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I think Enginerrrd is saying that there could be a larger supply of other artists, that would satiate fans and make the demand for any one performer less impossible to meet. I’m no…

See my response to your sibling comment.

I was mostly asking because the explanation in the parent comment seemed overly simplistic, and to indicate that this approach would destroy the scalpers’ business model entirely. …

What if the kid passes at $30 because money is tight, they’d prefer to pay $20 and want to try for that, but scalpers snatch up all the cheapest tickets before the kid is able to. …

WhatsApp had like half a billion monthly active users when they were acquired, that could be considered fairly large scale, no? But I agree with your point in general.

You only do voice calls six times in a year?

Your logic isn't really valid. It could be that the glue is indeed effective in facilitating waterproofing and was put in place for that reason, however not to the extent that Appl…

Not their salary per se, to be clear. They will tell you how much income someone paid tax on in the previous tax year.

The point is that what you think is true might not necessarily be true. So only reading things you like and believe to be accurate could mean you’re getting the truth, but it could…

This is from their website: https://www.postman.com/trust/security/ > Depending upon its sensitivity classification, customer data is AES-256-GCM encrypted at the server-side befor…

First off, I’m very sorry about the suffering your mother (and you, I’m sure) had to endure because of this. The idea isn’t ”if we legalize opiates and opioids, no one will ever ge…

> The comparison to Canada and prohibition doesn’t pass the smell test. Given that the war of 1812 wasn’t predicated on getting the Canadians into a drunken stupor as a tactic of e…

This seems relevant, although it doesn't explain everything: > How pay is determined >"This is a haphazard process. The payment mechanism is to a very large extent bonus-based. So …

So this is the crux of the disagreement. You believe that you either need maximum possible security or none at all, so when you need to be secure, it doesn’t matter if you have to …

Just because you hide a big bag of cash where no one can find it, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s yours, just that you have it. If the US government says that it has lawfully seiz…

>>> One may even wonder why a police officer accused of rape was not only still on duty, but even training other officers. >> Because accusations are cheap enough to be weaponizabl…

> This is the problem. Blaming it on people being programmable instead of looking at real issues of rust belt dwindling into starvation, shipping manufacturing overseas and letting…

I agree with the spirit of your comment, but I wonder how it could translate into practice. It seems like it would be quite the boon to organized crime if you could rid yourself of…

What legal justification does PayPal use for keeping people’s money when they shut down their accounts? Even if the funds were obtained in some illegal way, they are still surely n…

> "Congratulations" on typed chat, phone call to boss within 3 minutes, and required a written report to senior senior management. There was unironic suggestions of doctors notes w…

”Charles Baggage” made me giggle a bit.

In the article it said that the creator makes around 60% of their income from AdSense, 40% from Patreon (which Google sees nothing from). A quick search says that Google pays the p…

I think you’re assuming that it’s the value that’s variable, and not the units of stock. That already from the beginning the company has decided on how much stock to give in terms …

> Using the same argument, it could be said that cash should be banned because its private & semi-anonymous nature allows for its use in transactions for gambling, drug use, child …

> Is your solution to keep the walled garden systems we currently have that benefit proportionally very few people on earth? Almost every single person on Earth benefits in some wa…