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Be that as it may, businesses will generally move towards things that cost less dollars on balance

Why would you even build these as stand-alone houses. Homes of this size make far more sense as apartments

I assume most of them will have no citizenship in a second country for them to be accepted in.

A pragmatic solution would be to deport them out to sea.

There’s likely a maintenance cost continuously being paid that Apple wants to get away from.

That must be incredibly scary for the horses.

Well, you’d lose support for devices which can’t handle software DRM playback, old YouTube clients installed on things like TVs which no longer get updated, if you want to support things that only get Widevine L3 support (most devices) you’re not really going to move the needle since Widevine L3 had been broken since like forever, etc.

The main thing YouTube would gain in practice from such a move would be to get DMCA as a legal tool to crack down on people ripping YouTube videos, but that’d require some very significant resources invested into driving Legal processes against average consumers ripping videos, and the return on investment for that is almost certainly abysmal.

EDIT: I thought of two more reasons:

• Given the enormous scale of YouTube’s transcoding pipeline, just adding in a DRM step into the mix will cost non-significant amounts of money
• All old content will remain non-DRM, because a re-transcode of the full YouTube catalog would cost an impossible amount of money

It’s not too late to return!

My very limited experience says that it’s possible but risky and unpleasant. NYC is probably a bit different, as is always the case in the U.S.

Walking works quite well in Sweden however

While I am broadly speaking in favour of free transit, one thing that should be noted in any conversation about it is that it often does not significantly increase ridership by users who were previously not using transit - the increase mainly comes from increased utilization by prior users, and sometimes you can get negative effects such as the newly free transit trips displacing walking.

Hence, other investments into the transit system may be prudent - for example, expanding the system, increasing headways and so on.

We should try to be brave enough to do all of the above, but sometimes you’re forced to choose one or the other.

For most local trips (up to 5 km), I will either walk or bike as my default option. For longer local trips (up to 50 km), I use the public transit we have in my city, which is world-class. A third option I use from time to time for local trips is taxis, but this is a very rare occurrence. Finally, for longer-distance trips, I take the train.

In rare circumstances, I will rent a car, but this is an almost never-occurrence for me.

Your ability to do the same will be highly dependent on what kind of infrastructure is available where you live. A large part of the message in this community is pointing out the need for this type of infrastructure, such that more people can enjoy living life with less cars for transportation.

An infinite pool of money.

Video hosting is very costly, especially at scale

I think we all know it actually stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

They come with a red button, and you’re allowed to press it. You can’t be forced into a call, you have to provide consent

Why are people afraid of phone calls? I literally don’t get it

Lady and the Tramp-style

In all honesty, the protocols and structs-thing they talk about in Swift-land is the way to go. Interfaces and data classes in JVM-land

Why even use DI if you’re not planning on faking dependencies for unit testing purposes

I managed to organically create a StrategyFactory at work once.

It was a good design, but it felt extremely wrong

When you’re sufficiently rich, you don’t even have to care about what the regular rich people think.

You can probably adopt the habit even before you manage to reach that level of wealth

Definitely. It’s set back progress decades, sadly.