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by rchaud 2y ago
Donations to Liberapay itself could be considered tax deductible if they are domiciled in the same tax region as you. Liberapay is the nonprofit, not the parties it transmits funds to.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Hence the 'coddled like a baby' portion of my comment. Zuckerberg, Cook and US tech leadership are doing the same to government currently, and chucking in $1 million each for good measure.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Sounds like a cost center. Heathrow is privately owned. Would the board approve?
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by rchaud 2y ago
The Isaacson biography has a section where Jobs speaks to the CEO of Corning (glass screen vendor, CEO was a materials engineer) with absolute Trumpian ignorance ("You don't know what you're doing!"). Corning wanted the
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by rchaud 2y ago
Galaxy S8 came out in 2017, almost a decade ago. I understand some budget and mid-range phones have ads, but I (in Canada) have used everything from S7, S8, S12, A51, Z Fold 3, and have never gotten one. There was a "Samsung Hub"
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by rchaud 2y ago
I am buying CDs too because vinyl keeps getting more expensive. However I do want artists to put more effort into making liner notes booklets.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Was it free though? iTunes sold music for $1/song. Spotify and Pandora were ad-supported. People like me may have sailed the high seas as a teen in the 2000s, but those people didn't make up the majority of music listeners. Today,
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by rchaud 2y ago
Not so for movies, the marketing budget and press junket tours end up costing as much as the film production itself. Music is also pay-for-play, but buying off radio stations and promotional spots on Spotify is not nearly as expensive as mo
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by rchaud 2y ago
JSfiddle has been around forever (~15yrs) and managed to amble along with non-Google ads (which I whitelisted). Sad that they have pursued the path of enshitification annoyance as a business model.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Or in HN parlance, "MBA management".
911.
by rchaud 2y ago
None of my Samsung phones have ever advertised anything to me. Unlike iOS,there are any number of music player apps on Android that stay out of the way and don't try to be a "platform".
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by rchaud 2y ago
They would have to unwind USD denominated investments, which make up a large chunk of many pension and sovereign wealth funds' portfolio. This can't be done overnight, but over a few years, definitely possible.
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by rchaud 2y ago
This is a strategy for low income countries in a race to the bottom, not rich ones. So maybe circle back to this in 5 years.
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by rchaud 2y ago
> With enough money invested in desalination Cheaper to nullify meteorological services and browbeat media into silence and simply tell Americans everything is fine.
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by rchaud 2y ago
I thought merchants not accepting Amex had more to do with high processing fees compared to MC/Visa. Amex is marketed as a premium card targeted at higher income people so wouldn't that correlate with fewer charge backs?
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by rchaud 2y ago
Scratch the surface of every VC-funded tech disruptor and you'll find a temporarily embarrassed market incumbent.
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by rchaud 2y ago
> "Today's decisions wrap us in red tape, slowing down Apple's ability to innovate for users in Europe" the company said in an email. Authored by Apple Intelligence? Certainly enough training material exists, consider
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by rchaud 2y ago
That is not evidence of a shakedown by a corporate law firm, which is the original allegation. Google, Apple and others have colluded to not poach employees from each other, distorting a free labor market, and settled that for $400m.[0] [0]
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by rchaud 2y ago
> "As a venture capitalist who invests in high tech, I have to worry that the web will be perceived as an increasingly corrupt police state overlying a maze of dark alleys and unsafe practices outside the rule of law." I wonder
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by rchaud 2y ago
Got any evidence for that? Is Google in the habit of paying out giant HR-related settlements for something other than protecting good ol' boys like Andy Rubin? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andy-rubin-google-settlem
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by rchaud 2y ago
Hopefully historians do not miss the immense irony of a situation where the only 2 countries to debase their own monetary system for a pseudo-currency, both orginally used the US Dollar.
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by rchaud 2y ago
The Unihertz Jelly 2 has a 3 inch screen. Android offers choices. Apple meanwhile will tell you to buy an Apple watch if you want a smaller screen, with their usual "take it or leave it" dismissiveness. RIP iPhone Mini.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Moving away from 16:9 screens to a ridiculous 21:9 was a mistake. Now phones are getting bigger (longer) just to have the same screen width as they would have had from an iPhone 7 Plus or Galaxy Edge from ~10 years ago.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Take out the Google and it'd still be true. People need an AI phone like they need a "Smart TV".
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by rchaud 2y ago
Nobody asked Microsoft to put an unremovable Copilot button next to the cursor in every Office app. Shoving AI into everything has little to do with what customers want, and much to do with checking a box re: org strategy and investor PR.
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by rchaud 2y ago
I have the same phone. SD card AND headphone jack is basically unheard of on so called "flagship" phones. The camera is definitely a step down though. The phone even has a stylus with a built in slot, although the screen itself is
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by rchaud 2y ago
AI on phones is its 3D TV moment. Phones are commodities now and like computers, don't need to be upgraded for several years. So phone vendors need a new selling point.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Those are clearly labeled. And Amazon Vine reviewers for the most part do make an honest effort to review the product. I tend to ig ore them in favour of those 3-4 line reviews in small caps and iffy grammar. That's a much better signa
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by rchaud 2y ago
Many people are mentally still in 1997, when Apple was the scrappy upstart against the Micro$oft goliath.
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by rchaud 2y ago
There is no "business model" that will fix this. Yelp, The Wirecutter, Product Hunt, all these suffer from the principal-agent problem. You, the reader, are the principal looking for a solution to your problem. The app is the agen

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