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by paxy 8y ago
If you think they are lobbying now, wait till their Virginia HQ opens up.
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by paxy 8y ago
Pay whom exactly? Apple "pays" for open source by contributing code and fixes, which is how it should be.
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by paxy 8y ago
Wechat isn't a direct competitor
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by paxy 8y ago
Funny that they didn't mention Apple Music even once in their statement, which is what a major part of the complaint is about. Overall I'm shocked by the level of hubris coming from Apple. The app store is a mutually beneficial ec
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by paxy 8y ago
Apple is also being misleading about the 30%/15% fee variance. They make it seem like Spotify's fees drop to 15% after it has been in the App Store for a year. In reality, it is only 15% if a user is renewing their annual subscrip
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by paxy 8y ago
While a whimsical writing and storytelling style sometimes works great, in this case it makes the article very confusing, even contradictory in places. I also find their numbers very hard to believe. Expedia's net income last year was
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by paxy 8y ago
It changes a lot, since as an independent entity Apple Music (for example) is answerable to its own investors and board of directors, including having the pressure to be profitable. Right now Apple can subsidize them for as long as they for
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by paxy 8y ago
There is still a non-zero cost to implementing a checkout page, as well as associated vendor fees etc. In a fair market the fees for Apple checkout would be along the same lines as Stripe, PayPal etc., but they are using their position as t
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by paxy 8y ago
> and they are clearly profitable enough if they can buy Super Bowl airtime These dollars are most certainly coming from VC funding. Most of these businesses aren't (and will never be) profitable.
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by paxy 8y ago
It was inevitable at this point. Sad that it had to happen due to the external pressure of every other country in the world banning it first.
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by paxy 8y ago
This is standard tech recruiting even outside of Lambda
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by paxy 8y ago
Closest average orbit radius is what everyone means when they say closest.
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by paxy 8y ago
A lot of it is arguing semantics, I know, but still pretty fascinating. Even though it makes sense when I think about it, the fact that Mercury is on average the closest planet to every planet in the solar system blows my mind.
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by paxy 8y ago
I'd like to add that this isn't restricted to the bay area. All of America has a huge classism problem, and it's often misdiagnosed as racism (not saying the latter doesn't exist at all, of course).
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by paxy 8y ago
I feel like if a company decides it doesn't want to be in SF proper it's more worth it to go south rather than north.
46.
by paxy 8y ago
Yes but the article is about the latter.
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by paxy 8y ago
Top Indian talent did go to the US by default, but that peaked ~10 years ago. Nowadays there is enough opportunity in India - and the US immigration process is bad enough - that most people I know just don't bother. The visa backlog is
48.
by paxy 8y ago
Or you could just pass the function an optional tracing ID as an argument.
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by paxy 8y ago
So no one should ever work at a startup?
50.
by paxy 8y ago
So are the keys on your phone's 2fa app
51.
by paxy 8y ago
2nd factor is still "something you have", just that it is now your laptop rather than your phone.
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by paxy 8y ago
Someone decided (probably correctly) that the benefits of the app while it was distributed were greater than the potential penalties that would come way down the line.
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by paxy 8y ago
You don't have to be technical at all to sideload apps on Android. Enough people I know have done it in minutes following a very simple guide.
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by paxy 8y ago
Think of it as an API layer and database baked into one.
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by paxy 8y ago
Change "startup culture" to "corporate culture"
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by paxy 8y ago
Isn't this exactly what restaurants all over the country do? Tips count as wages, and then the employer pays on top of that to make up the difference.
57.
by paxy 8y ago
Plus all studies done on tipping have disputed this. Tips don't depend on the quality of service but rather on how attractive and flirty the waitress is.
58.
by paxy 8y ago
Except employees in California got both
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by paxy 8y ago
Arbitration contracts need to be illegal, period.
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by paxy 8y ago
This is really surprising considering Microsoft owns PhotoDNA which is used all over the internet to detect child pornography.

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