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Isnt that breaking consumer protection laws by intentionally misinforming customers? Users have a right to know where their money is going, and this is also presents false information to the user about how much the service costs (much like a receipt or ticket that does not break down the tax)

I m also surprised how people nitpick over apples rules as if they re some kind of laws. They re not , nobody voted for them and if enough ppl complain they may change

facebook's platform has existed since before ios and it has made thousands of developers millionaires. It was always completely free. Facebook payments exist, but they are optional. If anything, FB is the complete counter-example to apple

There are so many courses, that s not true anymore. The real money is in “how to make a course about dropshippin”

Zoom is not business software. Even slack barely is. Both have free version for the masses which is crucial to their success. A fair comparison would be with something that does not have free tier.

Half? Extremely generous

Time to ban AWS in Europe too. Maybe cut the transatlantic cables too. I mean we ve known for ten years we are definitely being spied on and did nothing

Equador did

A superpower creates a block of aligned countries

The eastern block existed. If anything you were more likely to find refuge from america somewhere than today. Plenty of places where americans were not safe.

No salespeople to sell dweb

polynesia pulled out of the agreement

> On March 3, 2018, a mayor from French Polynesia said the agreement was "not a legal document" and had expired at the end of 2017 in response to a challenger trying to make it an issue for the May, 2018 elections.

more like , a big ship or something like a retired oil rig. It needs to go in deep waters (>200 miles off the coast) and stay there for extended periods of time (and weather). A cruise ship would be ideal as it can be relatively self-sustaining. A bunch of cruise ships would be enough to start a big city.

Seasteading is not motivated by environmental concerns , but mainly by libertarian concerns to escape regulations and governments. How would they evade taxes in international territory where there are no taxes?

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- US is unique in taxing worldwide income. I would assume the colonists would renounce any other citizenship anyway, and the colony does not have taxes.

- They could not move any financial assets or to the colony unless it is somehow recognized internationally. There is no way to evade taxes.

- The only possible way to tranfer assets is to convert them to cryptocurrency , which presumably would only be useful in the colony. And there 's probably not going to be a way to move large sums of money out of the colony, unless international banks agree to cooperate with it.

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It's "interesting" to contrast the reactions of HN 2019 compared to 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=194028

If you really want to help webmasters get rid of advertising, then start using cryptocurrencies and persuade them to switch to micropayments. It's that simple.

ad spend (as percentage of gdp) has remained constant for more than 100 years

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BVIsd8mMLFM/Wk7XXTQvWEI/AAAAAAAAI...

anecdotally ( i turned off ads for my users and switched to contextual-only since GDPR) non-targeted ads bring ~40% less revenue. I suppose it varies widely between publisher type , country etc. I do not believe their data is representative, and i also think it is the wrong kind of data.

My hypothesis is that advertisers overpay for targeted ads, but this is not the right way tot test that. They would need to find data or experiment that correlates advertising spend to revenue generated.

that s not my memory at all. there were tons of all kinds of fancy player players in linux or windows (winamp? i dont think it was relevant then). Itunes was nothing special, in fact it was so odd that it had to scan every file, and have its own library, ending up with a stale library if you deleted a few songs. I doubt people who did not purchase songs used it

Alright but your ad hominem is not enough to support your claim.

I dont think there is an MBP equivalent in hardware. That said , i wonder why do developers work in laptops, which are extremely anti-ergonomic and generally terrible for working long hours. My solution is a good thinkpad + a docking station with a big screen, mechanical kbd & vertical mouse.

The reverse is also true: On windows i do everything on keyboard (i usually work with desktop / external kbd & mouse). It's possible to navigate everything in windows with the kbd, while that s not true in macs, which frustrates me about them. They have crippled the start menu with spam, that is true, but all you need is win key and start searching just like spotlight.

An interesting idea is to use some form of game / sandbox evnirnment for interactions. Interestingly, highfidelity which was until recently a VR-focused startup announced that they are switching to a more business oriented desktop experience, which sounds a lot like "slack in 3d". I think this model has a lot of potential as these 3d social tools lend themselves naturally to interactions, prototyping things together, and also give a sense of "presence" .

https://www.highfidelity.com/blog/toward-a-digital-world

And yet none of them returned to their ‘country’

Laws would change if the culture changes. I think it s cultural, first

From an outside perspective, americans are more willing to try (and to dump) new things, period. It takes an arduous amount of energy to convince europeans to do the same, and you re likely to be rewarded with obnoxious remarks. And you cant grow a product if nobody is using it, thats why US wins. It is also a big homogeneous market, which means niches are sizeable. In europe , niches are divided /28

Instead of arguing about access to Apple's walled garden, maybe spotify et al should develop their ecosystems around the proven, open web , and then sue apple if they 're refusing to support technologies they need. This would be a bigger win for everyone.

Why yes, multiple other professors have found it.

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/happiest-places-po...

The real reason they are failing is not user-unfriendliness or tracking though. It's the intense competition and the broadening of the publisher base by 1000x with the advent of the internet, and the natural supply-demand adjustment to very low rates of return from advertising. This leads them to increase the advertising load in order to make ends meet, hence using more trackers.

> If your business is solely dependent on tracking scripts, tricking users with clickbait titles and using archaic ads - then you’re destined to fail regardless.

If that were true, they had 2 decades to fail and they didn't. People like to read the news.

> Happiness is the one thing we should be optimizing for

here s some more spurious correlations. Countries with very high happiness have some of the highest suicide rates. happiness might be dangerous to the survival of the species. We should optimize against it

https://medium.com/@dtg319/happier-countries-are-more-suicid...

Either advertising is so powerful as to rule the world, or it's so useless that nobody benefits from it. I 'd say , without adequate research on the effectiveness of advertising, these correlational studies are only marginally interesting.