No, this makes sense. FaceTime has worked well in the past to encourage people to stay within the Apple ecosystem. All their friends use FaceTime, so they can't switch to an Android phone. But now, as people use more and more other videoconferencing solutions because of the pandemic, they might be more open to switching to accommodate that one friend who has an Android phone and can't join in. So here's the solution to make sure they don't switch. That one Android friend can still get in. There's no need to start experimenting with Zoom instead of FaceTime. But they still aren't going to get rid of their iPhone, because they know the experience won't be as good. It's not about attracting new customers. It's about keeping the existing customers.

Fake it til you make it.

It's nice to see that the average Anonymous Coward is a non-functional human.

Cause that's the same thing as a company with 85,000 employees. /s

Why is the average person an idiot (I assume you're referring to players who buy cosmetics in the game).

Are they any worse than a person that pays $50-$100 for a game outright? Sure they don't have to, but it increases their enjoyment of the game and/or supports the company which will likely result in game improvements, or a future version.

There's nothing saying he didn't like his job. In a company of any decent size, there's bound to be people, that offered the right incentives, would share company secrets with a competitor. Sometimes it's an act of revenge for perceived wrong doing, other times it's simply that the incentive is enough to overcome morals.

Maybe not as a designer baby maker, but CRISPR is a lot more than that, being a potential cure for a huge number of genetic diseases that are devastating to those that have them.

While I'm sure there are some Canadians that think the US should accept all immigrants, it would be similar to the number of US citizens that think the US should accept all immigrants as well. Canada, or as a rule "Canadians" don't think any country should have a fully open immigration policy.

That just sucks.

APU(2) with pfsense is fantastic. Mine runs on a memory card, only down time was before I had it on a UPS. Handlers my 150/150 internet connection and probably 30+ devices at very load load. Click "update" now and then (or cron it) to keep it updated.

Add in pfBlockerNG for some basic blocking of ads/malicious sites as well.

It's essentially an ICF house, which are typically very well insulated. http://buildblock.com/how-to-b...

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Less than a month before we know the linux kernel was being patched for this bug.

I absolutely agree there are times when paying someone to do a job has other, non-monetary benefits, ranging from freeing up personal time, quality of the work, ability/knowledge to do the work, etc. These can all be very good reasons to pay someone to do something for you.

This is a really bad way to view things.

I've had people tell me the same thing about why they pay for certain services. Say I make $50/hour. I can paint my own room or pay someone $15/hour to do it. (we'll assume supplies are a fixed price either way, so the only difference is the hourly rate). Let's say it takes 4 hours. Some would say that paying someone $60 to do the job make sense, because in that time I could earn $200, putting me $140 ahead. But that's not necessarily the case. For me to earn that $200, I actually have to be working, not painting my room. So paying someone to do it actually puts me $60 behind.

Same thing for anyone. If he's sitting at the table reading the paper while the coffee brews, he's not reducing his earnings. If he's paying someone to do it for him, he's still not earning anything, and he's paying out of pocket more than it would cost him to do it himself.

A huge portion of landmass but a tiny portion of the population.