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arkitaip··on Microsoft Edge is dead–long live Microsoft Edge
I always thought that Firefox would be the professional's browser but it keeps failing at the task. Maybe Microsoft could succeed at creating a browser that aims to make office workers more productive? Imagine a browser made to be extended and automated and with deep integrations with Playwright, Node, other MS products. They could even throw a couple of millions at addon devs to port the most popular add-ons on the market to the new browser. Obviously it would also focus on ad blocking, privacy and security but that's the new default for browsers.
arkitaip··on Space bar does not work on YouTube search at the moment
I had to ctrl+v space to write a comment but halfway through I realized that writing a comment on Youtube simply wasn't worth the armada of ctrl+v.
arkitaip··on 100M: Disney+ got to Netflix’s subscriber milestone in 1/5 the time
Disney is one of the major custodians of America's warm and fuzzy childhood memories with all the cross industry IPs they have made over the decades. Combine that with Disney investing billions in new IP like Marvel or Star Wars and all the possible synergies between their old and new IPs and their success was more or less guaranteed.

I think once the movie industry totally abandons the movie theatre first mindset, streaming services will become industry powerhouses that will define movies and tv series for decades to come.

arkitaip··on UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews
Do you have any idea how difficult it would be for a random dinky business to bribe an engineer at Google? There are businesses that are literally making bank for Google and still can't get in touch with a human being at Google when their Google account gets locked, app gets removed from the Play Store, etc.

What probably happened is that the business had friends and family members report your review which was removed by an automated system.

arkitaip··on Comparison of Postsurgical Scars Between Vegan and Omnivore Patients
dang really needs to get YC to develop an AI that can automatically add /s to ironic comment.
arkitaip··on Nuclear technology’s role in the world’s energy supply is shrinking
Go live in fukushima's radioactive zone for a couple of months and then be so glib about nuclear disasters.
arkitaip··on Nuclear technology’s role in the world’s energy supply is shrinking
Usually when a plane crashes there isn't a risk for a ecological disaster that could lasts centuries if not more.
arkitaip··on Ask HN: How to send per-customer emails by timeline?
Most major email marketing services have this, e.g. GetResponse, Constant Contact, Sendinblue. If you want to find cheaper solutions, check out AWS SES and the various 3rd party integrations that uses it to send email [0].

[0] https://geekflare.com/aws-ses-powered-email-marketing/

arkitaip··on A decade long Google account disabled with no warning or reason
He probably did nothing wrong at all but was collateral damage caused by their shitty "fraud" detection AI.
arkitaip··on Email the Web at World Hey.com
Basecamp has made email more exciting than it's been in many years. If Hey didn't cost so much with a custom domain, is like switch in a heart beat.
arkitaip··on Human Trials With a Nasal Spray Corona Vaccine Begin
It seems like the research community agrees that corona is going to be with us for the foreseeable future, that yearly vaccines are needed. It really puts all policy measurements into perspectives and that they aren't a long term solution.
arkitaip··on Reddit hires its first chief financial officer as it prepares for an IPO
Ads and Reddit gold (its own currency). I think that various membership related monetization is the future of Reddit and far more stable than ads. Just look at what Twitch is doing with subscriptions, bits, emotes and donations.
arkitaip··on Google's 'Wolverine' project: give you superhuman hearing
Hearing aids are an industry that could really benefit from disruption. The products are still very expensive and could benefit from better noise cancellation and some basic AI.
arkitaip··on Open source projects should run office hours
I can't imagine a more HN thing than someone referencing a technical specification to define the word 'should'.
arkitaip··on How do non-techies edit Jamstack websites?
Why should they have to conform to your poor choice of tech? Why would anyone want their content creators use html or limited markdown when we've had competent GUI alternatives for decades now.
arkitaip··on Help HN: Google just blocked my site as deceptive site
Is Search Console giving any useful info?

FYI your domain seems to be blacklisted by Firefox, McAfee, Sophos among others [0]

[0] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/e75b77237f60332ef78b2399c...

arkitaip··on Volvo Says It Will Stop Selling Gasoline-Powered Cars by 2030
9 years is a very aggressive deadline that will force Volvo to change the entire company from top to bottom and bottom to top. But if you want to achievement very difficult goals you really need to aim for the impossible.
arkitaip··on The new Amazon app icon has less “Hitler style”
The old logo looks even more Hitlery when turned upside down.
arkitaip··on Ask HN: How do you deel with loneliness when WFH alone?
Are you able to temporarily move to another, more relaxed place in France? Maybe close to the coast where the weather is better?
arkitaip··on Show HN: Discover new ecommerce brands and search for DTC products
This makes more sense when you realize that DTC = Direct To Consumer.
arkitaip··on Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
Fomo is a helluva drug.
arkitaip··on Silicon Valley Runs on Saudi (2019)
Making the lives of civilian people utterly miserable in order to force them to topple unwanted governments has been a corner stone of US foreign policy for decades. It's why countries like Iran are facing so harsh sanctions; they punish the people severely into desperation. At least that's what the terribly flawed theory predicts. In reality, the rulers can easily circumvent sanctions through smuggling, foreign travel, sophisticated financial setups, etc.
arkitaip··on How Google's Grand Plan to Make Its Own Games Fell Apart
The article mentions Amazon having the same trajectory but watching it unfold as reported by the gaming industry has been hilarious and sad. You have this tech behemoth that can and has thrown billions and recruited great people fail horribly because they haven't treated the domain with the respect and experience it requires.

You cannot simply order your minions to produce a billion dollar product in x years when dealing with entertainment. Almost every AAA game is created by studios/publishers with decades of experienced and even then the games don't always succeed (Cyberpunk 2077 comes to mind).

Thinking that you can go into a demanding and super competitive creative industry and make billions by treating games as another tech product is destined to fail. You need to play take the Sony or Microsoft route where you are both a publisher and several studios working over several years to change the video game landscape.

arkitaip··on Ask HN: How do you differentiate between Real anxiety and “Fake” anxiety
This isn't a classification of anxiety that is supported by the literature, i.e. if you have anxiety you have anxiety and it's a symptom for lots of different things including fear, trauma, self esteem issues, procrastination, etc.

My suggestion is that you find a therapist who can guide you through this. Good luck!

arkitaip··on US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing
He's only been in power for a month - what do you expect, a miracle?
arkitaip··on Firefox 86.0
Following a group of streamers at the same time is ideal for this. Currently you need to use 3rd party services.
arkitaip··on Soviet phone users accidentally discovered ‘Clubhouse’ in the 1980s
Pretty sure a version of this has existed in most countries only it wasn't due to a bug in the phone system but a feature that could cost you a pretty penny.
arkitaip··on Ask HN: How to Open Source?
Why do you want to make it open source? Open source isn't a marketing strategy, it's a social agreement based on the idea that people benefit from source code they can use, inspect and modify collectively. This comes with lots of freedom, responsibilities and challenges over many years.

One major challenge for you as a developer is monetization. If you don't have a proven strategy for making healthy recurring money after going open source, then you don't have a strategy at all. Accepting donos is not a viable monitization strategy, at least not in the beginning.

arkitaip··on Ask HN: Choosing between 0.01 or 0.0001 percent success
I would do A. If I in the future still want to work on B, I hopefully have the money and skills to do so.

One thing that I've realized as a procrastinator, is that being an ideas person is very overrated and it's very easy to inflate the future value (financial, emotional, social) of ideas.

arkitaip··on Walmart Bogle Font
All this hard work to create the most bland visual identity.
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