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by bruce511 1y ago
um, So VC funded startups are the very definition of "not risky". Basically you'll do something as long as someone else ponies up a big pile of cash to pay for it. Pretty much any other business model, where you build with y
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>> What I've found is that only Americans exhibit self-starting and creativity. I'm going to counterpoint somewhat. I think those attributes are evenly spread into all countries, but equally I think they are uncommon in all
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>> That’s what gets people interested, inspires devs to contribute and fill app gaps. Alas, no, sorry. It's really not the number of apps that matters. Any phone OS could have less than 500 apps and be wildly successful. On the o
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Whether the CA verifies identity or not is irrelevant. Since the end user does not see the certificate they are all functionally equivalent. And yes, the actual quality of the identity check is debatable but since nobody cares the utility
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I've been around long enough to remember when getting a website was really expensive. Like hundreds of thousands of $. TLS was expensive. And insanely profitable. The sale of Thwate to Verisign was north of 600 million. (Back when 60
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>> Want to come and bring your misogynistic, homophobic, violent culture? So basically right wing Americans?
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I would argue that there was more than a duopoly. We had Windows Phone, WebOS, blackberry, Palm etc. The market voted and we're left with 2. Equally, pretty much no iPhone user (outside of tech circles) cares about the App Store monopo
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There's absolutely no reason to hard-code the value. That's just bad programming. However you can't expect programmers to predict all possible future compatibility. In my country VAT has a current rate. That rate can, and has
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VAT is not a compile-time value. It's a runtime value. Nevermind not scattering it in your code, it shouldn't be in your code at all.
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I concur. The opposite of goal setting is not "doing nothing". And with respect, watching TV, playing games, etc is doing nothing. Rather you should be _doing_ something, something interesting to you. Create, not Consume. SO quest
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>> But maybe the streaming services don't want to expose that the majority of the movies and series offered at any time now range from mediocre to outright bad. There is no "now" necessary in that sentence. All media pr
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When you start at the wrong premise, you typically end up in the wrong place. The premise is that credit cards (visa / Mastercard) is broken. When actually it works really well. For starters it works everywhere. Online. IRL. In my home
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In addition to the problems you outline, I'll toss in the lack of a magnetic field (for both Mars and the moon.) While not as glamorous as the lack of, you know, water, air, heat etc it makes solar and cosmic radiation pretty deadly. W
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1) no base on the moon (or mars) has the potential to be earth independent. If earth loses the ability to resupply the base dies. 2) science on earth drives scientific development. The fields of science best done on the moon are insanely na
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You're not really competing with those though. Unless you are in the streaming space. Or entertainment space. For example my recycler might charge $15 per month. My alarm monitoring might charge $15. I'm not forgoing either of tho
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As a data point, would you care to reveal your age?
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>> The term Open Source was coned because ESR, Bruce Perens and co. didn't like the term "Free Software" - they were afraid it will scare the software business away. Sure. They didn't completely align with Free So
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>> There is clearly a tension here where a bunch of people want to call their software open source without actually believing in what open source actually means. So much this. If Open Source is a marketing term then companies are free
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Obviously I can't change how it made you feel, and as such it was a crappy reply to receive, but on one level at least it's a genuine question that projects should have an answer for. It kinda matters if you build something as a p
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This is of course a terrible reply to receive, I'm sorry you got that. But I also find the psychology behind this sort of reply interesting, because there's lots of factors that lead to this sort of extreme. Firstly, we don't
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As it stands right now, if the code was under a GPL license, nothing stops them paying the author to get it under another license.[1] Sure, they could offer a job as payment for said license, or just pay cash. This approach would be "n
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Um not down voting you, but your argument has some flaws. Firstly your appeal to authority , and then using Steve Ballmer as your authority is perhaps not the best way to start. Secondly you say that "no professional programmer"
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I agree the US system mostly works for well-employed people. It is worth recognizing though that not all employed people get medical benefits. Indeed many minimum wage jobs, low income jobs, "casual" jobs etc come with no medical
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It's complicated, yes, but simplifying somewhat the "US" does not subsidize pharma startups. Yes, VCs do put money into pharma, but that's private money very much expecting an (overall) profitable return. (Ironically mos
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I think this point is completely fair and correct, if we consider democracy to be one person one vote. Given that definition, "mob rule" is not something to be prevented, but encouraged. You may prefer some other system, and in ma
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Look, I get it, I was starting out once, and out of necessity did some "high risk" work where we invested a lot of time before getting paid. Sometimes it worked out, sometimes it failed. I learned to understand that -risk- has a v
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I've been watching this space for some time, and seeing this sort of commercial production (even as a pilot) is very encouraging. We see a lot of reports of new stuff, a lot of which doesn't make it to market. The price of the ba
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I'm not saying there's never an outcome. I'm saying the percentage of positive outcomes is tiny compared to the number of players. Congrats on the check. But I think you approached it in the right way. Assume they're wor
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>> it "feels" wrong to give a corporation-sized punishment to a small group of individuals This feeling has a name; loss aversion. It's a really interesting human traits. About 66% of people feel bad when someone else d
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Investing in shares is, like most things in life, a task that requires some skill and understanding. Hence the concept of accredited investors. When you're swimming with the big boys, it pays to know the rules of the game. Unfortunatel

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