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by inapis 7y ago
>Payed subscriptions to news-websites/magazines are also not advertising free. I have only seen major US news outlets do this - namely NYT, Bloomberg, WSJ etc. I have subs to different publications - Ars, Ken, Nautilus - and they de
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by inapis 7y ago
I agree. Unfortunately, I've seen this more demanding behaviour primarily from tech savvy people. Programmers/Engineers (me including) can have wildly esoteric demands. Only after did I start running a business, did I re-adjust my
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by inapis 7y ago
Microsoft was not built on $5 one off software.
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If Apple discloses the generated email id. But the given examples seem very tedious to type.
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by inapis 7y ago
Wiping out a 100k population does not have the same effect as wiping out a 10k population which also consumes and emits 10x. Climate change due to population is not a simple numbers reduction game.
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by inapis 7y ago
Nopes. Churu is a population center. It's a district headquarter. And population centers are not faraway from 50C at 46-47C being pretty frequent.
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by inapis 7y ago
Google does that too. I don't think there's any company dealing with ads which doesn't do that kind of an agreement.
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by inapis 7y ago
While I agree with your sentiment, in practice, relying on legislative options is not foolproof and is also a band-aid. You require a lot of human cooperation which, to be honest, is not trivial to achieve in 2019. Second, technology freque
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by inapis 7y ago
+1 to this. Author is primarily concerned about financial costs without taking into account all other externalities that such hoarding such data causes.
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by inapis 7y ago
Was 0.99 per year even profitable?
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by inapis 7y ago
These kind of article raises more questions than answers. Leaving aside politics on this, I need to know more. How does this "greening" help? Is it more due to agriculture or forests? If it's due to agriculture, what are the
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by inapis 7y ago
Okay. This is a bit of an exaggeration. The poster above is talking about long distance trains while the article is about subway trains. 1. Most trains in India do have doors. 2. Almost all modern subway in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai etc do h
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by inapis 7y ago
For once. Get a domain and a paid mail account with fast mail/Zoho/gsuite. Slowly transition to the new inbox by moving over the emails. It will take sometime, possibly months, and you might never be able to close the gmail inbo
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by inapis 7y ago
That monetary incentive is automatically induced in a capitalist society. When people have to pull their own weight, buy their own food + necessities etc, no one can reasonably be expected to spend hours producing high quality information f
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by inapis 7y ago
> It's usually the switch that triggers a lot of hate: businesses should probably be cautious about it. I agree. The switch is the noisy period. When you are free, you attract people who are looking for free and would probably never
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by inapis 7y ago
The internet suffers from massive cognitive dissonance. Forums like HN/Reddit just amplify it. People complain about ads, People complain about subs. Fortunately, people who want to pay for content will pay for it as long as you expres
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by inapis 7y ago
> Guardian had a positive revenue in their last yearly report. Positive revenue for the first time since 1998. While admirable and noble, I find that this strategy is fraught with its own risks. Your company/product becomes fragile
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by inapis 7y ago
>there are many news sources, everybody wants to get paid, people don’t want to pay for all of them, yet still not content from getting the news from a single source. Don't pay for all of them and BE CONTENT with getting news/i
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by inapis 7y ago
The way it was done historically? Pay for one or two publications which instead of arriving at your doorstep every morning will be delivered to your phone every morning. The people who couldn't or wouldn't pay for good journalism
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by inapis 7y ago
Apple products might be cheaper compared to 90s but they still incorporate a significant margin. An $800 iPhone can end up having a margin of about $300-400. Even if you incorporate other stuff R&D, marketing etc, you still have $200+ m
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by inapis 7y ago
> why use a mac when WSL2 is out and Linux desktops are getting traction? This is applicable only for devs. Mac is not going anywhere for people in a lot of industries - writers, photographers, business, smb etc. WSL changes nothing for
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by inapis 7y ago
>(ii) integrate these Services with any applications for any embedded devices such as cars, TVs, appliances, or speakers without Google's prior written permission. Genuinely curious about the restriction regarding embedded devices
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by inapis 7y ago
That fully Microsoft and windows stack has had ripple effects. At least from my perspective in South Asia. First the price was a deal breaker. Second, people who started with C# quickly found their only employment opportunities to be at lar
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by inapis 7y ago
There’s also Paddle and Fastspring. With stripe et al you are the merchant of record but with the above two they are the merchant of record. For people who are new to receiving payments, like me, this was a big revelation. Receiving payment
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by inapis 7y ago
I’d love to see UPI expand its capabilities. It’s one of the most innovative fintech products I’ve seen in a while especially when it gives you way more privacy and safety than plastic.
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You can compete on price. But definitely depends on your niche and market segment though. There are plenty of users who are not happy with how the big companies create products. Google and Apple create for the mass market and in the process
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by inapis 7y ago
Ha. Perfect. That is exactly what I was imagining. Apologies for the long conversation. Do you have any idea why this is not popular? Is it too hard to implement or is it just that business's do not see security as something to invest
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by inapis 7y ago
I do not believe that spearphishing would not be prevented by a hardware token. The device would be responsible for authenticating the identity of the service being accessed. If the user can be fooled into handing over their hardware token,
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Probably my wording was wrong. I was thinking more of a system where the password itself was generated and stored on a hardware device. The user need not interact with any application, whatsoever, like 1Password or Lastpass to generate or s
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by inapis 7y ago
>Citrix said in a later update on April 4 that the attack was likely a result of password spraying, which attackers use to breach accounts by brute-forcing from a list of commonly used passwords that aren’t protected with two-factor auth

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