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by bduerst 5y ago
This is poisoning the well because there are legitimate reasons being reported to dislike FB's smarmy practices; it's not all sour grapes from media.
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by bduerst 5y ago
One of the (growingly scant) bonus side-effects of having social media is that consumers now tie brands to their identity. This means that the brands of traditionally maximize-profits at all cost at least have to make efforts to demonstra
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by bduerst 5y ago
>Apple's decision to break apps that don't update is a user-centric decision. Is it really though? Users are then stuck with their favorite apps being broken and unusable. We're not talking just about mandatory security
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by bduerst 5y ago
That's market shifting though. Apple does have a monopoly on the markets running on all their devices, from apps to media, for ~900 million phones. When Apple doesn't completely own the only available market service to it's
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by bduerst 5y ago
Yeah, this feels like a no-true-scotsman, except for 'startups', made to discredit OP's reality. Telling OP to ignore the writing on the wall and show loyalty to a toxic leader is not good advice.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Tragedy of the commons, in a triple sided market, prevents this. At the end of the day, these developers are still competing with each other, and rational actors will break from the coordination to profit off the users for themselves.
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by bduerst 5y ago
It sounds more like your friend has found a way to justify deceptively stealing/wasting time and resources by labeling people as morally repugnant. Yes, it's legal to do, but isn't it a shade hypocritical?
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by bduerst 5y ago
Accusing HN users of being paid shills doesn't add to the conversation. If we can't scrutinize overtly-vague technical criticisms w/o being called names then what's the point?
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by bduerst 5y ago
Isn't the whole, "TikTok spies for China" meme also politically motivated, per the last Republican president? I don't doubt that Bytedance shares Chinese TouTiao user data with the Chinese government, akin to how Apple d
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by bduerst 5y ago
That's probably because Google Pay was second gen w/ additional features. Google Wallet accepted all my bank (credit union) debit and credit cards.
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GP originally replied to my comment about contactless payments, not cards. In the US their adoption was synonymous.
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by bduerst 5y ago
>Apple closed off the iphone NFC api which dried up VC funding in the mobile payment scene. This is one of the reason we have QR Codes everywhere today, and not NFC tags. Yep, this was my experience as well, working in the NFC space at t
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by bduerst 5y ago
It is today with different added features, but back in the 2010s you didn't need your bank to support it. You could do it with your VISA/Mastercard/AMEX credit or debit card.
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Also there was undo foreign influence on the election that didn't become evident until afterwards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...
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by bduerst 5y ago
Right, and with the advent of NFC in phones, US consumers didn't need the banks' permission to pay contactlessly. Despite this, contactless payment adoption was still slow in the U.S. even though most phones had NFC, it wasn&#x27
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by bduerst 5y ago
Yep. Many of the social or content websites advertising as being "moderation free" don't seem to thrive or last very long, even though that tends to attract a specific type of crowd.
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Honestly, I think it was Apple refusing to fully support NFC until 2016 that prevented the market from jumping on contactless payments, at least in the US. They were holding something like a third of the market back from doing it which real
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by bduerst 5y ago
You probably have. They're completely non-desccript and unbranded, unlike most other POS solutions, so you're likely to not remember it.
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Not to mention supporting data for announcements like these tend to come up in discovery requests for lawsuits so I highly doubt they'd make such a definitive statement w/o the points to back it up.
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Mechanical keyboard keys that are 10" tall for standing desks.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Yeah, I looked up Dead Cells , and it lost points for being "too grindy", which is a big part of playing Rogue-likes.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Seems like the flat roofs in Davos were a conscious decision to safeguard against avalanches.
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by bduerst 5y ago
It's also weirdly not mentioned in the article - the lack of any of this type of feedback, especially considering it's about building a home in the Canadian woods . (Love your username, btw)
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by bduerst 5y ago
I'd say that Star Citizen and video game NFTs are both on par with being all promise and no meaningful delivery (yet) though. I could see both Ubi restricting sales of their "NFTs" and Star Citizen adding resale features lat
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by bduerst 5y ago
Also Angels Fall First , a FPS where you can also command/board capital ships, fly fighters, invade planets, etc. Unfortunately the dev has disappeared recently.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Removing the public road map is antithetical to what you seem to love so much about Star Citizen though.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Pi's don't have SATA or PCI - what's the I/O of the drives? Is it noticeable?
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by bduerst 5y ago
Automation breeds new job creation and QoL improvements. Coming closer to a post-scarcity society with little waste would be considered a boon, not dystopia. The capitalist idea that your worth is tied to how many hours you work is fadin
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by bduerst 5y ago
Increased liquidity. Also option trading is usually in 100 share units, meaning retail investors can now afford more options (e.g. $15,000 vs $300,000 a unit).
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On any given timeline, dedicated human drivers will always have larger variable costs and waste than dedicated computational drivers, on top of being cost-prohibitive to people who can't afford to pay for human driven rides. You could

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