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I was issued a Brother by the US Department of Veterans Affairs and it burned through ink cartridges, I took a semester off and the ones in the printer went bad without me printing anything; when the yellow ink ran out it refused to print in black and white even though I had plenty of black ink. Eventually it stopped working because of something to do with the drivers even though I never changed anything.

I'm glad your experience, and the experiences of others here, seem to be better but I can't help but reflect on the variance every time I read an HN poster relating about their positive Brother experience since my own experience was so different.

> But it's time for humans to quit our nonsense and give way to machines , which require universal standards.

I think we should arrange our society to favor humans and program computers in such a way to accommodate humans rather than the other way around.

Scrubbing Bubbles contains microplastic abrasives.

Yes to 1. and 2.

I'm not sure because I've never read anything about cartoon characters in this context but it probably has to do with whether the person recognizes that the cartoon character is an animated drawing or a person.

"process" includes storing/referencing memories etc.

The ape brain doesn't have a separate category for 'people you see on TV' and 'people you work with', celebrities are stored in the same place as your friends except the nature of parasocial relations seems to polarize their status; such that these people are seen as very high or very low status.

> Housing is an asset not inflation.

Inflation causes asset prices to rise.

> If inflation was running hot persistently at like 6% then long term interest rates would be higher

This is not true.

> housing prices would fall in nominal terms compared to wages

I suggest you reconsider your assertion that 6% inflation would result in lower housing prices.

> The low-inflation, low-interest rate environment has produced high asset valuations due to the cheapness of borrowing money.

The high asset valuations as a result of low interest rates is textbook monetary inflation.

> There is an important distinction on the spectrum between consumable things bought with wages and investments bought with borrowed money, and the rise in prices in those categories are different.

The prices in both those categories are affected by dilution of value as a consequence of monetary expansion and that increase in prices has a name, 'inflation'.

> If you want to play the semantic game that all rises in any prices are inflation there is a real distinction that you're missing -- in which case we should talk about asset inflation vs. price inflation vs. wage inflation as being different inflations and stop talking about it like its the same thing (which economists would tell you it isn't by arguing that you're talking about assets and not inflation, but now we've just gone in a circle talking past each other because of definitions).

The point of semantics is to enable us to communicate by having mutually understood meanings for the words we use. If you want to talk about price increases that are not a result of monetary factors, then you can just talk about the price of things going up without misappropriating the word 'inflation' and making it seem like you don't understand what the word even means.

> 85% of phone users choose Android.

Indeed, seems they are not "happy" to buy Apple.

> There is an alternative

I mentioned this twice, it is also notoriously inadequate and user-hostile as well. Do you have anything to add to the discussion?

> So if Apple products are “user hostile” then why are enough users happily spending twice as much on iPhones and more on Macs

They aren't all "happy" about it, but as I mentioned in the post you replied to, there is not a decent alternative.

> Maybe their decisions are only hostile to geeks who want to run Linux on the Apple Pencil.

Certainly not but one would have to be interested in the fact of the matter to realize it.

I think it is reasonable to assert both that distraction has been a problem for hundreds of years and that it is considerably worse now than it had been.

> That must be why developing iOS Apps is so unpopular with developers…

Apple products are popular among consumers and developers in spite of their many user-hostile decisions precisely because there are few alternatives, all of which have substantial disadvantages as well.