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by aarongray 8y ago
The definition of crony capitalism is using government power to protect business interests. It is not impossible to watch the markets, because the invisible hand of free choice does it every day, and it punishes those who cannot compete. It
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by aarongray 8y ago
I'm sensing a pattern here. Earlier, you basically said, "Guys, the free market can't be trusted to provide solutions for internet access, so we have to regulate them and grant monopolies. Oh crap, monopolies cause abuse of p
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by aarongray 8y ago
That's certainly the justification that a lot of people use for these sorts of rules, monopoly grants, etc. etc. As for me, I find it interesting that the most regulated industries always tend to be the ones that are the most dysfuncti
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by aarongray 8y ago
Abuse of position goes hand in hand with government granted monopolies. How can a business abuse their position when people voluntarily agree to buy from them? You're defending crony capitalism and then declaring that capitalism is bro
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haha yeah me too. It might actually happen while we are still around. https://www.fastcompany.com/90268592/elon-musks-spacex-just-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=AdKNCBrkZQ4
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by aarongray 8y ago
The ISP's didn't collude with other businesses, they colluded with governments and got monopoly protections.
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by aarongray 8y ago
The issue is local monopoly laws granted to ISP's by city governments. In order to encourage ISP's to invest the necessary money to build infrastructure in their jurisdictions, many of these places granted them monopolies. It&#x27
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by aarongray 8y ago
Lots of feel good ideas in the post, but no actual good ideas. Back when Congress created the Do Not Call Registry, and then forced law abiding companies to pay $10,000 for it, they pretty much just compiled an amazing list of active phone
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by aarongray 8y ago
Ahh yes, the ole regulate everyone except ourselves trick
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Good point, it's not the exact same. But their new offering is much closer to what their competitors are offering, so I'd say it's still a move to try to better compete with the free offerings from other companies.
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by aarongray 8y ago
Github's competitors are already providing the same service for free. Github is dropping their prices from $7 / mo to free to compete.
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by aarongray 8y ago
Code storage is a free market and GitHub is not a monopoly.
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by aarongray 8y ago
I have been a vocal critic of Microsoft acquiring GitHub, but gotta give credit where credit is due - this might be enough for me to move my private repos back to GitHub.
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More questions to ask before joining a startup: https://www.aaron-gray.com/questions-to-ask-at-a-startup-int...
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by aarongray 8y ago
Thanks. Yeah that's a great book, appreciate the recommendation.
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Thanks - at the very least, our family can use it for our kids and scratch our own itch! ;-)
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by aarongray 8y ago
Hey that looks like a good book, thanks for the recommendation and well wishes! :)
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by aarongray 8y ago
haha yeah you might be right. Startups typically put a huge strain on the founders and their families. I wouldn't advise anyone attempt a startup unless they are in good condition mentally, physically, and relationally. In my case, I w
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by aarongray 8y ago
Yeah, maybe so, I just haven't had the time to invest in that. My wife took a high stress / high pay job to support us temporarily while I built the app, and she was nearing burnout and it just was taking me too long to scale my c
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by aarongray 8y ago
Cool. I'm not working on it actively, but if you try it out and have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them! https://www.chorosaur.com/ .
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by aarongray 8y ago
Yeah, it still exists, I just paused development on it. https://www.chorosaur.com/ .
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by aarongray 8y ago
I built an app for kids that created a family currency where kids would pick the chores they wanted to do each day, earn points based upon the difficulty of the chores, and then those points could be redeemed for real-life rewards that they
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by aarongray 8y ago
No, but I want my browser to notify me that its blocking popups rather than just hiding them from me entirely and assuming I never wanted to see them anyway.
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How to hack a garage door in 10 seconds and what you can do to prevent it(itstactical.com)
1 points by aarongray 8y ago|0 comments
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by aarongray 8y ago
It would be cool if we could develop a protocol where users could flip a setting on their browser that tells every website they visit that the user has consciously, legally opted-in to all cookies. Heck, it would be cool to also have an opt
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by aarongray 8y ago
Yeah that's a cool idea. It would be neat to have the opposite option as well - Do track - and if that header is set to true, don't show me the cookie banner either.
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GDPR: We need a way for browsers to tell sites I accept all cookies
9 points by aarongray 8y ago|4 comments
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by aarongray 8y ago
Fleetio | Senior iOS / Android Software Engineer | Full-time REMOTE or ONSITE at HQ in Birmingham, AL | https://www.fleetio.com/ As a Senior Mobile Software Engineer at Fleetio, you'll join a talented team at an e
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by aarongray 8y ago
Great thoughts, I agree 100%.
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by aarongray 8y ago
Hey Daniel, thanks for chiming in, and for unflagging this. I can't speak for anyone other than myself, but my desire in sharing these stories was to start a respectful conversation based upon open dialogue - to help this community - n

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