For frequent use-cases, and where the technology is superior, I will use the native app version, and the web version for all other cases.

Web technology is generally slower than native apps

I’ve got a road bike for short distances and take the train for longer distances. For all other trips, I rent a car. On a normal year, this works out to zero times.

I don’t think the Android devs with iPhones are yearning for Xcode.

Having used both, Android Studio is far superior in my opinion. Most iOS devs I talk to seem to have a particular disdain for Xcode as well, so that seems to track.

Does anyone ever actually ‘want’ Xcode? Is it not just a necessary evil to be able to do iOS development?

Agreed otherwise, M-series macs are sick as hell

Credit card fees get baked into the general price and are averaged between all the accepted cards. Hence cash transactions and lower-fee cards (debit, credit with less benefits) end up paying more of the share of the higher-fee cards.

It’s well explained in the following video: https://youtu.be/OceYCEexDqQ

I had to double-check, because I’ve only ever used the spelling “Ess”. Turns out both variants are correct.

I’d probably have transcribed the letter pronunciation as ‘ve, ve, ve, punkt, de, en, punkt, ess e’.

Just goes to show you that ‘en’ doesn’t even follow the normal pronunciation rules of Swedish, unless we’re talking about the tree, in which case it does.

Fwiw, I’m pretty convinced that the anti-seed oil crowd is approximately as grounded in science as the anti-vaccine crowd - that is to say, not at all.

To draw a parallel to the problem of health care - in systems of socialized medicine, a health insurer does de-facto exist, so health insurance does not get entirely abolished when switching to socialized medicine. It’s just that the health insurer is now the government, and the system is no longer ran to optimize for extracting money out of the system, but instead to optimize for population-level health.

Similarly, when trying to reform the housing market, landlords don’t fully go away - you can for example imagine a system where the government becomes a very large landlord and optimizes the system for maximum level of ‘people housed’ (or whatever you want to optimize this system for).

There are also various forms of housing cooperatives, where the landlord is a body consisting of all the tenants collectively.

The landlord most people want to be rid of is the rent-seeking kind, which optimizes the system for extracting money.

To be clear, no streaming company is paying royalties on a per-stream basis, it’s basically always ((total revenue-platform cut)/share of total amount of streams).

So the artists are not really getting more money because you’re streaming on one platform or the other, they are all getting roughly the same amount out of what you’re paying on a monthly basis.

Currently around 0 outside, we’re running with the heat off at the moment, because it’s not strictly speaking necessary yet. In practice it lands at around 20 C inside right now, and the lower bound I accept is 18, after which I turn on heating. Let’s see whether it becomes necessary this winter.

Agreed, if you’re going to be taking home 120k you’re not going to get out ahead in SF.

If you get FAANG-tier money in SF, you don’t lose it all to CoL. You definitely make it out ahead.

What part don’t you get? If you can be more specific, people might be able to help you out with some largely spoiler-free hints.

For example, do you not get ‘what the goal is’ (this is a legitimate concern, and someone might be able to give you a direction to pursue for example)

Don’t do it, friend.

The better investment generally is to invest in index funds anyways, which makes your hands at least a little bit cleaner.

Steel, aluminium and battery production can also make good use of lots of cheap renewable energy.

Both have their place, and since they are so straight-forward to convert between, there’s no need to limit ourselves to one or the other.

Hg used to be the standard unit for buying candy by weight as well, but they switched around 20 years ago iirc

Naturally, it’s a pretty convenient fraction of a liter to be working with while cooking.

I don’t, no.

I’ve given a suggestion in the thread, but I have no obligation on account of pitching in on the effectiveness of Duolingo.