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by pembrook 3y ago
It’s a much easier pill to swallow if said user has a US phone plan and ever tries traveling abroad. Good luck getting those SMS codes. And good luck getting the US carrier to not shut off your plan if you travel for longer than a few month
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by pembrook 3y ago
As evidenced by any example I've seen from these "AI logo generators," image-generation models simply cannot do logos well. They always create insanely detailed illustrations (not logos) that feel like clip art or anime. Is t
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by pembrook 3y ago
I have a similar working theory. This is a problem in many formal, detail-and-rule-obsessed cultures. Germany, like Japan, is lauded for its industrial engineering/manufacturing — but has the exact same hilarious obsession with governm
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by pembrook 3y ago
Agreed. Even though this site is on YC’s domain, I think only a few of the folks in the comments are actually early-adopting startup types. Probably just due to power law statistics, I’d guess most commenters are big company worker bees who
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by pembrook 3y ago
Google created this problem by slurping up all advertising money from open web activity for themselves. The more market share of online display advertising they gained, the worse their results got. Why? Because the only way to have a large
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by pembrook 3y ago
This is awesome but I’m still waiting for a good component library that has a multi-select dropdown. Every one I’ve seen seems to allude to adding one in the future but it never happens. Is a good multi-select dropdown really that hard? Hav
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by pembrook 3y ago
Ditto to this. My experience has been very similar to yours. The amount of incompetence involved with payment processing and banking is just mind boggling. KYC/AML is very quickly turning into bizarro big brother. But not an all-knowin
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by pembrook 3y ago
This is a reassuring signal that the market sometimes is entirely rational, and that product actually is more important than marketing/sales/distribution…at least in the design tools space. Invision focused on dumping millions i
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by pembrook 3y ago
You could stop all of this at Step 1 by just having a flat tax. On everything. The loopholes only exist due to the unnecessary complexity of tax laws. Preferential treatment for investments over labor? No. Preferential treatment for real es
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by pembrook 3y ago
Maybe I'm not clicking deep enough, but that marketing site looks like a super trivial Webflow CMS use-case. Although if your team is all engineers pushing to git every day, I could totally see how they'd find Webflow frustrating
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by pembrook 3y ago
In some narrow cases I see the value in patents motivating financial investment in original research. But most of the time this does not apply. Optical pulse oximeters are an obvious incremental thing, and with zero knowledge of the space I
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by pembrook 3y ago
You can either have low friction reviews, or you can have high quality reviews. You can’t have both. For example, Facebook/Instagram/OpenAI/etc. requires non-VOIP phone number verification on signup. This alone would cut spam
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by pembrook 3y ago
I'm guess it's also true that HN is definitely the wrong audience for this post. As the author suggests, if you spend all day in VScode/VIM, you're among the segment of computer users who looks at images the least as a p
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by pembrook 3y ago
> That's a weird thing to say unless the pixel density is your one and only measure. Is it though? We now have OLED TVs and OLED smartphones. Where's our OLED PC monitors? On every measure, if you care about colors/contr
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by pembrook 3y ago
I've noticed the same issue with WebP and have gone back to JPG/PNG for most things (jpg for photos, png for UI-type images) I think the real problem is, like many of the commenters here, most people can't tell the difference
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by pembrook 3y ago
Because most Saas products are much harder to replicate than you think, and the market for Saas is 95% B2B where cost to acquire a customer is insanely high. If your market is businesses with employees, the difference between $1/mont
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by pembrook 3y ago
The vast majority of spam these days now originates from Outlook and Gmail accounts. Yet, nobody has the power or would dare to block them. This is not so black and white as you say.
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by pembrook 3y ago
> What's more, various other tax regimes that have been enacted to prevent tax dodges by the rich, and those too could be at risk, according to Callas. Good. The US has the most draconian and ridiculous laws for expats in the worl
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by pembrook 3y ago
Agreed, but also "privacy" is an abstraction that layers over the actual thing that people are worried about. Any answer to why do you care about hiding this information? can all be boiled down to the fear that "[person or
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by pembrook 3y ago
Being a monopoly and minting monopoly-level profits allows you to ignore otherwise rational market signals. Google has 92% marketshare in search, Apple has 82% of global smartphone profits, etc.So they can ignore the rational pull of a chea
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by pembrook 3y ago
Before trialing the iTunes franken-nightmare that is Apple Music, I would have probably agreed with you. However, after that experience, I'm starting to think there's no way in hell a massive multi-product conglomerate like Apple&
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by pembrook 3y ago
Sometimes it’s helpful to take a break from Twitter. I know the hype algorithms have tech folks convinced they’re locked in a self important battle over the entirety of human destiny. My guess is we’re going to look back on this in 10 years
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by pembrook 3y ago
Just don’t use Hostpoint for email (have had many bad experiences). Stick to someone who specializes in email (ie. Gmail/Outlook/Zoho/Fastmail/etc).
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by pembrook 3y ago
Brother is just as terrible as all the other printer manufacturers but for some reason their refusal to care about improving their products is seen as virtuous. I’m sitting right next to a brand new brother printer that, once per month, for
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by pembrook 3y ago
> It's still alive ( https://geocities.restorativland.org/ ) and the reocities.com domain still redirects there so at least it wasn't for nothing. This is amazing, thanks for sharing!
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by pembrook 3y ago
> Cookie banners happened because US devs didn't steelman EU regs. This is one of the dumbest narratives I see on HN all the time. A community of people who build things for a living should know better. Think of regulation as soft
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by pembrook 3y ago
Government regulation stifles the march forward of technology all the time. Nuclear energy, stem cell and DNA-based research, consumer supersonic flight, NIMBYism and zoning regulation, patent regulation-enabled trolling, copyright abuse, t
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by pembrook 3y ago
> AI includes, but is not limited to, machine-based systems that can, for a set of defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments Based on this definition, we’ve had AI sinc
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by pembrook 3y ago
What’s ironic is how backwards people here have the narrative. Not sure you’re fully aware of what happened at OpenAI. The “Open” types, ironically, wanted to keep LLMs hidden away from the public (something something religious AGI hysteria
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by pembrook 3y ago
This is such a weird take. You do understand the whole point of silicon valley is the chaotic lack of maturity? You cannot be staid and conservative and mature (and non-opportunistic)…and also be successful at creating new and interesting

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