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There's a difference between attacking an experience share and attacking an attack.

This level of generalization is naive.

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.

> 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…

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 && !share…

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.

Carry-on might get gate-checked if you're unlucky.

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 will…

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 - allow…

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 compan…

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, mone…

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 l…

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…

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. I…

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 …

Do you have any source for this? It does not match my experience at all.

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 the…

Right now the only time they take a cut is when they do payment processing. Uber, for example, pays Apple nothing.

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 …

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…

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 (in…

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 r…

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 …

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"…

Comparing Umberto Eco and Dan Brown is wild to me. They write completely different books, with completely different pacing, for completely different audiences.