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by erdevs 10y ago
Traveling to major cities in China (and Korea) is like a preview of where the US will be in ~5 years from a technology-society integration perspective. Easy payments on your phone, electronic communications for official notices/corres
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by erdevs 10y ago
Isn't pretty much the same thing happening in San Francisco, too? Alongside all the other drivers of increased home prices there. I think SF has shot up the ranks to become one of the most expensive cities in the world now, right?
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by erdevs 10y ago
Ugh. This type of behavior should be banned everywhere. It's incredibly invasive and it serves no function in evaluating candidate fit. It serves merely to increase already high information asymmetry against you and reduce your pros
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by erdevs 10y ago
Gotcha. So, if an app is monetizing (wholly or partially) through ads, they can still offer rewards for viewing those ads and turning on ad-tracking. Cool and thanks for dropping the knowledge. Think there's any chance that the poli
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by erdevs 10y ago
That's a good point of concern, for sure.
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by erdevs 10y ago
Great links and good perspective here. I agree completely that it is unfair that big companies can perform these maneuvers while small-businesses (and even profitable start-ups) would struggle to. There are so many scale-asymmetries in bu
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by erdevs 10y ago
This is a great reminder, thanks. Slight concern that the developer on ACLU's behalf is something called Quadrant 2, Inc, which seems to be owned by an individual operator as opposed to a larger established company. Not sure what the
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by erdevs 10y ago
I think this is a good point. I wonder if livestreams could be enabled but perhaps comments/feedback could be disabled or invisible to the poster. This could also address concerns that external viewers might feed a suspect/perpe
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by erdevs 10y ago
You know that being confrontational and absolutist doesn't help anything and is part of the reason why it's hard to have discussions like this in a reasonable way nowadays, right? Goes with the territory if this is Facebook, or
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by erdevs 10y ago
That seems like a really good suggestion, if it were decided that it's in the public interest not to show some situations live.
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by erdevs 10y ago
I don't know. Is a child under their mother's care considered a hostage in standoff circumstances? I have no idea. And note that my question was on whether it being a hostage situation should affect the policy or not... so I&
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by erdevs 10y ago
Are you saying that I'm Monday morning quarterbacking? I was trying to ask questions and share possible approaches, without saying anything definitively prescriptive. A Monday Morning Quarterback doesn't leave a lot of question o
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by erdevs 10y ago
I mean, if they actually did move their HQ (ie majority of costs, execs, etc) to Singapore, then sure. And that'd be totally fair. What maybe doesn't seem fair (haven't thought about it deeply enough to say for sure) is pr
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by erdevs 10y ago
What is the rationale for news outlets not showing an ongoing police operation? Is it so that the suspects / perpetrators can't use the external information against the police? If so, does that rationale applicable when it is th
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by erdevs 10y ago
I think this article helps illuminate the issue and provides more context: http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-gets-tax-notice-over-tr... Curious what others think about this. All for tax optimization in whatever way
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by erdevs 10y ago
Tragic and unfortunate, all around. I wonder what FB's policy on this will be going forward. In many ways, these livestreams are a public good and provide transparency and additional accountability in these situations. If people elec
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by erdevs 10y ago
Would most of the companies on those lists be affected similarly? Did they also transfer IP and likely undervalue it at the time of transfer, as FB is alleged to have done here?
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by erdevs 10y ago
What? Sure, there is no direct loss here. But it is a setback. Also, they (at least temporarily) lose the previously established verdict award ($625M, apparently) and also now have to decide whether to re-try (with the associated costs).
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by erdevs 10y ago
Yes. :-) Not sure if you meant to reply to me or another commenter.
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by erdevs 10y ago
Couldn't they also just let you check a flag instead of checking for a magic number / proscribed id? And to be more specific on my question, I get that they don't allow apps to punish users explicitly for OS-enabled choices.
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by erdevs 10y ago
RIP Donella Meadows, a great thinker. The interested reader may also like this slideshare overview of Thinking in Systems ch. 1-3: http://www.slideshare.net/sandhyajohnson/thinking-in-systems... Another of her well-kno
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by erdevs 10y ago
I am pretty sure that this is the first time, or at most one of the few times, I personally have made any note of this general issue. Are you perhaps displacing? Do you think it's actually fair to take the view that because other peo
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by erdevs 10y ago
Is that definitively the case right now? (I'm asking because I genuinely don't know; not being rhetorical.) And will it definitely continue to be the case in the future when ios10 launches (and after)? (More rhetorical here, t
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by erdevs 10y ago
As a user who hasn't yet developed a lot of trust with most adtech companies in the mobile space today, I'm happy to see this. (By not yet developing trust, I mean across several fronts: their security rigor, their concern for en
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by erdevs 10y ago
Yours is a good thought too. Here is my perspective/experience: Scenario 1: You start at the high end of the range or just a bit above it, I think you risk the employer coming in low as a counterplay, expecting to meet in the middle.
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by erdevs 10y ago
Heh. :-) I'd love to just accomplish writing one, even if it's shitty. But of course would prefer a good one, at some point. The issue for me at the moment is just carving out the time / paying the opportunity cost to go fo
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by erdevs 10y ago
I've always wanted to write a novel, and I hope to some time before I die (or afterward, I guess.. but who knows what's possible then). I like the way this article describes architect vs gardener writers. I've always felt th
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by erdevs 10y ago
If you're doing something like selling your startup, you want to set the anchor price, yes. There is such a huge range of outcomes, it's best for you to shoot high (as long as you're comfortable with the risk of scaring the
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by erdevs 10y ago
This works iff you shoot very high/low and if it's a very fungible range of possible outcomes. In something that is fairly well-bounded like job compensation (or most residential real estate transactions, as another example) it&#
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by erdevs 10y ago
This is good news in that I generally feel any setback for an apparent patent troll is a good thing. But this isn't too broad. Looks like a very specific issue to this trial ... not even this patent claim or case, let alone a broad

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