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by frabcus 6y ago
You're right, I don't have tangible evidence of specifically disallowing charging different amounts on different platforms. It's possible I've conflated that with not being able to call out the charge difference (e.g. by
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by frabcus 6y ago
Apple enforce the rules capriciously, and change them on a whim. Almost certainly, they allow Spotify and the NYT because iOS customers and potential customers would object too much if they were removed from the store. A well as the 30% tax
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by frabcus 6y ago
"People will have vote with their actions if they want things to change." That isn't how monopolies work - while some people can individually make huge sacrificies and not use any Facebook product, in reality that isn't
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by frabcus 6y ago
How different are Blink and WebKit these days? My impression is they share patches enough, that they can't really be counted as different browser engines. But perhaps that has changed?
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by frabcus 6y ago
I felt the same in reverse trying to make a game (Creatures 3) work well on Windows 95/98 in late 1999. We did quite a few patches after release to fix odd compatibility bugs that came in via customer support. Some weren't direct
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by frabcus 6y ago
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by frabcus 6y ago
Page 638 of the PDF has a footnote that says: "We chose $102 because our pilot data correctly suggested that there would be a point mass of WTAs at $100 and that it would maximize statistical power per dollar of cost to set an offer pr
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by frabcus 6y ago
It makes me think of Google Web Toolkit. Not exactly abandoned - it seems to have been maintained for 10 years, although no stable release for the last couple of years. It does feel like it would have been a dead end to get into though. My
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by frabcus 6y ago
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by frabcus 7y ago
Gallery view, you can see everyone at once - we have All Hands where you can flick through the whole company (~75 people) seeing 25 at a time. Hangouts hides people in meetings with more than about 5, so psychologically you don't even
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by frabcus 7y ago
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by frabcus 7y ago
2 weeks is too short a time to expect the lockdown for. It'll last certainly months, maybe a year (until vaccine found). Accountants would be well advised to shift to all digital means, taking scans of documents etc.
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by frabcus 7y ago
Yes, though to explain swinging a referendum (or a single state in a US election), you don't need mind control. Facebook ran an experiment in 2010 showing they can get out the vote via the news feed: https://www.smithsonianm
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by frabcus 7y ago
It just needs to be there and be good enough, so when the time comes and people are upset enough for whatever reason, regulators can instruct FAANG to use it. Usage meanwhile by non-US public sector, corporations (worried about industrial e
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by frabcus 7y ago
Indeed, which is why it is the system that has to be changed. Some things can't be solved by individual entrepreneurial action.
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by frabcus 7y ago
I'd add that for #2 they don't need to persuade people to change their vote with the adverts, or even mislead them (although the latter may help). All they need to do is target adverts reminding you to vote to the people who will
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by frabcus 7y ago
Some sites store local settings in cookies, that the user has explicitly set.
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by frabcus 7y ago
There's no such thing as "the whole web" - it is simply sites with the most money gaming Google better, and Google being happy for that to happen. There's a lot else on the web, it just isn't surfaced by Google as m
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by frabcus 7y ago
Technically, it seems to be "post-IPO equity" subsidised, with a $500 million investment from PayPal in April. https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/uber-post-ipo-equit...
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New Guidelines for Sign in with Apple(developer.apple.com)
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by frabcus 7y ago
AdSense used to do this for you before it tracked individuals... You can still target adverts at content on a site, and have an aggregate system to make that easy and granular. There could even be services which collected lists of websites
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by frabcus 7y ago
"Remember, search touches (nearly) every indexed document on every query" - wait, why does that happen? Doesn't it only touch ones with at least one of the search terms in, or stemmed/varied words relating to some of the
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by frabcus 7y ago
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by frabcus 7y ago
Are there any good products to help do this sort of thing? It seems to me there would be lots of integration to do between the LTV predicator and quite a few other systems, so this would need quite a large team to make. Maybe I'm wrong
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by frabcus 7y ago
"Open source" is generally taken to mean follows the OSI's definition at https://opensource.org/osd There are other terms for source which is available but proprietary, such as "shared source".
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by frabcus 7y ago
My experience of this is that the size makes it harder as an entrepreneur to access the market. You can't, say, develop a local presence and become the best in your corner of the country, as you hit global competition from mature produ
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by frabcus 7y ago
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by frabcus 7y ago
Owning a property is work - sudden repairs at an otherwise busy time in your life. Phone calls and customer service for tenants. New tenants. Paperwork. It's partly the time actually worked, but also the unpredictability and out-of-hou
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by frabcus 8y ago
It's there! https://github.com/historicalsource/bureaucracy
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US Government’s Indictment of Assange Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedoms(theintercept.com)
6 points by frabcus 8y ago|0 comments

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