sebastien_b

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   by sebastien_b 6y ago

   My point is that, regardless of their cut, the "exposure" the App Store supposedly brings is likely practically nil, unless you're lucky enough to get 'featured' by them. So it's not like you end up being able
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   by sebastien_b 6y ago

   Given the state of the App Store, that placement is the equivalent of a needle on that grocery shelf. So now on top of the 30% you give Apple, you also have to buy ads in that same store for it to be more visible to users (assuming a compet
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   by sebastien_b 7y ago

   Indeed - I'd like to know which subsection states you can't do any marketing for your app. *"marketing" != paying for reviews, as this joecool1029 seems to assume.
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   by sebastien_b 7y ago

   Re-read the comment more carefully - "it's called marketing you should look into it" means you spend money to promote the app so it gets downloaded, ("and then people hear about your app and go download it"), and po
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   by sebastien_b 7y ago

   I think one of the root problems is that there are too many "public" companies, that serve not the public, but their shareholders instead, with the additional problem being that public companies are required to put their shareho
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   by sebastien_b 7y ago

   I agree murder wouldn’t fit here (unfortunately), and I was speaking more in the context of negligence - there were definitively intentional things done that affected safety, with intent to either violate it or withhold information about it
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   by sebastien_b 7y ago

   Unfortunately, this wouldn't stick, only because they didn't know who would end up getting killed, or when, beforehand.
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   by sebastien_b 7y ago

   Intent goes both ways - while perhaps there was no intent to have people die, there was deliberate intent to not do something about safety being compromised that they knew they should've done something about (or that they should have k
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   by sebastien_b 7y ago

   Indeed, nothing "involuntary" in any of this.
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    by sebastien_b 7y ago

    > and if you have Boeing stocks in your portfolio, then you are a shareholder, so maybe you should go to jail. Personally, I'm not opposed to that type of thing happening - I always thought a company being "public" is an o
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    by sebastien_b 7y ago

    > No one wanted people to die, it is not murder, at worst it is involuntary manslaughter > Try again - more like criminal negligence at a minimum. > But is it the solution? Is it what should be done? Yes - there needs to be some se
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    by sebastien_b 7y ago

    I didn't read the whole thing, but the first few paragraphs make it sound almost exactly like SQRL (ie. no secrets to keep).