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Clearly one can litigate this specific case, and numerous other individual cases. But equally clearly that approach does not scale. Even more so when this goes into a 'low value customer ' bucket. Imagine if the list of cases abov
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Stripe's problem is that they operate inside a global banking framework which is both highly regulated and obsessively monitored. Problem 2 is that a world of crime, and hence money laundering exists. They're expected, nay require
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You're describing the difference between a hobby and a job. And it's perfectly OK to have a hobby. It's desirable to have a job. In other words, a job offers you money for adding value to society. Most of us need this yo live
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The space is clearly ripe for disruption, but unfortunately it'll never happen. Problem 1 is that most of the electorate are healthy, and sickness is transitory, so it's not a "single issue" topic like say guns or aborti
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I was born in the suburbs, of a moderately large city (think low millions) and have lived here all my life. We often spend weekends out in the countryside in the quiet rural towns. These towns are somewhat popular with retirees, rural and q
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Of course you are right, not everyone has the option to move back in either their parents, and of course that option (when available) is often not rent free (nor should it be.) However I don't think that's what the parent poster m
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Personally, I'd put the ads back in, and then your $5 a month version can be to not see ads. Either way you make a little bit. Although I'm not sure that you get much for ads with so few users... But you're learning that when
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rats... I meant fusion :) There's me getting my nuclears all mixed up...
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Turns out, I'm already on fission. What I've done is tap into an existing fission reactor. It's some distance from my house, but there's a lot of excess energy there leaking out. I put up some collectors to capture it. W
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You also need some sort of battery management, and inverters typically have this built in as well. So yeah, you can get by without an inverter, but then you need a battery charger manager so as not to overcharge, and (depending on the batte
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I'm curious as to the FOSS step? Surely you can charge for support even if the product is closed source? To answer the original question, we sell a subscription, and the software auto updates its license periodically.
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While I sympathize with your need, I don't think we'll see a new OS fill this space. Firstly, there's the obvious "all the apps you run on it". Your new OS has no apps, and even if a few emerged no business really w
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I feel like there's plenty of tech that has always been proprietary, and still is. Yes, there's a lot of Open Source, and yes a lot of it is critical, but to see the current state as "open source " is not seeing the whol
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It could be, but none of them would pass. All politics is about compromise, and getting enough votes to pass. Since most of congress is against most bills, the only way to get anything passed is to lump it all together, and give everyone en
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Maybe your thought there exposes the root of the problem. You are measuring the trade in $ terms. But maybe that's not the right unit when measuring jobs. Imagine country A makes a product (like say wheat) where the number of jobs need
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I'm with you. I've used natural keys in the past, and they've always been a problem eventually. On the other hand I've used surrogate keys for 20 years, and never encountered an issue that wasn't simple to resolve.
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I think you are asking the right question here. Before building something determine if there is a market, and if that market will pay. Personally my gut says no. I personally don't use any tools in that range, but I also think that at
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It will be interesting to see this play out over the next few generations. The theory is yesterday declining population levels mean that the tax base shrinks just as the larger, older, generation retires. So "paying" for more kids
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From a funding perspective I suppose it's pretty simple - like with all businesses the owners pony up the cash. The regular model is that you need cash, so you go looking for it, selling (part) ownership. In this case you have pre-dete
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So I'm old enough to remember my very first encounter with a computer, it was an Intellivision console at a frieds-of-my-parents-we-seldom-visited house. We played Armour Battle and B17. I was hooked. I mean first-time-heroin hooked. I
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>> Does it make sense to, then, choose different books - books you can appreciate and understand more in high school? I guess it depends on the goal. My opinion is that reading hard books at school simply turns people off reading comp
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You're on the right track, but missing an important aspect. In most cases the company making the inferior product didn't spend less. But they did spend differently. As in, they spent a lot on marketing. You were focused on quality
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So, basically, exactly the way they've treated labor for hundreds of years....
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Whats hilarious (in general, not directed at you personally) is that computers have been "taking people's jobs", at scale, for around 40 years now. We didn't really care when it was factory workers, or payroll clerks, or
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When it's VCs investing private money, on a high risk, high return (to private individuals) that's celebrated. The recipients (aka founders) will mostly lose that "grant" money, and end up with nothing to show for it. Of
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My point is that when you're reaching out it's helpful to articulate what you are looking for. Since I've never met you, if you reached out to me using the post above, I politely decline since I don't see what I'd l
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Are you bringing anything to the table? Or are you mostly looking for ways to improve yourself. Both are fine, but its not clear from your post which you are chasing. And clearly it kinda matters to the people you are contacting. If you hav
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I mean, I guess it depends on what you mean by tragedy. On one hand people get old and die, and that's sad, but not tragic. Burying a child is tragic. But to answer your question, I would say most families have not suffered tragedy. Mi
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I think this perhaps sums up my feeling about this whole topic; which is that YMMV. My world is divided into 2 spheres, personal and work. My personal world runs on WhatsApp. But then in my country everyone has WhatsApp. Nobody uses SMS (ot
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Get enough people and you'll find someone outraged about everything. If you want to modernize the analogy you might compare it to "school children identifying as cats and needing litterboxes" or any number of modern contempor

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