blunderkid

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by blunderkid 4y ago
If ever there was a valid application of monopoly abuse laws, it is Apple's extortion for no value provided. Saying that as a blue blooded iFan who owns one of nearly every Apple product and service out there including the Apple Cloth.
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by blunderkid 4y ago
Fresh looks inspired by Remix. Is that right? Not that there is anything wrong with that. But given that Remix does claim to be production ready, what makes Fresh better? I have been playing with Remix in a side project. I do like their sim
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by blunderkid 5y ago
First off, being a "monopoly" (dominant market share) does not make one a "despot blinded by hubris" as the OP suggests. Anti-trust laws target "abuse" of monopoly. Secondly, YC may very well be a "new age
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by blunderkid 6y ago
Well, cost of doing business. So it’s not perfect, nothing is. But is it still a better store of value than your bank and pension which you may not realize, but are getting robbed by the Robinhoods you voted to power to replace the manchild
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by blunderkid 6y ago
I am an gadget fan. I wouldn’t be caught dead with an Android or a Windows thingy in my hand. Also a small dev. Here is the thing. Apple offers no revenue promise when I publish my app on iOS. If I don’t figure out how to market my app, it
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by blunderkid 6y ago
What Apple is going is just obnoxious and as clear a case of anti-trust as has ever been. 30% of revenue for no services offered, just because they can, is the definition of extortion. The only thing stopping them from asking 30% off of you
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by blunderkid 6y ago
fuck yeah brother.
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by blunderkid 6y ago
Haha, take your point about the tendency to "classify". There is good reason for that however: he is a VC. One of the big things that keeps VCs busy is classifying/stereotyping teams and looking for patterns of success. Yes,
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by blunderkid 6y ago
Desperate move to keep up the charade of not being a CCP shop. On a slightly separate note, given all the virtue signaling of companies like Apple in the context of BLM, its worth reiterating that any US tech company helping the imperial C
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by blunderkid 6y ago
You'd imagine the Chinese communists would be smarter having been in business for 50 years now. But when pushed into a corner on taking the responsibility for the deadly virus, all they can think of is grabbing land and starting wars
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Google Cloud credits gave us Covid relief(startup.google.com)
2 points by blunderkid 6y ago|1 comments
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by blunderkid 6y ago
This was amazing on Google's part. We are a small company with a teeny-weeny seed round, struggling to take off and Google's credits literally extended our runway and saved the team a lot of anxiety in the next 12 months. Just wa
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by blunderkid 6y ago
In 30 years if not sooner, humanity will look back and be horrified with this time when we let a whole vulnerable generation fall prey to social media and hyper connectivity while parents bought stocks of the very same recreational drug man
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by blunderkid 6y ago
Well put sistah!
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by blunderkid 6y ago
Apple charges 30% from newspapers and magazines - an industry that is struggling to make any money. But not Facebook which makes way more money than all the newspapers in the world taken together. Yes Apple built the platform but by chargin
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by blunderkid 6y ago
Very magnanimous of big G! Obliging us with virtual trinkets that cost them nothing when most of us be out of jobs soon and a few really unlucky ones may die. Bet their PR department is made up of lawyers only. Complete lack of empathy an
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by blunderkid 7y ago
There should be only one regulation for fb, display following warning on all pages/screens: Statutory Warning: This product is specifically designed to cause behavioral addiction so you are guided down a slippery slope of over consumpt
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by blunderkid 7y ago
Or he is quite happy to have cashed out instead of wasting his life away trying to run a low (if any) margin, weak network effects business with local competitors and regulators nibbling at your sanity.
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by blunderkid 7y ago
Exactly. The real reason why FB is evil is not because it makes a ton of money from data that you willingly provide it, its simply because of what it is - a platform that takes advantage of a human weakness - vanity, to keep you "engag
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by blunderkid 7y ago
User friendliness aside, the 30% that Apple keeps is just plain & simple monopoly abuse, especially on the iOS App Store where Apple does control a majority of the market in US. That they haven't been held up for anti-trust shows t
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by blunderkid 7y ago
Public cloud is definitely a great value for startups. When you are small and want the flexibility and speed and the sophistication that cloud providers make possible. The premium they charge is well worth up to a certain point at least. Wh
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by blunderkid 7y ago
I recall a case study about the telecom industry and how it was a race to the bottom laying undersea cables and then the bubble burst. But that assessment was in hindsight. I guess a distinction needs to be made between a "bubble"
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by blunderkid 7y ago
Care to spare some details? Your first hand experience even without the names can be most useful/interesting for HN types.
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by blunderkid 7y ago
If this thing is "smart", wouldn't a software reset like via a voice command be easier?
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by blunderkid 7y ago
I liked iOS' "skeuomorphic" design and despise the flatness that Mr Ive introduced, i think 5 years back. The first iPhone was mind blowing because it seemed to make apps pop out of the screen and invited you to tap on them.
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by blunderkid 7y ago
I am a web dev and react debug console matters a lot to me but on FF it does this weird scroll to the top thing every time I switch file tabs. And it’s in general buggy. Now it may have to do with the plugin dev but if you want to be a viab
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by blunderkid 7y ago
Useless idea. Social networks esp FB should come with a statutory warning: Excessive vanity can cause permanent brain damage leading to a dysfunctional real life with real friends/family who may actually give 2 fux about you.
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by blunderkid 7y ago
Curious how this stacks up against draft js?
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by blunderkid 7y ago
Harmful content as in all that vanity driven public posts by otherwise normal humans. Wait who specializes in that?
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by blunderkid 7y ago
What Google had to do was to blindly copy Fakebook and use its search engine to market the hell out of it while there was still hope. In other words be ruthless. But that trait comes easier to MarkZ than the Google trio. If you couldn’t, at

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