silverpepsi

There wasn't but consider the context: at the time YouTube was an almost purely piracy platform most likely the biggest on the planet if quantified in IP dollar value - yet was magically not shut down by the government. How unfair to the competition is that? Remember that other piracy based sites were raided in that era. But when Google started acquiring it, it was very quickly above the law. YouTube should not exist.

- fair use was also sot as permissive in that era! Web 2.0 coerced a legal shift -

Can someone explain why it isn't disingenuous to look at Euros?

Firstly, euros cost now as much as they did three years ago. So that is clearly a price that can be reached with any number of causes. Then, UK pounds cost only what they did last September. And other world currencies? Values vs the dollar are all over the map, up, down, and nearly unchanged. No clear trend at all.

I had heard a good way to check the absolute value of dollars is to google USDX. Guess what? It's not particularly low, well within the normal range of ups and downs.

>If you were taking any other drug (over the counter or RX) would anyone tolerate "today it's 100 mg, tomorrow it's 400 mg"?

afaik melatonin. Not super happy about it but it is what it is, giving it up has a high cost too.

Not the whole market at the high end either, I have very little trouble getting any pair of Balmain, Versace, and Rick Owens sneaker I want - I have several dozen pairs of all three brands

Strategy at the high end is to price correctly but astronomically so almost no one can afford them, then offer seasonal sales to sell the less popular colorways or styles off to the aspirational upper poor.

Nike/Adidas is like the polar opposite, intentionally underprice so demand is frantic and there is a lot of action for middle men, then over the years try to steal back as much of the middle men profit as possible

All very interesting imo

"we want to be able to hang somewhere" ...just saying because I'm sorry I can't contain myself: This is exactly the use case Airbnb doesn't solve. I fly half-way across the world to meet my parents on vacation and almost without fail the only Airbnb I can find (or all the ones I can find) have a strict rule against guests. Hence I can't have my parents over 10 minutes to drink tea because if the owner, big brother, finds out I'll lose my entire remaining month of rent and be forcibly expelled. In Europe this is not joke, often a loss of $2000+

I truly hate Airbnb. Luckily since my parents only stay a week they can afford to stay in a hotel. Invariable we "hang out" with me sitting at the foot of their bed.

These "rules" become extremely oppressive when your home most of the year is an Airbnb room like me. This is why I use Booking or local corporate owned platfroms instead whenever possible

Was the $.99 price point really invented at a point in history before sales taxes came to be established? Round prices have never been convenient because it always come out to $1.07 1.08 1.09 something like that with a mix of state and local tax added

I don't think we can draw any conclusion from that campaign because multiple variables were changed simultaneously

The biggest ones in my mind, the ones my family had always played: they got rid of the game playing involved in buying during sales windows. This eliminated both the urgency to buy and the fun of feeling you were getting a deal other people weren't (this is all from memory I'm afraid)

When you eat at a sit down restaurant, part of the service is not forcing you to walk to the register up front to pay. Hence you leave your card with the waiter and they disappear with it for up to 15 minutes to process the payment at the terminal.

This is also their opportunity to copy your magnetic strip and/or add a tip without your permission. (Though the latter only happened to me once, I guess the former may have happened a few times over the years it's hard to know.)

Doesn't strike me as wise. Your phone is always on you, if you have a biometrics killswitch you're better off than repeatedly entering your password, day in and day out, in public locations where a highly motivated actor WILL be able to figure out your password with mere binoculars and two or three observations.

This is why I hate when I get a 1Password prompt to reenter my nonbio password at inopportune times in a public place. My keystrokes can be secretly filmed from a distance. When I gain access to passwords that I copy and paste by fingerprint, the forcible theft of my machine puts me at near 0 risk. (My preferred way to login while in public.)

I type in Chinese regularly

It is annoying that Windows keeps Qwerty for it while Mac uses Dvorak. If it was just consistent (I constantly switch machines) it would be easy to handle and entirely subconscious by now...

But I start typing the wrong layout every time and lose a few seconds mentally reorienting myself.

In other words, people destined to die early, of their own accord, don't like to briskly walk, not even for a mere 22 minutes.

But how do we know this destined-to-die cohort will change that destiny by merely pretending to be the other group insofar as walking >=22 mins?

This isn't real

Every business, every business has people who go in with the "no matter the cost" situation. But the market sets the schedule of pricing, so if either their status is not "revealed" or the business is simply not allowed to alter the price scedule from person to person, then it is literally no different than

-A rich family deciding they'll eat at the amusement park without asking prices, and no matter what, even when a small coke has reached $10

-A guy who walks into a new restaurant after his first 48 hour fast and after payday atd decides to completely ignore the prices and just order unconditionally

-A taxi driver get a flat outside of a tire shop by pure chance and it is the start of a ten hour planned shift etc. ad Infinitum

Lol "famous"? Sorry I don't think a pickle can be famous but ya know different strokes.

#1 Better to take one shot at $500 before paying a pick-up artist $5000-10,000 from training/conferences

#2 Imagine you make $100k USD and haven't scored a date in a decade. Wouldn't taking a gamble of $500 seem appealing just in case it finally gave you a shot?

I dunno, to me not hard to understand at all. USA is not Europe, escort prices there start $300+/hr these days, a lot more in NY/LA etc. also making $500 sound like less

There's a special place in the inferno for Booking staff who send me distracting notifications about the fact that the hotel I'm currently living out of having availability. These are especially insidious as I dare not turn off their notifications, I'm staying at a place so traveler hostil they texted me 4 hours before noon check in day and said if I didn't reply by noon they'd cancel my reservation. It is a 13 hr flight to Indonesia and free universal in-air internet just ain't a thing yet. A 4 hour window to respond is beyond outrageous and irrational. Even a tourist from Japan could be without internet the whole while.