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blairbeckwith
·25 giorni fa·discuss
The Verge is pretty well-known for their ethics policy [1] (they won't take money from any company they talk about) and that actually enables them to highlight interesting stuff like this that companies would never bother to pay to promote.

This article is actually the first time I've heard of this feature and I follow Apple news a lot, so I appreciate it.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/ethics-statement
blairbeckwith
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Is there really a meaningful distinction between how libraries treat digital book licenses and physical books when you actually hit reality? My knowledge of how libraries work is very shallow, but I've always understood that they treat physical books as essentially consumable and have fairly high standards for what a "lendable" copy of a book is.

A purely assumptive example, but if a library pays for a 2 year license to lend a digital book, and the average shelf-life of a physical book is ~2 years, what's the difference?
blairbeckwith
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I can’t believe you made me sign in just to downvote this.
blairbeckwith
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Anecdotes, etc. but my 65 year old dad is pretty low tech and he was paying OpenAI $20/month before I was.
blairbeckwith
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Netflix has raised prices about 25% at the premium tier since they released the ad-free version in 2022. The with-ads plan has also seen increases since launch.
blairbeckwith
·7 mesi fa·discuss
I don't think there was any sarcasm there.
blairbeckwith
·8 mesi fa·discuss
I'm sorry, I must be missing something. Which companies make up the index funds if (most) CEOs liquidated their companies and invested in index funds? And how would they liquidate at anything close to their valuation without being priced based on their future expectations?
blairbeckwith
·10 mesi fa·discuss
Honestly, Zen has done a good job of replicating most of the best parts of Arc; the big missing piece, IMO, is Little Arc, which was pretty workflow-changing. I'd love to see Little Arc / temporary browser windows become more common.