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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
Exactly: there's still great culture being created, somewhere out there; it's just unable to find its audience amongst the noise.
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
Are there sufficiently many Americans shopping in any individual supermarket who are willing to pay for that cheese for it to be worth that supermarket stocking that cheese? Distribution to retailers is not a simple problem in the food indu
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
We're talking about cheese. To American consumers, this is luxury, imported cheese, only available from specialist retailers. To Swiss consumers, it's everyday cheese sold in ordinary supermarkets.
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
Swiss consumers are wealthier than American consumers.
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
TCS also contracts for Marks & Spencer, and the Co-op, both of which were also taken offline by hacking earlier this year.
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
Yes, but that's a matter to be settled in a court. Banks and other financial institutions have no business deciding what's just; they just follow the regulations given to them by governments and the courts.
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
Wise's USP is a consequence of the way the US banking industry works (possibly as a result of US regulation). Free and instantaneous interbank transfers are ubiquitous in other banking systems, as are low-fee international transfers.
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
Roman elites were obsessed with Greek culture, in a way similar to many Americans' current fascination with the British class system (Downton Abbey, Bridgerton, Rivals, etc.)
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
You can't fire people and rehire them at lower pay; they'd be so upset at you you wouldn't be able to trust them to do anything properly. What you can do is fire people you think you're paying too much and hire someone e
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
You can just look at the analytics to see if the feature is broken. /s
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
Exactly: smartphones and tablets are designated safe spaces for 'normies'. If you want to do serious computing, serious machines (laptops, desktops, servers) are still available.
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
No, that's why courts and tribunals exist: to decide what's just in each specific case.
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
The retail price of eggs was a significant talking point in the campaign for the last US presidential election (which I'd forgotten until I saw this post).
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
Similar (but without comparisons): https://hackerboards.com/
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
> A biologist, a physicist and a mathematician were sitting in a street cafe watching the crowd. Across the street they saw a man and a woman entering a building. Ten minutes they reappeared together with a third person. > - They have
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
> Countries that neglect science become dependent on those that don’t. U.S. post-WWII dominance came from basic science investments (OSRD, NSF, NIH, DOE labs). After WWII ended, the UK slashed science investment which allowed the U.S. to
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
I'm using HTMX and had never heard of Datastar until today. I imagine there's a fair few people who saw the first post, looked into it and found other things about Datastar, and decided to post them.
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
I'm currently building the product for my startup - I'm hoping to launch in the next few months. I'm very grateful to IndieHackers for showing me how to make that happen, but when I look at the website now, I can't help
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
The golfist outside the company played the political game better than the people inside the company.
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
> To cut things short, always use the easiest solution to solve a particular problem and once that solution does not work for the business anymore reassess what the new requirements are and either try enhance the current solution or find
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
Why do you need a community? Build the thing, and then launch the thing by talking to prospective customers. If you're building a SaaS, you don't need funding if you keep working a day job and build your product slowly. The clever
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
If you mean the opinion polls, I don't have any to hand, but there have been a few articles submitted to /r/ukpolitics since the Online Safety Act took effect detailing opinion polls showing that the UK Government's regu
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
In the Westminster system, if Parliament can't pass the budget brought by the Government[0], the head of state dissolves Parliament and issues writs for a new general election. This is because raising taxes and spending money is most o
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
It's not specific to the UK: many developed countries are cracking down on Internet businesses. There's going to be an awful lot of regulation, and it will be incompatible between different countries. The one-model-fits-the-whole-
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
This is precisely the kind of opinion I'd expect a lawnmower to express. https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/17/bryan-cantrill/
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
For PC-class devices, there's an established market segment of buyers who won't buy anything that won't run a Linux or BSD OS. For smartphones and tablets, that segment is yet to form, because projects like postmarketOS are y
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
Users are complete human beings, and their interaction with your product is a tiny slice of their life. They use your product to solve problems that they have. If the 80% of your product that they aren't using doesn't relate to th
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
I used to be a physics teacher, and very few of my students gave a shit about science. The most popular 'science' content on social media is elephant's toothpaste videos and inspirational quotes photoshopped onto astrophotogr
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
I think this is the right take. Other commenters are mourning the death of general-purpose computing, but general-purpose computing is very much alive and kicking in laptops, desktops, and servers. It's just smartphones and tablets tha
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
I think what you're describing is just a consequence of software companies becoming very large. Work for a small business and you'll be back writing utilitarian code.

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