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New comment by isthatsoup in "Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year"

isthatsoup — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:11:56 +0000

Not really relevant but I'm basically the only person I know that thinks it's the coolest thing in the world that I can open up my computer and watch a lecture from MIT/Stanford/Harvard etc. in almost any thing I want. Such a great time to be alive for self-motivated people that like learning stuff!

New comment by isthatsoup in "Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max"

isthatsoup — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 20:29:18 +0000

You should sit directly in front of a "main" monitor, and then have a secondary monitor alongside. Don't sit directly between two monitors!

New comment by isthatsoup in "Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust grounds"

isthatsoup — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 22:55:07 +0000

wait until you hear about Apple Ads then.

New comment by isthatsoup in "Google suggest vi for Emacs and Emacs for vi"

isthatsoup — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 19:03:53 +0000

I get balls of literal string. I must not live a very exciting life :(

New comment by isthatsoup in "AirPods Max"

isthatsoup — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 19:08:07 +0000

Even if it changes, don't ever buy an Apple product to use with a non-apple product. I got burned by this with the powerbeats pro to use with my Android phone, which has ended up as the single worst electronics purchase I have ever made.

They have a significantly reduced feature set when used on Android vs Iphone, and they just don't work well at all.

Really glad Apple decided to buy Beats so that they could close off their audio technology to Apple customers only.

New comment by isthatsoup in "An Elderly Mathematician Hacked the Lottery for $26M"

isthatsoup — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 21:51:41 +0000

google "overdose deaths"

New comment by isthatsoup in "Diem – A rebrand of Facebook’s Libra"

isthatsoup — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 17:33:08 +0000

compared with all the crime and scams done with fiat currencies

New comment by isthatsoup in "How I read books: a guide on how to learn"

isthatsoup — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 19:21:53 +0000

Thanks for this. I clicked on this thread thinking "why should I care about how den zhadanov reads books? what has he accomplished exactly?" and confirmed my suspicious when I saw the picture of him reading one of those junk business self help books. Snake oil.

This person, however, seems worthy of consideration.

New comment by isthatsoup in "Ethereum 2.0 launches"

isthatsoup — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:24:52 +0000

We can just use renewable energy sources long term. Really don't understand the obsession some people have with the energy requirements of bitcoin mining - please compare these with the energy requirements of the financial systems it replaces.

Bitcoin solves the need for third parties in the financial system. That's it, it's not meant to be some eco currency - never was.

Where's the validation that the current financial system needs to have its energy needs reduced? Bitcoin cuts out the energy requirements of all the countless third parties, for a start.

POS is a joke.

New comment by isthatsoup in "AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock"

isthatsoup — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 16:50:35 +0000

setting quite a low bar there

New comment by isthatsoup in "Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic"

isthatsoup — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 22:26:08 +0000

I don't have any data I can share because obviously negotiated rates are confidential... what planet do you live on?

Apple is going to be among the very largest merchants in the world by card processing volumes - it's actually ludicrous/naive/cute that you think they would have the same rate as a random family corner shop.

I'll give you a hint: the flat rate component definitely goes away over a certain volume. The % component then shrinks significantly too.

I would recommend you stop talking confidently about things you clearly have no experience with - card processing rates for large merchants.

That's about as much detail as I feel able to divulge.

New comment by isthatsoup in "World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018)"

isthatsoup — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 21:16:50 +0000

Nope, that's the same faulty reasoning people use to justify purchasing leather. As if making the killing of cows more economical is somehow a good thing, and acting like demand for the product itself isn't going to cause companies to act to meet it and increase net animal death. It's completely naive.

New comment by isthatsoup in "World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018)"

isthatsoup — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 21:09:03 +0000

do you shed a tear when you walk past a homeless shelter that serves meat, clothes their homeless in wool and doesn't have bird safety film on all the windows? Oh you don't. When it comes to supporting animal welfare, you have to be considered "perfect" for some reason.

New comment by isthatsoup in "What is the benefit of having FIPS hardware-level encryption on a USB stick?"

isthatsoup — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 12:54:12 +0000

Not really, drop shipping from China has 0 barrier to entry so the margin will be competed downwards very quickly.

New comment by isthatsoup in "Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic"

isthatsoup — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:15:42 +0000

Apple wouldn't be paying anything remotely like that rate - if they are, everybody involved in negotiating it needs to be fired. You're off by several orders of magnitude, therefore your conclusions based on the wrongly assumed cost structure are baseless.

New comment by isthatsoup in "Apple's Shifting Differentiation"

isthatsoup — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:22:46 +0000

You are aware that just because the true cost is obfuscated by the cell payment plan that doesn't mean you aren't paying for it in exactly the same way as the ipad pro, which you could also buy on a finance plan. There is no such thing as "free" or "almost free", you are paying for it.

New comment by isthatsoup in "Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless"

isthatsoup — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:03:12 +0000

No they aren't, that's just what people manufacturing fakes have managed to convince people is the case. (Somehow, it doesn't stand up to any scrutiny)

New comment by isthatsoup in "Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless"

isthatsoup — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:59:09 +0000

This just feels like the cost of doing business in the market you're in.