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by fooey 6y ago
_Requiring_ any arbitrary metric or technology stack to be allowed at the top of the google search result is utterly antithetical to the idea of a search engine providing the "best" result for a search. Having a faster site than a
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by fooey 6y ago
I call it review roulette Something around 1 out of 10 updates to our app gets rejected for some random old core feature. So far it's always been resolved, but it's nerve wracking every single time.
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by fooey 6y ago
Of course it's worse It's a refuge for the people too deplorable to survive on an actual reputable site.
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by fooey 6y ago
Applying warning labels to influentials folks prone to lying is exactly the point
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by fooey 6y ago
The problem is, a lot of IFTTT hooks don't exist as public API endpoints. For example, you can't do anything all with Wyze hardware directly
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by fooey 6y ago
Iris by Lowes did that. I was impressed by how aggressively pro-consumer they were with that shutdown. To the point I would trust them more than other orgs with similar products
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by fooey 6y ago
I would suggest the "community" of developers not trusting Google long term with anything is a major reason Stadia has been basically DOA. It's a big gamble to port a game to Stadia, and risk customers being mad at you , whe
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by fooey 6y ago
old.reddit.com still works, and if you make an account, you can set old as your default so //reddit.com uses that layout instead You can only change "Opt out of the redesign" setting on the new site though, which is supe
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by fooey 6y ago
Exactly. You should be compensated based on how valuable you are to the company, not based on how much you spend on rent.
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by fooey 6y ago
I feel like this DOJ suit is so lazy and misguided, the end result will be inoculating Google against anti-trust for a generation.
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by fooey 6y ago
There won't be legislative blow back, the GOP is days away from being wholesale evicted from controlling anything at all in DC. As a legislative move, this is changing their bet to the horse that's about to win. The social media c
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by fooey 6y ago
Trump said he won't do it virtually (1), and Biden already has a town hall scheduled on ABC instead (2) 1. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/08/second-presidential-debate-b... 2. https://apnews.com
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by fooey 6y ago
I've wondered if this has all been because TikTok influencers famously tricked team Trump into thinking they had a full stadium for a rally that turned out to be humiliatingly empty. But this seems overly petty for even Trump, it'
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by fooey 6y ago
having an agenda of "no political agenda" is in fact an agenda
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by fooey 6y ago
Intelligent life doesn't need to be very common before you should expect to be pervasive. We're a matter of years from originating von Neumann machines ourselves, so any civilization with thousands or millions of years head start
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by fooey 6y ago
Epic "exclusives" are really just Epic purchasing customers. The publisher sells their fan base to Epic, and Epic gets a list of potential people they can sell their own crap to, and gets a big install base number they can leverag
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by fooey 6y ago
If you rely on the good graces of Apple/Google/Twitter/Facebook/MonolithOfTheWeek for your business to survive, eventually you're going to have a bad time. Twitter and Facebook entirely eradicated based around their
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by fooey 6y ago
All it's showing is that breaking contracts has repercussions. If you abuse a service, and they cut you off, you don't get to cry about them enforcing their rules.
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by fooey 6y ago
The judge ruled there is no irreparable harm because it's trivial for Epic themselves to repair the harm at any time that they themselves caused.
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by fooey 6y ago
Epic failed to even get people to sideload their Android store. People, including Epic themselves, have way too high of an opinion of their sway.
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by fooey 6y ago
Apples going for blood. They're asking the court to give them all the commissions Epic failed to pay while their direct payment system was online, going out of their way to describe it as theft. > Award restitution and disgorgement
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by fooey 6y ago
I wish there was a version of Prime that had all the unrelated fluff removed I only want the store features, I don't care about the rest, and when they keep raising the price to subsidize their content creation it makes me have to re-d
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AT&T backs Trump war on Big Tech, says it’s more crucial than net neutrality(arstechnica.com)
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by fooey 6y ago
This happens to us constantly We sell a business tool, once the business account is upgraded, the rest of it just pay per seat linked to that org. All our sales are done over the phone, so we don't need to accept payments in app. We
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by fooey 6y ago
It's not even legal departments having a fight, it's Tim Sweeney tilting at windmills I 100% believe that 3rd party app stores is a hill Apple is willing to die on. I would guess they're more likely to get rid of "apps&q
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by fooey 6y ago
It's even better than you think. In the process two state AG's lost their careers, multiple US senators were implicated, a bank collapsed, there was kidnapping, human trafficking and drug running, and in the end created urban lege
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by fooey 6y ago
The business was just run of the mill "get rich on google" and "free government grant" garbage that was common in the 2000's. Ironically, they made so much money doing their regular business the owner bought a small
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by fooey 6y ago
The technical reason was bank fraud for all the shell corporations they set up in the process. The bank claimed they had no idea they were all related, even though every application had the owners name on the paperwork. To be clear, it was
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by fooey 6y ago
Chargeback ratio's are per account, but also have a minimum absolute threshold. So it's say, 2% chargeback AND at least 200 chargebacks before penalties kick in. In a past life I worked for a place who had a few hundred processing
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by fooey 6y ago
DeJoy did recently concede that the USPS will give ballots absolute priority over other mail, so in theory, it will be everything else that gets delayed. Previously DeJoy had threatened that states which don't pay for first class posta

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