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Not really relevant but I'm basically the only person I know that thinks it's the coolest thing in the world that I can open up my computer and watch a lecture from MIT/Stanford/Ha…

You should sit directly in front of a "main" monitor, and then have a secondary monitor alongside. Don't sit directly between two monitors!

wait until you hear about Apple Ads then.

I get balls of literal string. I must not live a very exciting life :(

Even if it changes, don't ever buy an Apple product to use with a non-apple product. I got burned by this with the powerbeats pro to use with my Android phone, which has ended up a…

google "overdose deaths"

compared with all the crime and scams done with fiat currencies

Thanks for this. I clicked on this thread thinking "why should I care about how den zhadanov reads books? what has he accomplished exactly?" and confirmed my suspicious when I saw …

We can just use renewable energy sources long term. Really don't understand the obsession some people have with the energy requirements of bitcoin mining - please compare these wit…

setting quite a low bar there

I don't have any data I can share because obviously negotiated rates are confidential... what planet do you live on? Apple is going to be among the very largest merchants in the wo…

Nope, that's the same faulty reasoning people use to justify purchasing leather. As if making the killing of cows more economical is somehow a good thing, and acting like demand fo…

do you shed a tear when you walk past a homeless shelter that serves meat, clothes their homeless in wool and doesn't have bird safety film on all the windows? Oh you don't. When i…

Not really, drop shipping from China has 0 barrier to entry so the margin will be competed downwards very quickly.

Apple wouldn't be paying anything remotely like that rate - if they are, everybody involved in negotiating it needs to be fired. You're off by several orders of magnitude, therefor…

You are aware that just because the true cost is obfuscated by the cell payment plan that doesn't mean you aren't paying for it in exactly the same way as the ipad pro, which you c…

No they aren't, that's just what people manufacturing fakes have managed to convince people is the case. (Somehow, it doesn't stand up to any scrutiny)

This just feels like the cost of doing business in the market you're in.

This is absolutely not correct.