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by pluma 9y ago
How did you end up at $165? That's $99 / 0.6, not $99 / 03. Apple's "tax" is 30%, isn't it?
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by pluma 9y ago
It's about Apple, not the developer. For Apple to make $99 of your sales (not accounting for taxes etc), you'd need to generate a volume of sales of which 30% would amount to $99, i.e. $99 / 0.3 = $330. If you're asking
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by pluma 9y ago
As I said elsewhere, I could make do with 16 gigs but I sometimes need to run things like development databases or Windows VMs (plural) on this too and I like the breathing room. I already said it's a trade-off. Even with multiple inst
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by pluma 9y ago
Sure, and while we're at it, we should also not criticize faith healers who do parlor tricks with soggy sponges to cure people of cancer. After all those patients are desperate and spontaneous remission is a thing. So what, some of the
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by pluma 9y ago
But the premise of the AA falls flat if you don't accept the notion of a higher power (and many chapters of the AA are fine with substituting arbitrary objects for God for that purpose so they're acknowledging the higher power doe
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by pluma 9y ago
Careful there with the phrasing. When we talk about animals communicating we generally mean animals using signals (e.g. to indicate the presence of a predator or a source of food). I'm not aware of any reliably documented case of anima
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by pluma 9y ago
Yeah, I thought both looked a tiny bit off. I think it has to do with the reflection in the eyes which is a tiny bit inconsistent, among other things.
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by pluma 9y ago
The only problem with saying "it works for some people and that's great" is that it is known that sending people to AA performs worse than just leaving people to their own devices. If you get the flu it takes about two to thr
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by pluma 9y ago
IIUIC the Sinclair Method is very much a CBT hack. The drug disrupts the positive effects of alcohol. By making the experience of consuming alcohol unpleasant instead of rewarding, it becomes easier to overcome the psychological addiction
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by pluma 9y ago
I was a die-hard ST3 user. I looked at Atom and it was slow and sluggish at the time. I gave VSCode a try after it added support for restoring unsaved changes (i.e. being able to edit a file, close and reopen VSCode and not losing your unsa
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by pluma 9y ago
I'm on a laptop. I'm half joking about the 32 gigs thing -- I do have 32 gigs but even with all the messengers (including multiple copies of Slack), a development server with a 4 gig database, a browser and two instances of VSCod
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by pluma 9y ago
Unlike AA, the Sinclair method not only works but it has a well understood mechanism of how it works and emphasis self-control rather than learned helplessness. It's psychology 101 really.
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by pluma 9y ago
Those that swear by it are those that defeated their alcohol reliance while in AA or replaced their alcohol reliance with a reliance on AA events. Those that despise it are either aware that AA is a placebo at best and a distraction at wors
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by pluma 9y ago
99 / 0.3 = 330 It's what a developer would need to create in sales for Apple to make 99 bucks from their 30% cut.
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by pluma 9y ago
(this was in reply to a comment that has been deleted) Well, Electron has finally delivered on the original GUI promise of Java over a decade ago: every single application I use on a daily basis is now cross platform. That matters to me bec
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by pluma 9y ago
This article implies the differences matter. Nope, sorry, the conveniences of VSCode are worth the "cost" for me. I have 32 gigs of RAM and the time I spend opening files doesn't register compared to the time I spend writing
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by pluma 9y ago
The membership fee is $99/yr. That's the equivalent of $330/yr in App Store sales per developer. The opportunity cost of having developers NOT sign up because of the fee seems negligible. People still come flocking to Apple b
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by pluma 9y ago
It's rarer than pop culture myths would make you think: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-post-mortem-...
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by pluma 9y ago
In Germany you just have a bank account. You can get one for free if you have a sufficient monthly income or are a student under a certain age. You can also get one fairly cheap otherwise. I'd say more people have a bank account than a
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by pluma 9y ago
But it seems the standards forced down by the EU resulted in a faster, more efficient system? As a private individual or person doing business in the EU I don't have to care about the different gateways in various EU countries or the d
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by pluma 9y ago
Surprised to see so many positive comments considering her behaviour in the game seems eerily similar to that of the kind of startups HN likes to hate on. Her success was mostly based on exploiting the naïvity of other players, draining the
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by pluma 9y ago
American inefficiency has been a joke in Germany as far as I can think back. Also, a recurring theme in what I hear about American customers from people working in manufacturing is that US companies insist on providing extremely detailed sp
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by pluma 9y ago
Sure, this is a case where change could have only happened if everybody else joined in at the same time. If you're the only browser to correctly implement the syntax requirements of XML for XHTML: * all existing sites are broken becaus
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by pluma 9y ago
In Germany both the Catholic church and the Evangelical church are registered religious organisations governing various religious communities and institutions. The German Catholic church is obviously subject to the Vatican, but the Evangeli
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by pluma 9y ago
I'm not sure I fully understand the distinction but I guess the big difference is that very few Christian countries are theocracies (i.e. in these countries Christian religious law has no impact outside the very limited authority held
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by pluma 9y ago
That's not what the argument is about at all. Presumably the religious edict is upheld by the state, so the tournament is hypocritical because it's making an exemption for a small elite of international athletes to participate in
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by pluma 9y ago
I'd argue it's easier to use BTC securely when you're already laundering money than when you want to use it legitimately. Just use throwaway wallets to receive BTC, pay for goods that can be converted to physical cash and pro
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by pluma 9y ago
> Sending small to large quantities of wealth worldwide quasi instantly and with small fees does have a tremendous value. Last I checked Bitcoin transactions are frequently prohibitively expensive for microtransactions if the transaction
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by pluma 9y ago
I used to hate the W3C for wasting everybody's time with XHTML2, which was pretty much known to be dead on arrival from day one because browsers were barely even supporting XHTML (no, accepting XHTML and treating it as HTML tag soup do
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ArangoDB 3.3 GA: DC2DC Replication, Encrypted Backup, Server-Level Replication(arangodb.com)
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