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Wild EEPROM posted:there is no such thing as a good video game.
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Wild EEPROM posted:there is no such thing as a good podcast about video games. giant bombcast and beastcast
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Dec 18, 2015 12:42
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Dodoman posted:giant bombcast and beastcast if you want to laugh listen to one of the million comedy podcasts, why would you want to listen to a bunch of dudes talk about video games you probably haven't even played?
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Dec 18, 2015 14:34
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because i have played the games they talk about
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actually idle thumbs is a good podcast
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Mad Wack posted:actually idle thumbs is a good podcast yes but it's about video games only in the loosest sense it's kind of amazing that Apple made the podcasts app so much worse in ios9
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Dodoman posted:because i have played the games they talk about how does that make it more interesting
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DuckConference posted:yes but it's about video games only in the loosest sense who listens to podcasts in 2015. we have video services now idiot.
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Stux posted:who listens to podcasts in 2015. we have video services now idiot. i can't very well watch videos in the car
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Stux posted:who listens to podcasts in 2015. we have video services now idiot. i listen to podcasts in the gym. while i'm pumping huge iron and flexing in the mirror. the shriveled weak manlets think i must be listening to EDM to be that hype. but no, its two fat nerds talking about Star Wars Battlefront
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Dec 18, 2015 17:10
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gruber's voice is all bass while syracusa is all treble. listening to them have a conversation is painful
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:how does that make it more interesting Because they are funny. Sometimes they even talk about stuff unrelated to video games 
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Everyone should listen to the latest ATP, noted whiny bitch Marco is going full "Get off my lawn!" re: modern technology.
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Mulva posted:Everyone should listen to the latest ATP, noted whiny bitch Marco is going full "Get off my lawn!" re: modern technology.
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FMguru posted:is he still butthurt about his friends who rely on web ads to pay their bills not loving his ad blocker? now he's upset that computing isn't staying exactly the way he's used to
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Dec 18, 2015 18:47
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this apple pay business is hosed. like accepting apple pay doesn't mean you can't have a competing pay-by-smartphone tech at the same time. it doesn't cost them anything to take Pay vs. a credit card. and canada still just has american express supporting apple pay? god drat. The Management posted:gruber's voice is all bass while syracusa is all treble. listening to them have a conversation is painful much like shmorky and lowtax
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yard salad posted:i listen to podcasts in the gym. while i'm pumping huge iron and flexing in the mirror. the shriveled weak manlets think i must be listening to EDM to be that hype. but no, its two fat nerds talking about Star Wars Battlefront
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Dec 18, 2015 19:55
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PleasureKevin posted:this apple pay business is hosed. like accepting apple pay doesn't mean you can't have a competing pay-by-smartphone tech at the same time. it doesn't cost them anything to take Pay vs. a credit card. they see apple pay as an inflection point just before the majority of people convert to paying for things via phone and want to lock people into their system. but when their system is years late and less convenient the only thing they can do to make it attractive is make it the only choice
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hi, im marco arment. i got lucky and picked the one startup out of thousands that was extremely successful. i am the tech equivalent of the racist midwest mom who wins the powerball. you should listen to me and care about my opinions.
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Jenny Agutter posted:they see apple pay as an inflection point just before the majority of people convert to paying for things via phone and want to lock people into their system. but when their system is years late and less convenient the only thing they can do to make it attractive is make it the only choice No one wants to lose that sweet customer data that is keeping them afloat, since apparently selling things for money is no longer a viable business strategy.
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Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook dismissed as "total political crap" the notion that the tech giant was avoiding taxes. Cook's remarks, made on CBS's 60 Minutes show, come amid a debate in the United States over corporations avoiding taxes through techniques such as so-called inversion deals, where a company redomiciles its tax base to another country. "Apple pays every tax dollar we owe," Cook told 60 Minutes' Charlie Rose in an interview.
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Mulva posted:No one wants to lose that sweet customer data that is keeping them afloat, since apparently selling things for money is no longer a viable business strategy. the apple pay thing is about tangible millions and millions of dollars in credit card fees. stores have plenty of other ways to track your buying habits
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apple pay is a straight up elegant implementation of existing credit card contactless standards its elegant because unlike using a physical contactless card, you have to "unlock" the ability to have the chip read with a passcode or touchid and there's a link to your bank so the virtual card number can just be changed dynamically instead of dealing with the lead time of shipping a physical card to you its really good
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Dec 18, 2015 21:12
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Jenny Agutter posted:the apple pay thing is about tangible millions and millions of dollars in credit card fees. stores have plenty of other ways to track your buying habits Yes a lot of stores have their own loyalty programs, but a majority won't sign up for them and stores track most shoppers based on the swipe data.
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Ludwig van Halen posted:i can't very well watch videos in the car yard salad posted:i listen to podcasts in the gym. while i'm pumping huge iron and flexing in the mirror. the shriveled weak manlets think i must be listening to EDM to be that hype. but no, its two fat nerds talking about Star Wars Battlefront listen to music instead idiots
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Dec 18, 2015 21:15
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the largest problem with apple pay right now is this: every time you walk up to the entry of any business it is almost certain that you will see network stickers. this is an example off a google search of what you don't see. apple should be sending out stickers like hotcakes to every single place so that you don't have to play the guessing game of whether or not they take it. sometimes it's on the terminal screen itself but it's usually not. i as a consumer should not have to ask.
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triple sulk posted:the largest problem with apple pay right now is this: except it should just be the universal contactless logo, not apple pay specific, because thats all apple pay is apple pay isn't a service or a network anywhere you see that outside the US, apple pay works 99% of the time 
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Mad Wack posted:hi, im marco arment. i got lucky and picked the one startup out of thousands that was extremely successful. i am the tech equivalent of the racist midwest mom who wins the powerball. you should listen to me and care about my opinions. I'm pretty sure Marco Arment has an account to forums.somethingawful.com. I listened to part of ATP on the drive in today. Marco had to cut some Siracusa fact bashing while keeping his lovely screed about the state of computing. total beta.
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mishaq posted:except it should just be the universal contactless logo, not apple pay specific, because thats all apple pay is yeah i was gonna say here in the uk nearly everywhere takes contactless and also apple pay because of that. they do oftne have an apple pay logo now though, usually instead of the contactless one lol
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Dirk Pitt posted:I'm pretty sure Marco Arment has an account to forums.somethingawful.com. yea it was actually kind of weird how he made that cut cause casey even mentions how siracusa will own him once he's done talking and then it goes straight to the ad read without anyone saying anything or revisiting the topic
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video of timb getting heated http://www.macrumors.com/2015/12/18/tim-cook-apple-tax-total-political-crap/ cant wait to watch this
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so apple has to pay taxes in whatever country they do business, then puts that money in an offshore where they pay like 25% on it or something whereas if they bring it to america, they pay another 40% tax on it. does tim cook have a point that this is unreasonable? should the US just make a new tax code that lets companies pay 25% (or whatever) on money brought over from overseas?
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the simple fact is that apple pays taxes wherever its generated but wont bring back money generated overseas because doing so would be dumb as heck. they aren't avoiding taxes in america by moving them to ireland or w/e idiots think
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Dec 18, 2015 22:43
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tim cook said he wants to bring the money back here and pay tax on it, but 40% is too high
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yes when comprehensive tax reform or a smaller repatriation holiday gets done without a punitive tax rate he'll bring the cash back
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Dirk Pitt posted:I'm pretty sure Marco Arment has an account to forums.somethingawful.com. what was edited out?
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it's apple's and any other company's option on whether or not to bring their foreign earnings (after local taxes) into the US. when they do this they need to pay huge taxes on it, which is why nobody does it. instead of penalizing American companies for extracting money from dumb foreigners, they should be encouraged to fleece and gouge idiot non-Americans as best they can and suck their money into the United States.
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