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iPhones are 10x better than $500 Androids, so a steal at 2x the price.

I think Apple TV+ may even be a part of this. On its own, its a below average streaming service. But as a proprietary production studio that can bootstrap a VR content library by force of will...?

There are similar tools to this but this is nothing like Lambda or CF Workers. Lambda doesn't do anything remotely close to generating frontend UX for a script.

this is a feature, not a bug

Living in Missouri and not knowing where Minnesota is absurd. Did you move there recently?

You can't be pleased?

It's real, it's because of humans, it's not a civilization threat, and it probably isn't in the top 5 most important problems facing us this century.

I think the idea was the anxiety was that tweets aren't ephemeral enough.

Monarchies have to respond to the threat of populist uprisings, but they're still monarchies.

I wonder if this is the way Apple and Google will eventually retreat from their 30%* cut, by using their app store chokepoint to nudge developers to their platform. Seems like a worse monopolistic practice than the 30% cut to me.

For Google, that'd obviously be GCP discount. For Apple, less obvious. Pushing iCloud storage? Apple Music? They've already forced every app to support Apple Pay and Sign In with Apple, so they likely don't even need the carrot.

*yes I know its not 30% anymore for some/most usecases.

“If there were 315,507 excess deaths due to Covid-19, why is the difference in all-cause deaths between the end of 2020 and the end of 2019 only 61,654? That’s 61,654 more all-cause deaths in 2020 than in 2019, where the increase in all-cause deaths over each of the past ten years has averaged 44,806. That’s a difference of 16,848 from the median in a year with an alleged 315,507 extra Covid-related deaths.”

S3 (and most AWS services) are extremely price elastic; i.e., the lower you make them cost, the more people use it (a la electricity.) That's why they've done stuff like drop from 50ms billing to 1ms billing, etc.