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well you say that, but blackberry did exactly what you're saying Nokia should have done and we see how much that helped. Truth is iPhone was so far ahead technologically, no other company had a chance. At least Nokia still exists today, which can't be said about majority of other mobile phone manufacturers of that era.


Yes, but it wasn't iPhone that ate their markets, it was Android. Nokia and Blackberry were both at the top because they had their own operating systems, and while they were losing the high end market to iPhone, they would've kept the middle and low end markets where the volume was.

Android changed all that, all of the sudden all their competitors got a good OS for free. Commoditize your complement, Google took their markets.


because payment processors hate small payments and punish accordingly (with flat fee +%)


That shouldn't really be a problem if there's an intermediary that takes the payment and distributes it.


We had a service that did this in the Netherlands (Blendle). They had a lot of the big Dutch media titles on-board. It failed and they pivoted to a crappy subscription service.

The model just doesn't work at this point.


Inkl, on the other hand, is still alive and kicking. If you're ok with their selection of sources it's 9.99 per month o 99.99 per year. I still have a pay-per-read subscription, which I prefer to the subscription model, but I'm afraid they don't offer that anymore.


Yes I know blendle but this was decades ago. In a market that was completely different, where paywalls weren't yet a thing and they would just display ads. It was "ads vs paying a bit". Not really a big incentive.

I think in this day and age where most news outlets simply give you a paywall I think this will work just fine. Because now the alternative is just not reading the content (or paying a sub which is ridiculous for a site you view a couple times a month)


Their hope with subscriptions is that there's value to you visiting more than a couple times per month.

Anecdotally, this works for me - I pay for a handful of subs, and I don't use any news aggregators or feeds - the sites with subs I pay for cover everything of interest to me.


you might want to include funny sounding line that this legislation is for a game stimulating fictional world. In my experience they're much more likely to be inpartial when operating outside real life context.


many people living simple fulfilling lives die much earlier, it's more an exception than the rule (I don't argue that those things doesn't help, just that they alone is not the reason for long healthy life)


I have a pet theory that classical musicians overindex on longevity, and I believe that the fulfilment and community aspects are contributors to their longevity.

No evidence and probably full of bias but seems intuitive enough


typescript transpilation to js is nearly instant, it's not comparable


Rust compilation is also almost instant, if you have a relatively small project.

It's only when you get very large projects that compilation time becomes a problem.

If typescript compilation speed wasn't a problem, then why would Microsoft put resources into rewriting the tyescript compiler in Go to make it faster[1]?

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go


Good to know, my $DAYJOB project unfortunately isn’t as well informed and we have to use esbuild just to survive.


install adblocker?


I'm not from US, so from outside it looks like US changed priorities and are less concerned about what happens in other countries, which is understandable. Whether it is good policy long term or not is another question, but clearly it was popular choice.


Does the US not have a national debt? To cut spending seems like a good long-term policy.


that would imply you would live to 95 which is a gift by itself


Depends on who you ask. From my grandma (97), it apparently stops being as fun when you start losing autonomy and all your relatives your age are dead.


you'd be surprised how many users are covered by basic needs.


For docs yes, but spreadsheets power users are everywhere in every organization in the world. Sure they are not the majority of employees, but they are often very high up in the management chain and you will only pry them out of MS Excel from their cold dead hands.

I am not a power user of excel in any way and even I can see that google sheets doesn't match it in features and performance.


that sounds like 0.0001% of sectors


Where did you pull this number from? And even if so, what is your point? Seeing how a nation treats its minorities helps judge whether they have any humanity left.


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