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by meritt 7y ago
> and have the appropriate employees for this type of business I disagree. WeWork has 836 locations and 12.5k (now 10k) employees, or ~12-15 employees per location. Regus/IWG has 3,306 locations and 9.6k employees, or ~3 employees p
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by meritt 7y ago
> This means we must force them to. Advertising represents 98.5% of Facebook's revenue and you're proposing that we (btw, who is "we"? They are a global company) tell them they can't run ads? What exactly remains
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by meritt 7y ago
Because the price would be too high. $28/yr is the global per-user price but it's extremely skewed by region. The same equivalent price a US/CA user is $140/yr. Also the necessary 20% price increase every year would be r
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by meritt 7y ago
> One could imagine going back to the old Whatsapp model of charging users $1 per year Facebook has around 2.45B monthly active users. On a global basis, they would need to charge every user $28/yr to make the same annual revenue. I
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by meritt 7y ago
> if a dataset is really valuable, it wont be available for public consumption Data vendors sell valuable data all the time to essentially anyone who is willing to pay their asking price. I don't see how this is any different? Just
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by meritt 7y ago
> What is the open source alternative of this? There are many public-domain datasets: * https://aws.amazon.com/opendata/public-datasets/ * https://cloud.google.com/public-datasets/ * http
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by meritt 7y ago
You're curious whether or not it's realistic for an 82-year-old automotive company with 122 worldwide production plants who produced 11.1M cars last year compared to Tesla's 254k can have just 8 facilities producing electric
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by meritt 7y ago
You should consider sanitizing user input.
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by meritt 7y ago
> our customers cannot contact us at all I thought mailgun was for delivering emails? How/why are they your MX?
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by meritt 7y ago
> clean minimal design The design is so minimal I thought it wasn't loading correctly for me.
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by meritt 7y ago
http://archive.is/ra9UL
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by meritt 7y ago
> Does anyone know anything behind the economics behind this? You use VC money and run at a loss while focusing on marketing and tech evangelism, getting more and more startups and hopefully established companies using your software. As
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by meritt 7y ago
The Safeway API in question requires a user to be logged-in, authorized, and have explicitly agreed to a TOS (clickwrap). The HiQ v. LinkedIn case was centered around publicly accessible content which did not require the user to be authent
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by meritt 7y ago
Does the market need yet another browser extension scraper like this? No, I don't think it does. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/scraper?_category=... [2] https://addons.mozilla.org&#
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by meritt 7y ago
It's a single-threaded process running a single core.
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by meritt 7y ago
Mostly just curious: Why is the android version 9MB, the iOS version 62MB, and 3 different desktop versions a fixed 22MB?
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by meritt 7y ago
As he chose to show us Django ORM code, instead of the postgres table definition, I'm guessing he's not exactly a postgres wizard. It reads to me like to me like he's writing to a normalized table (complete with foreign key c
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by meritt 7y ago
Zoom [1], Cloudflare [2], and Datadog [3] had a fairly warm reception on HN and they're solid companies with high gross margins. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19465860 [2] https://news.ycombinator
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by meritt 7y ago
Your argument is a form of survivorship bias. You're not acknowledging all of the gaping security flaws in contemporary web-development frameworks. People were writing sloppy PHP before CSRF and XSS were even invented. Yet somehow, Pyt
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by meritt 7y ago
How is this achieving https interception with zero setup? Does that not require a system-level root CA to be installed and trusted?
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by meritt 7y ago
Yes, just saw this too. This is showing across all service types for me. Anything that is billed based on a unit of time has exactly 2x the consumption than has happened so far month-to-date.
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by meritt 7y ago
How would proper SNI prevent this approach or how is it different? Doesn't this just connect to a given IP and issue a request for the target domain?
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by meritt 7y ago
> And the lack of access control does not implicitly give you authorization to view it. I know you're trying really hard to sway opinion on HN for some reason, but I'm just going to reinforce the entire point of this thread and
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by meritt 7y ago
If you have to login to access the data, that data isn't publicly available, and unlikely to be protected by this decision. Page 31 of the filing specifically differentiates this case from one regarding Facebook: "While Power Vent
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by meritt 7y ago
> your company already allows a third-party to access your email and chat history I'd suggest, when trying to win over a technical community, you don't speak to us like we're completely ignorant. Those "third-parties&
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by meritt 7y ago
There's a 0% chance my current company nor any company I've worked for in the past is going to allow a third-party company to access our entire email and chat history. There are far too many instances of companies doing so with th
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by meritt 7y ago
I'm sure they're also rampant short sellers in cahoots with Big Oil. Give me a fucking break. Tesla has had a lot of growing pains and they'll be a better company when you guys stop dismissing every single criticism and actua
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by meritt 7y ago
That's irrelevant for the vast majority of Americans today due to the TCJA changes. It'll be interesting to see the final numbers when the IRS publishes the statistics, but it was estimated that 90% of households took the standard
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by meritt 7y ago
Whoa. Do you have a link to the legislation or news?
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by meritt 7y ago
For anyone eager to read something now, Designing Data-Intensive Applications [1] is an excellent and completed book that covers nearly all of the same material with significant depth. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Da

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