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by waboremo 3y ago
Short simple and to the point (unlike my comment, but alas). I recently tried a little experiment, where I would use the internet without adblocker (or similar like DNS filtering, extensions to remove annoyances, etc). I thought to myself I
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by waboremo 3y ago
Sure, technically that's correct. But it's google we're talking about. The company with a tremendous list of failures that should have been easy slam dunks.
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by waboremo 3y ago
Where are you getting 90% failure rate for those with access to enough wealth to easily sweep up $1m land + development costs for several buildings? I can buy that for average folk, as they often do not have the expertise (nor the wealth to
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by waboremo 3y ago
By your own link, statistics have reversed and just in 2019-2020 alone an increase of 8 million people fell into extreme poverty. Going by UN metrics, we're actually seeing a stabilization in the "dramatic improvements", and
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by waboremo 3y ago
What's the purpose of denying recorded averages[1]? It's a given 1.5 will happen, as none of the drastic measures have been acted on and most goals have not been hit. [1] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/
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by waboremo 3y ago
Without severe expansion of data privacy laws universally, most of my alternatives fall short. I can tell somebody to use 2FA and to be selective about their data, but what good does that do when companies are barely complying with GDPR as
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by waboremo 3y ago
It's the case everywhere. A designer (in the context of software/hardware) does not work without user research, that is core to their work. Any position that does not require user research in design is titled differently these day
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by waboremo 3y ago
Part of South Korea's rapid reach stems from how Americanized its modern culture is. I am not just talking about global corporations like mcdonalds. It's everything, even the choice of coffee over tea, a rarity for an asian countr
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by waboremo 3y ago
Designers alone can't push through a change for the sake of change as their work relies entirely on user research. Even if they do have the research needed to prove a change is required, they also have to get developers on board. So I
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by waboremo 3y ago
>assuming you live in a country where identity theft isn't much of a problem, and assuming regular and working backups are implemented These are gigantic assumptions. I am not exaggerating when I say gigantic. Identity theft alone i
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by waboremo 3y ago
You should probably focus on the already existing market, anything else is a waste of time unless Apple has invited you to prepare something. Otherwise that's just a whole lot of wasted resources on an unsure userbase.
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by waboremo 3y ago
Right, and Trend Micro is a very tiny little independent mom and pop business who couldn't withstand a meritless lawsuit. This hypothetical makes absolutely zero sense in reality. If LTT can name and shame, so can Trend Micro. It'
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by waboremo 3y ago
Congratulations you're using Magic Links.
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by waboremo 3y ago
You aren't avoiding this problem though, just like this exploit requires physical access to disk, someone with physical access to your piece of paper negates any benefits. Even worse when people are recommending keeping your passwords
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by waboremo 3y ago
If the easiest action is not to spit, why did he continue spitting? Let's move on from spitting, as it's a dull example, but into behaviors in general. How do you get someone to stop doing something? Punishment does not work. Tell
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by waboremo 3y ago
Threatening unnecessary violence is another strike against your social credit score.
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by waboremo 3y ago
Hasn't there been several attempts at this? Vaguely recall firefoxOS and sailfishOS. I believe the problem always came down to hardware, due to it being essentially dominated by Android (ignoring iOS due to how tightly wound hardware a
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by waboremo 3y ago
Not sure how you reach the conclusion that bootstrapped garage efforts would equate to dumping under these conditions. Bootstrapped garage efforts, unlike VC backed, have very little if any runway. They can't afford to.
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by waboremo 3y ago
I would love to see "lifetime" purchases be regulated out entirely, so that a lifetime purchase of software has very specific meaning and can't be weaselled out with a major version update, a rebrand, a new listing, etc.
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by waboremo 3y ago
Brutal honesty can't really work without being on the same page, which is why I reckon most attempts at brutal honesty lead to miscommunication and shortcomings from people who share the same goals. This is also why I believe brutal ho
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by waboremo 3y ago
To #3, to users the benefit is absolutely nothing. There are still so many garbage apps. To Apple, the benefit is enormous. What happens when garbage apps get better ranking? Companies pay for that sponsored position. Once they do, Apple th
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by waboremo 3y ago
BOTW has the same attachment rate as Windwaker and Ocarina of Time, which nullifies the argument that Zelda has sold poorly until BOTW. Attachment rates are important, better than pure sales, because it tells you how many potential buyers b
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by waboremo 3y ago
A complete story can be told in under 2 hours. Forcing developers to bloat their games for no reason other than to avoid the refund system is an absurdly idiotic suggestion.
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by waboremo 3y ago
You make it sound complicated, it's not. Refunds are automated, buying games is easy. Piracy still involves external tools. We're talking about people already having steam accounts, refunding games they've completed just beca
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by waboremo 3y ago
Legal issues. Dash cams aren't allowed universally, and even when they are they tend to have restrictions (how it's mounted, how footage is handled, etc). They've just decided dealing with this pain point is not worth the pur
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by waboremo 3y ago
If they haven't explicitly stated why they've flagged your account, it's not worth trying to reason out yourself. Everyone eventually gets caught in Stripe's crossfire, unfortunately they have done nothing to make it eas
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by waboremo 3y ago
No, demos negatively affecting sales has been known for years now. Even studies as far back as 2013. This isn't some "your game is just bad" situation. Besides, even if it was, it's not like developers set out to make a
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by waboremo 3y ago
It's still absurd Steam has done nothing to the refund rule when games are around or under 2 hours long. There are zero consequences to "buying" games like Superhot, A Short Hike, Journey, and Before Your Eyes; completing the
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by waboremo 3y ago
FWIW, the current policy is also hotly contested for the very reasons outlined by the person you're replying to.
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by waboremo 3y ago
This is how we get endless waves of shallow games and nothing but addiction hooks to get people into the game for 91 minutes :)

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