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kmonsen
·3년 전·discuss
Pointed question, but why do we need to preserve it? And who decides what we need to preserve?
kmonsen
·4년 전·discuss
Or they didn't really contribute before.
kmonsen
·5년 전·discuss
Sure, in that sense it’s “fair”. It’s also meaningless, as this example shows most people will not make a really great product if there is no upside for them so they will mail it in. So sure you can try to squeeze your employees but maybe if you gave them some more you would get a smaller percentage of a much bigger pie giving a win win. It’s very unlikely big corporations can do that for the precedence it sets.
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
They seem to be sold out for the next 6 months, so I guess it is a product people want.
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
Oh yeah I forgot that. I keep hitting the chrome back button in the touch bar all the time. In the beginning I was not sure what was happening then I realized it was the touch bar.
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
I got one of the MBP with the touchbar this year after holding out for many years (changed jobs so had to change laptop). Man it is so much hard to do the volume changes, and there has so far for me been zero benefit.
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
I misunderstood you, but I probably read it wrong. Super tired today. Thank you for clarifying.
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
They appear to mostly support one candidate that is very pro bitcoin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianforde

"In recognition of his work, Brian was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and one of the ten most influential people in bitcoin and blockchain"
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
I think it is a bit more nuanced than that, and that the line is really hard to draw.

If you wife for example got a manager that thought the females had no place in the workplace and should be a stay at home wife and was open about this, would that be ok?

If you are gay, and your manager loudly say that being gay is a sin, would that be ok?

I get that it can feel like the other way too, it probably feels hostile to be conservative in a fairly liberal company. But being open and supportive of all your employees seems like good and understandable business decision. That of course includes being welcoming to conservative people. If you think your coworkers are a disgrace, no matter the reason, I think it would be smart to not make this known.
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
Staying in a job and supporting yourself and you family for a temporary time doing a normal job is not indifference. It is putting food on the table, perhaps literally.
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
I have a peloton bike and I love it. I also like to run with peloton outdoors, but I can’t do that with just the Apple Watch. It seems likely the Apple will offer something similar for their service that will work with watch only.
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
My hunch is that you are not Apple's target audience. They are fairly happy targeting specific users that are into their ecosystem.
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
What is the pricing? It seems to all be free on the webpage.
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
Right, but it is almost impossible for anyone else to compete in the ecosystem.

If another major fitness brand wants to do the same the probably cannot because: - The tight integration is not possible, only Apple can build these kind of Apple Watch experiences. - They would need to pay Apple 30%, maybe making this not profitable especially against Apple's own offering that can have internal pricing where the 30% never comes into play.
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
It isn't just luck, far from it, but it is also luck. All the skill and determination in the world might not do you any good without some luck to come with it.

Of curse getting that skill and determination in the first place is largely luck based so there is that as well.
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
For me what makes the iPad such a hit is that it can’t be copied apparently. There are phones that are in some ways more successful than iPhone but for tablets there is more or less just the iPad.
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
This is everywhere in life, luck is incredibly important. Everyone that is successful only see when they worked hard and were smart, not all the luck. Sure you need hard work and talent, but there are lies of people with that and no luck that fail or at least less successful.
kmonsen
·6년 전·discuss
I think they just never had a great product. Look at VR, even though the products are becoming really good, it is not hitting mainstream and this is even more niche.

The startup cost is enormous, it is really hard to create good content and there is close to zero revenue since there are few users. And the users that does exist is the techie crowd that doesn't like to pay for anything.
kmonsen
·7년 전·discuss
Not sure how they can do that in a reasonable way since it is not open source? And just because the data is not in China does not mean the Chinese government does not get access, it is more like the other way round. If the data is in China you can be sure they have full access.
kmonsen
·7년 전·discuss
The censorship is completely different though, if you want to write "Fuck Donald Trump", or give a detailed account of his crimes on a US platform, it will not be censored. Try the same in a Chinese owned platform about f.ex. something as obvious as Tianmen.

There are some things such as porn that is censored in many areas.