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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
I've been pretty ecstatic with the combination of TypeORM and TypeGraphQL if anyone is looking for an alternative.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Very cool. Good luck with the project!
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
I think the nuance of what I was implying got lost there. It seems likely there is no inherent purpose to human life and that we're simply an accidental byproduct of the natural laws of our reality. Yet the closest identifiable thing w
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
> I would say that death+reproduction is a better solution to preserving genes than immortality. It's just the solution nature came up with. It's also optimal at a population level and far less so at the organism level. Again:
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
The only reason we exist is because our genes "wish" to remain immortal. Not dying is the fullest realization of our biological (and likely only empirically valid) purpose. Science also suggests that consciousness ceases with deat
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Would also like to know the team size. Sounds like 3 people with a good amount of experience. But it's a very impressive accomplishment no matter how you look at it.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Agreed. The final total number of deaths projected back in April [1] is about half of current deaths. It stands to reason that the problem is significantly worse than what our top epidemiologists expected and should be addressed accordi
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Seems possible Apple will announce plans to take a cut of ad revenue once they're the middleman tracking all conversions. I can't imagine they're happy that so much of the money being made off of their users is out of their r
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Wow it's almost like Apple designed their rules so that most of the key businesses in this world don't pay an insane 30% of their revenue to Apple. Almost like Apple say...doesn't want to discourage important institutions fro
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
This is a really ambiguous, unusual, and (in my opinion) inappropriate use of the term "customer acquisition". The App Store is a marketplace that connects people developing for a platform (iOS) to customers using devices compatib
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
I think the overarching point that's emerging here is that those profits are a consequence of monopolistic rent-seeking...
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Apple's cost to maintain this ecosystem can't be anything close to the insane $50B in App Store revenue they hauled in last year.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Do you have any statistics breaking down how frequently mobile users access email via a PWA versus a dedicated app? Also surveys on the difference in user experience? If not, please refrain from disingenuously advancing obviously problemati
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
When you really stop and unpack this, you can see that this is a non-issue. Adding an object or a field to the schema (the most common operations in a growing schema) never interfere with dependents and can be performed independently of cli
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
I find it odd that so many people are relying on the "well they do it too argument", as if Apple has a monopoly on monopolistic business practices. If you want an example of a horrible middleman in publishing that's slowly be
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
The other half of that coin is HN choosing to restore posts that have been flagged unnecessarily. That doesn't seem to be happening. It may not be a conspiracy but it's definitely still a problem.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
They would have to start by not demoting submissions with comment threads that explore this issue. This submission from 6 hours ago with 124 upvotes and 212 comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23568095 ) is not sh
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Yup seems like that just happened and they're still charging the $30. That means $108 lost to Apple in the first subscription-year and $54 every subscription-year thereafter. I'd be surprised if Superhuman isn't trying to fin
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
The fact that Apple is scrubbing text communications and discussing certain sensitive things with developers only over the phone is supremely shady. Deleting old communications is a classic tactic employed by organizations that anticipate l
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
The realization that this permits end-to-end fullstack type safety and allows some awesome things (like surfacing breakage at compile time in response to changes to the data model) is a quietly brewing revolution.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Can you point to some worthy examples of this as proofs of existence? And I mean something truly novel, and not simply a different way to do something we already can do.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
@dang Other submissions related to Apple and Hey are not sticking to the front page (or within the top 50 submissions) even though they are highly trafficked in terms of upvotes and comments. Could you please explain why this is happening?
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Ask HN: Why are submissions critical of Apple being nuked?
4 points by realtalk_sp 6y ago|3 comments
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
I think there are a lot of people who don't understand just how much retailers mark up some goods. But they're starting to get the idea now that D2C is increasing and you can see items sold directly by businesses at prices much
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
You're describing stores that exist in a competitive ecosystem with price variation. The analogy breaks down because "buyers of products" doesn't map one-to-one with "owners of iPhones" and because distribution
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
> They charge 30% because they've amassed 1 billion extremely valuable users who are willing to spend money on apps in their marketplace. Apps that are made up to 42% more expensive (NOTE: the 30% fee applies to all in-app purchases
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Some people here seem to be responding to all of this inappropriately. The simple fact is that Apple is injecting itself as an intermediary in the payment process and extracting a preposterously oversized commission for no meaningful added
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Isn't Superhuman using TestFlight to get around the App Store problem? That was the case last I heard of it.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Yes they are morally indefensible. Many of those decisions didn't make sense to me and yes I expressed outrage about it to friends. But your point is also a straw man. For the most part, there are still prohibitions on large gatherings
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
You're digressing from the core, indisputable truth: these protests, in the present environment, will result in a significant number of deaths. Sure we won't start to have a sense of just how many until a few more weeks have passe

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