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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Yes, but after that Uber and Lyft aggressively drove those local alternatives out of business by giving effectively-free rides for the next couple of months. The majority of my rides around the downtown area during that time cost me _maybe_
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> 2) The drivers are outside of Uber's business. Uber is a software and technology company, not a taxi service. This seems like _quite_ a stretch. With that logic you can make any modern company a "technology business" or
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I first thought these were bids for lots of items, like... cases of the item. Am I mistaken that these are actually bids on a single, quantity=1, item? It's actually impressive if they're auctioning off failed-festival merch at Su
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Yes, but do you not see the issue at play here? > "all apps are reviewed against the same set of guidelines that are intended to protect customers and provide a fair and level playing field to developers." This strongly implie
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Your argument here is that Youtube is also in violation of these rules, but is allowed because they are too big for Apple to review? I mean yes, you might have a valid point, but that goes straight back against: > "all apps are revi
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> Basically, Apple wants to be able to review every game that graces an iPhone’s screen, even if it’s streamed from a game server somewhere in the cloud. I don't see how this logic doesn't also apply to Youtube, and other video
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I think it is the right time. The problem I have with the $600 weekly unemployment bump is that while it helped some people, a ridiculous amount of people slipped through the cracks. We look at it and think "17M unemployed, we are help
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
IIRC credits are non-transferable for exactly this reason, and also why billing information is required (even if you have credit). "Selling" a full account with credits (or access to that account to use the credits) would be super
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
While I agree with your first point, I think you are giving an uncharitable reading of the comment. "Just a reminder", to me, sounds like it is trying to append a relevant point, rather than disagree with/discredit the origin
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
More to the point, as-far-as-I-know this activity is monitored for, and using promotional credits for these purposes will invalidate your credits and you'll receive a large bill. Source: A previous employer got a notification that our
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
And really you're not going to get any direct evidence of this. Amazon is a private company that would have to willingly release this information related to their costs, and obviously won't. However during congressional testimony
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
The US government _especially_ should be handling out tests for free, even if other countries or places in the worth charge a nominal amount. The US though is has two main problems that make any sort of charge ridiculous: First, there is a
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Haha I totally see your point, but in the US, anything related to health-care that is 5€ is basically considered "free". I do actually agree with charge though, such as 5€. The point isn't to charge a "you're paying
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I see what you're saying, but this is basically suggesting that Dropbox should have made a donation to F5 (a public company with an $8B market cap). I think there is a valid point you're making for smaller companies that are provi
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I think a part of this is that engineers in particular have a preference to use software which can be treated as a transferable skill if/when they move on. They would rather use the OSS version of Nginx, of Envoy, because they know the
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
This is a half-joke of a comment, but I would pay $50/month to a product that could explicitly prohibit the CEO from editing the production database.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> "Amazon took my idea and did the same thing at lower cost" This isn't always the case, as many merchants have pointed it out. Sometimes (I'm sure not all the time), it's more "Amazon took my idea, and all
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I definitely agree. The space being validated is a fantastic thing (I have also been building a product in the space). I believe this space is big enough for multiple participants, each solving the same problem in slightly different ways. I
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt here, but trying to make a point that a new product "copied what [you] are doing" just seems inappropriate. Is there perhaps a better way that this could have been phrased? Both
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Well of course if you exclude all of the attacks that didn't happen because 2fa was enabled, then ya, 2fa won't protect you against the ones that still happen. Lets compare this to.... car safety. Ya, if you get hit head on by an
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
That section of the article is a quote of someone speaking. It could have been phrased more accurately, but reading that sentence as a quote of someone speaking it just sounds like they did not quite remember the exact number when they were
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I wouldn't even put any limits on the account (outside of the fact that your address would be an exceptionally unfriendly string. Since this sign up is through Apple, I assume Hey would have the device ID, and could limit repeat/d
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I'm not going to touch the space about MS, Xbox, or the like because I have 0 insight into that space, but I will point out that the marginal cost of a customer in many SaaS companies is most definitely not 0.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I would personally love to see Hey come back with a free Apple version of their service which gives the user a hilariously long @hey.com email address and lets them use it.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I think most people understand that the parent could be describing credit card markets, and I don't think that anyone is trying to make the case that credit card companies don't also take anti-competitive actions. But the typical
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I don't know if it is expressing some sort of bias, but some of the companies seem to be purposely expressed in a "negative" fashion, by including red X's for "missing" benefits, but those exclusions don't
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I mean, it was also kind of a giant fraud ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_Monopoly#Fraud ), which may have contributed to it being less of a big thing these days.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Early today Zuck was quoted as saying: > If you really believe that a post is going to cause people to go to go do real-world violence, then that’s not the type of thing that I think we should have up even behind a warning I believe this
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I completely agree with the theory here, however he is, and has been, treating personal accounts as "official" accounts for a while. Anything posted through those means should be maintained as a historical record. I agree with how
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
While this is a good thought, and in theory you should be correct, it is just not really how it works (I can only speak for my experiences with the US, and with TN work status). The majority of US citizens do not understand the visa/st

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