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by sksksk 2y ago
Surely the specific use case could be achieved in some privacy respecting way? For example, you could send hashes of the user's contacts, they could be compared to each other, but not reverse engineered?
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by sksksk 2y ago
It is really difficult to do, a few thoughts from previous places I've worked at... I don't know anything about your technical stack, but I'm going to assume they're all solved for. The easiest is if your codebase is all
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by sksksk 2y ago
My experience of driving in the US is that stop signs are used a lot, so people get numb and treat them as Give Way/Yield signs (where you don't need to come to a dead stop, but must give way to any oncoming traffic). In the UK, S
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by sksksk 2y ago
> I think most teachers would agree that, for pupils without a significant attendance problem, a week away (particularly if it's towards the end of a term) is not going to make a realistic difference when it comes to attainment for
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by sksksk 2y ago
Allegedly, Apple have built in privacy features so they can't associate individual users with routes, or know what the entire route is[1]. Apple does show traffic data in the app, so they obviously do collect the data somehow. When Ap
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by sksksk 2y ago
Maps is table stakes for a smartphone, and having such a key feature provided by your main competitor is a huge risk. So purely on that basis, it could be worth it. Then, on top of that, there is value in the data you're able to collec
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by sksksk 2y ago
The most interesting thing for me was the Iconian Fonts website. One guy who is a "commercial transaction attorney for a global software and service company", that makes fonts as a hobby. On his commerical use page, he just asks f
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by sksksk 2y ago
These feature phones didn't have (many) third party apps. Smartphones are all rectangular touch screens, so creating an app that works on different devices doesn't require huge amounts of work (technical and design). If manufactur
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by sksksk 2y ago
The article says it only shows the message if your end destination supports contactless
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by sksksk 2y ago
They also employ what I call the "slow drip"... An aircraft is out of position, so the flight is definitely going to be cancelled, but instead of cancelling the flight, every 10 minutes, they'll announce a further 10 minute d
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by sksksk 3y ago
I often think about my partner's pregnancy journey, when she was pregnant she was given a folder which had all sorts of forms in. For every appointment she went to, she'd bring the folder in and the staff would read the existing p
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by sksksk 3y ago
What country was this? If it was a European subsidiary, then would you have not have been subject to the employment protection of the country's laws?
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by sksksk 3y ago
I genuinely think that Windows 2000 was the perfect aesthetic. It had just the right amount of skeuomorphism, without going overboard; probably because of hardware limitations. What I think happened is that as computers and phones got more
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by sksksk 3y ago
Do you live in a city with a grid based road system? In a country with more organic road networks, that wouldn't work
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by sksksk 3y ago
I once paid for a car with Apple Pay (it was far over the £100 limit)
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by sksksk 4y ago
Unless your business model is to get acquired by one of the supermarkets
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by sksksk 4y ago
There is an app in the UK called Lollipop, which works like Hello Fresh and the likes, except instead of delivering the ingredients to your house, it just adds the ingredients to the basket of your supermarket shop (and takes a commission).
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by sksksk 4y ago
Starlink is being used by the Ukraine military, so presumably that horse has bolted?
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by sksksk 4y ago
- Interchange fees (Monzo take ~1% of every card transaction) - Packaged account fees (Monzo Plus, Premium and business Pro) - Lending (Overdrafts, Personal Loans, Credit Card) - Interest on bank deposits
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by sksksk 4y ago
“Once we get electric planes” is such a handwavy statement. We are so far off getting anything close to an electric commercial passenger plane. The environmental cost Of train infrastructure is also amortised over the lifetime of the infras
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by sksksk 5y ago
Set a monthly budget for non essential subscriptions, whatever you think you can afford. If you hit the budget, and you want a new subscription, then that means you have to cancel something else.
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by sksksk 5y ago
I often think to be succesful, you need a combination of a) A good environment to grow up in b) A lot of hard work c) Luck If you're missing one of them, you need to make it up in the other categories.
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by sksksk 5y ago
I think of "tech" companies as companies where you've got large fixed costs to build out and maintain the product, but the marginal cost of your product is very close to zero. So Facebook and JCDecaux are both advertising com
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by sksksk 5y ago
Uber, Netflix and Epic may not need the channel. But Apple/Google are betting that for the long tail of developers, the benefits of the App stores outweigh the costs. Personally, I am far more likely to try out a subscription if I can
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by sksksk 5y ago
When my partner was pregnant, I found some of the snippets downright dangerous. One time in particular, my partner was worried about abdominal seperation (something quite common during pregnancy), she was searching about how long it takes t
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by sksksk 5y ago
Skin cancer typically hits way after the age that most people have kids
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by sksksk 5y ago
YouTube used to select the preview image by taking a freeze frame at a certain point in the video. Older YouTubers used to manipulate this by putting the suggestive part of the video at the right time. Here's a blast from the past doin
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by sksksk 5y ago
When they work well, they're really good, but when they work badly, they're _really_ bad. The other week, I went for dinner at a place that had a online ordering system. My experience was as follows... Arrive at the table, scan th
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by sksksk 6y ago
dead for me
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by sksksk 6y ago
They did offer @facebook enails once, and it would integrate with your messages app. It didn’t really take off though, and I guess was quietly withdrawn. https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/15/facebook-messaging&#x

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