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Is the hey email client by DHH and Jason Fried (Basecamp) still able to unlock features while avoiding using apple's in-app subscription purchase?

I just saw an update on this from the compliance guidelines and seems to go against the whole ordeal they came out on top of two years ago.

this reply is brilliant, well done.

How about Uber

If you want a list of PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by security and decentralization, just reverse the list.

Woz is constantly underrated.

They must be targeting people who just want to use this for internal purposes, rather than developers who want to integrate Jitsi with an existing product.

Except DIY kits are not an option to admit in court. They are not admissible. There is a temporary order allowing them to be collected during COVID-19 in California only. It is yet to see if these will even hold up.

It's interesting to see the only comments defending this startup are from newly created accounts.

The article you shared appears to conflict with what this startup is offering.

> It's being called a "temporary protocol" that so far, has only been used once on April 5. Nassoura said the process starts by the victim calling law enforcement and then, "The officer goes to the victim's residence, places it (the sexual assault test) on the front door step, waits in the vehicle. The victim then goes to the front door gets the sample and they begin a zoom video call." That zoom video call involves a forensic nurse, the detective and a victim advocate. Once the victim's statement is taken by the officer, the nurse is the only one that remains on the call. The victim then self-collects the sample under the nurse's guidance and direction.

And to your point:

> Moreover, further research will show you that the startup explicitly encourages survivors to visit a hospital or contact law enforcement if at all possible.

The problem is, this startup's business model specifically relies on victims not visiting the hospital.

> Ask sexual assault survivors what they would like to see instead.

They would probably want their evidence to be admitted in court, rather than raise reasonable doubt.

It appears that if they are persevering despite putting countless rape victims at risk, they might have bad intentions.

From the same article you posted:

> Defense attorneys worry that allowing victims to conduct their own rape exams could result in cross-contamination and raise issues of reasonable doubt. “If you want to frame someone, it’s easy to get their DNA onto a swab where you do a sex assault kit, and say, ‘Oh, look, here’s their DNA,’” criminal defense attorney Mark Reichel told the AP. Since they first hit the market last year, there has been a push to ban DIY kits for reasons like this.

Also from the article you posted:

> Northern California has issued a temporary order allowing rape kits to be collected by the survivor, at home, while a nurse walks them through the process via video call

It appears this is temporary.

First of all, who said this is the #1 rule of business? Lol. Did you write the only book on business? Are you Steven P Jobs?

Secondly, revenues can't go to infinity. Not only is infinity an uncountable times bigger than a Googol, but market sizes are limited. Organic growth is limited.

It is much easier to cut costs than increase revenue in business. This is why most large companies prefer to cut costs rather than invest in innovation.

The best entrepreneurs are frugal. Warren Buffett is famously frugal and prefers to invest in frugal entrepreneurs. To the point where Buffett once bragged about investing in an entrepreneur who was so frugal he resorted to counting the sheets of toilet paper at his business because he thought he was being cheated (he was).

Probably because people just complain about Godaddy but don't recommend alternatives and explain why they are trustworthy/better.

Who do you use and why?

> I don't see how being a startup justifies making cancellation incredibly difficult.

True. I'm questioning where is the trade-off and balance between making it more difficult to cancel vs. trying to fix what's wrong.

Yeah I agree. So are you saying the problem is with "call to cancel" itself or with the response the OP got from customer service rep when he emailed them?

And also the intention?

Big companies like Comcast are just doing this to extract every penny.

A startup trying to survive and make their product better for customers--or fix something that went wrong--is completely different situation IMO.

Isn't it one thing when a faceless corporation does this, and another thing when a startup is doing this to learn about why customers are churning so they can improve their product?

I personally don't think this is bad as long as:

1) They make it easy to cancel when you call

2) They only try to offer you some free stuff to stay as a customer

My guess is the startup here is trying to learn why customers are cancelling so they can improve the product and they care about keeping customers happy.

Almost all non-web companies make you call to cancel, so I don't see what the big deal is.

The only mistake here is with the email back and forth. Probably the customer support person didn't understand WHY the startup was doing this and made the situation worse.

A better way to think about this is from the "Born On Third Base" report looking at the Forbes 400. In 2012, it was estimated only 35% of the wealthiest people grew up in low or middle class--as opposed to 95% of the general population.

Another way to say this is that 65% of the wealthiest people were born into the top 5%.

http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ufe/legacy_url/410/Born...

Facebook doesn't even let other apps access the social graph if users approve it.

You can only briefly see which friends have also already signed up.

So what percentage of corporate CEOs do you figure are "psychopaths"?

Of course psychopaths exists. Most people are not psychopaths, though. And especially the CEOs you mention may have problems to persist.

I still prefer those "CEO psychopaths" to people feeding on government money (people in useless jobs paid for with taxpayer money).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/201...

Well said, thanks for this clear explanation.

> that the only way to become a billionaire is by exploiting people

Any statement that has the word "only" in it is guaranteed to be wrong. I wonder if PG worded it this way intentionally (straw man fallacy).

Most people agree early employees should get more equity. This doesn't address whether startup founders are hoarding equity for themselves and their investors instead of fairly rewarding early employees.

for some reason I thought the title was Raspberry Pi $400 Desktop PC... but it's only $70

wow I built something exactly like this before and was thinking of making into a saas. good work and good luck

I love OOP. Hope it stays widely spread. Simplicity beats performance for me every day of the week.

I want to agree with this author, but sadly the business world does not agree.

The reason Airtable, Notion, Monday, and others are so successful is because they do precisely the opposite of what the author is suggesting.

This is the same reason most workflow software starts out as a replacement to Excel and Spreadsheets, but people continue to resort to Excel and Spreadsheets.

Is this a jekyll blog? Looks very sharp.

> I've set up a community computer lab entirely based on e-waste collected for free that has a print-shop, network, big screens, projectors, electronics lab, etc and organized a few hackathons to see what services we can offer to the community.

This is brilliant, why don't community organizations spring up all over to do this?

This is not news. Let's see him actually pardon Snowden, then talk about it.

This is misleading. The founders grew up and went to University in China. Working in California for 5 years likely isn't enough for someone to deeply understand US culture. Same goes for anyone living and working in a foreign country for 5 years. There's some things you can never understand.

> That the company may eventually be allowed to tell us after they fact that they surrendered out data to the US government is not much of a comfort.

Did you read my comment?

The request can be fought in court, and the request does not give them access to actual contents. For example, they can NOT get the contents of an email.

Are you not aware that Apple has beaten the FBI several times in court and did not have to unlock an iPhone?

> In any case, I'm not sure that any of the protections apply to foreigners

This has nothing to do with citizens or foreigners. This is about companies. US Companies do not need to comply with US Government requests for information, Chinese companies MUST comply with ALL government requests to ALL information.