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He didn't even hit on two other major talking points:

1) Free annual macOS updates.

2) Free Pages, Numbers, Keynote, GarageBand, etc.

This change forced Microsoft to drastically reduce the price of their OS, and to offer free upgrades to Windows 10 for a couple of years! It also prevents people who buy Macs from having to decide between Pages/Numbers/Keynote and the oft-times more familiar and business-friendly Microsoft Office suite. If they get the basic productivity apps for free, why bother with an Office365 subscription? Hell, offering GarageBand for free is undoubtedly undermining the business models of countless consumer-grade audio and mixing software developers.

It keeps Mac users within the Apple software ecosystem.
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Sky in the UK have trialed ultrasonic beacons in adverts, so it is definitely possible
>were in the hole nearly 1m

>We canceled the cable TV, we stopped eating out

cable is what 200/month max? 2400 /year? How the hell much were you eating out that changing your habits allowed you to pay off a million dollars worth of debt? You sound more financially irresponsible than people whose mortgages were underwater by orders of magnitude
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Apple is in the business of selling hardware. A good selection of (cheap) apps sells more hardware.

This is also why they keep coming up with new APIs that are only available on new devices. They need apps that only work on new devices to sell more of those devices.
At least we can set "UseCanonicalName" to "On" on the virtual host in the meantime.
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I think precisely the opposite is true. The article mentions:

> That means selling at a low price, because most customers will only pay low prices, and all customers prefer low prices.

Before Apple's excellent app store, how mainstream was it for people to talk about purchasing apps at all?

So people prefer low prices. Before this, they preferred not having software or piracy.
Immigration is a lot like hiring. You want smart people with good cultural fit. Not in the sense that everyone must be the same culture, but the ideals and ethics of the two cultures must be rooted in similar things.

The puzzle is a bad implementation of the idea that we should test for intelligence. Again, like hiring. This is the fizz buzz test with all the same problems
You're kinda proving my point.
Indeed. I'm about to have a form of that conversation with a client today. Just encrypting columns in your database is of some value, but having the symmetric key in an environment variable (a common practice) is not going to prevent a breach when the data and the key are compromised at the same time.
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Pharmaceutical companies spend 100's of millions developing new drugs, but it costs essentially nothing to manufacture those pills once they have FDA approval.

Who expects medicine to be free because they cost nothing to replicate?
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a developer approached me with an idea and we've been working on it for a while. no funding, no contracts, nothing on paper. we quickly shifted to a new idera of mine, and me beign a designer, ive been doing th UX /UI part of the project, while he was supposed to get investors info, contacts , and technical abilities. all the purchases (domain, g suite , ect) have been done by me personally.
now i want to split and keep doing it by myself since i feel he brings nothing to the table, besides waiting to code, and for that i don't need a co-founder.
were based in Israel so any advice on how to terminate this without liability is much appreciated.
Since you work for Visionect and appear to be astroturfing on Hacker News, it would be nice to have a second opinion.
The top answer to this question[1] has a few suggestions. The dummy plug idea is interesting, although it doesn't actually physically disable the microphone.

[1]https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/47345/surveilla...
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It's interesting how Apple have driven AppStore prices towards a race to the bottom when they're selling premium priced hardware.

If less money was being spend on the devices would more be available for apps, of would it turn out like the Android ecosystem where everything is cheap too?
As with all IP, once created the value of a copy is pretty much zero.

The cost of copying is not related to value.

But you'll gladly pay the plumbers hourly wage and material costs.

Most people, quite sensibly, don't want to pay a programmer's or airplane engineer's hourly wage.
Thanks, that makes sense.

I wish that the terraform language was flexible enough to allow building such abstractions on top of it.
We do not hear anyone suggesting restricting civil liberties to reduce gang violence. It is kind of a curious massively asymmetrical tolerance to crime.

The fear, of course, is such restrictions would be next. You start by going after the boogeymen, terrorists and pedophiles, then expand to gangs, then drug dealers, then political enemies, then....
Seems like a reasonable thing to do. Not sure what is deplorable about wanting only bright people to immigrate to your country.
Suggested it to them in another thread for an open version of their Joan product [0] and as I remember it, someone from Visionect hopped in and said it'd raise their support requirements a bit too much for hobbyists.

[0] https://www.visionect.com/solutions/meeting-room-booking/
Do you know if anyone is building a large format e-reader for sheet music? Having a nice way to flip pages would be nice, too (full touch screen probably unnecessary).
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People often think apple invented the idea of market. "apt-get install ..." existed before.

I'm talking about the tooling, not the business model.
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> If you sell at $3 instead, your number of sales will go down by much more than the factor of three that you increased the price by.

In a way, this is great. By charging less for software more people are able to enjoy your software and you make more money. It's a win-win.

I think the only (but major) issue here is that 30% is a laughably high cut for Apple. This cut is so high that only really popular software can be profitable for the developers. There's a lot of useful software that won't get built because it's niche and isn't profitable after 30% is taken off the top.
This is a problem with all IP. People fail to consider a business' need to recoup expenses associated with developing a product, be it software, hardware, pharmaceuticals, or widgets.

And the initial price you pay can't merely cover the cost of research, testing, development, production, supply chain profits, transportation, and meager profits for the business, but it has to extend to maintenance, updates, warranty coverage, returns, replacements, etc. Maintaining software is a continual battle, especially if the software is going to be implemented in an extremely segmented market (Android and the thousands of versions in the wild, personal computers with thousands of makes and models of graphics cards, drivers, chipsets, libraries, etc.).

Developing and testing software updates, which are expected weekly and free of charge, isn't only an Apple thing. And they weren't the first to start it.
Google has damaged the perceived value of personal data.
ask them who they hate and don't let either one of them into the country.

or who they fear and if multiple cultures fear another culture don't let that one in.
This. As the price indicated, it was 1/10 the value of itself from the Chinese bubble while Bitcoin has reached all time high now until it realized its use as a good real world test of the Bitcoin's newer features when Bitcoin struggled to apply those due to political and financial conflict within the community but Litecoin went ahead being a much smaller community and is the first to have it activated.

Being almost identical to Bitcoin actually increased its value as its results can be a good indication for Bitcoin as well.

As a cryptocurrency, it's pretty much of no use but as a real world play ground for newer features for Bitcoin, it's pretty optimal and it just proved it has a room to stay than being irrelevant.
Your conclusion looks good, but I think you're misusing the term value.

once created the value of a copy is pretty much zero

It's not the value that approaches zero, it's the Marginal Cost of producing one more unit. It doesn't cost anything to reproduce it, but if people will pay higher, then there is value. When you have an economic moat (less competition) or a monopoly, you can capture some of this value. (Think Telsa selling software upgrades to improve car performance - zero Marginal Cost, but high value) In Perfect Competition, prices approach or hit the Marginal Cost.

Other than that nitpicking, I agree with the rest of what you say. :-)
One given example is that – in the case of the Return-Path header being maliciously set – the attacker could perform a DoS attack on the victim's mailbox so that the password reset email would be sent as part of a non-delivery receipt.
I think I'd have been deported - the facial profile that's made by the puzzle is bizarre looking, the kind of thing that you'd do and be convinced you'd got the wrong end of the stick.
An AI that can identify a person based on a pull-up using a cheap IR-laser
People will pay for medicine. They won't pay for apps.
They'd do it to connect profiles between the TV (which knows what you're watching) and any mobile devices within ultrasound reach (i.e. line of sight) of the TV. Do this a few times and it quickly becomes clear which phone is usually within range of the TV, and with that the profiles can be merged, giving a broader view of the user behind these devices.

The solution is simple: don't get a 'smart' television. Better still is to forego on television altogether but if you insist on having canned 'entertainment' (panem et circensis) beamed into your domicile make sure to use as dumb a device as possible. Any smarts you require can be added separately, the thing does have external inputs after all. As an added benefit you won't be stuck with a 'smart' TV running yesteryears OS on under-powered hardware while the display and sound system are still good for many years.
So it's just browser based, but they do have mobile apps it seems.

Also looking in to it there's a "IMAP bridge" being developed to allow use of traditional MUA.
You aren't selling an app though, you're buying a customer.
Who expects medicine to be free because they cost nothing to replicate?

There is a large group pushing for Health Care to be free. This includes medicine.
I expect it to be cheaper and subject to less shenanigans.
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You are confusing value with price. Breathable air is free of charge (so far) and people value breathing.

Similarly, pro bono work does not cheapen the value of a lawyer work. Working for $1 per hour does.
Yeah, I probably misinterpreted what point you were trying to make.
I would argue they are not. The cost of getting a game to steam is significantly higher than getting an app to a marketplace (Apple, Android, etc) and are meant to last for a much shorter span of time. As others have stated, the cost for making copies if effectively zero. The race is not to the bottom (as there are too many specialized games for different niches) rather, it's a race for content production.
All I want to know is when can I fly my DJI phantom via cell network?
Aside: I wonder if two Kindles/Nooks couldn't be rigged up side by side, with some xrandr magic on a rooted device... surely would be done by now if possible?

These are fun[0] but no sign of additional screens.

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Musk himself has stated the goal is to make money to help pay for colonizing Mars.
Well no. Some people are pushing for health care to be free to the end user. That is something very different.
apt-get install is not a business model. Is a way to package and distribute software in general.
This article is jut an ad. What I'd really like to know:

- What is total cost and what maintenance is required (annually) and how does it compare to the traditional road signs?

- What about visibility (I assume, it doesn't have reflective property as traditional road sign paint)? At night? At rain? At other extreme weather conditions?

- What connection is used and how secure is it (I assume, it's controlled remotely)?

- What protections does it have against vandalism and theft?
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If you watch to the end of the talk, you discover that N26 acted courteously and responsibly to the report, and all the security issues have been dealt with.
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I know! I love when math books and papers do that.
Talking about value, what is the price difference between a regular road sign and a e-paper version?

How many employees could be hired changing the physical road signs given the price difference?
Universal health care still costs money, it just comes out of your wallet differently.
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Also, if the victim has an auto-responder enabled, the attacker will receive an out of office reply, with the password reset link quoted in the email.
Can you replicate a drug all by yourself at an essentially zero cost?

Making another 100mg of a medicine may cost essentially zero on a pharmaceutical plant, but you can sell the access to the plant.

Copying data is not just easy, but you have already bought the "factory equipment" needed for it, that is, a computer. Thus the drive to dumb down consumer computers (DRM) or move the essential things from users' possession so that they could not easily copy them (SaaS).
I haven't seen the signs used in Sydney for anything except clearways, as pictured in the article. The contrast isn't great but you don't really need high-vis for no-stopping-or-we-tow-you signs.

Judging by their posts on this page, the company that manufactures the signs is clearly hooked up to an IV drip of their own koolaid. Still, for this particular application (temporary parking restrictions) e-paper is much better than the previous solution, which was to print plastic inserts and drive around the city sliding them into tracks on the signs.
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Here is a video of a home-built setup based on Raspberry-Pi [1] and an opensource software stack on a fixed-wing aircraft. For use on quadcopters the problem is the latency. Analog FPV systems can achieve around ~20ms latency.

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I guess it didn't change much, it's just now Google which is judging fizz buzz tests! :)
I would add differences in domestic consumers preferences. Americans are now addicted to cheap-quality goods. I passed through the gift shop inside Empire Sate Building in NY yesterday and 98% of the gifts are asian imported plastic trinkets branded with Empire State and USA logos. Contrasts that to when I visited the museums in Berlin where the shops mainly focused on selling locally produced crafts.
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This might explain things a bit more: www.visionect.com/blog/worlds-first-epaper-traffic-signs In short, the signs are paperlike, with a 180-degree viewing angle and no glare, but they do have a frontlight. They connect via 3G and have tamper detection.
Unfortunately DJI is not very open to third-party integration (at least for their consumer drones). So while you will get unlimited range with our LTE based Sky Drone FPV system, controlling a DJI Phantom is not possible. Any other drone with open serial telemetry port will work though - like all the PX4/APM based drones.
You mean, that TF2 has had a 9 years headstart in improving and polishing their game's design, add more content etc?
To me they look more and more like the warheads of a MAD setup.
If you do that in the app store (ios or android), prepare to get thousands of 1-star reviews for your old version from people who believe they are entitled to updates for their lifetime.

I've seen it upfront two times in the playstore, where apps I liked released a new version. I was eager to buy the new version but the new/updated reviews for the old ones were ruthless. One app had to give the new version for free. The other had to promise to keep updating the old version too. The first team just gave up on both apps. The second team (one developer actually) continued but slowly toned down his efforts, going into essentially maintenance mode.
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It's hardly Apple's fault that people aren't willing to pay big money for fart apps. If you want to put a $10 fart app out there, it's not like anyone's stopping you from doing it.

Speaking for myself at least, I've purchased quite a few mobile apps over the years. If I need an app in a certain category, I will always get one that costs money over one that's free with ads. I'm sure I'm in the minority, but people like me don't have to be the majority for someone to make money from an app. The only thing that matters is the number of people like me out there, not the percentage of total users we represent.

I do think there's much room for improvement of course. I wish they would do stuff like allow people to offer paid upgrades. But claiming that there are literally no good paid apps is just silly.
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The code doesn't have commercial value because it contains no secrets that would allow you to implement a competitor to Starcraft HD/Remastered.

The code doesn't give you the legal permission to distribute and brand a game Starcraft.
The reality is the code has no commercial value, the brand on the other hand may as well be a license to print money.
As someone who follows cryptocurrencies from a distance, I like to put relatively small amounts, say $100, into Coinbase, then use that to do regular small purchases (leaving only $100 in Coinbase). I've been using it to make domain renewal purchases on sites like Gandi.net. As far as I know, in my circles, that's what most people do (anecdotal, I know).

Although seeing the impact of Alphabay (market) adopting ETH, there seems to be a huge market for cryptocurrencies and it probably won't go away until governments start legalizing/regulating harder drugs.
This kind of history is what strikes me as so absurd about anti-immigrant rhetoric about "doing things the right way." If the ancestors of wide swathes of the American populations were judged by modern standards, they would have been turned away. Instead, their great-great-grandparents solved a jigsaw puzzle and had someone size them up to see if they "looked like they had TB" before they were let in the door. Their entitlement to some kind of imagined cultural patrimony is such an obvious historical fiction.
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