Nah, I think it's mutually-beneficial. If Spotify didn't have an Apple app, their revenues would decrease. And I'm only saying that free apps that get a lot of downloads should be billed extra... like maybe 200K downloads per month or so.

There's an easy fix for that. If someone distributes a free app and that app receives more than a certain (high) number of downloads per month, then charge them a fair fee for hosting the download, where that fee reflects the actual costs of hosting that app plus a small markup for Apple to get some profit.

This is defensible because Apple is recovering actual costs here. Not just piggybacking on someone's subscription service.

Look at the sales of romance novels. A lot of those are quite explicitly erotic. I think women might be more interested in reading erotic stories and men might be more interested in visuals. But there's probably a fair amount of overlap.

Mark Zuckerberg

We need AI to handle the increased volume of calls caused by more extreme weather events caused by massive energy consumption caused by AI data centers...

This is chickenfeed. Given the damage Meta has done, it should be dismantled and its executives indicted for harming consumers.

Mmm... built on NPM. No supply-chain issues there...

And yeah... fuck the marketer who decided to call this an "OS". I hate it when people pervert the meanings of words.

It seems that the USA is dropping the ball on weather balloon monitoring.

Better approach is to ban the business models used by social media that make them so addictive and harmful. And if a social media business does not comply, fine it 100% of its revenues in your jurisdiction.

If they still don't comply, request Zelensky to pull a Wildberry trimming operation on their data centers.

It's the social media companies who are the evil ones here, not the users who need age-restricting.

The poor moderators. They'd have much less content to review if the button were "Doesn't Seem like AI Slop"

There's a damn good chance most engineers and PMs don't have a clue about their organizations most immoral actions

Seems highly unlikely, when such actions are obvious even to the general public.

You'd better have real-world evidence that these alternatives work before burning down the current system. And I do not believe there is any real-world evidence; in fact, most of the real-world evidence points to the contrary.

It's also the reason we have quite a number of average people with secure retirements. Yes, BURN DOWN CAPITALISM sounds good, and given the huge problems of unregulated capitalism in the USA, I even have some sympathy for the sentiment, but in reality, well-regulated capitalism backstopped by robust government social programs is simply the best way to generate wealth for everyone.

Burning down capitalism completely will simply make everyone poor and make life shittier than ever. We need to regulate it.

If you day trade, then yes... the stock market is gambling.

If you invest in low-cost index funds and hold them for a decent amount of time, the odds that you'll make money are almost 100%.

There's no analogously-safe way to use prediction markets.

Well, it makes traveling from where I live to certain places a bit more expensive and less convenient. But that's OK. It's worth it to avoid the USA.