Paul-ish · HackerTrans

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Perhaps there is room for new companies that provide quasi-legal services that vet apps before they are sent to the play store, to make sure their customers apps are in compliance. Ideally their experience seeing many apps would help them understand what gets removed and what doesn't. In cases like this, where the developer gets a notification about non-compliance, they would also take the app down ASAP so the developer can work things out before Google removes them from the store.

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Google is working on this. Look at section "Mute song only (beta)"

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2902117?hl=en

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Is there a list of key incentives that keeps BT investing in its network?

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I've noticed that when a side project becomes a Patreon project, suddenly more time is spent with community involvement; blog posts, live streams, etc. Even $100 a month creates this implicit reporting obligation to keep the community in the loop, which might end up eating time that might be spent doing something else. It might also burn out a more introverted developer.

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Lately Facebook has been pestering me to enable notifications in my browser nearly every time I visit. This is an anti-patern as I suspect once I accept notifications, it is hard to remove. Some services just fatigue their users into opting in.

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There is a good documentary by the name Poverty, Inc that explores the west's approach to foreign aid. It is currently on USA Netflix if you have that. It convinces me that our current approach to foreign aid is flawed. In most cases it hurts more than it helps.

I do wonder if not having anything on the line contributes to our blind spots in this area. If something doesn't affect us, it takes much longer to realize when things have gone very wrong.

Sure, someone who says "Do as I say, not as I do" can have good advice, but at the end of a day, a doctor who wont take his own medicine is suspect in my mind.

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I grew up in Seattle. I remember my mother constantly complaining that Gates was always trying to drive public school policy but in the end sent his kids to private school. It does seem like a breed of hypocrisy to claim how good your education program is, but you won't put your own skin in the game. Also makes you feel like a guinea pig.

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Universities, and I would guess charities as well, tend to liquidate their shares immediately to avoid conflicts of interest. Liquidating that many shares that fast would cause havoc in the markets.

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It may be parallel construction, but in a kind of cynical way we can publicly praise it as good traditional police work. It takes credibility away from demands for special or clandestine access.

When we call it parallel construction we buy into the surveillance communities marketing... that surveillance it is effective.

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