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by mantap 6y ago
Nobody knows because there are no market forces to determine what the cut should be. Nobody can distribute apps other than Apple, they just declare that they want/need 30% and everybody else has to pay it.
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by mantap 6y ago
Tesla makes cars, not social media apps.
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by mantap 6y ago
That's not correct. To enter the Chinese market you need to do it with a Chinese company.
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by mantap 6y ago
I don't agree with this at all. It was much easier to find good content on vine because vines spread organically. TikTok rewards whoever can appeal to the lowest common denominator.
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by mantap 6y ago
I feel the opposite. ESM is a nightmare and I hope I can avoid using it in node as long as possible.
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by mantap 6y ago
Not just the volatility of your portfolio but the volatility of your life. Market downturns tend to occur coincidently with job losses.
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by mantap 6y ago
If everybody had that attitude we'd still be hunting with sticks.
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by mantap 6y ago
There's two kinds of users here, users who don't want to pay $20/m but have time (e.g. students) and users who have little time to learn AE but more money. They want to capture both. So the approach is to make the starting pr
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by mantap 6y ago
Don't. No matter how many people vocally moan about subscriptions (myself included), the fact is if you are actually creating value for users then people will pay them. One time fees lead to bloated software, most of the money is in ma
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by mantap 6y ago
To play devil's advocate, Apple products tend to live or die based on how good they are, not the brand. Apple has produced plenty of duds over the years. Whereas for Nike they could make the ugliest shoe in the world and people would s
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by mantap 6y ago
Imagine flipping a coin. Your chance of tails is 50%. What is your chance of a tails if you flip two coins? It's now 75% clearly (TT, HT, TH but not HH). Now imagine it's not a coin but a normal distribution. If you sample from it
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by mantap 6y ago
Your position is that even though China claims to be a communist country, somehow through the back door they have introduced a free market but they keep it on the down-low? You cannot run a large company in China without being a member of C
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by mantap 6y ago
Babies can recognise faces so I would definitely class it as low-level. Anything you can do as a baby is low-level. High-level are things like reading and writing that are learned rather than evolved.
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by mantap 6y ago
For someone in China to criticise the central government is for them to risk their liberty. It's not a good life to be dissident in China. Freedom of speech affects freedom of thought. If you can't say something then nobody else w
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by mantap 6y ago
When I tried tiktok it seemed to only give me videos by British schoolkids. Maybe the content is better in some regions than others but the whole region locking thing stinks.
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by mantap 6y ago
This only works as long as everybody else isn't doing it.
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by mantap 6y ago
You can replace cryptocurrency with cash there and it's just as true. In fact, cash is much more anonymous than cryptocurrency as there is no paper trail. The value that cryptocurrency provides to criminals is the same value it provide
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by mantap 6y ago
Have you been on Amazon recently? Third party sellers dominate it. Amazon is fundamentally a bazaar that does a good job of pretending to be a store, but the mask is starting to slip.
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by mantap 6y ago
True in principle but there's more inventive for a user to ask for a refund on a $100 purchase than a $1 purchase.
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by mantap 6y ago
If you can debate whether or not zero is a number then you haven't invented it. If zero might not be a number then you can't state that 0 * n = 0 and 0 + n = n and n - n = 0, etc
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by mantap 6y ago
Nobody can argue what the next accounting rules are. Accounting practices are handed down from above and all accountants have to follow it. Programming is not like that. If you ask 100 programmers what the new big thing is, you will get 100
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by mantap 6y ago
I believe this isn't correct. Contact tracing can't work using location data, because it's far too coarse and unreliable to be useful. Too many false positives. The point isn't to figure out where the contacts were. It
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by mantap 6y ago
Salafism itself is aggressive conventional-mindednessness. I'm sure they would say that it is the west that is sliding into lawlessness. The laws are very different but the thinking is the same.
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by mantap 6y ago
Presumably that phased array ground station will be attached to a cell tower, it's not like people are gonna connect their phones with Ethernet.
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by mantap 6y ago
The premise is false. Musk doesn't need to ruin ground based telescopes in order to make Starlink a reality. This issue could be resolved by going slower, Musk just doesn't want to wait.
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by mantap 6y ago
NYC is extremely densely populated you would expect it to be an epicenter. Sweden, not so much.
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by mantap 6y ago
It's probably easier and less messy to measure the egg by weight, that's how pastry chefs do it. Apparently eggs are pretty close to water in density so the conversion should be trivial.
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by mantap 6y ago
There is an indirect benefit to plastic bans. Countries that are the real sources of ocean plastic pollution see them, and hopefully copy them.
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by mantap 6y ago
There is nothing special about America in that respect. Plenty of people around the world are not wearing masks when they are supposed to. What sets America apart is the hyper-shorttermism: go into a lockdown, then come out of it in the mid
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by mantap 6y ago
The Wikipedia page for that is something to behold, reading it you get the distinct impression that someone has succeeded in convincing the psychiatric profession to make an entire stage of human development into a disorder.

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