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by pb7 3y ago
There is zero chance they’re going to change iMessage to green. RCS will be green because anything other than iMessage is “other”.
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by pb7 3y ago
It’s the system “green” color. It’s used anytime there is a UI element that’s supposed to be green, same as system “blue” is used for iMessage and everything else in the OS.
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by pb7 3y ago
So what? Memory exists to be used. This isn't Slack, you don't have it open in perpetuity.
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by pb7 3y ago
If we built everything to tiptoe around every 0.01% disorder out there, we wouldn't have anything nice.
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by pb7 3y ago
Your mistake is thinking that with age automatically comes wisdom. Most old people have no more wisdom to offer than they did when they were young.
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by pb7 3y ago
Yep, same old smooth-brained takes repeated ad nauseum, while dang is busy posting PSAs about the discussion surrounding Cities: Skylines II performance not being to his liking.[0] What could possibly be more generic than the same trite com
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by pb7 3y ago
Great! Get your videos from the library then.
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by pb7 3y ago
TV ads don’t pay per impression.
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by pb7 3y ago
> Don't call this a transaction because it's not. They put food on our table for free. They did so hoping we were going to pay after eating it. They took a risk and it didn't work out for them. They only have themselves to
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by pb7 3y ago
You’re stealing money from people who create the content you watch. There’s nothing noble about parasitic behavior and no one is fooled by your deflection to make it about a trillion dollar company.
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by pb7 3y ago
What difference does it make if you stay or leave? You never contributed any revenue anyway. That’s the whole point.
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by pb7 3y ago
4K Netflix is $23/mo now. 4K is what you should be comparing it to given that’s what you get with YouTube Premium.
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by pb7 3y ago
I promise you, that’s not why.
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by pb7 3y ago
> If you live with your parents even though you would prefer to rent if you could afford it, that is a home-owned household. But not owned by you… so it wouldn’t end up in the 30% of "X own their homes" statistic. I’m not reall
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by pb7 3y ago
Not to defend them one bit but it’s very likely because a lot of that stuff is hard to keep track of. If you only have one policy that everyone is subject to, it can be easily tracked/updated/cost calculated/etc. The bigger t
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by pb7 3y ago
He actually spent $900 million according to the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/us/politics/bloomberg-cam...
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by pb7 3y ago
Well said. Life is really freaking good. There is a never ending list of cool things to do. No matter what you choose, you will be missing out on something else that’s equally amazing. I wouldn’t trade my life now to be a billionaire 70 yea
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by pb7 3y ago
It applies to anyone working in a free market. A software engineer can't be overpaid because all participants in the transaction are a part of a free market. The party writing the check strongly believes they're profiting from the
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by pb7 3y ago
Wrap up what things? He’s sitting in jail. Nothing to wrap up.
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by pb7 3y ago
Good. I hope they go after his parents next.
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by pb7 3y ago
They’re wrong. You’re worth what you can fetch. If you feel that it’s unfair, find a new bidder and make it fair.
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by pb7 3y ago
Yes, that is a consequence of making really good products. Apple is suffering from success.
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by pb7 3y ago
Targeted ads are more effective and therefore fetch a higher premium and therefore monetize the host site better than non-targeted ads. You would need 10x the ads to make up the revenue and there's not enough space or user patience for
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by pb7 3y ago
Who decides what they’re worth?
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by pb7 3y ago
You are naive if you think Europeans have any semblance of control. What good did all those French riots do this year? Last I checked, the retirement age change got signed into law anyway. All they did was cause damage to their cities the c
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by pb7 3y ago
It’s infinitely easier to avoid the companies you don’t like than it is to vote out any part of government. You have near zero power to remove someone you don’t like because your vote is worth next to nothing. However, you have full power t
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by pb7 3y ago
> However, if Google could get away with running a police, I think it's pretty obvious they would. Absurd premise. It might be obvious only to those deluded into thinking that being shown relevant ads in order to use products for fr
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by pb7 3y ago
They’re not stealing it, you’re giving it to them in exchange for using the products for free.
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by pb7 3y ago
The point is they never learned how to create any value because they’re sitting on a goldmine.
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by pb7 3y ago
Further blatant abuse of their monopoly.

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