librish

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by librish 6mo ago
There's a difference between attacking an experience share and attacking an attack.
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by librish 9mo ago
This level of generalization is naive.
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by librish 9mo ago
This is the type of cynicism the post is talking about and it's just trivially untrue. It's like saying that employees only want one thing: to get their paycheck.
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by librish 2y ago
> There are huge variations within a country, but they are far smaller than variations between countries. That's not true. To use the examples in the thread, a patient American kid will be much more patient than an impatient Japanes
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by librish 2y ago
There are some funny comments in the code: function mousePressed() { // This is the worst if statement in the history of if statements if (!refining && !mde && !completed && !shared) { ...
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by librish 2y ago
While it might be better for your job security to keep your own field hiring locally, it could be better for your life if all other fields hire the best regardless of nationality.
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by librish 2y ago
Carry-on might get gate-checked if you're unlucky.
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by librish 2y ago
I'm surprised that this common enough that it's worthwhile for airlines to fight it. It requires both: - Flight being meaningfully cheaper using hidden city and - Traveller is willing to deal with the restrictions (no carry-on, ri
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by librish 2y ago
This seems weird. If not having personalized ads is such a fundamental piece of the EU web experience, why is it even allowed in the first place? Payment options: Paid only - allowed Paid OR Personalized Ads - not allowed Paid OR Personaliz
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by librish 2y ago
My guess would be that it has to do with the amounts involved. In a typical series A/B only the founders have enough equity (they have larger share, plus they've been at the company the longest so they've vested the most) to
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by librish 3y ago
Whenever you see discussions about longevity online there are a lot of people who come off as either die-hard enthusiasts or self-proclaimed gurus. They'll sink a lot of time, money, and effort into the field. Frequently though, whenev
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by librish 3y ago
I think the intellectually honest counterpoint is more about relationships. As someone who has been a digital nomad, it's hard to form deeper relationships when people are always leaving. It's also hard to have hobbies that rely o
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by librish 3y ago
2.3% to support so little economic activity is just insane. This is the type of tragedy of the commons issue where regulation is needed. For any one actor they can justify spending infinity energy as long as their ROI is positive. There are
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by librish 3y ago
Before the new fees I was only using these services when I had a 50% off coupon. After the new fees it just doesn't make sense outside of being sick or a last minute group event. It's looking like a gig economy that provides guara
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by librish 3y ago
Important to note - "New business terms available for apps in the EU — to reflect the DMA’s requirements for alternative distribution and payment processing, Apple is also sharing new business terms for apps in the EU. Developers have
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by librish 3y ago
Do you have any source for this? It does not match my experience at all.
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by librish 3y ago
It feels like you're trying to win on semantics here. Right now you as a developer pay $X for access to their eco system, and on top of that you pay 15/30% of whatever payments they process for you. You can say "well actually
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by librish 3y ago
Right now the only time they take a cut is when they do payment processing. Uber, for example, pays Apple nothing.
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by librish 3y ago
That is currently the only thing they're charging for. Like I said, let them unbundle if they want to. I wouldn't be surprised if they actually end up just taking a revenue hit to keep the ecosystem healthy, which would mean more
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by librish 3y ago
Wouldn't Stripe be significantly cheaper? I'm making the opposite of a philosophical argument, I'm making a practical one. Apple is not going to take away the App Store, or make it too difficult for developers to upload apps,
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by librish 3y ago
Then force them to unbundle those fees if they want to collect them. It just doesn't make any sense that some developers have to pay up to 30% of their iOS revenue while others (including huge corporations like Uber, Starbucks, Target
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by librish 3y ago
I'm surprised that so many developers are siding with Apple in this regard. If other stores and payment options were allowed I genuinely believe that: - Apple's own fees would be reduced relatively quickly - Technological savvy us
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by librish 3y ago
It's insanely smart to reward business travelers personally based on how much their company spends. A lot of people working for big companies are completely price insensitive, and might in fact choose a worse and more expensive flight
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by librish 3y ago
An interesting difference here is that part of the reason McDonalds is so popular is because it's cheap. Writing pop fiction or making Marvel movies isn't cheaper than the "artful" variants (in fact for superhero movies
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by librish 3y ago
Comparing Umberto Eco and Dan Brown is wild to me. They write completely different books, with completely different pacing, for completely different audiences.
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by librish 3y ago
This is a great path, but I think it's easy to overestimate how many people are able to take it happily. It's making a lot of assumptions: - You have a good relationship with your family - You have good friends who also didn'
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by librish 3y ago
My strong recommendation is to find an activity you genuinely enjoy. From personal experience if I go to a meet-up with the mindset that I'm only there to make friends I won't have any fun, I won't go back enough time that th
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by librish 3y ago
The third one is different, and is allowed by Netflix.
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by librish 3y ago
I've seen that tweet before and I think it's a bit ridiculous to take a cheeky line from a marketing person to represent a perpetual promise by the company.
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by librish 3y ago
I feel like the moral outrage over this is a little overblown. Reading the terms it seems clear that Netflix is targeting people who are blatantly account sharing. It makes sense to worry that this will inconvenience people who have non-typ

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