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by abalone 8y ago
Panoramic roof probably mitigates the headspace issue. May not feel so cramped.
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by abalone 8y ago
Apple’s essential claims: 1. 15-30% is a fair “contribution to maintaining the App Store ecosystem” which has led to Spotify’s “dramatic growth.” 2. Spotify is greedy and bad, just look at how they squeeze artists, unlike us. The second poi
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by abalone 8y ago
> It’s working in Seattle... Not for artists it’s not. “in spite of decades of indisputably strong development, Seattle’s share of cost-burdened renters has barely budged.” “...by overbuilding housing for the wealthy, Seattle has achie
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by abalone 8y ago
Only the ones with rent control from 10+ years ago, which the techie-YIMBY types are for the most part opposed to as well to make more room for them. Fortunately there is some positive backlash brewing in local politics which is focusing on
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by abalone 8y ago
There's a lot of things I like and are consumer-friendly about the App Store, mainly around privacy and security. But the "Apple tax" is absolutely where it veers into a level of concentrated power that concerns antitrust law
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by abalone 8y ago
> For instance, Apple Music, which has gotten over 50 million paying users not by being the best music app but by being pushed heavily by Apple as the platform owner. Apple Music has more music, a longer free trial and integration with
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by abalone 8y ago
I’m worried about breaking up Apple. Control of the App Store is how they keep the iPhone secure and malware free. They make money on things sold through the store, yes, but they make most of their money in the phone itself. Break that up a
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by abalone 8y ago
That’s a pretty disingenuous reading. It says “Apple will only retain the resulting coordinates in an anonymous form to improve Maps and other Apple location-based products and services.”
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by abalone 8y ago
> collects location data and associates it with your Apple ID What is your source?
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by abalone 8y ago
Right? All they’d know about you is your home address, where you take Ubers to/from, where you like to eat, shop, places you post from, your habits over time, and anything else they could correlate across the myriad apps that send your
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by abalone 8y ago
> No. Uber gets location data FROM Foursquare. This doesn't make sense and contradicts the article. Don't apps have to send coordinates to Foursquare to get location names? Foursquare then holds onto that data and tracks you.
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by abalone 8y ago
It's more than that. The article implies that Foursquare is sourcing data from a variety of apps, including apps that are associated with your real world identity and preferences and lifestyle activities, which increases the opportunit
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by abalone 8y ago
> Foursquare knows where they are in real time, because it powers many widely used apps, from Twitter, to Uber, to TripAdvisor, to AccuWeather. Holy crap, does Foursquare get your Uber location data and associate it with other services
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by abalone 8y ago
What's interesting about this proposal is it goes after "proprietary marketplaces".[1] Anti-trust has historically focused on breaking up huge companies that have acquired/merged with their competition. She's recogn
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by abalone 8y ago
It's much more than that. According to Apple's iOS security whitepaper, the SEP is supposed to enforce escalating time delays in between attempts -- up to one hour after the 9th attempt. And survive restarts. It certainly seems
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by abalone 8y ago
Is there any info on how GrayKey worked? My understanding is that in recent models the SEP was supposed to prevent that kind of brute forcing of passcodes at the hardware level — and also enforce a secure boot chain that prevents loading ho
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by abalone 8y ago
It’s important to remember this calculator is looking across several years of the growth of a company but only valuing one option grant. There may be additional grants given along that journey (say, every 2-4 years) along with salary increa
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by abalone 8y ago
This is overly simplistic. This fire was not just the result of an accumulation of “debris”. You’re leaving out two major factors: years of severe drought followed by a year with lots of rain. This both weakened older trees and produced a l
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by abalone 8y ago
Different kind of bank relationship. There are two banking roles involved in card networks: merchant acquirers and consumer card issuers. Visa/MC are the intermediary between them. Stripe only partners with a merchant acquirer bank. To
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by abalone 8y ago
> they also have the POS systems in place to just replace visa/MC if they want. Yeah, that's not how it works. Banks that issue cards contract with intermediary card networks like Visa/MC, not POS system vendors. >
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by abalone 8y ago
> Stripe offers interchange plus pricing if you have enough volume. Are there published details on this? What is their markup?
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by abalone 8y ago
> Square was charging Starbucks 2.75% and Starbucks' average $5 debit transaction was killing them. That's a somewhat separate issue. That's because Square doesn't charge an absolute component ("+ $0.xx"),
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by abalone 8y ago
Here's another don't: Don't block pasting passwords!! Amazingly there are some sites that do this. I never understood the theory behind it.
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by abalone 8y ago
> I don't think many articles have a lot of repeating sentences. This misrepresents the comment you're replying to. The case I gave was "linking to a single word." Articles have a lot of repeating words. I can see u
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by abalone 8y ago
Visa/MC are probably going to try to target the margin that fintech startups have able to eek out at the lower end of the card processing market. From their perspective, the fact that companies like Stripe and Square have been able to
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by abalone 8y ago
Very significant limitation: it only links to the first instance of the target text. What is the expected behavior if you highlight a second instance of some target text and try to create a link to it? It’s bad that the spec doesn’t discuss
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by abalone 8y ago
You are being obstinate. I cited a couple extensive discussions of the matter backed by voluminous scholarly work, compared to your one ambassador to Saudi Arabia. You promptly ignored them. Israel is literally the only nuclear power in the
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by abalone 8y ago
The United States has never had a problem supporting aggressive states in contravention of international law with a history of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. It is itself such a state. From the perspective of U.S. planners there are both c
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by abalone 8y ago
While I am an IntelliJ IDEA fan, this is one area where Eclipse stands out. Long ago they decided to part ways with pure Java and incorporate native platform UI via JNI.[1] [1] https://www.eclipse.org/swt/
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by abalone 8y ago
The idea that an "all-powerful small ethnic Jewish lobby" can trick the corporate elite of America for decades to do things against their interests is, putting aside its anti-semitic implications, utterly ridiculous. It is a way o

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