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> This way they'll save money for traffic

If people leave because of this that cuts their costs to zero. What's their incentive not to do this ?

> or come up with a different method

Let me introduce you to Paying for the services you use™

> YouTube is not offering anything worth paying

That's for you to decide, and if you (and the other tens of people that think the same) end up leaving the platform that would reduce YouTube's costs, which makes sense for them.

Your argument is basically the same people use for piracy. If you don't want to pay for Photoshop, don't use it. If you don't want to pay for YouTube, don't.

Maybe the plumbing for updating the status page went down too

GitHub pages are down too, although funnily enough https://pages.github.com is up

> it'd be better if each person had to kill their own food, even though it would almost surely result in a lot more waste, and thus a lot more killing?

That's only true assuming people would keep up their meat consumption levels, which I seriously doubt.

This post is from them, and they were banned for spamming not "advocating", so not Streisand effect just your regular spam.

My Sennheiser HD8s and their propietary cable begs to differ. And also keep in mind you are favoring Bose, the multi-million dollar company that didn't bat an eye when they decided to introduce spyware on their app.

Apple has done the wrong thing many times, but audio is not one of them. They offered a legitimate better product, to the point the only headphones I would rather use are IEMs that cost 8 times as much.

I mean, the OP was clearly referring to music composition:

> The divide from putting down an idea when it hits, to working it into something, has always been really high.

And in terms of music composition, you can probably get away with just humming out the tune and leave the rest for the producer to figure out.

If by "everything" you mean better production quality, sure, but I doubt you'd do your best sound-design work laying down on your couch with your airpods.

I think the only thing this enables is for you to "finish" your songs on the ipad itself, which is not the game changer the OP is saying it is.

> its willingness to make up facts makes me leary

I see you haven't met humans

You cannot buy keys from Steam, you buy them from third-party sellers which can and do obtain them in illegitimate ways

So use your now-free hours to look for a different job ?

I mean it's hackernews after all, we are talking FAANG or startup kind of things not Walmart bag-boy

Remember "brands" are not a thing, all companies are people and people care about themselves. If you join a company and cut the costs to "save money", you'll probably get a big bonus and then jump ship somewhere else so you don't suffer the consequences.

Something that you can hardly say about the industry*

> Finally, OpenAI did not pay for the data it scraped from the internet. The individuals, website owners and companies that produced it were not compensated. This is particularly noteworthy considering OpenAI was recently valued at US$29 billion, more than double its value in 2021.

Wait until they find out how much Google is valued at

Even if it doesn't, you now suddenly have the top 20+ results with the exact same info

I think old YouTube had a similar feature, but killed it to become "the next cable tv"

If you put it like that there's freedom of speech everywhere, it just so happens that in some places talking gets you killed...

Eh, I'm not American and I found American football pretty straightforward, at least until you start looking at the play-calling and formations and all of that.

And you could say the same about CS, your market is probably "anyone who has played a first-person shooter"

Well, yes ?

Try to get to the end zone, if you do you score 6 points. You have 4 attempts to move forward 10 yards, if you don't, the ball goes to the other team. If you have more points, you win.

That's it, that's all you need to know to watch it and enjoy it. Sure, there's more ways of scoring and the details of each position, the routes they are running and play-calling in general is interesting, but it's not needed to just watch the game.

> People with lower incomes aren't as willing to pay high prices for games.

It's a bit deeper than that, let me share my perspective of purchasing software in a developing country.

Growing up I remember that video games only picked up in popularity when you could "buy" pirated games. For reference, I'm talking about the Nintendo Wii era and those were about 1-3 USD each for a CD with the pirated version of the game. Also for reference, right now a Nintendo Switch game (that costs $60 MSRP in the US) sells for about $90 due to taxes and stuff [1].

To me, there's two significant issues with that: 1. People don't feel like they are stealing when buying pirated goods. They are spending their hard-earned cash into something they want/like, and that's as far as their reasoning goes. This happens for other software like Photoshop too, and even physical goods. I remember buying fake yu-gi-oh cards knowing they were fake, but that's the only ones that were available and that I could afford. I had a few legit ones and I treated them as a treasure, in the same way you treat your fancier clothes better than your normal ones. 2. You can have a full meal in a diner for about $3 in my country, desert and all. If you want to sell food, that's how low you have to go because that's what people can afford. A $10 dollar meal is normal in the US, but here it would be a luxury.

Now, that combination is very problematic as you can expect. People do want to pay for stuff, and to their minds that's what they are doing. To me, selling pirated goods is as scummy as it gets, but I cannot blame someone for buying it when it's their only choice.

So for most companies, having "regional" prices on this markets is the difference between selling or not.

[1] Not exagerating at all, google `700 GTQ to USD` and then this https://www.max.com.gt/juego-nintendo-switch-pokemon-violet-...

> highly processed and not suitable for staple food IMMO

Well, neither are regular sausages haha

> testosterone and dopamine production is increased

Or advertisement

I listen to space videos, stuff like Astrum.

Usually fits that niche cause I'm interested but I can live without knowing how many moons does Jupiter have

And with stuff like audiobooks you can't doze off because you loose track, but with this you'd just missed 1 of the 10 things he was talking about

Even a person wearing glasses messes up with the A.I., look at the image on the left:

https://www.whichfaceisreal.com/results.php?r=1&p=1&i1=image...

Oh it's way worse than random, I think half my home page are videos I've already watch so surely I'd just LOVE to watch them again right ?

Someone should tell him that NOT firing the heads of the environmental agencies [1] of his country could make way more impact than iPhones having USB C

https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/brazil-guts-environmental-...

Eh, Facebook Dating [1] had as good a network as you can have, but still seemed to have flopped after release!

Or are you referring to Software Engineers trying to solve problems they don't understand ?

[1] https://www.facebook.com/dating

Ah yes, nothing more inventive than using the same drum synthesizer for 40 years!

Also, I'm sure it's super hard to push the limits of all 127 values of dynamic range that MIDI offers, especially when you also write all your music on common time