Many of these graphs lack a legend describing what each color/line is. Also, many of the Y axes are missing units labels. We can infer that it's %progress from the context of the post, but you should always label your axes.

Other than, interesting post.

Also, how the heck did we lose progress towards completion? Did someone make a big oopsie that accidentally destroyed a bunch of stuff?

> Keep this same energy when your groceries go up by 60%

This is more likely to happen from inflation (i.e Government printing too much money) than from every grocery store in the region jacking up their prices simultaneously.

And if they do, I can decide to grow my own veggies and hunt my own meat. Or if I don't want to do that, I can call up a farmer nearby and trade with them directly. No one is forcing me to do business with any grocer.

> Amazon having total market dominance, and taking 80% of royalties (despite contributing nothing to the production process) is obscene.

Yeah, that is ridiculous. That's a pretty big cut. Seems like they've got a pretty solid platform if they can manage to command such a sizeable cut.

> Amazon famously use books as 'loss leaders' to support their other products/advertising.

Then it should be easy to sell your book on your own site for half the price of what Audible would charge. You'd eat their lunch by having dramatically lower prices, and you'd still be making more money than working with them, presuming the same or similar volume of sales.

> They are the only option, and they are a terrible option.

That's just not true. Anyone can start up a squarespace website and sell their books/audiobooks online for dirt cheap. There's like a million other "run your own website with no technical knowledge" businesses out there, too. No one is making anyone do business with Audible, and authors are free to do business on their own terms if they so choose.

As it stands, I'm guessing authors see it as more valuable to pay Audible for their services than to do their own sales because the incredible ability of Audible to drive sales, even if they only keep 20-40%. This is evidenced by the fact that Audible has a massive library of audiobooks from authors making exactly that decision.

> How is this not extortion?

Because it's voluntary. No one is stopping anyone from producing their own audiobook and publishing/selling it on their own terms.

If you want to benefit from Audible's hosting, distribution, and advertising (because yes, Audible puts a significant effort into advertising books to readers with things like "recommended for you" and "related to this title" type programs, among other things), among other benefits of being part of their library, then they're gonna take a cut. Since they own the platform, they get to dictate what the cut is. If you don't like it, you're free to take your product elsewhere. No one is forcing anyone to do business with anyone.

Integza has a really neat video about RDE, and in addition to going over some of the science behind it, he makes a homemade one. It's very cool.

Interesting experiment and results. As a bit of constructive feedback on the data visualization, I would say that the actual solve times should be points instead of a continuous line. The avg solve time is fine as a line, though.

Reddit in a nutshell.

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Except vape products these days aren't tobacco products. Even the ones that contain nicotine generally use a synthesized nicotine rather than nicotine extracted from tobacco.

Not saying any of this is good, but just a point of clarification. Also, for this data set I feel like it's important to distinguish between "middle schoolers" and "high schoolers." Perhaps the color keys should be used to distinguish between these categories rather than "combustible/non-combustible", because that fact is derived from the type of product which is described on the X-axis, rather than describing the data being displayed.