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Came here to say this aswell, I visited the site wondering what the terms and conditions were. The page starts off by saying: > For USD $25 per month, we install and maintain a ful…

The problem with Lobste.rs (which arguably is also the key differentiating point) is their invite only system. Unless you know someone who's already in, there's no way to get an in…

Are there any plans to add a free tier without support or migration for say, less than 100k views a month? The pricing seems pretty neat if you're closer to the limit of the pricin…

AWS is quite literally a printing press for Amazon that prints it $$ and let's it devour other competitors in the retail eCommerce segment by selling at close to no margins. They n…

You shouldn't be comparing nominal returns between markets, what you should be comparing is the inflation adjusted real returns. That's why even if Japanese banks offer nearly no i…

I wish they had pricing based on countries PPP instead of a flat international pricing, it's kinda expensive if you're not from a first world country cause atleast where I am, $588…

It's kind of like the insane amount of privacy of Adobe products is what gave them their current near absolute monopoly over the entire market. A huge number of today's graphic des…

> at the same time tons of subreddits go way beyond just moderating out the bad stuff and act like full blown newspaper editors who delete 75%+ of organically upvoted submitted con…

> because that content can be a bit salty. AKA the fate of every site that is a collection of usergenerated content with an ad based business model. If you want to get serious abou…

Quora is arguably worse, it actively incentivized people to post inane and unproductive questions reducing the overall quantity of the content. Language topics are littered which q…

Unfortunately, VLC is developed by VideoLAN, a non-profit organization whereas Reddit is a for profit company which by definition they will chase for profits.