Do they get paid to host this? How much?

I doubt it, they get "paid" by not having to pay for upstream data charges while still charging their downstream consumers.

The blind community is 200% sarcastic. Don't take anything read there seriously.

Remove all the housing regulation in California and allow builders to build. You'll smoothly see rents going down to $500/month. Start having integrity and finally do what's best for your country, not best for just yourself. Otherwise... All other countries are quickly catching up (esp. Europe and Asia) and soon, it will be irrelevant.

The regulations which are the only thing allowing many people to still afford their lifelong houses die to rent inflation and gentrification? The regulations preventing many areas from becoming ugly skyscraper apartments? Which regulations are you talking about?

Which housing regulation? Building codes for earthquakes? Or zoning which prevents apartment buildings in the middle of single-family housing neighborhoods? I assume you mean the second, and not the first.

Start with Prop 13

I think that's just clickbait heading. They just promote their full version in their light version. That's normal and expected since forever.

Where to download it?!

WHY does this happen? Does loud music sell better than silent music? Nobody here, not even Wikipedia, mentions the reason WHY it happens.

From the History section of the Wikipedia page:

Jukeboxes became popular in the 1940s and were often set to a predetermined level by the owner, so any record that was mastered louder than the others would stand out. Similarly, starting in the 1950s, producers would request louder 7-inch singles so that songs would stand out when auditioned by program directors for radio stations.[1] In particular, many Motown records pushed the limits of how loud records could be made; according to one of their engineers, they were "notorious for cutting some of the hottest 45s in the industry."[3] In the 1960s and 1970s, compilation albums of hits by multiple different artists became popular, and if artists and producers found their song was quieter than others on the compilation, they would insist that their song be remastered to be competitive.

And if we go further back we find that there was a sort of brightness war in orchestra tuning going on a long time ago. Think they standardised on 440 Hz by now?

I remember watching a video by a music theorist on YouTube (12Tone) where he mentioned that laws were made to define what Concert A would be - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzznBt8tVnI

I'm also not a huge fan in general, but it's a distinctly good method for getting feedback when building an API or product.

Let me tell you this story: October 2019 we did something similar, but took it to the extreme: We created 8 conventions on 8 days in 8 major cities in Germany to learn more about private investors and our customers. Time-wise, almost no rational person would've invested so much time.

We talked to almost 1000 real and some prospective customers. The learnings were amazing. In the following 4 weeks, we managed to improve product and reduce churn by 3X (~24% to 6%), which is generally unheard of. It was one of the best ways ever to build up user empathy and understanding real, underlying needs as well as a ton of UX problems.

"current customers who would switch to linux". Again, this is 0 incremental revenue but a ton of incremental costs to Adobe.

Adobe moved to a subscription model. They lose revenue as they lose customers.

If you need Photoshop, you'll stay on platforms where it's supported. If you don't, you'll probably not pay for it anyway.

> If you need Photoshop, you'll stay on platforms where it's supported.

Sure, but your customers will resent you for it and search for alternatives. Vendor lock-in is not a good long term strategy. Competition will eventually catch up.

> If you don't, you'll probably not pay for it anyway.

This is speculation on your part.