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toddmatthews commented on Tim Sweeney: "NO FEES on web transactions. Game over for the Apple Tax"   twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpi... · Posted by u/insin
bigyabai · 10 months ago
Great to see states take up the mantle of protecting consumers from unfair pricing. The FTC abandoning Apple's lawsuit was a clear-cut case of political corruption from Cook and Trump. No just court could ignore the damages Apple deliberately imposes on their competitors.
toddmatthews · 10 months ago
It’s not consumers, it’s developers getting ripped off. In theory the price stays the same, Apple just can’t steal 30% anymore
toddmatthews commented on How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers   spectrum.ieee.org/lely-da... · Posted by u/DonHopkins
delecti · a year ago
Does that matter? I'm not trying to be sarcastic or glib, does it help in any way that it's half water?

It's probably not an accurate comparison, but I don't find any consolation in the fact that a lot of the bulk/weight of cleaning my cat's litter box is water. I don't know if it meaningfully changes anything about the task for a cow though.

toddmatthews · a year ago
its actually 70-90% water. it matters because water is very heavy, and whats left over will be dramatically less after it dries out.

its a large amount of waste, but its not 150lbs of solids

toddmatthews commented on Philip Low Unmasking Musk   bsky.app/profile/brainkin... · Posted by u/gradus_ad
olalonde · a year ago
> knows he's smart enough to understand how his salute would be perceived

That assumes his salute was a deliberate, calculated act rather than an impulsive gesture in the heat of the moment. Given his visit to Auschwitz, his public statements, his pro-immigration stance, and his numerous Jewish friends and colleagues, there’s far more evidence suggesting he is not a Nazi than the opposite.

toddmatthews commented on Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions   wsj.com/tech/amazon-alexa... · Posted by u/thm
TimTheTinker · 2 years ago
> It’s cheaper to pay crackheads to loot CVS than to troll for clearance blowouts.

Is that where all the crazy stuff on Amazon is coming from?

toddmatthews commented on Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right   hugo.blog/2024/03/11/visi... · Posted by u/wolverine876
kilroy123 · 2 years ago
It's the crappy version 1. Just like iphone and ipad v1. They sucked.

It's very obviously better to wait a little longer for a future version.

toddmatthews · 2 years ago
Not sure I agree. When I first saw the 1st gen iPhone I was so impressed with it, I went out and got one a few days later. This is before the App Store. Yes compared to today it might “suck” compared to the latest version, but the first iPhone was super compelling by itself at the time and started selling very well
toddmatthews commented on Write shaders for the (sim) Vegas sphere   whenistheweekend.com/theS... · Posted by u/jjwiseman
toddmatthews · 2 years ago
What is a shader?
toddmatthews commented on Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to "market conditions"   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
josefresco · 2 years ago
Disclaimer: I know nothing about this sort of thing, just doing some napkin math.

$15 billion for 15,000 homes is about a million dollars a home?

Sounds... high. Especially when you're talking about multi-unit, higher density housing.

toddmatthews · 2 years ago
you also need to pay to install roads and utilities
toddmatthews commented on Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office   washingtonpost.com/opinio... · Posted by u/fortran77
onlyrealcuzzo · 3 years ago
The idea that employers need to give you everything you want is strange.

They give you the least they can possibly get away with.

Sure - some small subset of employers competing for the best employees will do this. But the average employer? I'm skeptical.

toddmatthews · 3 years ago
At one point in time people probably said the same thing about employer provided health insurance, and now it’s expected. Tough to get good talent if other companies are providing better perks
toddmatthews commented on How the recession doomers got the U.S. economy so wrong   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/ecliptik
taeric · 3 years ago
I would think the idea is that if the rates stay up, prices should eventually come down a bit to help bump people into moving? Is that not the idea?
toddmatthews · 3 years ago
in theory yes, but if you own a home with a lower mortgage rate, are you really gonna lower the price of your house, so that you can then buy another home with a higher rate? you may just stay with your lower rate
toddmatthews commented on Let the internet be grimy   tedium.co/2023/07/08/thre... · Posted by u/ecliptik
motohagiography · 3 years ago
Twitter was a more equitable place when it was brand safe for pharmaceutical companies, and when people could publicly debase themselves and denounce their acquaintences without fear of mockery for aligning to absurd official narratives.

The reasoning appears to be something along the lines of, if you aren't getting your news and commentary from former spies and retired secret policemen, how can you be sure you are not being brainwashed? If you can't believe what our elected representatives tell you in their own words from their own twitter accounts, what else is there to believe? The preponderance of evidence and every recent study shows that your experiences of privilege and problematic beliefs have always been the root cause of human suffering, and unless you awaken to the new reality that you are individually insignificant and your very existence is a burden on the majority of the rest of humanity - and to the existence of the planet itself - not only you are among the Left Behind, but we will make sure your friends, employers, and acquaintences are made afraid to even know your name.

The irony of how these Huxlian "trust and safety teams," suppressed content is that they did it to persuade us that the rest of their nonsense was real. The Internet as a coherent thing hasn't existed since about 2018, it's just another paradigmatic hegemon, which, too, shall pass. It's more probable we weren't all meant to know each other or see each other, because it implies a zero sum power struggle in a false captivity, which trivializes and ignores the infinite vastness of the planet and life on it. Maybe the path to enlightenment really does involve taking more pictures of your butt, however, I think I'm ready to go all in on betting against that.

Social media is dead. The only thing left to do is figure out how to get rid of the smell.

toddmatthews · 3 years ago
Why 2018?

u/toddmatthews

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