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by abofh 4y ago
Occam hits the nail on the head - those with valuable data will pay, the value of "privacy" is not a long tail graph, it's a diminishing return. So the products for the poor are subsidized by the information of the able at a
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by abofh 4y ago
I think you make an interesting strawman, but look in the reverse direction. If companies put the same revenue figure per customer as a pricetag, and then offered a discount of 100% to opt out, would it work? Have two pennies if you can an
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by abofh 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33352967
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by abofh 4y ago
So there are three choices, essentially to argue over: - run on demand instances (maybe mix in spot) - run fargate instances (maybe mix in spot) - reserve them. Every company hates #3, but it's usually the best choice if you can't
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by abofh 4y ago
You're not alone - I more or less bailed around the iPhone/iTunes start, once amazon gave me a way to 'own' my music outside of an OS/hardware dependent ecosystem, I left. Apple makes everything wonderful if you ne
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by abofh 4y ago
Look at the cookie consent page of any news article you read - your article is worth often 100+ people sharing my data. It's not, it's just not. Do you know how many people get access to my search data? One. But your news articl
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by abofh 4y ago
If you think a human never sees your information, you're sadly ill informed, I know 563758 lives in ottowa, the porn he searches for and that he's a vegan who is into electronic music from the 70s. These profiles are incredibly d
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by abofh 4y ago
Usually there's a magic pixel that you embed on the checkout success page or a callback you invoke. I suppose people could cheat, but if your ad never converts, the network has no incentive to run it.
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by abofh 4y ago
In as much as brushing your teeth is dentistry, yes.
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by abofh 4y ago
Where do you think those dollars go? Hospitals aren't that great of an investment, but insurance companies are
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by abofh 4y ago
What would be the point of a health insurance startup? It's just a risk pool. You get cancer, it costs (let's say) 3 million. He doesn't, risk, 1.5 million. Insurance companies exist to hedge risk - the federal government d
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by abofh 4y ago
So surely you've asked your employer to stop providing insurance so that you can obtain it on the open market?
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by abofh 4y ago
I still have an apartment in the US that's gone from being a primary residence to an investment property - so straight line depreciation on the asset offsets the rental income, then the mortgage interest and SALT deductions still exist
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by abofh 4y ago
That's the trick - if you're being 200k, your ability to negotiate how you're paid is limited, if you're being paid 2MM, you can almost certainly negotiate the payments to be a more tax favored solution.
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by abofh 4y ago
The big ones are feie, depreciation on us property, some tax deferred accounts yes. Some of it is indeed kicking the can down the road, but by my estimates I'm near the peak of my earnings power and plan to retire early, so future tax
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by abofh 4y ago
I'm a big fan of Croatia myself, but their program is one year, not renewable without a break (and starting next year, a full Schengen break), but it'll depend a lot on the lifestyle you want. I want cheap, beaches and quiet at l
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by abofh 4y ago
So, I'll be honest, taxes in the EU are (at the basic levels) near what they are in the US - top-line last-dollar percentage wise anyhow. But in the US there's a massive cottage industry in creating and managing deductions. I&#x
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by abofh 4y ago
It varies widely based on how much I think I gain from your project (experience, learning, networking etc). I'm an AWS specialist DevOps ish person, and bill around 1k/day on retainer and a bit more for "live" work. In
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by abofh 4y ago
It's not costing them 155M to run hosting. It's maybe a tenth of that. Online business costs are inordinately around people, marketing, and sales acquisitions. Someone wants you to look at X to save money, because Y is more i
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by abofh 4y ago
It does if you didn't consent and they use it to contact you, feel free to file a complaint
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by abofh 4y ago
I believe you, I do, but for every company afraid to use the features of a service they pay for because of vendor lock in, I can show you five, six and seven figure bills attributable to DIY. Nothing is drop in if it's value added - i
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by abofh 4y ago
Private CA + Dedidicated CloudFront IP's are the fastest ways to do it in one line-item, but most commonly massive DB instances. Why create an index when you can double the number of cores? Wait, cores don't help improve queries
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by abofh 4y ago
I mean, no? Why on earth would I want Thursday the twenty thirds mDAU from a year and a half ago? If it's not bringing value, it's costing money, and it's unlikely to provide value, so why keep it?
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by abofh 4y ago
Contracting provides an immense amount of flexibility that FTE's don't have - from the amount I can put in tax advantaged retirements, the amount I can bill, my ability to maintain multiple client loads and the ability to fire my
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by abofh 4y ago
Strictly speaking yes, but there are limitations depending on what you do - you can't, for example, do route53 or ACM API's via private link (private-CA does, but not the general purpose CA) - so things like external-dns and the A
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by abofh 4y ago
So if I manage to catch your ear, can I ask if there are plans to allow earlier ACH (or even better, RTP) in the future? It's a mild annoyance that even scheduled ACH transactions don't go out until the last ACH window of the day
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by abofh 4y ago
It would break things like medium.com's constant prompt to login with this list of google accounts, but it wouldn't break SSO - SSO itself is typically handled by a series of redirections, and at the time you're redirected _t
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by abofh 4y ago
I think you presume too much idealism. It's more along the lines of "if you want a 'free' phone, you take the shiniest one your carrier gives you for contract renewal" Oh you want more GB's (metric unspecified
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by abofh 4y ago
I've seen this approach before - typically someone who wants to be special, pronounces their specialness as unique and wonderful, demands their specialness be recognized, and then screams 'they're discriminating on me because
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by abofh 4y ago
I want to know more about the bowling pin man - I mean, there's probably not much more to be said about him, but he raises so many questions!

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