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I love fun and games. Twitter @kinnth
It's very good for developers who now have to pay the Apple Tax, with no way to avoid it. Gaming on mobile is the majority of this tax and game studios will immediately jump ship making their own payment processor choices to save 20% in a heartbeat.
Most mac's are 3-5 year lifetimes tho, longer than phones.
Of all the dance genres available I am always frustrated that it's more popular than so many other great ones!
The green economics of this need some serious consideration as i'd be really aware if you can reprocess it and get a second reaction for less energy than it cost you to turn the rust back into free iron metal.
So I believe workers should get paid the minimum, but im sure that gig work fills a niche that no other work does. They don't want to negotiate, they want simplicity and flexibility or else they could work as temp staffing or short term work such as call center or gigs, that are paid well but often bad work.
These solar projects are good to start as they could empower more african nations with cheaper electricty. We just need more electricity everywhere if were going to drop the reliance on oil.
I had this exact same problem where I became entirely disillusioned with the output of my work after having become reasonably senior and realising that the majority of my time and effort ammounted to projects which either failed or treaded water. The unfortunate reality in business is that the projects that truly change the world are 1 in 100. They don't look or feel much different from any other at the begining but when traction really does start to take off you know you have something right. I think from your description, you need to work at a startup where you have genuine impact. This is the only way you truly "feel" meaning. You might still build something that's reasonably worthless to humanity, but you will do it your way and take your own risks.
Unity3D is still the defacto for most gaming studios and I agree with the first point that the game engine space is very saturated. Still I admire all the work and great 2D engines can render faster on specific hardware (cocos2D was a good example)! I say focus on one niche and build better integrated tools for that niche.
I pay for the freelancer version and if this version from apple allows me to share with non-apple users, I will switch. I hate paying so much for a software tool and if it's good enough it feels like the Microsoft Teams killing Slack outcome.
I think (I don't know as i'm a UK citizen) that these are similar to trusts. It's fair to say that rich people avoid a lot of income tax when they fund these trusts, but the trusts themselves still then pay tax on income and expenditures. The main thing it allows is for wealth to remain in a family for longer periods of time with one big tax avoidance at the beginning (the recoup on income taxes)
It might with time open up software across multiple ecosystems.
If anything a crypto exchange is a misnomer as it's not even needed. The only reason it exists is because smart contracts didn't exist when they first started.