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deltron3030
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deltron3030
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He's a graphic design justice warrior and tribalist, without much regard about anything else in public. He hates that devs and entrepreneurs are able to create their own stuff and cut studied designers like him out of the equation. The
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It wouldn't be much different from how it's handled in traditional ecommerce. If there's a legal dispute, or something "disappears", the're ways to find out where it went missing, you could go to court. You
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9y ago
This one is more focused on storytelling: https://www.heynishi.com
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9y ago
Why would you give your Ok to the transaction if your transaction partner doesn't deliver? The smart contract just holds back the money, and pays the seller after your Ok. If you e.g. receive a broken product, you'd return it to t
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9y ago
>When I buy something through a respectable platform I like the guarantees provided by the 3rd party in case something goes wrong. It's actually a feature for me, not a drawback. Isn't the guarantee already baked into smart con
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9y ago
>Why would you build a startup to only be capable to NOT work in EU. Because adopting the lowest common denominator (GDPR etc.) won't let you grow as quickly, and you might not need the EU market to reach your personal and business
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9y ago
If you're into programming in C, and like simplicity, you might find more likeminded people there, similar to OpenBSD. Nix is more popular among functional programmers.
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9y ago
Think of the typical consumer of web apps, like people who run Wordpress and Shopify sites and click their backend together with tools like Zapier and the like. How can they comply without an universal protocol embedded into all the tools t
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9y ago
I think that it's a religious problem, originating within the protestant/prussian work ethic, and the holiness of work. Full employment is the ideal for the politicians in Germany, and they get there also with the help of the chur
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Maybe, but what sucks about Germany and the EU is the arbitrary nature of many laws, enabling them to selectively punish those who don't play their game. By not being able to define clear boundaries, you give them the power to rule ove
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Core audience means people who know how to search and dig out the information they want to find. Not everybody using search knows how to do that, or search for keywords before they start their main search.
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9y ago
Data protection laws are so strong in Germany that they let registration offices sell your data if you don't explicitly opt out. Most people don't even know whats going on and that they have to opt out to avoid that. Or German cre
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Google is seen as progressive institution, and that's also how the majority of the media classifies itself I'd say. Their core audience is more techy as well and cares about information. Facebook is more on the populist side of th
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9y ago
You don't need innovation or much risk for clone market strategies (copy a business model from an existing market to a new one). That's what most "innovative" companies in the EU do, and even "artists". It'
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9y ago
"Illegal content means any information which is not in compliance with Union law or the law of a Member State, such as content inciting people to terrorism, racist or xenophobic, illegal hate speech, child sexual exploitation, illegal
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9y ago
They should launch some lightweight AR glasses for developers, extending laptops with virtual screens, basically like additional monitors for laptops over an USB-C dongle. They (FB) have already a good standing among web and mobile develope
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Take regular glasses, and just make them a bit smarter, without changing their appearance much. Could be useful for displaying interface menu elements (e.g. your browser tool bar), this way you'd gain screen size and/or have more
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Webflow is only useful for landing pages and classic websites and blogs, but even landing pages are gaining interatcive app like features, like integrated checkout or onboarding features. It doesn't make much sense seperating web and a
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Self driving mobile homes could become a thing, many advantages of cities and rural life could be combined this way. The routing of the individual homes would just happen based on your personal and work shedule and preferences, including th
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They could pivot into being an OEM. Marketing doesn't seem to be their strength, it only got a bit better recently after they outsourced their branding to a bigger agency. I suspect that they spend a lot for content, because growing or
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Quite a surprise they didn't mention suckless.org or Plan 9.
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It just sounds good, but in a more or less open world, small businesses selling digital products will just block EU access, even if they're physically located in the EU. Opening a company in the US is easy.
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Equal lanes is impossible to accomplish, the're just too many variables. What makes more sense is focusing on the best possible path forward for everybody, or creating the opportunity for the racer to be as fast as he can be, independe
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Like pollution laws, it's nonsense if not enforced worldwide. The web can't be contained to a specific locality anymore, it's against the core idea of the technology. The people in the EU who are responsible for this have no