graeme

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   by graeme 8y ago

   You’re very wrong. The current bslance is about $15 billion Canadian. $190 billion was the non-renewable resource money generated. They only out 30% in, unlike Norway’s 100%, and they stopped adding money in 1987. Alberts has an estimated p
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   by graeme 8y ago

   Regular apple news has been wildly popular though....even without the paid version it’s a sticking point for people whp use it frequently. I’m not in the US, so I won’t have the card, but that got the most interest post event by far. As for
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   by graeme 8y ago

   >I was interested in News, because of the WSJ, but it’s not even the full Journal. There was a lot of back and forth on this, but I think it is the full journal. Is there a section that’s supposed to be excluded? You can go to an article
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   by graeme 8y ago

   >It may be that I fail to understand Apples US reach, but I don't see that owning an iPhone makes customers stay with in the Apple ecosystem. I would be surprised if even 25% of Apples iPhone customers have an existing subscription
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   by graeme 8y ago

   For sure. It’s not an amazing card from a cashback perspective. But, many people will get this card regardless (for convenience, for the privscy, for the analytics, etc). And they will have an incentive to ask stores about apple pay: doub
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   by graeme 8y ago

   I looked into it since commenting. Klipfolio might be able to do this, but it wasn’t clear how to get a gmail inbox count. Then I remembered I use Numerics to put monthly sales on my apple watch. I checked, and it can get email inbox counts
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   by graeme 8y ago

   Yes, they’re also revenue plays for apple. But that doesn’t mean they don’t add to stickiness. That’s a big purpose of prime after all: prime generates revenue, but it keeps people on amazon. The credit card cuts amazon’s transaction fees,
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   by graeme 8y ago

   Tangentially related: is there any sort of dashboard service that would let me create a dashboard showing things like: * email inbox count (differentiated by email inbox) * unmoderated comment queue on website * Facebook unread message coun
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   by graeme 8y ago

   I think this is an interesting double strategy with the card: apple now will have a small army of customers asking stores “do you support apple pay? Do you support apple pay?” This will drive adoption. (For those who haven’t been to the US
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    by graeme 8y ago

    Regarding stickiness. Apple introduced the following: * News+ * Apple card * Apple Arcade * And they already have Apple music Am leaving TV out of this list for now. Most people may not want a particular service. But it’s highly likely a go
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    Apple Plus – brand versus subscription(ben-evans.com)

    116 points by graeme 8y ago|90 comments
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    by graeme 8y ago

    I was a mac laptop user. I’ve now switched to an imac pro and ipad pro, and am much happier for it. My mad has ports and I can use my own keyboard. The ipad is much nicer for work around the house away from my desk. (Mac mini + the new ipad
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    by graeme 8y ago

    You don’t have to rise that high to delegate. If you’re working on your own, you can hire good contractors who charge $10-$15 an hour. Barring that, systems work can also be a form of delegation: building a system to automate low value task
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    by graeme 8y ago

    I mentioned Circle by Disney in the post. I’ve found it pretty simple. Unsure of the security or privacy implications, but it’s had a bog enough impact that I’m fine with it. The email newsletters and podcasts you have to do manually.
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    by graeme 8y ago

    Safari, music, notes, reminders, mail, health, activity (apple watch), breathe (apple watch), calendar, shortcuts (acquisition), messages, maps, clock, calculator, weather, I use all of those regularly and they work well. I also use 3rd par
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    by graeme 8y ago

    Does NSO make software other than Pegasus? That software exploited a bug in ios prior to 9.3.5, which was patched in August 2016. I’m wondering if there are new exploits, or if Bezos or his girlfriend ran really old ios versions. The latter
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    by graeme 8y ago

    That's the common way of referring to a government, especially in the security/spying sphere. e.g. "Did the Americans know about Pearl Harbour?" "Why did the Soviets develop the atom bomb"? "Why do the Bri
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    by graeme 8y ago

    I have two anecdotes on that point: 1. Last April, I took two weeks to go to Cuba and work on some non-internet connected work. Cuba has little internet, so this was easy to do. It was incredibly relaxing, and I made a fair bit of progress
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    by graeme 8y ago

    No problem. It can be a hard and long problem to solve, but it gets better with time and space. Everyone's experience is different, but one thing I can say is this: the size of a problem is not necessarily proportional to the effect it
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    by graeme 8y ago

    Yeah, I can't really smell it. I have to get very close to the products. But, I have a bad sense of smell.
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    by graeme 8y ago

    Pretty sure I burned myself out three years ago, while launching a big thing for my business. Basically, I ran a live course, and it happened right after some travel that had already been scheduled, so I had no downtime. It was all rush, ru
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    by graeme 8y ago

    Honestly, after years of sleep issues, it worked out more or less like that. The trick is that the "why" can be many layers deep. In my case, lighting turned out to be a big issue. All of the following proved necessary: * Blackout
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    by graeme 8y ago

    I find PayPal works well if stripe declines a payment. I can direct customers there. The only customers I've had request it were a few international ones without credit cards. (Not saying stripe rejects more. It's just the default
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    by graeme 8y ago

    Oh yeah, that wasn't a criticism of you. Just wanted to leave that for single founders to think about as they structure their businesses.
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    by graeme 8y ago

    Good point. I think any single founder should bear this in mind. Note that depending on scale and industry, you can design around this to an extent. My company largely runs automatically. I mostly work on growing it. I have a contract progr
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    by graeme 8y ago

    Thanks! I don’t know the difficulties involved; I have no TV, just a projector. What steps did you have to do? I agree that if most devices are cumbersome to stream to, then that’s too much friction for almost everyone.
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    by graeme 8y ago

    I think the strategy is to make airplay 2 available on any smart tv or device that they can. Then, the streaming service will be available to anyone with any apple device: any iphone, ipad, mac. A large chunk of people have at least one ide
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    by graeme 8y ago

    Read an interesting anecdote on amyloids in Why We Sleep. During a certain sleep phase, the brain tissues change size and open up pathways for cerebrospinal fluid to pass this. This washes out amyloids. Over time with age and with brain dam
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    by graeme 8y ago

    Yes. It occurred to me that the EU's expansion occurred during a lull in great power politics.
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    by graeme 8y ago

    This seems like more of a problem with the laptop lineup. If the lineup had a usb a port as well as usb c, there would be no confusion about what connects, no matter which ipad you have. Most people still have usb a peripherals, so the lapt