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by objclxt 9y ago
> How does this make developers' lives easier than existing solutions? I'm kinda thinking it doesn't. One way it makes developers' lives easier is by providing a single API through which you can offer multiple payment
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by objclxt 9y ago
I won't bore you with the history of the Payment Request API, but a sizable chunk of it was inspired by the native Objective-C / Swift Apple Pay API, which is why it's so similar. With regards to Android Pay being easier to t
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> The w3c seems to be run by people who make money on the web, not people who use the web. Not really. Anyone can join the W3C, and anyone can participate in a working group / contribute to a standard. However, most people would agr
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by objclxt 9y ago
> Unlike Chrome, Firefox will apparently not send data about what you purchase back to Mozilla. It sounds like something has been lost in translation. If not, Marcos is conflating two very different things. If you use Payment Request in
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by objclxt 9y ago
The WebKit source here is just a snapshot of what when into that version of the OS, the main WebKit repo is hosted separately in WebKit's SVN: https://webkit.org/getting-the-code/ The same is true for LLVM /
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by objclxt 9y ago
Google Ventures backed Uber, but that doesn't stop Google from running its own self-driving car unit.
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> But phones are not exactly the same thing are they? I guarantee you that Apple is researching the same kinds of display tech that Magic Leap is (they have patents today on head-mounted displays). If/when they release their hardwar
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by objclxt 9y ago
> the Magic Leap engineers I've met have been really confident that their tech is going to be a game changer Sure, but I'm sure there were engineers at Theranos who thought their tech was going to be a game-changer as well. Bei
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They have a separate contract, I don't know why you think it would be bound by their terms of use. Contracts nearly always contain language about how disputes will be resolves, and the venue they will be resolved in.
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But I don't think that is the strongest version of the argument: it's based on the rather weak premise that taxes are inherently unconscionable. Imagine we were talking about the army, instead of healthcare. The argument would s
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> it is a private company operating a defacto public space, so it is seen as...employees disobeying their employer? It is commercial bribery, and in many states - California included - there are laws specifically prohibiting it.
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> ARCore will run on millions of devices, starting today with the Pixel and Samsung’s S8, running 7.0 Nougat and above. We’re targeting 100 million devices at the end of the preview. That's...not great? For comparison, ARKit on iOS
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I don't really know what the point you're trying to make is? All the price cut information is from a press release[1] that was reported on by NYT, CNN, MSNBC, WSJ, amongst others. [1]: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/p
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FWIW if you’re working at on of the Big 5 that’s pretty achievable, although primarily in RSUs. I started at $125k and was at over $300k total after three years. Obviously at a start up it’s going to be very different.
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> More proof Apple is done innovating. It's literally the opposite of that. They spent billions of dollars on R&D in a new market segment. Just because you cancel the project or decide it's a failure doesn't mean a) yo
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> Redhat is valued at ~1.3B USD. Redhat's market cap is $17 billion, so I'm not sure where you're getting that figure from. https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:RHT
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by objclxt 9y ago
> Well, they are trying to undercut Chinese with web payments Alibaba are very active participants on the Payment Request Working Group. I'm not sure they can undercut themselves. You will find several very large Chinese companies t
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Payment Request is a JS / client-side API (it's all about getting payment information from the browser to the website), so HTTP codes don't really come into it. However, there's a proposed server/HTTP specification
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by objclxt 9y ago
> All this feature actually does it give you the users credit card, phone number, and billing/shipping addresses. You still have to give that information to someone like Stripe. I used to sit on the working group for Payment Request
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Repeat after me: "Hardware is not software". Software is far, far, cheaper than hardware. Building bespoke hardware for a tiny fraction of your customer base is insanely expensive, because the larger players have sewn up all the c
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by objclxt 9y ago
> Didn't they just recently (past year) sign this deal? Netflix's deal with Disney dates all the way back to 2012, although it only ramped up last year with current theatrical releases. Given they're still providing films
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> 30% platform tax That's like a wholesaler saying the mark-up the retail store charges on their products is a business expense.
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They're hitting the same problems that Groupon hit. Their margins are extremely low, the cost of acquiring and retaining customers is high, and there's no barrier to entry for competitors. For example, during the last 12 months at
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> Larry Page did not want to answer anything. That's how you do a deposition. I don't know how many depositions Page has had to do over the years, but it's not his first rodeo. Depositions aren't just used as fact-fin
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> I'm considering setting up as an Estonian e-resident soon though ( https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/e-residency/ ) to change where I pay my taxes. Talk to a solicitor before you do this unle
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> Companies are constantly making trade-offs between security and 'usability', and it is here where our experts believe opportunities may lie. Amber Rudd's "experts" couldn't prevent a simple brute force att
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> I guarantee you he's not directly ripping anyone off. You can understand why people might be less inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt, given that in the past Buzzfeed has extensively plagiarized: https://www
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> As for "key right next to house" how else do you propose letting agents show your property to prospective buyers or tenants? Give the letting agent a key to hold on to? Use an electronic keypad lock? Perhaps in your specific
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Yeah. Even in the UK - which is behind much of continental Europe in terms of banking - you can send money to anyone's bank account immediately and for free given their account number. Neither of these things are true in the US (at lea
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Venmo is more social than PayPal, and the brand is cooler. Given PayPal own Venmo I think they realize the value of this.

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