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Comment Re:Americans now work more hours (Score 1) 56

Ok, so assume that every subscriber is from Pakistan. $1.49 * 5000 = $8,940. If Twitch takes 40% she gets $5,364. Not counting ads, or gifts or anything else. If you swap that to Mexico, which seems like a fairer average, that goes to over $10k a month. Her current total of active subscribers is 5,929.

Comment More Proof that Video Games Cause School Shootings (Score 5, Informative) 31

The "adult" and "strongly sexually suggestive" content is a club, with a dance floor, that also has a connected hotel. You can wander into the hotel and *gasp* the hotel rooms have beds. There is nothing actually suggestive. The "revealing clothing" is a bikini on a flat chested avatar. While Roblox isn't perfect, and you definitely should monitor what your child is doing, this gotcha is more like a DUH.

Comment The numbers don't add up (Score 3, Insightful) 74

The article claims that there were 1.8 million users, 1,400 suspects and 91,000 videos. My guess is that the 1.8 million number is made up. So either they managed to identify ~0.1% of the users, and the average user uploaded 0.05 videos, or much more likely the site had less than 10,000 users.

Comment Pretty interesting editing out of the summary (Score 1) 104

Summary: "Outside Europe and the Anglosphere, Japan leads with 11 prizes, while Argentina, China, and India have only one or two each"

Article: "Other than Japan and Israel, there are almost no countries outside Europe and the Anglosphere"

Emphasis mine. Israel has 6 in Chemistry and a number in Economics as well.

Comment Re:So this is exactly what the news is about now (Score 2) 50

You're talking about Yale screaming bloody murder like they're wrong. The "overhead" as you put it, pays for everything from the facilities operations, to the IT, to the libraries and even the compliance and administration. Every reasonable article on the topic, including the one you linked, talks about the fact that making this change will significantly hamper necessary research.

Comment Re:So stupid (Score 2) 118

I agree with you, but I am really tempted to create an account just to see what it is like. I'm so curious what an actual Chinese social media network is like. After all, our cultures are so different. OTOH, I wonder if there's a need to sandbox myself first? Maybe I'll install it on an Android emulator like Bluestacks instead of my phone and use false information for everything.

Comment Re:This needs to stop (Score 2) 59

The last I read from the EU directive is that Apple must allow other stores. There was no directive on what Apple could charge. But let's go over what is proposed: "Apple imposes a 50 euro cent per user per year installation fee, a 10% commission on external sales, and a 5% fee on purchases within a year of installation."

To use Apple infrastructure of client lists, ecosystem, etc. there will be fees as Apple (nor anyone) is willing to all of that for free. What would you think is a reasonable cost to maintain that system? I don't know but you seem to think tis is already "outrageous".

Remind me again how much Microsoft charges other developers to install software programs on Windows? Or how much Hp/Lenovo/Dell charge when someone buys a piece of software to use on a computer they built? What about on Android?

Just because this is a portable computer with telephonic capabilities doesn't mean that the answer is different. Indeed, the "reasonable cost to maintain that system" is the cost consumers pay to buy the actual device.

Comment Re:Public charging is a bubble (Score 1) 476

I'm not sure where you got that idea from. Unless battery capacities increase by an order of magnitude, you're still going to run into people needing chargers because they're renting a car, because they are taking a road trip, because they forgot to charge, or even because they lost power. Not to mention a hundred different scenarios that require public chargers to be almost as ubiquitous as gas stations. None of those scenarios are particularly uncommon, either.

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