This is a potential public good category that could be (mostly) provided at-cost or fixed profit by a multi-country non-profit consortia.
This is a potential public good category that could be (mostly) provided at-cost or fixed profit by a multi-country non-profit consortia. Hearing aids and assistive devices are too damn expensive and proprietary, way too expensive for most poor, disabled, and elderly people worldwide. Edit: I honestly don't know how I will function when I get older because I'm likely to be alone and blind from ARMD.
Posted by burnt-resistor on Jan 8, 2026, 11:46 AM
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Yeah, the plan is far too expensive for what it provides.
NewCrashed demand after one of the big AI labs (probably Anthropic because they focus way too hard on expensive frontier models) become inso...
New/dev/random is much too expensive for this.
Yeah, this always bugged me.
A year ago, I had the opinion that it'd be too expensive for developers to support offline mode, peer to peer, or community servers after...
The weird thing about this product is that its biggest competitor is "an old ipad." I feel like most of their target customer base alread...
There's a talk from Travis Kalanick recently on a podcast about this.
>nobody ever bought German cars for their low prices, except the Beetle Huh?
This is a potential public good category that could be (mostly) provided at-cost or fixed profit by a multi-country non-profit consortia.
This is a potential public good category that could be (mostly) provided at-cost or fixed profit by a multi-country non-profit consortia. Hearing aids and assistive devices are too damn expensive and proprietary, way too expensive for most poor, disabled, and elderly people worldwide. Edit: I honestly don't know how I will function when I get older because I'm likely to be alone and blind from ARMD.
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