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by detst 16y ago
For comparison: Twilio: $0.02/min to all US and $0.03 to UK landlines or $0.32 to UK mobiles -- yes, 16x the US rate. Voxeo: $0.02/min to all US and UK landlines or between $0.14 and $0.35 for mobiles. Google wouldn't use Twilio or Voxeo fo
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by detst 16y ago
Likely because it's significantly more expensive to call a UK mobile than a US one. I believe that they announced free calls until the end of the year. Maybe they'll roll it out in the UK at that point but expect to pay for it.
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by detst 16y ago
How do you compete with someone like grasshopper.com ? They seem to have more features, are much cheaper for >500 minutes and I would imagine are just as easy to setup. Although, I haven't used either of you. Then you look at something
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by detst 16y ago
The IRS has cracked down on this practice. You can't just call someone a contractor that meets the conditions to be an employee. You can be mindful of these conditions and work around them but just calling an employee a contractor is not go
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by detst 16y ago
[Note: I personally prefer round prices but...] There's nothing confusing or deceptive about this practice. The price is right there. Why would someone interpret something clearly advertised as $0.99 instead as costing $0.90? The reason mer
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by detst 16y ago
Have you looked into this (for California but there are different plans in every other state)? http://www.healthcare.gov/law/provisions/preexisting/states/... "$499 for a 50 year old subscriber in San Francisco" Looking at other states,
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by detst 16y ago
If you are interested in web development, this is the ideal way to learn the language. You won't just learn the language, you'll have immediate practical applications for the language constructs. Unlike the people you speak of, someone tryi
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by detst 16y ago
But the context of this discussion is that getting to market with hardware is hard. "[C]ontrol[ing] the design/performance" is only going to make that more difficult, not easier, than going off-the-self.
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by detst 16y ago
... as Google hovered with their Android rescue helicopters?
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by detst 16y ago
Right, and even if they get a sweet deal from Microsoft, they are still betting on an unknown with much of their success dependent on Microsoft. In Android, they'd build on a known platform with success or failure in their own hands. Don't
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by detst 16y ago
At least for my curiosity, Canada should have an option or be included with the USA option. I suspect many of the "I'm not in the USA and I'm watching the S.B." would be Canada but I'd be interested in the breakdown. I've seen a fair amount
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by detst 16y ago
> Meanwhile, the rest of the world will be over here not having to do mental math every time we go to buy something with a $/£/€5 bill. And we'll still know how much tax the government is charging if we really care - it's printed on the
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by detst 16y ago
Sure, it sounds nice to have a price and know that's exactly what you're paying but I prefer the US way. I want to be reminded how much of a cut the government is taking. I don't want taxes to be hidden in the price of my purchase. I want t
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by detst 16y ago
> We are happy with healthy online, technical user, adoption at the moment I think you'd be wasting your time to focus on anything but these people, ever. Otherwise you'd be selling to the type of person that would find 10x the complexi
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by detst 16y ago
"White label" in this context would basically be a middleman. Customer pays the white label for the AWS services and the white label pays AWS. The white label would obviously have to offer something of value and in this discussion, that val
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by detst 16y ago
This reminds me of a story about public parking spaces in Ann Arbor. They had a live data feed of parking spaces available a few years ago. Someone used it to create a phone service that would tell you the available spaces and text when a s
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by detst 16y ago
I'm not advocating replacement of income tax with higher sales tax; just answering your question. I wouldn't consider myself the most knowledgeable on this issue but I think there's an argument for a system that doesn't tax certain basis ne
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by detst 16y ago
Don't tax groceries as is already the case in many states.
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by detst 16y ago
> That dividend tax rate is higher than your income rate until you hit $373k annual salary in 2011/2012 It was my understanding, confirmed by your link, that dividends are either taxed as ordinary income or at a maximum of 15% in case o
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by detst 16y ago
I can appreciate that you don't want to work for an asshole but I think a non-asshole employer can realize the effectiveness of this technique to find a certain kind of employee for a certain kind of position.
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by detst 16y ago
Care to talk more about how you're using Backbone.js and jQuery Mobile? I'm interested in this combination and wondering why this project wouldn't choose to build on Backbone.js. It seems they would just be reinventing the wheel here and lo
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by detst 16y ago
Ask Google, (100-99.984)% of 1 year in minutes and it will tell you: (100 - 99.98400)% of (1 year) = 84.1518026 minutes I'm sure many here will already know that they can do this but I do so many calculations like this with Google that
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by detst 16y ago
They stated at CES that they'll bring simultaneous voice and data; I'm assuming that's SVDO but perhaps they're doing it some other way. From Q&A at CES: "Q: What about simultaneous voice and data? A: Some devices will. Q: Just some dev
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by detst 16y ago
I love the marketing. "PowerBoost, the few seconds before we throttle your connection."
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by detst 16y ago
Not true. I'm not sure why it's not on that page but you can get a $30 unlimited plan that should be under "For Smartphones & Feature Phones". It's only for phones and can't be used for tethering. Otherwise, there isn't any sort of 5GB
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by detst 16y ago
I think the idea is that having a lead early versus late gives the opposition a more clear goal with the time to come back. Basketball games and seasons are very long. Players won't be focused in the entire season or for entire games. Havin
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by detst 16y ago
This. As jf says below, "host is determined by the name of the owner of the netblock that the IP address of the A record for that domain is in..." You can't point an A record at App Engine.
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by detst 16y ago
Anyone more knowledgeable on this issue care to talk about LTE network compatibility? I don't see why we wouldn't have chips that work on multiple frequencies like today but maybe it's not that simple. Like metageek said, there might be an
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by detst 16y ago
It seems to me that lowering phone prices[0] -- making subsidies, and thus long-term contracts, uninteresting to consumers -- and LTE compatibility across networks will create a more competitive market, lowering prices and forcing these tac
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by detst 16y ago
I don't really disagree with what you're saying but... Verizon is $50/mo/5GB and that's LTE (4G) -- and if they don't subsidize the device, no contract. MetroPCS is $60/mo (including taxes) for unlimited phone service including LTE. I don't

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