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"Working" is a pretty generous description of a policy that, at a cost of 3-4% of GDP, has raised the fertility rate from its low of 1.23 in 2011 to about 1.55 today. That 1.5ish T…

This is the theory that people (on HN and elsewhere) have used to argue that Apple's App Store represents a monopoly that should be broken up. It makes no more sense here than it d…

This is true of the switch, but there are versions of both the PS5 and Xbox Series that don't have the ability to play physical media. Do they skate because users can pay more to g…

This is what I mean! "You, as someone who isn't an Apple customer, can't use this one service" is not evil , for fuck's sake.

Apple restricting a free service to Apple's own users is not even remotely the same as Microsoft's various forms of skullduggery and I don't know how you can make the comparison se…

Not providing every differentiating feature to Android users, primarily

This is such an insane take to me. Apple hasn't done anything but provide a feature that some subset of their customers in a single digit number of markets finds compelling. Do you…

If I want to "interoperate" with friends and family who use Android, I have zero issues doing so. SMS works fine, and the default experience being "bad" is really completely unrela…

The relevant example here is that Apple supports the lowest common denominator standard: SMS. iMessage is what makes the experience "magical" on iPhones. The total failure of any o…

This is a silly argument: Microsoft's bundling of IE resulted in real damage to another company (Netscape) that had a viable and independent competitor product. Beeper doesn't have…

The colors functionally denote the features available in the chat. In group chats, having a single non-iMessage user devolves the features available to the group chat to the SMS le…

I mean, Musk said that years ago on a podcast (and has maintained that position since): "I think the most profound thing is that if you buy a Tesla today, I believe you are buying …

The current subscription price is $1.50 a month or $10 a year, so presuming the same profit the cost would have to jump to a bit more than $5 a month or $53 a year. Apollo also had…

Assuming away all of the constraints that led to this situation in the first place does make solving the problem easier, for sure

I mean, are they wrong? Elon promised coast-to-coast summoning in 2016 with a time horizon of two years! there were supposed to be a million telsa robotaxis by the end of 2020! Lik…

Coal plants aren't profitable to run if they're required to retrofit for carbon capture, not many new coal plants are going to be built in countries that care about climate change …

It isn't an attitudinal problem, it is the logical outcome of our political systems. In political science it is known as Duverger's law: single ballot, winner take all systems inev…

A judge imposing any penalties or restrictions on Google over Google allegedly—and maximally—scraping data from a third-party site for use as part of Bard's training corpus would b…

The median in April 2020 was supposedly around $75 (1), but it of course wildly varies from host to host. The common perception is that they significantly increased during and afte…

I think we have already waited long enough with Twitter to conclude that the emperor, in this case, has no clothes. Twitter isn't like SpaceX or Tesla: there aren't enormous govern…

Twitter needs to generate roughly a billion dollars a year in additional cashflow just to service the debt Musk saddled it with. They already weren’t profitable, but let’s say that…

An adult is going to have very few instances where they are forced to spend hours of time around their abuser(s) relative to a child in school. "Training" someone to deal with bein…

Because "solving it" can look radically different depending on the definition or group trying to do the "solving." Platforms enforcing their terms of service to ban, say, holocaust…

Did you suffer any sort of consequence for your responses beyond being deprived of the ability to continue accessing their Facebook page? If not, you're really straining even the m…