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Unbelievable! how bloody rude can you be? To the moderators (dang), do people get to keep their account here just because they're a "famous" poster despite writing the way they're …

The cost isn't just bandwidth, but also: - infrastructure (memory, CPU, disks...): all of which must deal with the huge amounts of data they manage (500+ hours of video uploaded ev…

When you take into consideration the median household income for both countries, the difference isn't as great as it sounds: - US: ~$70,000 (source: https://www.census.gov/library/…

what you've linked is the median household income, not individual income, i.e., calculated as the combined gross income of all members of a household, so it stands to reason that t…

I'm not saying it's impossible to sell software with one-time payment model, I'm saying it's noticeably harder. There's always going to be companies that make do with such business…

Yes, I know you said they do sell hardware and that's probably how they survive. If you look at my comment I said "if they only produced software", because I wanted to use it as an…

It has become worse for you; for me as a user it has become incredibly smooth for my use case, requiring literally no tweaking/toggling whatsoever to have a decent experience out o…

If that company, the one that develops DaVinci Resolve, only produced software, would that model of £200 fixed one-time payment be sufficient to be financially viable? Let's say th…

Is your first/native language SVO (subject-verb-object)? Mine isn't, it's VSO (verb-subject-object) or SOV (subject-object-verb), and for me the first example isn't more readable s…

It's not about whether you like it, or they like it, or I like it; it's about being able to provide certain features that a subset (of which you may or may not be a member) desire …

How does Google search make money? By having people see or click on ads. First of all, if company X pays to have an ad published when a search query includes a particular set of te…

From my personal experience, at work we use C and not Rust because for really low-level code (e.g., kernel bypass, niche datastructures, real-time, etc.) I believe Rust would have …

I guess you can say C17 is a change if you want to be pedantic except it didn't actually introduce any new features; it just corrected some defects found in C11. So we have C89, C9…

What? That's not my experience at all; from my desktop, tablet, and/or mobile phone browser I can access all subreddits I'm interested in without having to be logged in, including …

I don't know which way the OP intended the "play the game" sentence, but I didn't take it to mean go work for Facebook or whatever; instead I took it as don't be naive in thinking …

No I don't have any suggestions myself but as you point out there are already other alternatives, and I believe none are as blatantly obvious as when Aaron downloaded hundreds of d…

I don't like how people downvoted this comment without even saying why. The wording may be harsh (not what I think, just attempting to guess) but I believe there is truth in it; al…

I think the initiative will serve both to reduce inequality and bolster Xi; to what degree each is yet to be seen, I can only speculate. I do understand (and agree) with the fact t…

Oh I definitely agree that is the case for certain sites, which will ask you for an outrageous fee and they may not even fully disable ads and/or tracking. But even in the fair pay…

There may be some policies/actions from the Chinese government I don't like but certainly not that one, I think it's laudable to take measures to shrink the gap between rich and po…

Again my point with Aum is that, like NSU, they're microscopic in terms of percentage of population (NSU membership being 0.0002% of Germany, Aum being 0.001% of Japan) so it's mis…

I mean, Germany is not void of issues, or the UK, where I currently reside, or any other country really... But comparing my example with the NSU makes no sense to me, the NSU is co…

I believe we are interpreting hostile differently because for me it doesn't necessarily imply actively antagonistic or harmful, it can simply mean inhospitable/unfriendly and that …

The train situation is not "we were sat down --> he entered the train --> he decided not to sit down next to us and sat elsewhere", but "he was sat down --> we entered the train an…

Not the person you replied to but I've been to Japan twice, with different people, each for a month across Honshu/Kyushu and can definitely say there's a duality in how they behave…