This seems like a premature launch, there's nothing on the page that's useful when playing the game. It would be great to actually see what the skills do, their work abilities, and all the other info that's available in the game's paldex, or especially to get info that's not actually available in game like regional distributions.

Yes, high-achieving teenagers are mostly tired all the time

You're missing two things, one for each age group:

For the younger kids, each hour earlier they start is an hour earlier they finish, which means parents need to either finish work earlier (not possible for most people), or pay for an additional hour of after-school child care (expensive). Having free child care to cover the gap between school finishing and work finishing is extremely rare, and the acceptable age to leave your child unattended after school is going up due to over protective parenting (for example, I was a latchkey kid starting in the 3rd grade, but nowadays that seems almost unheard of until middle school).

For the older kids, starting later means sports / extracurriculars finish later, potentially after dark or after the parents are done working and expect kids to be coming home.

Definitely can see what you mean about the younger kids in the afternoon, thanks -- I'd definitely been missing that in my thinking.

Funny I never thought about it till now -- in my public elementary school back in the day, the (minority of) kids who didn't have a parent at home in the afternoon, stayed an extra 2-3 hours at school for the rest of the afternoon at no charge, mainly doing art activities like finger painting etc, and they even provided snacks. I remember joining a few times just because I wanted to hang out with my friends there. It was very minimally structured/supervised -- just something to do to maintain interest but not be rowdy, not intended to be "educational" or anything.

I've never heard of that kind of thing since though. But it sure makes a lot of sense for that to be provided standard by elementary schools, now that 2 working parents is the norm.

I don't think you responded to the comment you meant to

I've been listening for about 30 minutes and it's pretty neat, I've already found some new music I like. However, the weather forecast told me it was 275° F.

Damn it! Thought I'd fixed this. Back to that micro service I go :(

Thanks for using and for the bug report!

Price fixing increases profits as long as nobody undercuts you, that's the whole point

Not always. I for one am just not upgrading at all due to costs.

It would be a lot better to make $500 profit for each of the 100k people buying your product than $1000 profit for each of the 20k buying.

Not upgrading due to costs? Luckily for you, we have invented planned obsolescence to solve this problem!

I mean, you just push customers out of the market. I've still got the same 960 I've had for years, and that's when I bother to use my desktop, which isn't often anymore.

A new score would certainly qualify as "materially different", to GPs point

Yes and no. You can still record the original music again, but with a brand new orchestra. Is it materially different then? From a legal standpoint? From an individual standpoint?

The answer is yes. There is copyright for the score and copyright for the performance. New performance, new copyright.

> I was once unmasked in an old video game though because of a mistake specific to that game and people from my country, a mistake I had internalized since childhood. That was quite shocking to me...

I'm curious to know what the "mistake" was here. Is it something like referring to in-game items via their name in your native language, instead of English?

Yeah, sort of. The game is Tibia, it has an item called copper shield. When I was a kid, all my friends and I used to write and pronounce it as cooper shield. I internalized that mistake to the point I actually thought the item was called cooper shield despite knowing what copper is.

So decades later I went a gaming community on the internet and suggested we all play this old game. Everything was fine until I said cooper shield. One guy immediately messaged me "br?" and I was shocked. No one else noticed it. Turns out he was also a foreigner who learned portuguese by playing the game together with brazilians and he recognized that specific brazilian mistake.

Because there are many large companies who's entire purchasing procedure seems to be to select whoever's furthest in the top right of Gartner's quadrants

For many people (esp. kids and "Disney adults"), Disney{land,world} isn't a type of theme park, it's its own experience that could never be substituted with Six Flags or Universal Studios, and Disney clearly has a "monopoly" on Disney-branded parks. I believe that was OP's point. Another commenter has already explained how Major League Baseball is literally a federally granted monopoly.