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You're digging yourself a bigger hole. Keep digging.

Here's a list of MS software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_software You cannot find a single one that was good, or better than whatever was the alternative at th…

It really became a problem only with Windows RT attempting to merge mobile OS with desktop. All the non-sensical UX compromises are still from that. Later they abandoned consumerwa…

Like every holiday sale? Costco and Amazon discount Apple products all the time, and of course there is EPP and student pricing.

Conversion is different at $1100 vs. $400 so it's not a straight 1:1 $167 vs $70; the beancounters will weight by the likelihood of getting the amount in the first place. You also …

I can think of a few reasons: 1) Digital goods, so very little friction. 2) No liquidity locally so you go to the large market. 3) Selling large volume. 4) Some third party to veri…

You already do it for music and TV shows. That's not cheap either.

eBay takes a 13%+ cut, then there's shipping, so you're looking at $300 after cost of business. If you're selling a lot, sure, capture that $100 difference. If you're selling one a…

They won't throw it into the shredder. They'll capture the residual by wholesaling it second-hand, same as with trade-in's.

First-party MSRP at that. What's a few % free loan discount in comparison to almost any other retail pricing out there that is periodically 10-15% off.

Apple card installment isn't allowed on EPP stores, right? And you lose credit card extended warranty coverage, which is worth 5% of purchase price easily.

This isn't making a C program. It's using C tools and assembly tools to make an executable.

That's exactly what they are doing. Out of all the civilian applications that AI capabilities have, why has this surfaced as a priority for demonstration? Probably because of money…

Why? The "one device" can be something portable like a Yubikey-like USB key, or for that matter, a smart phone, because people are already forced to use phones to do authentication…

It should have never been a cloud password manager play. It should be hardware device only, and tied to the device. One passkey on each hardware device.

Uh, if you set up a passkey it becomes the default almost always. Then on another device it'll pop up looking for it and look like login failure and you need to "try another way". …

How many PM's have they got? Each one justifies his or her existence.

Reading this is like reading "this is like WiFi but for RJ11 nerds" while holding a dialup modem.

Lots of ways. Selling author signings, talks, authorized copies, subscriptions/merch, sponsorships. How do newfangled "content creators" fund their work? We already live in this wo…

If you buy the movie you most definitely have a copy that some machine made and you can keep it forever.

Does buying the book not count? Why in perpetuity? Even patents expire after 17 years.

Maybe a continuous evaluation process, why is there anything to train?

An cross of SoT (source of truth) and SotA (state of the art). SotA looks weird, admittedly.

The past cannot contain all information about the future, or there is some superdeterminism going on, by definition.

Which naturally begs the question whether the excess returns in finance (outside of services provided for liquidity matching, risk transformation, etc.) is not just exploiting insi…