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by robryan 12y ago
Seems to work pretty well for PayPal.
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by robryan 12y ago
Yep, we don't even think about this in Australia. All the banks have web/mobile apps with solid transfer tools. Same bank transfers are instant and to other banks are 1-2 business days.
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by robryan 12y ago
Doubt you would do any real damage, I believe in the past it has been noted that deleting photos on Facebook won't remove the actual images from their servers. So it is likely possible that they could simply identify photos deleted in
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by robryan 12y ago
It is possible that they only allow an exam to be seen with the professor present and then it is held onto afterwards. The thing is, he is already well over the budgeted hours. Sure this is a small thing, but there were probably a whole hea
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by robryan 12y ago
Anecdotally it seems like ipads have a longer lifespan than a phone as well. Those with an ipad 1 will probably have to upgrade and those with a 2 might want to for the retina display. The 3 though have been out for nearly 3 years and is st
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by robryan 12y ago
It would be actually paid tax. They can externalise a lot of the tax from Australia but have to be paying it somewhere. For instance if they are selling itunes/ app store content via Ireland or another lower tax nation they will still
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by robryan 12y ago
As someone who doesn't follow the NFL I am surprised that they allow the teams to supply their own balls. Seems it would be less complicated and achieve an even playing field if everyone had to use the same balls supplied by the league
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by robryan 12y ago
Don't they need Whatsapp though to get messages from others that use it? The network effect is strong and it is unlikely someone can make an orders to magnitude improvement on messaging software the compels people to switch. Barring ma
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by robryan 12y ago
Yep, it is an extroverts world out there.
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by robryan 12y ago
Yeah, it would be awesome if you could trade x% of your salary for x% extra holiday time. Just not possible in most jobs.
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by robryan 12y ago
There are more elements to WoW and similar games though. I am not a massive fan of the grind aspect but enjoy the team based coordination aspect.
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by robryan 12y ago
Is appointment reminder really a small market/ boring idea? I think there is massive potential there. Granted I think it needs a sales team to really get at a lot of the market.
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by robryan 12y ago
I think this has a lot to do with the 'do things that don't scale early on' mantra. Early on when these companies need to get some traction they will be more than happy to support the smaller customers. Later when they need t
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by robryan 12y ago
This may be because of an expectation of tips though? If the tips dried up they would be forced to move that pay to the persons wage.
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by robryan 12y ago
The question is would Spotify make money subscription revenue at $50 a month than $12. If the volume of subscribers at $12 is such to generate higher total subscription revenue then it makes sense to keep it low. I think your point is prett
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by robryan 12y ago
The interesting thing for me is how Uber frame their method of evaluating drivers as better than taxi industry regulation. Obviously a single incident in itself doesn't mean anything but if there is significant percentage of incidents
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by robryan 12y ago
Where will they go for services though?
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by robryan 12y ago
They didn't hand them to her but Facebook's network size and sharing features certainly allows a message people care about to spread much further than it would in the small business owner was just relying on their own website. As
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by robryan 12y ago
I wonder how many deals that are already series A size opportunities are out there which have so far avoided the typical tech startup route of picking up seed funding/ advisors which will avoid any introduction issue? It certainly is p
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by robryan 12y ago
I wonder if we should except s3 to degrade pretty badly if this isn't fixed soon. Going to be seeing a much higher than normal rate of requests.
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by robryan 12y ago
They should take it out of the console as well.
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by robryan 12y ago
It would be an interesting exercise for someone to go down the list and try and contact each of the seemly dead companies to confirm. Not sure if there is a way for people to contribute updates to yclist? For example just clicking through f
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by robryan 12y ago
They do, but as long as the change is generally positive they eventually come around. Each of Facebooks major UI/functionality changes over the years has come with a heap of resistance from users. Not many though if given the choice no
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by robryan 12y ago
It is essentially the same as payday loans. No one would pay thousands of percent interest but when framed different people take them up.
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by robryan 12y ago
If that was the case though, that it was completely upfront, I don't see why discussing this with Discover would be such a big issue. I seems at very least Amazon were scared that Discover could insist that it has been implemented wron
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by robryan 12y ago
I figured that stuff was determined by looking at orders to buy at a certain price? If there is a large number of orders to buy currency at 5.30 from your example you would say that it is at least likely to stay or bounce until all the orde
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by robryan 12y ago
"all profit is completely sucked out of the equation by the time you get to the consumption delivery system" Is this false though? For all the success of the itunes store I seem to remember it not actually making a lot of profit f
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by robryan 12y ago
I agree. Not sure what type of event it would take to finally push people over the edge to favor an end to drug prohibition but I imagine it is so drastic that the vested interests in the cartels wouldn't be stupid enough to do it.
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by robryan 12y ago
Google is probably one the biggest drivers of structured data on websites. They pull a lot of the additional search features such as ratings stars from structured data. [1] As websites will do anything to better than out in search results t
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by robryan 12y ago
Do they do autocompletion suggestions like Chrome? That would seem like a good reason to collect this data.

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