Leans center-right. Candid. Publicly supported Trump. Other stuff that just makes him a normal person circa 90s but really turns some people off in 2025.
Essentially Braid Anniversary edition. Huge effort for someone to just say “oh so just Braid Remastered?”
In general from his streams you learn that so much goes wrong during the slog that is video game development. Hire failures. Contractors billing $$$ and writing 1-2 LOC. Devs rage quitting. Platform optimization. Even a suicide (not just an employee but someone close). They do all this work and dropped the ball on marketing despite betting the future of the company on its reception, but even failing that I think it was clear to a normal person (which can be hard to reach out to and interact with) that there was no appetite for this game.
Arguments will be formulated by AI with another AI attempting to poke holes. You get a government appointed AI if you cannot afford one. This will kick off an arms race between plaintiffs and defendants. Legal companies then build moats around their bespoke AIs and it all boils down to a judge/jury voting based on a generated slideshow presentation (hopefully avoiding a miscarriage of justice /s).
This thread is mostly geared toward the west but it’s interesting to see a similar thing (albeit, much worse) happening in China. They’re going through their own version of 2008 with many overqualified graduates entering a smoldering job market. Unsurprisingly lottery participation is at an all time high. It’s bleak.
I don’t really buy it. Even a little bit of interest is 100% necessary for the creditor to break even. Statistically a debtor defaults. That loss is subsidized by the debtors who honor their agreement. Also: defining what “breaking even” actually means (and how to get there) is not a straightforward task. Currency inflation/deflation (past, present, and future), laws, penalties, enforcement, repossession, tax, fees, middlemen, statistics, “acts of God”, and general operating costs.
Creditors DO provide a service and interest rates exist on a sliding spectrum. This is just a debate over math and magnitude.
If you read the glorified "islamic zero-interest finance" here's how it works: you wanna buy a house so you borrow the money from the bank but the bank buys the house in your place and then sells it to you in periodic installments ... at a higher price of course. The house is yours after you finish paying the price that the bank asks for it. "No interest" though.
How is this different from interest? It's precisely what interest is. So phony.
Reminds me the old story about ultra-orthodox Jews who are prohibited by the Talmud from working or traveling during Shabbat (Sunday), except travel on water. So what they did when they needed to take the train on this day? They'd carry a basin and a bottle of water with them, seat down, take their shoes and socks off and put their feet into the basin then pour the water from the bottle in it. Voilà, commandment obeyed, traveling on water! No interest!
That is really interesting, thank you for the information, I've been curious about this as well. In mathematical terms I suppose that would be the equivalent of fixed-interest loan with a fixed length more or less.
Also see special jew-elevators with a Shabbat-mode so that they always go up and down by every level so that you can use them without operating them, meaning that you can take the elevator on a Shabbat without tricking a gentile into pushing the button for you (1).
I was under the impression that Shabbat was on a Friday or Saturday. (nitpicking of course).
(1) So that they can go to hell instead of the jew, or whatever?
IANAJ but I've been curious about Middle East religions.
> So that they can go to hell instead of the jew, or whatever?
Anyone who follows https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah is an OK chap apparently, probably not as cool as a Jew but I guess not to burn either? Shabbath stuff is only important if you are a Jew.
> meaning that you can take the elevator on a Shabbat
If you are really strict and not disabled you would not use elevator even with this workaround.
> I was under the impression that Shabbat was on a Friday or Saturday
Outside of Israel some places switched to Sunday because otherwise too few people care.
If you assume that you are out to break even, and not to try to reach another objective.
If it's about putting someone through education, then maybe it isn't about immediate short term financial gain.
Obviously you are correct that someone trying to make profit by lending will need to charge more money than they lend in a way or another.
My point is that if you have people out to gain profit from lending people money, they would wan't people to want things that they don't necessarily need.
Hindsight is always 20/20. Is Superhuman comparable to Honey? From a tech perspective, maybe??? I.e. could a talented solo dev replicate 80% of Superhuman and then publish it via the chrome app store. Yeah. But from a product perspective? Absolutely not. Honey has a vastly wider market than Superhuman, and almost anyone can use Honey and get something out of it. We can sell Honey as a 'money-saver', in contrast to Superhuman which markets itself as a 'time-saver' (albeit, for an eye-watering subscription). I've seen many people step over dollars to chase pennies, and Honey taps into that behavior, offering a much stronger value proposition than Superhuman (so much so that the two are basically incomparable).
This product is very niche. From my own experience, performing a single mildly unorthodox keyboard shortcut in front of an average Joe sort of freaks them out. Getting regular people onboard with something like this would be a total nightmare. This alone probably filters down Superhuman's market dramatically (enough to make a VC-backed 100-employee effort seem absolutely ridiculous).
Regarding the merit of Superhuman's ability to actually save time is another conversation others have argued to death about. I'd be interested in what others have to say about this, but I don't think the discussion has been very productive so far.
