots to have at least a possibility of winning. Nobody has even come close to that sinc
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by mikeash 7y ago
Apple comes to mind. Their products are usually even more expensive in poorer countries. Just about any commodity would qualify. Oil companies aren’t giving discounts to poorer countries or selling them a cheaper inferior product. Lots of i
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by mikeash 7y ago
When talking about selling it at a loss in one region and making up for that by making a profit in a different region, the relevant figure is the marginal cost, which is approximately zero.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Tech support is optional. Bandwidth is a possibility, but you'd have to work really hard to lose money that way, given how cheap it is. Sell your game for 10 cents a copy and you'll still make money.
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You need money. You don't need the maximum possible amount of money.
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How can you possibly sell software at a loss?
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They're free to use whatever pricing strategies they wish, as long as people retain their inherent right to resell things they purchase.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Nothing says you can't charge the poor people price for everyone. You want price discrimination to get wealthier people to pay more. To take your bakery example, they'd ideally like to charge more for their bread when the customer
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by mikeash 7y ago
My bad. I edited it to make it hypothetical.
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Why wouldn't the developer be on the hook? If Steam doesn't want to be, they're in a powerful position where they can say, "You are liable for chargebacks. If you don't like it, don't sell here."
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by mikeash 7y ago
You don't need price discrimination. You can make money without it. You want price discrimination to make even more money. Edit: a lot of people seem to be confused about what I'm saying and are telling me how price discrimina
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by mikeash 7y ago
The built-in firewall does exactly that. It may not do that for things that only listen on localhost, though.
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What a glorious response. “Your product is broken.” “We know, we did it on purpose, and we’re proud of it!”
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They’re not incorrect . They are, however, wrong to think that users not caring about security means they don’t have to care either. Product makers have a duty of care beyond what their customers have.
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That's where the organizations themselves banded together. The companies involved in that lawsuit still collectively, within themselves, make hiring and firing decisions every day and we don't bat an eye.
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Russia switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1918, so I don’t think it would need to.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Why aren’t corporations analogous to unions? They’re an organization of people who work together as one. When was the last time you heard about a bidding war between two different managers in the same company trying to hire the same person?
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I'm always amazed at the complete double standard between unions and companies. Look at the discussion here: lots of people arguing against unions, saying they're just plain bad, or they're good in some industries but not in
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Different meaning of “divide.”
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The fact that it’s the longest economic expansion in history is obvious to anyone who knows how to read a calendar. I don’t see why that would be expected to get any traction.
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To be fair, this project is so far beyond anything that’s been done that nobody is capable of doing an accurate cost-benefit analysis of it.
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Pretty sure that was 1945.
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The patch itself reveals the vulnerability. Attackers analyze these things to see what they’ve fixed. If you release a patch but don’t announce the vulnerability that was patched, then you’re just hiding it from good guys who don’t have tim
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by mikeash 7y ago
I’m pretty sure SQLite doesn’t implement transactions that way anyway. That’s a pretty bad misunderstanding of how it works. I suppose it’s easy to think you can do better than SQLite if you think SQLite is really bad.

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