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by woofie11 6y ago
I think the other piece to look at is market cap. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet/Google, Facebook, Tencent, and Alibaba are huge. I'd focus enforcement efforts on those. They're also high-growth. Of all of those, Amazon&#
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Well, no. Most of those companies have special terms which end up screwing most employees out of any upside. That goes anything from shares people can't exercise without a 10-year commitment to tiers of options, to simply offering 0.00
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by woofie11 6y ago
I think WordPerfect 8 was where Corel rewrote it. It didn't work nearly as well. I vaguely recall they switched from native to some kind of compatibility layer (maybe Wine?) which just wasn't very good.
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The port was so perfect! Not the Corel ones, but the one from SD Corp. I'd love to have that running again.
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If Google wanted, it could prohibit that practice. If you want Play Store, Youtube, Gmail, and all the other Googlies, you play by Google's rules. It ain't rocket science. If Samsung decides not to play, Sony and Huawei will eat i
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by woofie11 6y ago
????? Personal issues? I think you're projecting something. I was responding to this comment: "I'd personally trust Google's SRE team more than any other cloud provider in the world. They seem to have a great historical
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by woofie11 6y ago
I guess I've never had that problem on my Linux desktop. I've had it for around a quarter-century now. There's a philosophical question whether it's the same desktop, since it has none of the original parts. I guess I&#x
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Google is the dominant force in this market. I'm sorry, but you can't pass the buck here. Somehow, PCs get security updates.
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Go to Google's store: https://eduproducts.withgoogle.com/products/category/chromeb... Every Chromebook has a nicely listed expiration date. Past that date, security updates stop. At least in contrast to Andro
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I wouldn't trust Google for security of MY data. I'd trust them for security of THEIR data. Examples: * Planned obsolescence for most Google devices (Chromebooks, Android device, etc.) where security updates disappear after a few
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by woofie11 6y ago
Amazon has always been forward-thinking, and they ran at a loss for decades to build up a trillion dollar business. I really don't think short-term thinking is what's causing them to tear it down right now. I have no insider infor
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Yeah. It's pretty easy. Google Takeout is great. BACK UP YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT PERIODICALLY. GOOGLE CAN AND DOES RANDOMLY DISABLE THEM WITH THEIR CHAOS MONKEY ACCOUNT THWACKER. If they detect suspicious activity -- and their algorithms a
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Is an afterthought in underlying platform design. Typing isn't synced anywhere close to real-time, for example, and glitches abound. It's tough to retroglue this stuff in!
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by woofie11 6y ago
Amazon is getting overrun by scams. They're behind eBay and Aliexpress at this point. I kind of feel like they need to adopt a labor-intensive zero-tolerance policy for this kind of stuff. There's a bimodal distribution. You can h
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by woofie11 6y ago
Analyses I've seen say this has a lot to do with expectations, but in a rather different way than you described. To get things out-of-the-way: All the data I've seen suggests that couples in such countries DO actually appear to ha
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by woofie11 6y ago
Statistics prove you wrong! In countries where parents are involved in matchmaking (in other words, there is some outside, semi-objective force at work beyond hormones), marriages tend to be healthier and more stable. "Involved" i
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I'm sure the current approach in the US is dysfunctional. No one is saying people can't move out. All we're saying is that in most countries in the world, there is no stigma to not moving out. Some kids move out when they hea
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Both should happen.
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Hopefully, this is a dysfunctional cultural norm we can change in America. I was excited by this statistic. If this becomes commonplace, it will carry less stigma, and hopefully happen more often where appropriate.
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by woofie11 6y ago
I'm not quite sure why you view open source and capitalism as being in conflict. If I'm buying a mouse, I'll pay a lot more for one with an open source firmware, schematics, and design. It costs no more to product. Mostly, th
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You didn't, but I'm just saying others involved did. I'm not sure much of anyone involved on the Nissan side actually cared if Nissan won, except for maybe one or two very senior leaders in Japan, and perhaps not even that. I
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by woofie11 6y ago
Nope. There are classes among the ultrawealthy too: * Lower-class ultrawealthy have billions on paper, but no liquidity. Think of a founder sitting on a pre-IPO unicorn. * Jeff Bezos is lower-middle-class ultrawealthy. He has wealth, but he
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My experience is that lots of people often secretly sympathize. Including the lawyers involved. It's pretty easy to throw a case.
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Uzi Nissan just died of COVID19. It will be interesting to see if his relatives stick to his principals, and hold onto the web site in memory of him, or make millions and sell to Nissan. I hope they hold on. I predict someone will eventuall
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by woofie11 6y ago
It's deep and complex in the same way Lisp is deep and complex. Or if you don't know Lisp, a weaker analogy is Go. I'm a huge fan of React, but without understanding of why it is, people use it wrong all the time.
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Business models which leverage network effects often subsidize things to build out a network. I wouldn't feel bad about it. That said, this move seems 100% reasonable. I care about having a free tier. If they were killing the free tier
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I think the problem is not so much with the React architecture, but with the culture of JavaScript, which: * does a horrific job with documentation * delivers millions of packages with demo-grade half-finished projects * has tutorials which
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The 3 month window is the killer. free tiers are there to give time for developers to learn an API, or to prototype something nights/weekends.
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This is incorrect. It becomes impossible to say "no" 100% of the time. It's very possible to say no occasionally. Indeed, if everyone said "no" when not overly awkward, it would make a world of difference. If everyo
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I think the "competitive" piece is more important than the "can't verify" piece. I'd add academics, politicians, and executives to that list. A lot of professions are structured like pyramid schemes, with partn

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