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by fleitz 9y ago
A lot of it also exists because of capitalism, it's a symbiotic relationship. Capitalism produces more wealth which a government can tax to provide more infrastructure for capitalism to occur which produces more wealth. Although this i
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by fleitz 9y ago
Yeah, it's more like body composition than 'weight loss', most people want more muscle / less fat, and then eat a diet that produces more fat and less muscle. People act as if Arnold got his body by once accidentally pic
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by fleitz 9y ago
You can also piss it out in the form of ketones.
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by fleitz 9y ago
That's because the ground doesn't hold up trees, trees pin down the ground. Also, trees grow into the ground, not out of it.
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by fleitz 9y ago
These remind me of the first streamlined Kenworths, they look super cool.
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by fleitz 9y ago
There is another much more sinister reason: The program he was involved in got terminated
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by fleitz 9y ago
In the future just avoid anything on buzzfeed, it’s all clickbait
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by fleitz 9y ago
The delicious irony of seeing the losers not accept the results of the election was icing on a big stats cake. It was so obvious he was going to win if you looked at the raw polling data. Edit: I love how I still get downvoted a year later
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by fleitz 9y ago
To be fair most everything under the hood passes through to these libraries. So even sticking with python means passing unvalidated blobs through to libpng/jpeg/tiff or some other low level language. It's the entire reason py
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by fleitz 9y ago
It might be, then again I see a lot of wheel reinvention in tech / NIH syndrome. I'm the kind of hacker who if a service runs out of memory every 2 hours, writes a crontab to restart it every hour after X random minutes so they do
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by fleitz 9y ago
How much would you pay for an image resizing service? I'd been thinking for a while of putting a fleet of autoscaled thumbor boxes behind cloudfront and making a billing API for it.
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by fleitz 9y ago
The age old solution in search of a problem.
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by fleitz 9y ago
Agreed. I wish the posts contained a "it cost X developer hours to recreate thumbor or $$$ total, and we saved Y dollars per month" meaning in approximately 15 years we'll have broken even on this investment. Oh yeah and we d
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by fleitz 9y ago
I'd take being punched, easy choice. Removing a cancel button or publishing a listicle is hardly a false dichotomy, you can close the app, you can not click on it. Users love anti-patterns which is why they frequent businesses that eng
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by fleitz 9y ago
People don't have the option to not click on listicles? They don't have the option to use another app? They don't have the option to close the app?
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by fleitz 9y ago
Exactly, the EU and UK are soveriegns, they'll do whatever they want, lots of countries ratified EU treaties after their populations voted against it. The same can happen in reverse. The EU wants to heavily penalize the UK to prevent o
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by fleitz 9y ago
The users speak with their actions... If they do the thing you want them to do more with a 'bad' UX than with a good one logic dictates they prefer the bad one. It would be morally presumptuous on my part to say that what I find t
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by fleitz 9y ago
How annoying UX affects the bottom line was one of the most important lessons I learned working on apps. Take for example removing the Cancel button from the sign up screen, 5-10% bump in sign ups, etc. (Eventually Apple made us 'fix&#
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by fleitz 9y ago
Private APIs are APIs that only Apple is allowed to use. They let you do stuff you're not supposed to be able to do like put stuff on the home screen, however, these days, it's mostly enforced by the security model, so you can cal
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by fleitz 9y ago
You may also want to purchase your phone from a company that isn't the world's largest advertising company. It's kinda funny that everyone is upset about a temp file when the device itself sends their entire porn history to G
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by fleitz 9y ago
I know places that have been doing it for years. They just tell you to stop. It's basically an arms race of them trying to figure out how you're doing it and figuring out ways to prevent them from detecting it. The app has a few m
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by fleitz 9y ago
haha. yeah, no. Apple catches UI issues and obvious use of private APIs. You just need the slimmest of excuses to do what you want. Like if you want to track a user's location put a location feature ANYWHERE in the app. Also if the app
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by fleitz 9y ago
Suddenly lots of people with guns to go get your money back is a very useful feature compared to some cryptographic guarantees that people with guns can't get your money back.
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by fleitz 9y ago
Virtually everyone lobbies for tax policy, like most everyone the policy Apple lobbies for is not the policy in existence. Tax policy is generally a major election issue and politicians offer a wide variety of policies to attract votes. How
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by fleitz 9y ago
I do agree that the tax code should be simplified, I would advocate for a flat tax with a high personal deduction and few other deductions. The voters seem to disagree with me and prefer the complicated system currently in place. It would s
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by fleitz 9y ago
Of course there is, this is what tax evasion is about. There's a decent case to be made that the Apple and Ireland were wrong in Apple following Ireland's tax code, we'll see how the case turns out on appeal. I would say that
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by fleitz 9y ago
Politicians offer voters various tax incentives as part of virtually every campaign.
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by fleitz 9y ago
You mean you pay what the government says you owe, just like Apple does... Or are you saying that you don't claim any deductions and pay the maximum allowable by the system?
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by fleitz 9y ago
That seems unsupported by the article, in 2015 Ireland changed its laws, Apple consulted a law firm on advice on how to proceed and sought assurances from the govts involved that it's understanding of the law was correct. Where is this
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by fleitz 9y ago
So what you're saying is their corporate tax law wasn't enough of a concern to them to actually read it?

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