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by slykat 14y ago
Now if there was an easy way of showing a user where the address bar is so they can type it in...
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by slykat 14y ago
Besides the postcard format, how is this different from PicPlum (YC S11)?
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by slykat 14y ago
I cringed a bit when the article mentioned that physical goods built the business case for Amazon selling the Fire at cost. I find it very difficult to believe that Amazon was banking on Fire customers purchasing significantly more physical
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by slykat 14y ago
I don't think the US has a mandated maximum number of hours you can work your employees; if it did a lot of start-ups couldn't exist. Workhours vary a lot by teams and functions at Google. I know of teams where you work 40 hours each week a
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by slykat 15y ago
I feel like this is [unfortunately] a regular practice of app makers nowadays. I'd love to abide by "let the industry govern itself" but I don't think that's realistic. I've seen so many apps that have abusive and opaque permissions. Is the
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by slykat 15y ago
Makes sense - good to know. So basically there are no scale advantages with going with one battery type instead of 3?
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by slykat 15y ago
Just 12 accounts hacked from China, really? I think it's pretty well documented that the hacking issues were more way more extensive than 12 account. It's debatable whether it was government sponsored hacking or private citizens but regardl
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by slykat 15y ago
What about the market for car sharing? At Google we have a fleet of electric (and normal cars that are offered to employees for personal & business use and it's never been a problem since they are used for short trips. If they can produ
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by slykat 15y ago
Are marginal costs enough to see the impact of offering multiple options? My concern is that by having so many battery & other options, Tesla is probably requiring different manufacturing processes, different equipment, which can dramat
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by slykat 15y ago
I find this a bit unfair - taking two data points to make a statement about gender discrimination at Google. Here's another datapoint - Google recently hired Margo Georgiadis, a female, to the 2nd highest position in Sales - a historically
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by slykat 15y ago
I don't understand why I keep hearing this mantra so often - it's completely off-base. Android is clearly a goldmine. The goldmine is the incremental search revenue Google gets from controlling the Android platform. Why do you think the sea
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by slykat 15y ago
I worked with carriers on handset pricing strategy so I'm familiar with this issue. There is a reason many country telecom regulators ban subsidization of handsets - in most cases bundling is anti-consumer. Bundling uses a common pricing ps