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by clintonb 8y ago
Challenges with apps: 1. Creating a good experience on Android and iOS 2. Getting approval to publish to the major app stores 3. Advertising to users so they actually download the app 4. Reminding users to use the app. > now you have an
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The price depends on your prescription. If your site is really poor, you may need high index lenses that are thinner. These lenses are about $35 more than the “free” lenses included in the starting $95-$125 price at Warby Parker. $300-400 i
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Random iPhone snapshots stay in iCloud and end up on Google (when I remember to open the app). I don’t really care about them after sharing on social media. I own a small photography business. Anything I really care about—almost everything
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American Express Bank has been around for at least 2-3 years.
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It's annoying that consumers cannot opt out of these fees. I have Comcast, but use an antenna for ~30 minutes each day to watch a single show. The Xfinity Roku app is not ideal for viewing content.
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by clintonb 8y ago
If you have Apple money, you buy Apple (either for the performance/value or as a status symbol). It doesn't make sense to me that someone confused by a manufacturer's site would jump to Apple in disgust. Anecdotally, most of
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by clintonb 8y ago
Apple still offers older models, but make them slightly difficult to find: * https://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/clearanc... * https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished
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There is a difference in the U.S. between lending, loan servicing, and simply holding onto debt. All three have different regulations, in decreasing order of regulatory burden. The people in the article are not lenders. They are buying loan
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Your public transit card is connected to an account. In this case the transit agency acts as the bank.
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> The development raises some crucial issues regarding the state’s role in the payment market. For hundreds of years, the public has been offered central bank notes and coins. If cash stops working, it would leave all individuals to rely
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The money will probably be directed to another department.
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I wouldn't discount libraries so quickly. There are still some in our society without smartphones and computers. There are also those who simply cannot afford books. Local libraries are a resource for these families. Additionally, some
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> Municipal politics can be brutal too. Municipal politics are the most brutal. I've seen fistfights at school board meetings! National politics get a lot of attention, but local is where citizens are directly affected.
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> I struggle a little to understand why more merchants don't get rid of them... Why is this a struggle? The reason is obvious. Most individual merchants have little, if any, bargaining power. Once you get big enough, you can negotia
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by clintonb 8y ago
Yes. Rather than assume, I still pose the question: what is half-hearted about that? What can be changed for the better?
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I somewhat agree with you. MIT has done a lot to expand access to content in the form of OpenCourseWare ( https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm ) and edX ( https://www.edx.org/ ). The issue you have identified is fin
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Lots of pronouns tossed around there. The EECS department is moving, but nothing I've read has indicated a change in numbers. Is what a peer with Sloan? The College of Computing? Here are the current schools and departments: http:&#x2
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edX has partnered with employers who have endorsed many of the programs. As for the MIT SCM program, the full masters is accredited.
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MIT and Harvard are co-founders of edX. What about edX is half-hearted? * I'm an MIT alum and former edX engineer.
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MIT and Harvard are co-founders of edX: https://www.edx.org/ . While not fully online, MIT does allow students who earn a MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management online to apply that course work to the on campus masters prog
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Still 6. The numbers aren't changing.
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Disclaimer: I am a former engineer at edX. Bingo! Although the completion rate was low—single digit—more students completed the the first 6.002x offering on edX than have completed the course at MIT in the entire history the course has been
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On-demand printing is one way to get around the inventory problem. Harvard Book Store[0] has offered this service for at least seven years. [0] http://www.harvard.com/clubs_services/books_on_demand/
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USDS and 18F are staffed by confident people from industry. The federal government, when it comes to software, is not as incompetent as you think.
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Flashes of design sprint[1] came to mind as I read this. The idea of planning a season, or more, before filming makes sense to me, especially as more shows become serialized. "Westworld" would not have worked if the writers did no
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What leverage do they have to strongarm? If a theater is popular, that means MoviePass customers like the theater. MoviePass needs the theater more than the theater needs MoviePass. If MoviePass chooses not to pay for tickets at the theater
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Blavity raises $6.5M Series A round led by GV(techcrunch.com)
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Prioritize. If your goal is to get something out quickly and make money, use what you know. If your goal is to learn a new stack, learn the new stack. If you learn enough to comfortably release to customers, do it; otherwise, either get com
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> There are also a ton of maintenance benefits, like for example if you add a field in GraphQL that's perfectly fine to not change the version because that break any existing calls, which is not always true with REST. Assuming you a
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This seems more of a method for a group of people to profit from a non-profit than it does a new method of actually financing non-profits. The non-profit is still receiving a donation. Also, the thought of investors profiting $100K from &qu

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