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*were easily "copyable".

The Wright Brothers had hundreds of competitors at the time. They were also very private during their later attempts to get their flying machine to work, so that they could avoid competitors copying their design.

Airplanes are easily "copyable". That didn't stop the Wright Brothers from patenting the first workable one. And they were engineers, not really entrepreneurs. It would be a shame for the brothers known for giving man the power of flight to never make any money from their achievement.

I'm struggling to see the connection here. You can love someone and still be unhappy. Abuse victims often love their abusers. Suicide victims often have loved ones.

I don't think his issue is being paid. It's taking a whole week off from his current job to basically do a test run for a job that had no guarantee.

What percentage of users actually ask developers for notifications? This submission highlights a fundamental problem with notifications on iOS: there are very few fine-grained settings for notifications and very little feedback for annoying notifications. If I find certain app notifications annoying, there's very little I can do past turning off notifications for that app.

I imagine it has to do with the type of customers the advertising attracts. The type of customers a Groupon attracts would generally be short-term, coupon-chasing customers. I personally have around a dozen gift cards in my desk for restaurants I wouldn't normally go to but will eventually go to for the sake of spending the gift cards. Many entrepreneurs, from the owner of a market stall in India to the owner of a bootstrapped startup in Silicon Valley, will tell you that the frugal, hard-haggling, discount-chasing customer is the worst customer to have.

You can say "I need a cook skilled in traditional Mongolian cuisine" but saying "such a candidate can only be found in Mongolia" would technically be against the law in the United States (if you have 15 or more employees). Freakonomics had a whole podcast about this.

That's technically illegal anyway. Can't discriminate by race/nationality.