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by s17n 8y ago
> My take on this is that people need to realize that they are not an exception to this. _Everyone_ has an ideology that overrides logic for many topics. Is that what the paper actually says? Based on my personal experience I would thin
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by s17n 8y ago
By "solve" I mean come up with another similar asymmetry which doesn't depend on your physical location being constant.
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by s17n 8y ago
Tying to a physical location actual serves an important function in that it introduces an asymmetry between you and a potential attacker / identity thief - it's much cheaper for you to physically show up at your local courthouse t
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by s17n 8y ago
I think it's pretty clear that the editor isn't intended for people who aren't enthusiasts and just want an editor to get work done.
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by s17n 8y ago
Could be that the author is a well known crank?
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by s17n 8y ago
That's because it's an enterprise company. Consumers won't pay for software.
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by s17n 8y ago
What company has a track record of indefinitely supporting products/services which have failed in the marketplace?
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by s17n 8y ago
> Unsurprising consistent behavior is a value. Looking at the last 30 years of software development, it's pretty clear that users don't care very much.
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by s17n 8y ago
Two reasons: 1. Google saw their infrastructure as being a key competitive advantage, not something to be commoditized. 2. More importantly: Google's core business has ridiculously high profit margins, which made them institutionally i
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by s17n 8y ago
Given the huge volume of crappy apps in the store, I think the general public is well served by this policy even if it does suck for well intentioned developers like yourself.
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by s17n 8y ago
Sounds like their problem is that you don't have permission from Hacker News to launch a Hacker News app? To be honest, this is a good policy - the app store is inundated with shitty apps that capitalize on well known properties in th
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by s17n 8y ago
No they don't. If you want your Medium post to get read you have to promote it on HN, reddit, facebook, twitter, etc exactly as you would with a self-hosted post.
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by s17n 8y ago
Gmail, not so much. The Play store and Google Mobile Services are the critical ecosystem pieces.
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by s17n 8y ago
GDPR is worse, actually. Both laws are making site owners liable for hosting certain types of content (personal information and copyrighted materials, respectively). However automatically detecting copyrighted materials is relatively stra
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by s17n 8y ago
If that happens, they will only double down on walled gardens like facebook instant articles and the amp carousel.
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by s17n 8y ago
Good luck getting any publishers on board with that.
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by s17n 8y ago
This is what separates Apple from their competitors - any other company would have just shoveled some crap out the door by now.
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by s17n 8y ago
True, but in your OP you said 99%. Far more than 1% of javascript developers are working on websites and all of those people should be thinking twice before adding 300kb to their bundle size.
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by s17n 8y ago
The fact that marketers hate it can only be taken as evidence that it's a good thing.
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by s17n 8y ago
> So, we spent ages getting to where everyone agreed on standards and they were correctly implemented. What are you talking about? What standards? Most content websites are a combination of incompetence and active hostility to the user
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by s17n 8y ago
Content sites get traffic from google / facebook / etc and then monetize it. Unless the site is so bad that people just close the tab rather than read the article, usability doesn't matter. You're only going to get one
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by s17n 8y ago
There's no laziness or boneheadedness involved. Without the AMP carousel, making a fast website is a bad business decision. With the carousel, it's a good one. The usability of your site just doesn't really matter if your b
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by s17n 8y ago
Well, in this case the investments were originally sold by the city, based on the promise that the city would use its authority to maintain their scarcity, so I don't think it's unreasonable for the city to offer some kind of bail
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by s17n 8y ago
The business case is that by using the same fleet for ride hailing and delivery they can provide the service for a lower cost than competitors that only do delivery.
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by s17n 8y ago
Google is a consumer software company. Consumers aren't willing to pay for software.
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by s17n 8y ago
I never understand why people assume that services that charge money will be more responsive to users' concerns than free services. You are worth the revenue that you generate, whether that money comes from you paying or indirect mean
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by s17n 8y ago
Why does so much right wing analysis seem like it was written by a precocious sixth grader?
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by s17n 8y ago
What the software industry calls an "A/B test" is what scientists call a "randomized controlled trial",* and it's generally considered to be the best type of experiment you can do. The fact that people routinel
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by s17n 8y ago
In that case, your assertion that "doubling should be sufficient to get single unit price" was wrong, cause you aren't going to get a queen from either of those companies for $500.
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by s17n 8y ago
If you don't think regulation is a serious threat, you're crazy. The fact that Airbnb being completely outlawed is on the table in a lot of places should tell you that regulation is a big concern.

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