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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • You are aware that digital goods do not have a supply in the traditional sense, right? I can buy 500000000 copies of your data and you still will have more of it. Its not possible to apply supply and demand to digital goods because we have unlimited amounts of them.

    And btw what you are saying is quite similar to what I described. The price is found via establishing the amount of money in the market and the willingness to spend. That kinda is a way of looking at the possibility of demand.

    But anyway. The key difference, probably, is looking at who is aiming for what. The companies are looking at extracting maximum value for them. You seem to dislike that.


  • Well… How do you think a price for a product is found in capitalism? You try to find the sweet spot between too cheap and too expensive. When you are cheap more people buy, if you are expensive less people buy. Therefore there is a sweet spot where you make the most money. This obviously is dependent on the people in the market and the money they have. Of course the game publisher can go to the poor people and say that they want 500 money for their stuff. But they don’t have that, so they won’t pay it because they literally can’t.

    Long story short, this is not subsidising, this is publishers extracting the most amount of money from that specific market. Its called capitalism. Love it or hate it.

    And of course products cost different amount of money around the world. Every market is different.









  • To be honest I regularly convert between units. Especially mm, cm and m (sometimes km) and liters to kg. And g and kg. So I dont really understand how that isnt neccessary for the majorjty of America. Does noone build stuff, or I dont know, put a picture up a Wall, stuff like that? I know you said it is easy to half stuff in imperial. I dont really half stuff that often? When measuring stuff I mostly add, subtract etc. I very rarely just take 50% off whatever I measure. What do you do to need so much halfing stuff? If I need rope I want a specific length of rope not half the rope that is on the wall.


  • I doubt that very much. Just yesterday I checked out the product page of the new DJI Air 3 and compared it with the Air 2. One of the new features is a bigger sensor compared to the old one. So I wanted to see how much bigger it got. For some reason though DJI only lists their sensor sizes in fractions. The Air 3 has a sensor size of 1/1.3 Inch and the Air 2 1/2 Inch. To be honest. I thought shortly about that and then concluded I would have to do math to compare those two and did something else with my life. I know how to convert between different bases but honestly - why should I? This is weird! Why use random switching fractions for anything? Fractions are only useful to display numbers that would be hard to express in decimal. And that is mainly 1/3 and 2/3! Which to be honest I dont encounter that much in my life.