We’ve certainly gone in circles. Hope your day is excellent as well.

Hey now, the US has multiple hydrogen stations, assuming you live in a certain area of California.

People would be willing to pay more if there wasn’t as much competition. People obviously want to pay less, and companies obviously want to charge more, so the real variable here is how competitive the market is. And the more competitive the market, the closer to production costs companies are able to pay.

The variable here isn’t how much people are willing to pay, that’s elastic and depends on competition. The real variable is competitiveness in the market, since that is what drives prices closer to production costs.

What does this have to do with Technology? Surely this would fit better under [email protected] or similar, no?

Sure. But if people aren’t willing to pay more than the cost of production, games wouldn’t be made. The cost of production is the floor, and the cost people are willing to pay is the ceiling, and competition finds a line somewhere in the middle. The more competition, the closer it is to the cost of production.

With enough competition, someone is going to compete on price to attract customers. They obviously can’t sell for less than their costs (again, sufficiently competitive so you don’t get monopolies starving their competition), so that’s the floor for what they can sustainably charge.

It doesn’t matter what the service is, if there are enough viable alternatives, at least one of them will go for the value play. Customers aren’t willing to pay more than they have to, so they’ll be attracted to lower cost options.

could help cut inflation in the US

I highly doubt Apple App Store revenues are a significant portion of the CPI.

In a sufficiently competitive market, the maximum is related to costs.

Proton is trying to get cheap marketing.

But is he actually in the White House? I’ve seen a lot of pictures of him golfing…

Sure, but at least the option is there.

If they are knowingly doing something that can cause harm and not properly warning users of it, then they should be held accountable. However, users shouldn’t be prevented from using a service just because a government agency doesn’t like it. That’s a delicate balance that preserves individual freedom to choose while still providing some reasonable amount of protection.

One critical piece here is requiring companies to safeguard any data they collect, not allow them to sell/make it available to other entities w/o express permission and fair compensation, and to remove any data they have collected upon request. That alone helps mitigate the worst of it.

Yeah, that’s just racist in the other direction. You could read the article where it gives some examples and the part where Schmidt-Hori met some of them on video.

Can confirm, I have Asian friends and they can say some pretty spicy things about their neighboring countries. Of course, if they actually meet someone from that country they’ll call them an exception.

It’s pretty wild IMO.

Honestly, that’s most racist people. As soon as they actually meet the target of their vitriol, they’ll usually fold. Just make sure they’re alone and not with their racist buddies.

The same goes for most forms of bigotry.

Hmm, username didn’t tip you off?

To be fair, things tend to get rusty in the jungle.

My SO did translation as a contractor for a little while, and that’s what they did too. Run it through a translator, and fix whatever it messes up. A lot of the output is totally fine, but not all of it, so you need someone experienced with both languages to make sure the result is good.

I prefer it, so I just redirect HTTP requests my root domain to the www version. I think it makes a ton of sense, since I www is merely one of the many services I host at my domain.

Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was. It’s not the best game of its genre, but it’s better than most.

Exactly! You may trust your government now, but another group will gain power, laws will change, etc. It’s best to not give your government too much power, especially when it comes to control of information.