FateOfNations

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by FateOfNations 3y ago
Somewhere it was mentioned that all these meetings were being conducted by different sets of Cruise team members… could have just been that the person presenting at those meetings didn't have the same connectivity issues.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
That depends... I don't know the situation in the EU, but based on personal experience in the US: If you are expecting less than $25k in revenue (donations, grants, program service revenue, etc.) in each of your first three years, you
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
Previously the "developer licence" was $100/yr + an opaque revenue share that was bundled with distribution and payment processing services. Based on their new alternative business terms, we can better describe what that bund
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
Yeah, it wouldn't be something that could be entered into without some consideration, but there are already a many, many software projects that are successfully distributed by non-profit organizations, so it certainly is feasible.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
Apple considered the App Store commission to be compensation for the value delivered by the entire iOS developer ecosystem, not just the mechanical/infrastructure parts of the app distribution process. It was a pretty good setup: aside
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
The new alternative business terms basically set that up. The "reasonable fee" is €0.50/install plus 10% of recurring revenue for customers acquired through via the Apple App Store.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
Apple doesn't care about porn on iOS devices, they just don't want it in the App Store. Unless a PornHub app is full of malware, it shouldn't have any problem getting notarized. App Store Review = Content and Quality Notariza
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
The announcement indicates that notarization for iOS platforms will include human review. They are basically dividing the App Store review process in half, with the platform safety side (for all apps) and the content/quality side (only
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
No, that's only for the alternative store app itself. Epic will have to pay the €0.50 fee on the first install of Epic Games Store but not on the first million installs of Fortnight.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
and the one potential category of those apps, various flavors of open source software, can be distributed by a non-profit organization and be exempt from the fees.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
All of the developer tools and SDKs have value and are used regardless of distribution channel. Those haven't been free, they've just been included in the App Store commission structure. Developers pay for those based on the value
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
Apple has put in place a pretty high barrier to entry for alternative marketplaces. It's not something a game developer is gonna be able to casually setup. Apple is requiring, among other things, having a bunch of processes in place fo
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
Yeah, the non-profit organization requirement is insurance for Apple that you aren't making money off your app some other way. Yeah, it's inconvenient for people who legitimately want to give stuff away for fun, but it isn't
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
Here in the US at least we have the concept of "fiscal sponsorship" in the non-profit space. A registered non-profit organization acts as sponsor for smaller groups and projects. The activities still have to be compliant, but the
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
Self-reporting. The developer will pay Apple periodically and is agrees to be subject to audit to verify compliance.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
What's even more galling is that they introduced a "Pro Tools" subscription with some extra features for for $10/month that they are trying to sell to their existing subscribers (the ones that pay hundreds per year for
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
It isn't entirely complete, but you can export trees from Ancestry as GED files, which is the closest one can get to an interoperable family tree file format.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
That is correct. You invested $100k in developing a new product. Even if you fired your developer today, that product will earn you income for years to come. The general principle is that when you make investments (versus pay operating expe
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
If you started executing your strategy and hid it from the board and told them you were doing what they told you to do, yes.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
After the APEC event he went to a Burning Man event in Oakland where he spoke too...
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
I say "listen to women" and "take women seriously"
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
"Deliberative process" just means they had some sort of discussion amongst the board members before they took the vote.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
That timeline would only be in play if it was data held by Microsoft that was compromised.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
It's best to think about more like a royalty.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
Not announcing the platform in advance is a conscious choice by Amtrak. They do it intentionally because they do not want people waiting on the platforms, ostensibly in the interests of safety and efficient passenger flow in the limited spa
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
And really with Martha Stewart, it wasn't the insider trading, it was lying about insider trading.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
IPv6 doesn’t address disambiguating people using public computers at places like Internet cafes.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
Twitter has never been particularly good at catching illegal material.
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
It sounds like it's an issue with LastPass's payment provider, who must think they are doing them a favor by blocking transactions with email addresses at "suspicious domains".
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by FateOfNations 3y ago
It looks rather generic... rather than being customized to fit any specific country's regulatory system. From what I can tell, the author is not from the United States.

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