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by abalone 9y ago
If you love this you should also follow @sarahjeong. Hilariously eviscerates cryptocurrencies for sport.[1] Smart (Cal + Harvard law), unafraid and one of the best up-and-coming tech journalists IMHO. [1] https://twitter.com&#x2F
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by abalone 9y ago
"Think Sears customers. Think Macys. Think JC Penny." - equivalent sentiment 20 years ago. > Making it profitable is a whole other can of worms but I definitely see opportunity. Great, so there's an unprofitable opportun
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by abalone 9y ago
Instacart does not have better selection at WF, due to the inferior inventory system. Amazon’s minimum is $35 for free 2hr delivery. Not too worried about Amazon’s operational experience with deliveries.
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by abalone 9y ago
It’s still better. Instacart has a completely separate “crowdsourced” database. Amazon at least has comprehensive SKUs and prices.
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by abalone 9y ago
The attacker would already have an exfiltrated unencrypted full backup. Passcode’s the least of your worries at that point. Also I think you’re mistaken about using the same value. Passcodes default to 6 digits. Restrictions PIN is 4.
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by abalone 9y ago
> would I consider paying something like Amazon Prime fees, every month, to have 'free' delivery on orders over $100 from my grocery store... Wonder if you realize Amazon just rolled out exactly that for Whole Foods. Free 2
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by abalone 9y ago
You guessed wrong! Apple's deal is with the card issuers, so the only people doomed by Apple's disfavor are customers with cards from banks that haven't adopted Apple Pay. Apple has no say over which merchant can use it. Also
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by abalone 9y ago
That's up to the processor you (the merchant) sign up with, just like anything else. Apple takes 0.15% and that comes out of the card issuing bank's end.[1] Quick 101 on how card fees work generally: Card issuer banks (Citibank, C
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by abalone 9y ago
Venmo is not a mobile wallet. It's for bank transfers (i.e. ACH), not credit/debit card payments. PayPal is widely supported online but I doubt they are far, far ahead in the real world, which I think is what people mean by "
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by abalone 9y ago
Second that.. That's a huge improvement and massively under-appreciated aspect of real-world Apple Pay as well. Basically you don't have to worry anymore about merchants getting hacked and getting card numbers stolen, because the
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by abalone 9y ago
I wonder if this will be the case that really tests Tesla's blanket legal defense in court. (That accidents are due to less than "fully attentive" drivers.) The reaction time needed in that video to correct for the autopilot
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by abalone 9y ago
No, they are not parallel channels. Generally speaking high tech develops over a multi decade timeframe. Govt agencies like DARPA play a lead role in the earliest phase (often measured in double digit years). VCs pick outputs that have comm
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by abalone 9y ago
And that's just direct grants. The bigger role is, DARPA nurtures core tech in its earliest stages when commercial viability is still a decade or more off. The "big players in SV" are picking the fruit and bringing it to mark
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by abalone 9y ago
Didn't say that. WWII was a case where legality and morality overlap more conveniently which is why it is a favored topic. Still debatable in many aspects e.g. Nagasaki, firebombing cities, not bombing the concentration camps, etc., bu
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by abalone 9y ago
> In earlier days, employees generally would see this as just doing their jobs in developing technology that their employers wanted developed and would not concern themselves about ultimate uses and applications. This is a false histor
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by abalone 9y ago
Those are good reasons. What determines when you use Kotlin over Java?
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by abalone 9y ago
Spotify is actually small in the world. All music service subscribers combined are a mere ~110 million. Eddy Cue recent pegged the market opportunity at 2 billion.[1] And Apple Music ramping the fastest.[2] [1] https://www.cnet
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by abalone 9y ago
I completely support the employees but it is criminal that this NYT article does not mention the extensive roots of Silicon Valley in Pentagon funding. SV as a whole is substantially a creation of military spending. Just recently in the A
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by abalone 9y ago
So what’s your point? Apple Music is still overtaking Spotify this year. And just like iTunes, they don’t need to make much money on it.
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by abalone 9y ago
Which is why you should never draw conclusions from anecdotes.[1] [1] Apple Music is set to surpass Spotify in paid US subscribers this summer https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/4/16971436/apple-music-surp
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by abalone 9y ago
Not enough people talking about this: The fundamental challenge for Spotify is they have to make money while Apple Music doesn't. Apple Music can run break-even as a platform feature, like the App Store was (at least in the early days)
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by abalone 9y ago
Apples/oranges.. usually there's only a few people in a messaging group.
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by abalone 9y ago
I recall Zuckerberg commented on this. Same reason Facebook groups didn’t take off in a major way. Nobody wants to manage assigning people to groups. I also remember this slide deck from some hip product guy who pitched circles.. 150 slide
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by abalone 9y ago
Yeah.. and yet most of us buy the Ferguson.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL2YRDzpTL4
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by abalone 9y ago
I see.. you mean tanks that are enclosed in a wall. This supports the theory that heavy lids on unenclosed tanks help with noise suppression. OMG I just realized that may be why the author experienced temporary hearing loss! The lids are de
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by abalone 9y ago
But they're heavier and more expensive to ship. I doubt it's that hard to make matching lids to spec. The industry makes matching toilet seats separately, after all. It must have something to do with the material. A thread on Redd
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by abalone 9y ago
Ok, as an American I have to say I marvel at the toilet technology in other countries. For example you guys often have two buttons on your toilets -- a #1 and a #2 button. It just makes sense. What are the lids made out of then?
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by abalone 9y ago
> Probably the same reason the rest of the toilet is Not all of the toilet is ceramic/porcelain. Seats are typically made of durable plastic and are designed to be replaced every decade or so. A plastic lid would probably last muc
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by abalone 9y ago
Apart from all the good discussion on hearing loss... now I’m thinking about “safer” toilets. Why are lids made from ceramic anyway? I get why the bowl is, but the lid? Beyond the loudness / hearing loss issue, it’s just so darn heavy!
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by abalone 9y ago
I recommend DownBeats earplugs. They are tiny and barely noticeable, which made me so much more likely to wear them to shows. Nice little carrying case too.

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