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Personally, I think the pricing issue is related to the web app issue from the parent comment. Even as a free iOS app, there is the $99/year Apple Developer fee, on top of any serv…

Yes, because that is exactly how American cities are currently built today -- expensive carbon-intensive roads paved out to sprawling suburbs, the independent financial upkeep of w…

It is free and opensource, but there are different parts to it if you selfhost. Synapse is the Matrix server backend, and Element is the UI (web/mobile app). [0] ESS is a paid, ful…

That sounds proportionate to me. They get to make profits, and I get to use their improvements if they also benefit me. This can foster more community than if MIT code were to be t…

A notable and interesting example I remember of "economics" being used to refer to practical skills is in "Home Economics"[0], which actually has nothing to do with home prices or …

Most of the article talks about characters, but in my experience, they are the easy part. Unlike Japanese and its 15 ways to pronounce 生, Chinese is "easy" by comparison, with most…

The popular reason is likely because 文 is used across East Asia in Chinese and Japanese (Korean and Vietnamese too, though written differently)[0], with the ideograph standing in a…

I took "Ultimately success is a matter of effort" to mean only that. Even if you were handed opportunities on a silver platter (ie. rich parents), you still had to put in your own …

Not sure about within anime, but back in our fleshy human realm, Crunchyroll was founded by Berkeley graduates and is now the go-to anime platform. I suppose if you can't beat 'em,…