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by smachiz 6y ago
Except it's not really an analog at all. Microsoft didn't lose their antitrust case because of any of that - they lost because they were paying OEMs to not install software - and if they did, they were punishing them. The rebate
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by smachiz 6y ago
You are not a lawyer I presume. This isn't remotely related to tying - and buying an iPhone doesn't force you to buy anything at all from the app store. And it's completely unrelated to any commissions from the App store. If
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by smachiz 6y ago
>One recent development at SoftBank that worries some in Elliott is a new asset-management arm Mr. Son announced in mid-August as cash piled up, to which he will contribute himself. He now personally directs a team of traders using $20 b
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by smachiz 6y ago
At which point the QR is no better - and probably worse - than the stripe app and an NFC reader.
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by smachiz 6y ago
The five finger discount is a risk regardless of payment method and doesn’t have a bearing on which method is superior. NFC terminals aren’t expensive - especially since they can be a cheap phone now. QR without validating payment received
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by smachiz 6y ago
Unfortunately the bottom rung can least afford the fraud. If the currency is good enough to fool a street vendor, it’s probably good enough to spend with their suppliers. Not like they’re sticking it in a bank. I suspect those street vendo
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by smachiz 6y ago
Until everyone starts faking receipts, and then you’re back to terminals and someone validating they did receive a payment. Or they go the other way and they’re scanning your QR code. Basically, it isn’t actually better than NFC, just diffe
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by smachiz 6y ago
Sure, which works great until rampant abuse shuts that down. Pretty easy to fake a receipt.
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by smachiz 6y ago
How do you validate I've paid and let me through with a static QR code for something like the metro, or a ticketed event, or even a coffee? How do you know they paid the right amount? I turn and show you my receipt, and you hope it&#x2
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by smachiz 6y ago
How is QR any different than NFC from a user perspective? Both require a terminal to be effortless for the consumer (an LCD or e-ink display that shows a real time QR with transaction details like amount, or an NFC chip that does the same
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by smachiz 6y ago
$100k on the under.
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by smachiz 6y ago
lol. You're VASTLY underestimating how much progress is being made by companies that aren't Uber. 3-10 years is a more realistic timetable than decades. "People overestimate what they can accomplish in one year, and underesti
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by smachiz 6y ago
Their online stores are 100% closed, walled gardens. As far as I know, the courts didn't require that Nintendo, Sega or Sony make the consoles open - they just didn't make it illegal to reverse engineer the protections.
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That's always true though - what you're saying is "I don't like that some entities are more powerful than other entities". Even at much smaller scale, you may need someone more than they need you, and they will nego
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by smachiz 6y ago
I think the issue is that there's always inherent risks to relying on external forces. And that you literally cannot avoid external forces. This isn't unique to Apple, and it's not arbitrary or capricious on their behalf.
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If you are the facility manager for a location in the north pole, you wouldn't get paid for travel time to your place of employment. Bear in mind this is a devil's advocate argument - I think they likely should be paid. But there
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by smachiz 6y ago
still - apologies for suggesting you misremembered, I didn't realize my version was abridged! Thanks for the link with more of the audio - there's definitely at least a tinge of disbelief!
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by smachiz 6y ago
Amazing professionalism - and the whole thing is worth a listen to, but there wasn't any shock - he didn't even mention it, just presumably updated the medical team he was sending to the runway. https://youtu.be/Fk
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by smachiz 6y ago
Except they’re being new and without market share is exactly why they’re cheaper. Epic isn’t running an altruistic enterprise here. It was telling that after circumventing Apple’s 30%, they didn’t offer their goods 30% cheaper - or even 18
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by smachiz 6y ago
That's not true, it's also discovery, trust and an ecosystem to run your apps in. Calling the app store just payment processing is a ridiculous simplification. Epic's store charges 12%, but has neither the hardware platform,
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by smachiz 6y ago
"50% of my marketing dollars are wasted, the problem is, I don't know which 50%"
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by smachiz 6y ago
RSUs work because they're typically for already public companies. At vest, in the US, a percentage of shares are immediately sold to cover taxes. With illiquid stock - as in a startup - where there's no public market for it, and
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by smachiz 6y ago
I would bet it's their mini-bottles and pints - those are what are commonly plastic rather than glass.
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I've never seen any Johnnie Walker airport bottles in plastic - at least not full size. I would bet they sell the mini bottles and pints in plastic - but their full size bottles have been glass in every outlet I've seen them.
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You seem unconcerned about the people who might feel marginalized and harmed by the rampant use of offensive language, and really concerned about people who could simply substitute another word with no impact. It's a really, really fal
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They’re almost always money-losing ego flights. BA1 rarely flies full. The ego is right there in the number. It’s a novelty. SQ hasn’t operated business class only since like 2011. It has 67 business seats and 94 premium economy seats.
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by smachiz 6y ago
Umm... ask every 'business class only' airline that has come (and gone...) about that.
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Virtually no startup can get loans without a PG at any non-loanshark rate. This would be very attractive to someone who wants to grow their business without taking (more) personal risk than they have already.
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> Can a Transfer Be Reversed After Being Accepted? Once a wire transfer has been accepted by the recipient's bank, there are only a few circumstances that allow for the reversal of the wire transfer under the Uniform Commercial Code
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by smachiz 6y ago
That's actually the inverse of the problem. Yes, 1.7Ghz doesn't penetrate well, but in cities you want density, because you have population density. Low band is still useful, but not nearly as advantaged as in rural areas. In ru

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