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by slackoverflower 8y ago
Plaid is really just a centralized API layer for all the different bank accounts and bank systems which all have different specifications and data formats. Plaid just makes it easy for to get it in a clean JSON response. They don't sto
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
Just makes the eventual Google acquisition one bit easier.
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
Fortnite skins have become somewhat of a social status amongst kids and their friends, especially since its a game where they play with their friends. Many times kids are asking parents to buy these add ons to keep up with their friends, an
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
Of course Facebook would made this change now. They have the freedom to do this now. They have effectively won social at this point. They control 3 of the biggest mobile social apps in the world: Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook itself. No
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
Uber has done the hard work of normalizing ride sharing everywhere and giving consumer pricing expectations of rides, just for Google to sweep in with it fixed-cost self driving car ride sharing service to start collecting massive profits.
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
Uber definitely has the levers to become profitable anytime they want since they are entrenched in hundreds of major cities in the world. At the end of the day they control the supply and demand of their own platform and most Uber users wil
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
No, the blame would be on you then and you would be held responsible for whatever legal action is necessary, not the company trying to block Europeans users like you. Benefit of the doubt is for the company because of their best effort Euro
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
Google's search expertise was meant to succeed in voice. That is just their forte, like Facebook's is social and Amazon's is commerce. I don't see how Google doesn't win voice in the long haul.
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
Office 365 operates at scale. Of course they can offer prices that low for so many valuable services. They have millions upon millions of users. The more customers they acquire, the cheaper it is for them to offer those services per custome
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
Of course it's all upside for the company and down for the customer. Which company wouldn't love predictable revenue from customers every month. It's an amazing business model for software businesses, especially when the cust
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
There have been a good few of stories of people trying to get jobs, internships, client meetings with clever hack like this. I don't why this hit the front page. Related to your story, it's either this person really wants to work
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
And jailbreaks are getting harder and harder to find by each iOS update.
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
The reality of business is you don't have to be innovative. A lot of successful businesses are not even new ideas. Of course there is the whole concept of the first-mover advantage but in the world of SaaS there is plenty place for com
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
I definitely would not say it is a sizable portion. I'd say it is infact a minority of Youtube's audience. Their CEO revealed they have 1.8b logged in users [1] every month watching videos. [1] https://www.theverge.com&
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
FYI All your subscriber's emails are accessible at https://whiteboardfree.com/email_subscribers.json since you didn't put any authentication on those endpoints. It's a basic Rails app so I'm guessing oth
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
Pretty sure that is exactly the case. GDPR went all out on user privacy that is simply a burden for small businesses to deal with EU citizens, it's financially more sensible to just block the entire EU from their services.
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
I'm convinced this is the start where EU citizens become second class Internet users. Many businesses just don't want to go through the troubles of GDPR regulatory hoops. For most businesses, there's enough customers to susta
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Facebook claims to have 150m active daily users of its Stories product(techcrunch.com)
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
Amazon simply does not need to have cash on hand. They can attain massive profits at literally any point by just increasing their margins ever so slightly across whatever business lines they operate in. This is the benefit of the scale they
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
So if the only person reading the article closes it, is the article lost? Since there is no one else to retrieve the data from for future readers.
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
I think you can really benefit from HN advice on your actual product. Want to link to your website/landing page here?
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
Credit where it's due. Customers love Amazon and that is what really matters at the end of the day. The people they serve enjoy the service and products Amazon provides. Bezos has very successful worked his way up to become one of the
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by slackoverflower 8y ago
I can understand Facebook knowing what you look like from pictures of you other people upload and your email from others connecting their Gmail address books. How will they know your birth date though? (FYI, they probably know your phone nu
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by slackoverflower 9y ago
Let it be known that Mark Zuckerberg and Drew Houston are best friends. I know it might not be the main reason, but it is something to consider.
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by slackoverflower 9y ago
What is your privacy policy with the data people give you to use your FREE tools?
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by slackoverflower 9y ago
A 6-year old can't buy ETH? Crypto truly is mainstream.
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by slackoverflower 9y ago
That's like McDonalds giving away food. Or Ford giving away cars. Google's business quite literally is data.
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by slackoverflower 9y ago
Very much disagree. Youtube's suggestion algorithm are improved incredibly over the years. It is increasingly surfacing content that I find interesting. I spend much more time on Youtube nowadays, easy more time than Facebook. I regula
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by slackoverflower 9y ago
Google easily makes the money back over time. A PC is used for many years over which Google shows those consumers tens of thousands of ads, easily worth more than the unit cost of a default browser deal.
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by slackoverflower 9y ago
Are you running Adsense ads on the FAQ page?

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