The license isn't based on the amount of sales. He licenses it for $300. I get that NG has more money than he does but I don't think it's relevant in this situation.
I believe that there's many many more jobs at risk but it doesn't need to be a bad thing. Once a robot can accept orders and cook a burger as well as a McDonalds employee, won't we lose them too? Many many jobs will be automated.
As a society we need to find a way to handle this so that people out of work have their needs met and aren't just left to starve but I'm not sure we can expect to keep employment so high.
IIRC, the legal requirement is to shut down with both conditions are present, some GPS manufacturers simply found it easier to implement each restriction separately.
They do now. I've ordered it. If I had to guess, I imagine it's not a legal requirement you want to tackle right away when you're just getting started.
Since you mentioned it, I wanted to highlight the Discover Meteor book as well. I went through it when they had the free access weekend a while back and found it extremely informative and helpful to the point I purchased it afterwards.
This one looks great as well from a first glance so I'm excited to check it out.
If I were looking for a new startup job, I would check out Mattermark first to develop a list of startups I thought looked like they were doing financially well / had strong employee growth etc and could succeed before then looking into which I was interested in the work at. I think Mattermark could have some other uses for their data that could prove valuable (I'd pay for that).
Right now if I were in that situation, it looks like I could get a 30 day trial for free but I wouldn't continue it at $499 a month. I wonder what other monetization opportunities there are for the data Mattermark has.
Well isn't a warrant canary that is public knowledge just considered a method of breaking NSL silence? To be safe, a warrant canary would need to be plausibly deniable.
If I were a three letter agency who illegally threatened some crypto developer with unsavory things, willing to send him to Guantanamo or to outright kill him (as some people on HN obviously can imagine very well)... I'd just shrug my shoulders after this highly conspicuous way of shutting down the project and think "well played, Mr. Developer, no hard feelings".
