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Title is misleading. This is about the “free” add-on perk to Amazon Prime that was added to make the price raises for Prime somewhat less offensive, similar to Amazon Prime Video.

This is not about Amazon Music Unlimited, which is their computer Apple Music and Spotify.


I wonder if the author is familiar with Smalltalk - it has a very small syntax. In some ways so does Lisp, in other ways it has more than every other language, depending on what you think about operators versus functions.

They did it for user efficiency, not machine efficiency. And it is still better today for hand calculation.

As I read it was also about including the highest amount of features in the tool. But to me it's more like Dvorak. Sure, it's more efficient if you learn it and really absorb the mehtod but most people don't bother.

Personally I'm not very flexible in that way, I want my tools to adjust to me not the other way around.


That Casio isn’t a retro calculator, it’s a work of art calculator.

From what I’ve seen, eBay runs more than this for a used original. My collection of all Voyagers ran about $200 each a few years ago.

They released the 15C before a couple of times.

This is Amazon Prime Music, an unasked for add-on to Amazon Prime to (in their minds) justify their raising the cost of Amazon Prime, so they managed to skip step 1. It was never a good value.

And it would communicate using?

If you think 1.33x1.28x7.76 times bigger is close to the same size. I don’t.

I had one of those - I think it is still in my office desk.

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