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by themacguffinman 3y ago
> People who fail to cancel their subscriptions are not free-riding off anyone, they're paying $X per billing period. They're not free-riding currently, but what the parent is suggesting is that streaming subscriptions don&#x27
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
That's misunderstanding the point, "this business model" doesn't mean hard-to-cancel. The comment specifically points to a model where customers with heavy usage are subsidizing customers with light usage (edit: I mixed
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
I strongly disagree, I have media subscriptions right now that I won't sign into for a month or even multiple months but I don't intend on giving it up. This is especially true for niche streaming content where production costs ar
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
It appears like rationalization to you (edit for context: the parent comment said it was rationalizing before it was edited) because you've already made up your mind about the malicious intent of companies who use this model. The reali
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
It screws over other use cases because it changes the economics of these streaming services. Monthly subscriptions for media, especially ones like Netflix, account for bingeing followed by dead periods amortized into the monthly price. Only
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
Wow, I guess 6MM ethnic genocide and a world war is comparable to a ~600k casualty chemical spill because at least we punished the Nazis more, I suppose that makes all the difference. What a perfect comparison for how toothless corporations
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
The poll only counts people who talk about it "often or extremely often". It actually seems crazy to me that the number is so high for younger age groups: > And young adults are more likely to say they often talk about their me
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
I don't know why people get paranoid about this, in the US and most Western countries payment processing has minimum security requirements and you have blanket protection from fraud by credit card companies anyway. All of this means in
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
There's a book review about this that suggests it is exactly this abuse of the courts to block governments https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-public-cit...
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
It's a bad example because this specific reason doesn't generalize to other political beliefs like creationism which is what the others in the thread are talking about.
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
> What would you say to someone in 700 AD, for whom the next 1000 years were more likely to be objectively worse in terms of quality of life than the next 1000 Not OP, but I would probably say something like "don't have kids, i
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
Google Collections isn't featured on Chrome for Android or any other platform, it's primarily managed by the Search app with some integration with Maps.
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
> Truthfully, I'd prefer to get rid of the app and just have users go to the website and install the PWA, but the average user still doesn't know how to do this. And the Play Store is still the first place users go to find apps
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
For extra context, Linus' response to this so far: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1526180-gamers-nexus-alleges...
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
It's interesting that so many comments are bewildered at the article's argument - that Ring by default puts too much power in the untrustworthy police - when that's the mainstream argument put forth by privacy advocates on we
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
Users who use alternative clients are banned the moment Discord finds out about them, not a great example. Discord Nitro's perks seem just as valueless as Reddit Gold to me. The top listed features are ephemeral stuff like custom emoji
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by themacguffinman 4y ago
People complain about it on HN a lot, although "hearing about it constantly" is a fairly vague and nebulous criteria. Search "gmail spam" on hn.algolia.com with a "past year" time filter, here's a bunch of
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by themacguffinman 4y ago
Reputations aren't just signals of who to avoid, they're also signals of who to punish. Using game theory terminology: in a society of cooperators, defectors must be punished, otherwise other cooperators see defectors get away wit
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by themacguffinman 4y ago
Maybe now we have a new excuse when we regret sending terribly nasty emails: Sydney hallucinated it and I accidentally hit send, it wasn't me!
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In the US the marketshare split is closer to 45-55, with iOS having the larger 55% share. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045192/share-of-mobile-... .
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by themacguffinman 4y ago
My understanding of that phrase is that "pull an Uber" means "break laws and social norms to more quickly deliver a product that beats the status quo". Uber broke laws in some regions that required special taxi licenses,
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Communities, ie. "humans" collectively, not individuals.
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by themacguffinman 4y ago
I'm talking about their Linux platform's position among gamers and game developers where usage & support is scarce, why would I be talking about their brand?
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Yes they do if they want to build excitement and interest in their niche platform. Money isn't the only reason to brag, attention is critical to a platform's success and Valve's Linux-based platform is starting from behind.
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by themacguffinman 4y ago
Ah that makes sense, didn't realize that's how it works.
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There's nothing really fundamental about humans wanting cars. In European cities with a long history of public transit, people like public transit. In American cities where cars have been king for a long time and have almost never been
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by themacguffinman 4y ago
@paulg's Twitter followers seem to have been wiped clean so his follower count is much lower now. Not really sure if that's part of the punishment or if that's an engineering failure.
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Browsers and messaging apps also rely on OS security to a degree, it's part of why they don't support old operating system versions.
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It may not be advisable, but tell that to the XP-for-life or 7-for-life people. It won't actually stop working, it just means you're much more vulnerable to malware.
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Because of global warming? The idea is fairly straightforward: - less space efficient means less fuel efficient which means heavier carbon footprint - less space efficient means more vehicles which means heavier carbon footprint - less spac

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