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by skewart 7y ago
Maybe, but they can change that at any time. If they wanted to have visibility into iCloud data going forward they easily could. With Apple products, you're putting your privacy entirely in Apple's hands and assuming that their ex
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by skewart 7y ago
Giving the founder control prevents other investors from taking control of the company and doing things that are worse than what the founder would do.
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by skewart 8y ago
At the end of the day, engineers need to know what they should build. Customer feedback, usage analytics, and all the other signals about what people might like need to get collected and distilled into actual feature ideas. And those featur
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by skewart 8y ago
> debts which will be constantly devalued in a high inflation environment. Why wouldn't lenders just charge higher interest rates to offset inflation?
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by skewart 8y ago
> Apple is not unfairly competing with apps on its store All the Apple apps that are pre-installed on an iPhone have a massive advantage over third-party options in the App Store. Most users just stick with the pre-installed Apple apps f
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by skewart 8y ago
True, a company has to enable it, though I wouldn't bet on employees necessarily being notified. Slack's help site page about message export doesn't mention anything about notifying employees on higher tier paid plans (though
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by skewart 8y ago
Slack gives your boss the ability to read all your private messages today. They have for a while now. You probably shouldn't expect privacy in any workplace app, or even when connected to a company network, given how many companies rou
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by skewart 8y ago
> the text is clearly worded to target the likes of Google and YouTube without calling them out by name Have you read the text? Nowhere does it target only the likes of Alphabet (Google and YouTube). The exemption threshold for small co
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by skewart 8y ago
There are lots of developers who are happy to build at low margins. In fact a lot of developers make their money by charging a flat fee for managing the project and don't take any upside at all. Plus there are plenty of non-profit dev
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by skewart 8y ago
> quantity and quality do not necessarily lead to affordability for the same population as re t control. Rent control is not need-based. People across the wealth spectrum enjoy the personal benefits of rent control (in SF there is no sho
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by skewart 8y ago
I don't think the issues that emerged at Cabrini Green and Robert Taylor Homes can be blamed primarily on their design. I suspect the systemic lack of maintenance and overall poor management were far more significant factors. There a
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by skewart 8y ago
I don't think that's quite right. How does signing up for Zendesk using feedback@slack.com give him access to the target company's Zendesk instance? He can't read emails sent to feedback@slack.com. The auto-add-to-orga
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by skewart 8y ago
And, as I understood it, he was able to read arbitrary emails sent to support@ by getting access to their ticketing system instances just like he got access to Slack. He doesn't say so explicitly, but presumably he did the same thing
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by skewart 8y ago
I've never asked anyone fizzbuzz, but I have seen people badly flub very easy algorithm questions that are basically at the same level. In every case it was because they over-complicated things. They came up with elaborate logic that t
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by skewart 8y ago
I'd be really curious to hear if you have more insights on why uptake is lackluster? Do you suspect AR glasses just aren't actually that useful for most industries? Or is it more that current technologies have specific limita
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by skewart 8y ago
Genuinely curious, why don't you use it much?
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by skewart 8y ago
Here's the big reason I've gotten skeptical about blockchain: it seems like very few people are excited about actually using it. Almost everyone talking about it is excited about getting rich from trading currencies or starting a
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by skewart 8y ago
As others have pointed out, Google bought Android long before Apple released the iPhone. Even after Apple did release the iPhone, the strategy behind Android was entirely focused on competing with Microsoft, not Apple. Google was terrified
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by skewart 9y ago
I doubt the Abbey Inn, a small bed and breakfast in Indiana, has a legal department.
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by skewart 9y ago
The online advertising world has changed a lot since Facebook's IPO. 180m users and an awkward ad buying experience aren't as compelling as they used to be. Plus, it sounds like not all of those 180m Snapchat users are interactin
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by skewart 9y ago
With stocks, the market cap is the total valuation of the company. Companies can have valuations because they can be bought and sold - either when they're private, like when Google buys a startup, or when they're publicly traded,
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by skewart 9y ago
> Basically, the issue is that banks can't be trusted,... And crypto exchanges, and all the other intermediaries you'll probably end up dealing with in practice, can be trusted? I get the usefulness of a decentralized permissi
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by skewart 9y ago
> It isn't just marketing. What makes you so confident? How do you know Apple thinks of itself as a hardware company whose incentives are aligned with those that buy phones? Their marketing certainly has made a lot of people think
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by skewart 9y ago
Is it different from a restaurant near a busy road, or by the side of a highway? The micro-kitchen location shown in the photo at the top of the article was near a highway. I doubt all of them are in locations exactly like that.
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by skewart 9y ago
> How dystopian. What exactly seems dystopian? The author sure was trying hard to dramatize these micro kitchens, describing them in commically over-the-top ways - "dark kitchens" near highway overpasses evokes thoughts of secr
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by skewart 9y ago
Yes. Any online review should be taken with a huge grain of salt. The vast majority are influenced by affiliate payments. Some, like credit cards and other financial products, are especially bad since the payments per conversion (i.e. pers
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by skewart 9y ago
> they don't exactly tell you BUY THIS, DONT BUY THAT > but for what I care about it sucks, its hard to use, and it doesn't dry dishes AT ALL. I'm confused, it sounds like you wish CR had just told you which dishwasher
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by skewart 9y ago
> Unless you're securing State Secrets or occupy rarefied enough heights that you have a Swiss bank account I don't really see anyone bothering. You're vastly underestimating how valuable access to a person's phone ca
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by skewart 9y ago
You make a lot of good points. Temp-to-perm could easily turn into an adverse selection situation, and there is potential for it to get exploitive. That said, I do think there is appeal for candidates in contracting for companies as a way t
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by skewart 9y ago
> Rather than trying to read subjective, noisy signals from in-person interviews, give candidates a small battery of work-sample tests. These can be bug-fixes, small features, diagnostic challenges, or even specification writing assignme

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