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by mifreewil 7y ago
To clarify, Apple takes 30% of in-app subscriptions for customers < 1 year. If you retain a customer for a year, then they take 15% of the revenue after 1 year. If a customer signs up and setups payment for the service outside the app, t
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by mifreewil 7y ago
Residences, not residents. Buildings, not people.
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by mifreewil 7y ago
Yeah, commercial property makes no sense either, especially if you consider the original intent of the law, but it bothers me less than residences as at least those properties, in theory, are doing something productive for society.
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by mifreewil 7y ago
I agree, it just tells me how utterly broken the current state of affairs is with data privacy in the U.S. Here we have the FBI telling us if we don't want to be spied on by TV manufacturers with cameras to just use some black tape :fa
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by mifreewil 7y ago
I would say overall California’s high income and sales taxes and low property taxes are far, far more regressive, see this at the extreme: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-proper...
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by mifreewil 7y ago
This is true but it’s insane that California allows children to inherit the lower tax basis: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-proper...
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by mifreewil 7y ago
I'm well aware of the multitude of scams, hacks, etc. involving [centralized] cryptocurrency exchanges, but it doesn't actually have much to do with blockchain technologies itself, at least not in the context being discussed here.
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by mifreewil 7y ago
I don’t follow your analogy
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by mifreewil 7y ago
The immutable ledger and consensus algorithm is the basis for allowing ownership of digital assets and freedom. Solving the trust issue is what an immutable ledger and consensus algorithm is all about. Without a way to agree on who owns wha
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by mifreewil 7y ago
> especially when it's one of these singular company examples. Blockchain is most useful in situations where there is a lack of trust between parties. Seems like a lot of people on HN distrust PayPal because of being bitten by froz
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by mifreewil 7y ago
It’s the same as the credit industry creating identity theft instead of protecting against attacks on their own systems
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by mifreewil 7y ago
It’s hilarious how all these articles are about how to protect yourself instead of talking about why the carriers don’t better protect against this
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by mifreewil 7y ago
How are purchasing juul pods any different than cigarettes?
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by mifreewil 7y ago
Sounds like Office Space. ICYMI, the main character quits his job at a tech company and works outside doing construction.
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by mifreewil 7y ago
When you look at the smartphone market for apps, I think you could make a pretty good argument that there is monopolistic behavior between the two giants, Apple and Google. Call it a duopoly or what have you. The fact that both stores have
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by mifreewil 7y ago
The entire podcast is like this, highly recommend the entire episode.
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by mifreewil 7y ago
Starts right about here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8&feature=youtu.be... 2:10:56
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by mifreewil 7y ago
This is a great point. I'd be interested in seeing some data where words/definitions/"generic trademarks" are better protected. For example, I remember reading something within the last few years about the FDA consi
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by mifreewil 7y ago
> There was a company that recently started trying to sell stocks at retail outlets (walmart, etc) Sounds like Stockpile - They sell gift cards for stocks.
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by mifreewil 7y ago
FWIW, I'm very familiar with Plaid as I've worked in several FinTech startups using Plaid for various reasons. If you simply want to revoke Plaid's access all you need to do is change your bank password. Of course, all past d
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by mifreewil 7y ago
When I first became interested in the idea for the app, I quickly ran into the same limitations with CallKit. What my app, MyHumans, does is relay the call through a backend service which sends it to your phone via a VoIP call using CallKit
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by mifreewil 7y ago
I've been wondering the same, I recently made MyHumans for iPhone to do just this. I think this works for a lot of people, and it has completely solved my spam problem.
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by mifreewil 7y ago
I just created an iPhone app that uses a whitelist from your contacts like you described. It's available on iOS 11+ and called MyHumans. I've tested out the "silence unknown callers" feature in the iOS 13 beta and it wor
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by mifreewil 7y ago
I recently just created an iPhone app that basically does this. It only allows calls through from your contacts, all other calls go directly to voicemail that you can review later. Most other apps out there attempt to use a blacklist, which
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by mifreewil 8y ago
Sounds like you should have started looking a quarter of a decade ago. I'm sure you could find something that compensates better with similar work life balance and flexibility.
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by mifreewil 8y ago
HTML has an <abbr> tag - please use it.
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by mifreewil 8y ago
I’d stay away from Linode. They’ve had so many major security issues over the years that at this point they are like the Yahoo Mail of VPS in my mind.
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by mifreewil 8y ago
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by mifreewil 8y ago
Soooo tired of companies "democratizing" things.
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by mifreewil 8y ago
I'd much rather just have the simplicity of a hardware switch than a bug-prone implementation like this. Not to mention that this is anti-user in the sense that it gives the user less control, not more. I highly doubt Apple will ever i

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