When Microsoft was sued for bundling internet explorer, Windows was on well over 90% of new computers. iOS is not the market share leader let alone on the vast majority of phones or tablets. Anyone who doesn’t like apple’s policies can reasonably choose another option, which wasn’t the case in the late 90s PC market.

Epic really screwed this up. Complaining that Apple and Google taking a 30% fee is an abuse that antitrust regulators should look at makes sense, but they are at least a third party facilitating a transaction and would be, like any broker, entitled to some compensation for that. Epic offering a 20% discount amounts to…

Yeah, it is socal thing.

I found some original 1952 plates to put on my truck, a 1952 Dodge M37. So they want me to pay for vanity plates even though they are real plates. I don’t see why they can’t be considered just normal plates. I have a 240Z with original plates from the 70s and they are not considered the same as 1952 CA issued plates??…

None of us know how much Microsoft makes from its game sales on the Xbox, likely because it’s hidden. But when you buy a $60 game, you better believe they’re getting a cut (and when you buy a game digitally they’re getting a bigger cut because nothing goes to external sellers like Gamestop or Walmart). There’s a cut…

Didn’t Epic say they were willing to give Apple the 30% cut in the past because “it isn’t the dominant mobile platform”? Weren’t they more pissy towards Google because of their sideloading app shenanigans?

And I cant remember the last new release that managed to hold my attention for more than 20-30 hours, yet I still regularly go back and do a 100+ hour playthrough of the old Final Fantasy games from the SNES/PS1 era or spend a whole afternoon going through Mario 3, Mario World, Sonic 1-3+Knuckles etc. I do struggle to…

You spelled Dodge wrong

All the best designs are from the 1980s. We should reïntroduce these graphs. Here’s a mockup of a depreciation graph for a Chevrolet:

1) Common Sense.

Did... you just call basic scientific discussion “weasel words”?

Question: What studies have you been reading that are ever 100% sure that they have found what they have found?

Because I will say that I’m CERTAIN that uncertain words are generally typical of most scientific and technical conversations.

For example:

If you…

It’s worse because it gives the illusion of safety without any.

I think Lucid is full of shit, especially when they start off with “Our proprietary technology...”. Timothy Leary was more lucid when on Lysergic acid diethylamide.

Nothing - they’re just a lot more visible.

I’m a 1099 and the last thing I want is to be classified as an employee, primarily for tax reasons, but also like the flexibility of being my own boss.

I’ve been doing 1099 temporary contract work for 60-80hrs a week for a well known e-interwebs company since 2003. I get zero vacation, zero benefits, zero sick days.  I understand that’s all my responsibility. Why has California cherry picked Lyft & Uber to force them to include their gig workers as employees and not…

It’s some California specific bullshit, they aren’t by federal law. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-gig-worker-law-AB-5.html

This ruling is based purely on emotion. Drivers really don’t meet the standard of being employees. They aren’t scheduled like employees, they aren’t accountable like employees, and they aren’t paid like employees. The design of rideshare platforms and the appeal to a large number of drivers is to let you make extra…

Drivers are meant to feel lucky to be given scraps as the company itself rakes it in.