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by pembrook 3y ago
I'm sorry you feel it's inflammatory to question urbanization & public transport as panaceas. First, aggregated statistics matter a lot, especially when examining the history of why humans have clustered in the US the way th
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by pembrook 3y ago
Only strange if you’re not familiar with history. Direct from Wikipedia: “Lebensraum (Living space) was the leading motivation of Nazi Germany to initiate World War II”
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by pembrook 3y ago
I think it's interesting that this is an emotional trigger topic for HN (along with anything having to do with right to repair, digital privacy, etc). In most things, if you post a comment with points of discussion you get a thoughtful
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by pembrook 3y ago
At least in this case one of the destinations could theoretically be visited without a car (assuming these are just tourists to the Vegas Strip). Whereas another certain California rail project literally transports you from [place you need
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by pembrook 3y ago
Tried Tiptap recently and it was fairly buggy even for basic stuff like lists. Apparently the team behind it went the VC route and raised a few million so ideally they'd be moving faster at this point, but it doesn't seem much imp
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by pembrook 3y ago
Considering the size of Microsoft and the hundreds/thousands of teams building various things, I would guess that most well known open-source projects (like Quill) have been used by Microsoft at some point. I would be very surprised
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by pembrook 3y ago
It still takes less energy than heating given climate differentials, so any argument that air conditioning is “garish” and “wrong” needs to be applied to heating also (and anyone living in cold climates ie. Europeans, Americans, etc). I see
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by pembrook 3y ago
HTML emails have to inline CSS already due to Outlook & Gmail using decades-outdated rendering engines (outlook literally uses the 2006-era MS Word html engine). Also, killing all style attributes would also kill mobile optimization and
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by pembrook 3y ago
I'm pretty sure this is global, have experienced it at all their locations throughout Europe as well.
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by pembrook 3y ago
It absolutely is a relevant question. I don’t disagree with the fact there’s tons of non-technical “idea-only” dreamers running around. Definitely more of them than engineers. But the type of people that OP described are far more rare tha
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by pembrook 3y ago
I would assume 99% of HN users (and most of people loudly proclaiming their high standards for a co-founder) do not fit that profile. This whole thread reads like a lot of 6's bragging how they only date 10's.
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by pembrook 3y ago
Sure, this sounds like a great deal for you. But...what are you bringing to the table? There's 27 million software engineers. Let's say 99% of them are trash. That means there's 270,000 amazing engineers this mythical sales-m
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by pembrook 3y ago
While I’m sure there is some, I can’t think of a single B2B Saas product that sells their user’s data for targeted advertising. That’s more of a consumer problem.
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by pembrook 3y ago
I doubt it would do much harm to your career unless your business ends up facilitating child molestation at scale or something and that’s what you see when you Google the name of the business. But, the fact that you’ve been thinking about i
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by pembrook 3y ago
Riiight. They had a fantastically enjoyable and profitable business going for themselves...but they decided they'd rather give up all control and sell their baby to a much larger corporate entity, give up the future upside from any gro
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by pembrook 3y ago
Apparently most of the market doesn’t want the same things you want. Otherwise Affinity would be the giant acquiring a much smaller Canva team. That said, this is also further proof of why the standalone software license model died. If Affi
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by pembrook 3y ago
> companies of the world have managed to weaken that resolve through slick marketing Ah yes. The only reason people chose “closed” source products over FOSS is because they’re less intelligent than you. All the dumb people (not you of
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by pembrook 3y ago
Turns out it’s kind of hard to tell the US to eff off when the peaceful existence of your entire region relies on the US military. And there’s no alternative. When left to build their own strong domestic militaries, the Europeans tend to qu
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by pembrook 3y ago
Somehow amusing you’re posting this on a pseudo-anonymous social network with an upvote based algorithm. Although I’d probably agree. Even tightly moderated communities who fancy themselves as “intellectual” and “rational” like this one are
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by pembrook 3y ago
And they pay you 10,000X the cost of $3/month for the ability to own that code. But it seems you still aren’t following the hypocrisy inherent here. If this one time payment + ownership model is so great for everyone as you say, why ar
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by pembrook 3y ago
You haven’t addressed any of my questions, but I’ll play along. Im also tired of having to pay my employees a slice of my revenue every month for “making my business magically better.” Hidden salary demands, dark patterns to fire them, etc.
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by pembrook 3y ago
Where do you work? How does the business that pays your salary make its money? Do they pay you for your efforts on a subscription based model or a one time-payment + ownership model?
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by pembrook 3y ago
$3/month? Seriously? Does nobody here see the irony of being a community of people who make their income working in software that refuses to pay even $3/month for software? Ditto for the universal hatred of ad-based business model
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by pembrook 3y ago
Because both are designed to look like Apple Mail (the MacOS native app look is a selling point)
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by pembrook 3y ago
The solution is to improve web app capabilities and security, not to devolve back to platform-specific fiefdoms just because there’s kinks to work out. Disentangling apps from OS-specific environments is how we introduce competition back in
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by pembrook 3y ago
Classic scaling problems. Most people aren’t entrepreneurs, most people are risk-averse, cynical big company worker drones. The worker drones have way more time to spend on hacker news, since any job at a big company is infinitely easier
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by pembrook 3y ago
You wouldn’t need to run entire emails through it, you wouldn’t need to run trusted senders through it (hint: Google already scores all senders), you wouldn't need to run bulk emails more than once, and you don’t need something even 1&
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by pembrook 3y ago
Very few people understand the extent of how many bad actors there are until they experience it firsthand. That said, Google and Microsoft essentially have monopolies in their respective areas of the market (Gmail in consumer, Outlook in B2
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by pembrook 3y ago
You're falling for the original sin of central planning..."if it reduces competition, we'll just create legislation to ensure more competition!" I'm sorry. It just doesn't work that way. I'd recommend look
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by pembrook 3y ago
Listen, I get it. It would be amazing if every product was of perfect quality, highly repairable, had an instantly available supply chain of spare parts, was 100% carbon neutral, had zero profit margins, could turn itself into gold, and w

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