calciphus

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by calciphus 2y ago
Ticketweb was bought by Ticketmaster 24 years ago.
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by calciphus 3y ago
You mean like the traffic monitoring and road hazard reporting of Waze, Google maps Apple maps, etc? Having a car directly implement that protocol instead of software on an internet connected phone is of limited additional value but adds ma
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by calciphus 3y ago
I was under the impression this was system wide in Windows and Mac at this point?
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by calciphus 3y ago
It's almost as though many of his companies succeed in spite of, not because of, his leadership. Get enough money and smart people on a problem and they can survive most leadership foot-gunnings. He was very good at raising money when
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by calciphus 3y ago
Just Salesforce.
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by calciphus 3y ago
*yet
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by calciphus 3y ago
I'll give a slightly differing view from those presented here. For most big tech companies, apps don't really matter. Your decision on your bank, streaming services, ISP, hardware vendor, etc isn't primarily driven by app qua
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by calciphus 3y ago
Counter example, just because it fills out the picture a bit: https://www.techdirt.com/2011/05/25/is-mike-tyson-tattoo-ed-... In 2011, the tattoo artist who did Mike Tyson's tattoo suing Warner Bros over
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by calciphus 3y ago
That only involves one specific mouse, so perhaps we should grant an exemption. We'll revisit it every few years, extend as necessary. I'm sure there's no problematic downstream problems that will create.
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by calciphus 3y ago
I don't think either of those examples count as maintenance. Yes, post-accident repairs are generally more expensive.
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by calciphus 3y ago
Last thing I want to do is make excuses for tesla, but the front doesn't look particularly different from any other truck for sale in the US. What is your question / suspicion exactly? That it is substantially worse than similar v
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by calciphus 3y ago
EvenUp Law | US or CA Remote | Full-Time | Multiple Openings in Engineering, Product, and Others See more detailed listings at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/evenup?utm_source=8vmpmZkvDm You can safely ignore all the location lis
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by calciphus 3y ago
They're also refunding purchases, like with Stadia. Netflix doesn't refund my subscription for the last two months when a show I'm watching disappears.
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by calciphus 3y ago
Because interoperable communication systems are supposed to be core to getting to use all that government-allocated public infrastructure (like phone networks, wireless spectrum, etc). That Apple intentionally degrades the experience for in
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by calciphus 3y ago
If that were true why is Apple laptop / desktop market share not 50% in the US like phones are? For most iPhone users, the iPhone is their only Apple device. Maybe a few have an iPad (about one in 30 or so), but that's it. Most do
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by calciphus 3y ago
Also the 36% they get from Google showing ads on search. That revenue is significant and would have to be replaced.
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by calciphus 3y ago
Same thought. You'd think title insurance would only kick in if the last title transfer predates say 1980, or some other relatively-likely-to-have-county-digital-records date
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by calciphus 3y ago
I'd go further and say that iOS safari and Webview iOS Safari are different browsers. They have fundamentally different features, standards support, etc. Unfortunately the latter is arguably one of the most popular browsers in the US,
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by calciphus 3y ago
EvenUp Law | US or CA Remote | Full-Time | Multiple Openings in Engineering, Product, and Others See more detailed listings at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/evenup?utm_source=8vmpmZkvDm You can safely ignore all the location lis
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by calciphus 3y ago
Tesla-sized and shaped glass is not available from general glass shops. I had a large crack appear in mine. My insurance and multiple glass shops in the bay area told me it had to be fixed by Tesla. No one else would be able to. Tesla did f
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by calciphus 3y ago
In most places a large number of aberrant transactions that don't match the historic spending patterns of an account would be enough to trip a security review, and a call to the account holder, temporary freeze, etc are low impact to f
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by calciphus 3y ago
Apple's primary revenue growth and stickiness is in controlling everything you can do with their hardware, and taking a cut of every transaction. If it ran macOS it could run any code the user wanted and there'd be no way to guara
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by calciphus 3y ago
As always, there is a relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/468/
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by calciphus 3y ago
I had never considered that angle, but I know from other examples that even a small impedement to suicide can tip the scales safely for some. A short fence you have to climb over, for example.
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by calciphus 3y ago
In the US, there are protected classes (skin color, political biases from your list, as well as others) that you cannot discriminate on. Being accused of a crime (not convicted) isn't one of those. More importantly though, Google hasn&
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by calciphus 3y ago
If the reasoning was to prevent theft, why can I only buy one box at a time, and why does my license get scanned, preventing me from buying twice in the same week (or whatever) from different stores?
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by calciphus 3y ago
The Tesla Y introduced a heat pump for this purpose, and earlier models included heaters. There's some impact to range for running the heater but it helps for sure.
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by calciphus 3y ago
Every time I click the play button on my keyboard, Apple Music launches and asks if I want to start a subscription. There's no (normal) way to make it so that play will launch, or even reliably play, Spotify. MacOS is covered in non-re
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by calciphus 3y ago
I'll say lots of things at Google Workspaces are behind a whole complex process. At my last company I was our Workspace admin. It took 9 months and cycling through three different sales teams to get someone to sell me archive licenses
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by calciphus 3y ago
I'm not sure the requirement of "can purchase Apple products at retail" quite aligns with "expanding credit to the unbanked". Premium luxury goods as a barrier to entry (especially when one is ineligible for carrier

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