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by mdasen 6y ago
I think it's not just the data. At this point they're selling access to you. If you're Roku and you're the largest in the market, a company like YouTube or NBC or HBO needs to be on your devices. So you ask for X% of the
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by mdasen 6y ago
The Apple TVs are quite over-powered devices compared to competitors. They come with A12 processors getting around 1,100 single-core and 2,800 multi-core Geekbench scores. To put that in perspective, the brand-new Samsung Galaxy S21+ gets 1
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by mdasen 6y ago
Deprioritization can depend on your area. I have an always deprioritized plan (not with Verizon) and I don't notice anything. Maybe it seems slower sometimes? When I compare speed tests between myself and my partner who has premium da
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by mdasen 6y ago
The "data slower" is 256kbps: https://support.google.com/fi/answer/9462101?hl=en . It's not just "slower" like going from 50Mbps to 10Mbps because you're a lower priority. It's li
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by mdasen 6y ago
I think Google Fi will stick around because it really doesn't sound that good. I don't mean that it sounds bad or anything. It's just that a 22GB plan for $30/mo on a family plan isn't a deal. I can get $25 from V
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by mdasen 6y ago
I think the problem is that the Canadian wireless market is so messed up. While there are nominally more than two competitors, given that Bell and Telus share a network it's really just two providers. Plus, countries that have large
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by mdasen 6y ago
Yes, T-Mobile/Sprint. However, given that they've merged and T-Mobile is actively integrating the Sprint network, it will realistically just be T-Mobile soon. T-Mobile has announced that it will be decommissioning 7,000-8,000 Spri
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Tethering becomes capped very quickly on Google Fi given the 22GB limit. After you've used 22GB of data for the month (mobile and tethering), you're down to 256kbps.
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by mdasen 6y ago
Google Fi is now just T-Mobile service given that Sprint and T-Mobile have merged. T-Mobile's network has gotten quite good, but there will be areas where Verizon or AT&T are better (and there are areas where T-Mobile is better). T
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by mdasen 6y ago
Is it actually unlimited if it's just 22GB? Most carriers offer unlimited data now that becomes deprioritized at a certain point. That means that if the network is congested, other customers are prioritized above them. However, this is
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by mdasen 6y ago
The problem is that we don't know what the thresholds should be in advance. With manufactured goods, it's easy to compare. Salesperson A sold 10 Toyota Prius Base models for $18,000 and Salesperson B sold 10 Toyota Prius Base mod
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by mdasen 6y ago
Starlink has said that they're planning on offering a roaming use-case, but they aren't there yet ( https://www.slashgear.com/spacex-starlink-cell-location-limi... ). Part of the issue is that Starlink cells are goi
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by mdasen 6y ago
Basically, no. Amazon has their Graviton processors, but they're not selling them. Nuvia's Phoenix processors might have become that, but they've been bought by Qualcomm and we'll see what happens. Qualcomm is likely goi
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by mdasen 6y ago
I think the idea of "useful zero values" in Go is a mistake from bias grown out of being at Google. Protocol Buffers implement default zero values ( https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/prot
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by mdasen 6y ago
Yea, I think it does. I'm glad that you're not looking at support as a primary revenue source since that seems to be the kind of thing that leads to companies not wanting to fix pain points because those pain points are what peopl
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by mdasen 6y ago
Cool, it's great to know that it isn't abandoned. I'm not sure why you'd say that their business model was a success. They were bought by Microsoft for Azure. I guess I wonder if a PaaS company can survive without gettin
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by mdasen 6y ago
This looks really cool. I see from your website that you're a YC company. Do you mind if I ask what your business plan is? I feel like I'm always cautious around stuff like this because it seems to be an area where a lot of people
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by mdasen 6y ago
I think the reason they specify English or French characters is that Latin doesn't really specify what is allowed. French can use á or à or ç. Latin was generally written without diacritical marks by Romans with the occasional except
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I did a `brew install git` and then deleted /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git. You can't delete /usr/bin/git even with sudo (system integrity policy). After installing git via
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by mdasen 6y ago
$1T of US debt sounds like a lot, but it's less than 4% of US debt. It's not an insignificant amount, but they don't own a lot to impact the US economy. Japan owns more ($1.25T) and the UK and Ireland get up to $0.75T. Real
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by mdasen 6y ago
I think there's value in having a certain amount of ownership and control of a developer ecosystem. It's open-source, but Google will probably remain associated with Flutter and have the dominant influence on its future. I'm
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by mdasen 6y ago
Gmail doesn't cache things. It does proxy them. So, they can't read or write cookies, but given that spy pixels contain unique URLs, they are able to determine things like opens.
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by mdasen 6y ago
Spain offers an easier pathway to citizenship for citizens of Ibero-American countries (basically Latin America) and that includes Puerto Rico. The idea is that, if you're an American, you could get PR citizenship status with one year
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by mdasen 6y ago
> 1 bitcoin is worth $50,000 and has less utility. Tesla stock is worth more than every other car company put together, yet I don't see half of global car sales being Tesla. I think there's a distinct difference here. Bitcoin
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by mdasen 6y ago
Looking at my area, OpenCellID seems to have a lot more data than CellMapper.net (which people often point to). It definitely has way more data points than there are actual towers. A lot of them are 310-260s so maybe a lot of people have T
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by mdasen 6y ago
AdGuard can run a local VPN that intercepts HTTPS traffic and blocks ads even within HTTPS traffic. It's a little sketchy since they man-in-the-middle your encrypted traffic in order to do this, but they exclude extended validation cer
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by mdasen 6y ago
I like the TechEmpower benchmarks, but you have to read the code to really understand the comparisons being made. In many languages, a bunch of web server code might end up being implemented in C and not the language itself. When you'
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by mdasen 6y ago
It probably won't provide competition to cell carriers for a few reasons. Starlink's equipment is large and needs a direct view of the sky. Their app needs to take photos of where you're positioning the receiver/transm
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by mdasen 6y ago
As someone who lives with street parking in a city, I've found that I actually tend to drive less than 300 miles in a month. There's 7.2 amp charging at the grocery store that I go to so I can top-up there while shopping. There&#
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by mdasen 6y ago
I remember the huge controversy around the iPhone 6S which had a processor that was either a 14nm Samsung or 16nm TSMC ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A9 ). Apple had used Samsung for the iPhone 4 through iPhone 5

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