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by aviv 8y ago
When you say "most tech companies" are you referring to employers in the tech space, or specifically VoIP providers? Dialpad.com is pretty much still alone in the mobile-first, anti-Deskphone, WebRTC-preferred approach. The rest a
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by aviv 8y ago
More of a specialty shop, not a one-size-fits-all RingCentral competitor. Targeting specific industries with use case specific solutions (ie. going after car dealerships with overhead paging, DECT wireless handsets, etc.) -- yes, they can g
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by aviv 8y ago
Launch a boutique VoIP provider. Yes there are many out there, but the market is crazy big (and growing) and there is plenty of room for you. Big margins, low overhead if you know how to do it right. A 20-person office customer is $18K in r
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by aviv 8y ago
Said the unsuccessful entrepreneurs.
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by aviv 8y ago
Who cares if it's staged? Taking on a giant like Google requires some hassle and maneuvering. As a business owner it's your responsibility to do whatever it takes to succeed. This harms no one.
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by aviv 8y ago
He just needed to influence the public opinion over the tax situation.
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by aviv 8y ago
Definitely Google. There will always be "promising startups" and once you have Google on your resume you will either be starting that startup or getting a bigger chunk of it.
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by aviv 8y ago
It's much harder to climb the corporate ladder if you are one of the only remote employees in a company.
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by aviv 8y ago
Too many people get hung up on the perfect scalable tech stack. Most people don't need to waste more time watching another tech talk. What they need is more business skills and how to make money.
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by aviv 8y ago
The reason I will not be convinced is that in the last 20 years I have seen first hand hundreds of people cure such diseases from Crohn's to many types of cancer by fasting. The only times people have not been as successful as others i
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by aviv 8y ago
No. Absolutely not true. There are no 100 types of cancer. This is just the medical world concept of selling you on the equivalent to 100 types of morning cereal. There are of course different locations in the body where these damaged cells
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by aviv 8y ago
And people still wonder why it is taking so long to find a "cure". Everyone invovled is incentivized to never actually get to a point where "cancer" is a solved problem. Of course, that is beside the point. One of the mo
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by aviv 8y ago
Panda Express is high up there in the list of nastiest fast food places. Pure garbage food. And as you probably know, they will gladly dump a fresh batch of Orange Chicken on top of a 3 hour old batch and so some portion of their entrees ar
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by aviv 8y ago
Same goes for Google, YouTube, and Twitter among others.
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by aviv 8y ago
Not to worry, these companies that were left out will be let in next year once they pony up the correct bribe amount to the relevant decision maker.
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by aviv 8y ago
I repeat this on related threads: taking over any US phone number's inbound/outbound SMS traffic with the ability to intercept inbound SMS as well as send SMS originating from a particular number is dangerously easy. It takes on
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by aviv 8y ago
The only time you should be working 80 hour weeks is to build your own business, not someone else's. That brings me to the second point, the only time you should be working is to build your own business, not someone else's. A lot
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by aviv 8y ago
They use Freeswitch for a lot of their new offerings, they just don't advertise it. 8x8 too.
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by aviv 8y ago
Each year I do 2 dry fasts of ~7 days each, in addition to one or two water fasts of ~25 days each time. It's a great experience, and best gift you can give to your body.
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by aviv 8y ago
Now they can afford the Dialpad.com acquisition they have been after.
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by aviv 8y ago
We use GCP heavily. It's really great. Latency between Google Cloud Functions and other GCP products improved significantly in the past week, as did start up and execution time. However we only use GCFs for background tasks and not for
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by aviv 8y ago
I have many friends and family members that frequently complain about the high cost of their health care and insurance premiums. Yet most of them are leading unhealthy lifestyles, a mix of bad diets, smoking, sedentary lifestyle, etc. There
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by aviv 8y ago
Even 2FA that involves you receiving a call is more secure than 2FA that involves you getting a text, but of course that too should not be used, ever. It's just that SMS is that much worse. I wish I could share on HN the technique anyo
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by aviv 8y ago
In the US it is trivial to hijack any mobile number's SMS traffic. It takes less than a minute. SMS as 2FA should never ever be used by anyone.
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by aviv 8y ago
YouTube is also still full of ElsaGate predatory pedo accounts and YouTube is happy to play ads to the millions of views each video gets. But Alex Jones? Sorry, can't have him or a few other conservative loud voices on the platform.
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by aviv 8y ago
He represents free speech. He is just one of several conservative leaning voices silenced by Big Tech in recent months. One of the most troubling aspects of the Alex Jones ban is the obvious coordination among Apple, Facebook, YouTube and o
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by aviv 8y ago
That's not my point. I don't like or listen to the guy, but your reaction shows precisely why they chose him. Who is next? If they can take down someone as vocal as Alex Jones, they can take down anyone.
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by aviv 8y ago
Not drawing anything, just adding color in case people still pretend or truly believe these companies don't engage in censorship in the US.
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by aviv 8y ago
Exactly. And look at the uproar that the bakery caused with the constant mainstream news coverage back then. But now? Silence, and if not silence, total justification and questioning why Big Tech didn't do it sooner.
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by aviv 8y ago
Why are we going as far as China? Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, among others need to come clean about their censorship of conservative voices right here in their back yard. All the folks who rallied for net neutrality are now cheering f

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