rplnt

10 ms·

151.
by rplnt 1y ago
What they go after is not just the name, but the shapes. But I think you are fine as long as you do not monetize or get popular.
152.
by rplnt 1y ago
Emphasis on progressively. Tax is just a placeholder word, we can call it fee if that helps and just burn the money if you don't trust anyone to handle it well. Your first domain is $10/year, your 1000th domain could be $100k&#x2F
153.
by rplnt 1y ago
Domain ownership should be progressively taxed. House ownership too for that matter. With houses it's easy to prevent tax evasion by splitting the ownership between multiple entities (because companies shouldn't own housing), but
154.
by rplnt 1y ago
They got the permission to publish it. Are they required to verify the number ownership though?
155.
by rplnt 1y ago
There's an explanation somewhere as to why. It has to do with "not breaking" stuff relying on it. So I guess it only answers "why we won't fix it". Anyway, I don't think this is enough. Or I guess it only
156.
by rplnt 1y ago
And they somehow stack in time. So after a weekend it's popping up over and over until I give up and quit Slack. It's been like this for a year I'd say. There's no way to stop them and they always get focus, which is ext
157.
by rplnt 1y ago
Not in southern hemisphere.
158.
by rplnt 1y ago
This doesn't seem like nothing new? I remember a talk about this being done some 12+ years ago. Just without the AI label to generate hype.
159.
by rplnt 2y ago
Not voting was saying OK to Trump, fully knowing what's coming. This "less than 50%" argument doesn't stand, especially because the winner got proper majority of the casted votes.
160.
by rplnt 2y ago
Sounds like every Android vendor, woth Google leading the pack. (disclaimer: maybe 5-10 years ago)
161.
by rplnt 2y ago
What a blast from the past. 0 comments, 0 points. Opera wasn't very popular in US. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7937436
162.
by rplnt 2y ago
It's been a while, 8-10 years ago maybe? But quick look now tells me it's still one person effort. That's both awesome and unfortunate. I wish it got more traction back then to attract more active user/dev base.
163.
by rplnt 2y ago
Good point, I missed a word or two there to make it clear I didn't mean it was only there.
164.
by rplnt 2y ago
It used to work and broke maybe 2 years ago. This tells me that no one is actually using the browser and that no one is really working on it either. It receives chromium updates and then some money-making features here and there.
165.
by rplnt 2y ago
We did not decide it. Google decided to kill it. In countries where Opera had major share Google ran aggressive and deceptive (something something faster) campaign with billboards, radio and tv ads. Chrome ads were also everywhere on their
166.
by rplnt 2y ago
Vivaldi is roughly 1000 times slower. You need a pretty good computer to run that UI. It also lacks extremely basic features Opera had; like working LRU tab switching. I liked the idea, but it's impossible to recommend.
167.
by rplnt 2y ago
The title says "my experiment", it couldn't be any clearer and open it's about a single person's experience.
168.
by rplnt 2y ago
I'm 100% sure that people using forums less and less isn't about data privacy. Especially when the discussions moved to Facebook/Discord.
169.
by rplnt 2y ago
But that's just a browser, right? I'm pretty sure my browser in 2005 could display dozens of gifs. There must have been a series of decisions by devs to do it in some super convoluted way. I can see each emoji being an iframe with
170.
by rplnt 2y ago
I remember Slack eating up my CPU when it had to display several animanted emojis at once. Use some 20+ emojis and the intel mb pro couldn't handle it. Luckily they knew and there was an option to disable the animation. Now I have no i
171.
by rplnt 2y ago
It might be a good idea to just buy the 13 mini. It's not like anything on phones got any better in the last 4 years. And it's still available, for roughly 30% less compared to before it was discontinued by Apple. Which might be t
172.
by rplnt 2y ago
They make more money that way, by having terrible desktop ux that needs to be supplemented with dozen of extra apps. Not sure if that was their intention, but they do.
173.
by rplnt 2y ago
And there are much worse examples too. But maybe that's the idea, write a horrible title that makes readers pause.
174.
by rplnt 2y ago
> Resident Alien Interesting. I thought the premise had potential, but found the writing unbearable. There were major plot holes in the universe they created withing the first 10 minutes. It just didn't make sense. The dialogues and
175.
by rplnt 2y ago
We know Russia invested a lot in this outcome. Hence, at some point, this government will be seen as treasonous. Didn't China as well, wouldn't they know it's a net win for them and their interests, despite the few hurdles (&
176.
by rplnt 2y ago
That's by design and not new. The whole nationalist brainwash since early age thing. I always thought the primary benefit is to have enough soldiers to mess stuff up abroad. But of course it helps to ged rid of enemies within, includin
177.
by rplnt 2y ago
Possibly, probably. But there's zero indication current direction will change.
178.
by rplnt 2y ago
What do you think will happen in 4 years?
179.
by rplnt 2y ago
Google stopped being usable to search web many years ago. It can search stuff, sure, but not content on websites.
180.
by rplnt 2y ago
At least a comment if not its own section.

More ›