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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
No, it is fair competition because in both cases you paid money for the product, as I am clearly stating in the original comment. In one case it just also happens to be impossible to avoid being further monetized via ads and tracking. This,
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
Siri is terrible, but have you tried Google Assistant? I find it very accurate at recognizing my speech and very fast. It feels like a vastly superior product and I definitely find myself using it on my Google devices.
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
It's pretty fair. You pay money - you get a product. In Windows, you pay money - you get ads and tracking. edit: To make it clear to people not reading the comment carefully, I'm not saying MacOS is "free". I'm mere
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
Nothing. There's no source code in the public domain and the API is locked down.
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
> Where could I, or any Internet user, trivially download these details on 533M Facebook users prior to this dump? On Facebook. Literally. You can scrape any public profile info. It's against ToS, but it's not illegal (some cav
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
There's not much to see here. Someone scraped some public profiles. Someone then brute forced a poorly implemented "look up by phone number" feature. They linked the two datasets on the unique facebook user id. Leaking data t
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
Highly unlikely to be related. It's not a password leak. It's also not really a leak, someone scraped some public profile info and then used the phone number lookup feature to match up the two.
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
Hah, you should see the comment threads in some of the European nation subreddits on Reddit, whenever an article mentioning FAANG / Big Tech comes up. They really want to burn them.
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
conveyor belt accelerator
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
Because the European innovation ecosystem is terribly broken and our politicians think regulation is the solution to all problems.
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
He got 30% for $1.1M adjusted to today's money and became employee no. 3. Woz credits him as being more important than himself to Apple's success. So, you could make the argument he was closer to a co-founder than just an investor
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
No, because founders that are truly as visionary and intelligent as Apple's co-founders are unlikely to be willing to give up a sizable amount of equity for a tiny amount of money and the promise of being able to meet a few people and
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
replace GDP with electricity and pasta with bitcoin and you'll be pretty close
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
It is not fixed yet. Twitter lets you decide if you want to appeal the block or delete the tweet. Many people will appeal.
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
Yeah, can confirm. It does work. I don't suggest trying it, as unlocking your account requires phone no. and email verification... yikes.
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
I don't dispute the use case for urban commuters and short distances, however, these things should absolutely have airbags. You can be the safest and most responsible driver, but some crazy a*hole can still slam into you head on with a
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
> A US senior software engineer making that much would live in a major tech center and would probably work for a very good company, so a lot of people are excluded because of location and others just because of selection. It's hard
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
You can't honestly believe that, can you? Germany - senior software engineer - 45k eur. US - senior software engineer - 240k usd. Do you or the average engineer, over the course of their lifetime, save or spend around 190k usd a year o
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by i_have_an_idea 6y ago
As a European, my personal opinion is that it is because of an overfocus on regulation and underfocus on innovation. Everybody that I know that has an idea or a business that might be worth something, is moving or trying to move to the US.