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echo64 , to news in Uber and Lyft are quitting Minneapolis over a driver pay increase

okay you are obviously taking this far too literally, obviously they could make an app, but the apps could not survive and exist because the competition would undersell them, paid for with investor money.

do you see what i’m trying to get through to you yet? everyone is saying “well the apps are better!” when the reality is that the big investor backed corporations like uber pushed all the smaller taxi firms out with uncompetitive price undercutting, they didn’t die out because they didn’t have an app, they couldn’t survive with an app or without - they couldn’t make that app to make you happy because you’d still pick the 20% cheaper one anyway

echo64 , to news in Uber and Lyft are quitting Minneapolis over a driver pay increase

Again, they did and failed because they couldn’t compete because investors paid for the likes of uber to run everyone out of business. I don’t know how more I can explain this to you, but you don’t seem to understand.

echo64 , to piracy in “It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis

They aren’t spending the money to preserve film either. The best case is storing the film in salt mines, and that only slows the degradation. Film isn’t being digitally scanned unless there’s a uhd release to profit from it, and every week that it isn’t scanned, it degrades a little more

echo64 , to news in James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe

There is no center of the universe fwiw, there is no middle everything is expanding out from. Just a substrate that exists everywhere that inflates

echo64 , to games in Phantom Fury - Release Date Announcement Trailer

Hope there’s no homophobic slurs in this one

echo64 , to news in Uber and Lyft are quitting Minneapolis over a driver pay increase

You miss the point, taxi companies couldn’t compete with apps, they couldn’t have their own app. Because of investor lead disruption

echo64 , to news in Uber and Lyft are quitting Minneapolis over a driver pay increase

The apps weren’t profitable. They sold rides for less than it cost them, which killed the industry. That’s what all disruptive companies do, sell for an unprofitable price and have investor money make up the difference.

Taxi companies could not compete. How could they? It didn’t matter if they were good or bad. There was no chance to compete because they all went out of business.

Again, the apps didn’t win because they were better, it’s because they didn’t allow competition. In a sane world they would have had to have made a profit, and the taxi companies would have made their own app, and things would be pretty much equal across the board. But that never happened.

echo64 , to technology in In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From

Fair use depends on a lot, and just being a small amount doesn’t factor in. It’s the actual use. Small amounts just often fly under the nose of legal teams.

echo64 , to technology in In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From

If you read an article, then copy parts of that article into a new article, that’s copyright infringement. Same with ais.

echo64 , to pcgaming in In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there

Shockingly I’m also mad about that. I suppose you support that situation?

echo64 , to steam in Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?'

If I buy a single player game, more than likely, valve is making entirely profit on that 30%. The cost of the download is below a penny to valve. Yet they still get s third of that companies revenue.

Charge them for the services if you want. They aren’t doing thst, they are taking 30% of an industries revenue for doing nearly nothing.

echo64 , to pcgaming in In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there

Let’s not describe this as “paying valve three bucks” because that’s not accurate and is misleading.

It’s paying valve 30% of your revenue.

echo64 , to pcgaming in In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there

… like a disk or cart? Yes that’s fine. I do that.

echo64 , to pcgaming in In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there

The status quo is rarely a good reason for anything

echo64 , to steam in Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?'

Why should valve, or sony, or Apple, or Google get 30% of the revenue of entire industries for having a download and payment service.

It’s extortionate and undeserved. When I play a game I absolutely love, one third of the money for that game didn’t go to the people who made it, it went to valves endless bucket of money. It’s not right and we should not be defending these extremely high cuts.

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