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Then pay someone to do the work.

Supporting obscure trash isn't worth development time.

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The risk is that the business fails. There are no "sure thing" investments, especially at higher returns.

Ask him how his business can fail. If he doesn't give you a variety of possibilities and ways he's hoping to prevent them, I'd be very worried that he's overconfident and not prepared for difficulties.

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Your morals wouldn't be changing.

Your behavior would.

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Waiting for whoever is obnoxiously climbing up my ass to take my spot to leave.

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The level of liability you'd expose yourself actively advertising it as some sort of mental health product is insane.

I do believe someone will be dumb enough, but it's a truly terrible, insanely unsafe idea with anything resembling current tech in any way.

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A phobia is defined by being irrational.

Simply being terrified isn't a phobia if you have a valid reason to be terrified.

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It means the core OS is isolated from all the functionality in a way that allows you to modularly add all the functionality on top of it in a reproducible, robust way.

In theory. I haven't actually dug into any of them personally.

conciselyverbose,

Imagine anyone having a need for a video stream in the modern era.

Or any other canvas with complexity .

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Have you watched recent Pixar movies? They seem perfectly fine to me.

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If you, as the owner, don't have root, it's extremely locked down.

There are a few you can get root, but they're the exception, not the rule, and having to jump through hoops for it is still a locked down OS.

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I write and run plenty of small to medium Python scripts on my iPhone. It's an adjustment, but it's absolutely manageable.

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Not particularly. I use it because it's always available.

But the limiting factor is way more the lack of real estate than it is typing.

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I don't think Trump is the first to run for president after being voted out.

Not running for a lesser office is way more the "unwritten rule".

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It's a 2D platformer. Technology is no longer the limitation.

That's the reason the value proposition is so bad, too. It's not that there's anything inherently wrong with any of the 2D Mario (or the rest of their 2d side scroller catalogue). It's that they're charging full AAA game price for content any indie can match at everything but the specific IP (and many do better).

Some of their ideology helps their games last the test of time reasonably well, and they're the biggest publisher that's so heavy in 2D side scrolling stuff, but the reality is that it's now so easy for a solo dev to publish in an extremely polished format that there's very little they could do that would justify their price point.

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I don't know how you could do HGTTG well, because the nonsense narration is pretty much the whole point, and I kind of liked what it was, but it was definitely a letdown still. Zaphod's heads bothered the absolute shit out of me.

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Meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene in 1976, and defined as the equivalent of a gene but for more abstract ideas (because the gene is ultimately just a unit of information as well). I don't remember for sure if religion is specifically an example he personally used, but if it's not it's very comfortably in the same vein.

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I've set my ereaders to roboto thin or roboto light. I haven't been motivated enough to try to change fonts on other platforms.

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For 95+% of people, literally everything they would use a computer for personally can be done with a phone. Phones are also replacing a bunch of stuff in various job related fields. Why have a static computer with a barcode scanner when you can just mount a scanner to a phone and have it portable? Why have a giant beefy cash register when you can trivially swipe a card and accept contactless payments on a phone instead? They even print paper receipts with some of them, if you want one.

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It's also breakneck paced, batshirt unpredictable, and forking delightful.

Also the season 3 and season 4 finales had me bawling.

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It's instructions per clock/cycle in a hardware context, because you can't use clock speeds to compare performance between processors.

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No, there's not even a theoretical possibility for that to happen. Lower priced regions are lower priced because there aren't a meaningful number of people in those regions able to pay first world prices.

Lowering the global revenue by whatever small amount those regions bring doesn't somehow incentivize publishers to lower revenue further by lowering prices in the first world. It makes no sense to think it does.

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No, it won't. There's no point on the curve where low income regions have any possibility whatsoever of enough volume to affect it in any way. It's not a matter of "affording" anything, because adjusting to satisfy those regions is lower revenue than ignoring them.

It won't have a negligible impact on pricing. It will be literally zero.

conciselyverbose,

I said it wouldn't be negligible. It would be literally zero.

The increased volume in lower income regions is massively less than the lowered revenue in the first world in every case. Regional pricing is "bonus" revenue from low income regions. It does not offset the first world in any way.

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Because it's low quality and stuffed with trash.

If it's real food you freeze and reheat it's different.

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You sure you can't with the same usb drive you'd need for anything made in the last decade?

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