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by noirbot 4y ago
It's a temporal question. If you decide in the middle of a competition that you don't care any more and want to quit/forfeit/throw the match, then you broke. You committed to playing an event, presumably because you thou
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by noirbot 4y ago
I think the difference, and what Carlsen is doing well in this case, is just backing out now instead of trying to defend his title and then getting 5 games in and just going "I hate this and I want to leave. I forfeit". That would
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by noirbot 4y ago
At the same time, I mostly understand their levels. The higher levels are mostly intuitively as a developer, things that cost more money to provide in terms of infrastructure and access to paid APIs. Also, I'm not sure what you're
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by noirbot 4y ago
Sure - there's benefits to both ways of thinking about it. It's less that I tightly couple them and more that I find, for a sufficiently low percentage of my income, it's not worth stressing that much about the expense. My me
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by noirbot 4y ago
I'm not sure if that's true though - If I subscribe to Disney+ for a month and watch hours of movies and TV shows that I enjoy, someone from Disney doesn't come by my house and mind-wipe me when unsubscribe. What's left
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by noirbot 4y ago
Sure, I'm not defending every choice they're making specifically. I don't subscribe to almost anything they do, although I probably subscribe to plenty of other things you think are "not enjoyable not convenient". B
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by noirbot 4y ago
Oh sure, and that's the entire point of the article. But even if I look at their MLB subscription and go "I can come up with 10 things I'd rather spend that money on" that's a personal thing of what I like vs. what
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by noirbot 4y ago
Sure, but it's a sliding scale. $1 is a substantial amount to many people, but it's unhealthy for me to feel guilty spending a dollar of groceries. It's only really healthy to consider things in relation to what you can affor
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by noirbot 4y ago
Presumably this is why the writer of the article is paying for everything they're paying for as well, but per the OP, they're "egregious" for doing so.
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by noirbot 4y ago
Judging by people in this comment section, no one has any disposable income to compete for, because $5/day is an insane poverty-making amount of money to spend on things. I'm confused what price you think most of these softwares s
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by noirbot 4y ago
While we're throwing out cliches, I pay far more than this for health care and health insurance. I can promise you that me being alive still is the best thing in my life, and it is definitely not free.
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by noirbot 4y ago
Sure, but a third or more of their subscriptions are both: A. Subscriptions they said they were canceling in TFA. B. Clearly optional entertainment expenses that amount to buying TV. Trying to judge if other people are spending too much on
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by noirbot 4y ago
And? The author seems to, since they're paying for a number of US-specific services. Obviously if you make 20k USD, then paying 2k USD on entertainment and optional applications for you and your family is a bad idea. If you make 200k t
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by noirbot 4y ago
I've used Bitwarden at Lastpass and Keypass in the past and found all of them much worse at their sync and ability to integrate with websites or OS to paste my passwords, not to mention how many of them required either a subscription t
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by noirbot 4y ago
The more charitable read is that there's a lot of free 80% solutions that a lot of people are totally ok with, and some number of 90-100% solutions that a dedicated set of developers provide to people who actually care. I don't NE
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by noirbot 4y ago
I think that really depends on the app in question. Often these apps have a free version where you can evaluate if you think they'll cause UX Turmoil, and then support the ones that are reasonable. If anything, I find my subscription m
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by noirbot 4y ago
It's obviously not every app, but I pay for Carrot, Overcast, and Parcel, and would consider Flighty if I flew more than I do currently. I can earnestly say that all three have been best-in-class apps for what they do, and for 20, 10,
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by noirbot 4y ago
TFA literally ends with them saying they canceled Grammarly! I feel like half of y'all are out here flagellating the author for decisions where the whole point of the article is that they made some bad decisions and fixed them.
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by noirbot 4y ago
Define "very wealthy" for me on this? Because I'm looking at some of these and going "so that's 50 cents per day. Seems ok for something I use daily". Sure, if I was making 30k/year I'd be reconsideri
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by noirbot 4y ago
It's not really that substantial if you're making 170k/year, which isn't an insane salary for a software engineer in the US.
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by noirbot 4y ago
That seems like an unhelpful way of thinking about it. I always think about it as "I make X per Month. This thing costs Y per month. Is Y/X a reasonable amount of money to spend on a thing?" By your logic, I earn "just $
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by noirbot 4y ago
But they're not changing the UI regularly for the most part, they're offering new and more convenient optional UI elements that are useful. Or providing good Day-1 support for new OS notification features or new options on Apple W
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by noirbot 4y ago
Sure, and I could eat rice and beans with water every day and save thousands of dollars per year. It's confusing to me how many people on here seem to think paying money for non-essential things that provide enjoyment or convenience is
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by noirbot 4y ago
Sure, but not the average net income for people on HN probably, or the author's. The entire article is about them realizing they're probably spending too much!
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by noirbot 4y ago
Like the author, I pay for Carrot Weather. I do so because I find the features it provides to be helpful and of high-quality, and I find it a joy to use. I could probably just use the free version, or any other app that didn't charge,
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by noirbot 4y ago
That seems like a profoundly ungenerous take to have on someone making a fairly honest post about them realizing they'd let their finances get away from them. It's not as if they're bragging about how much they spend. Presuma
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by noirbot 4y ago
I even see Grammarly as being in an odd category since it's also presumably something they use on a computer and not just an app. I'd split it up as Content, Services, and Applications. Something like Apple News, The New York Time
658.
by noirbot 4y ago
How much value does this provide vs. just checking over your account history every month? It feels like a pretty high price to pay in terms of access to your data just to have them check for things that you could probably do by exporting a
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by noirbot 4y ago
I always find these discussions interesting. The risks that the article outlines around losing track of how much you're spending are certainly real, but there's two things that strike me around all of this: 1. I somewhat object to
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by noirbot 4y ago
To be fair, there are some of the more complex ruby libraries that do provide those more protected/parameterized options. In general, even when I wrote a script that took input, I found it sufficient to just assume that if another dev

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