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arkitaip··on Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to have scourge controlled
Every single country has had a second wave. No, the reason why Sweden's covid-19 strategy is flawed, is the high number of deaths per capita, the government refusing to even suggest wearing masks, and failing to protect the elderly at our care facilities.

Our neighboring countries have enacted strict restrictions against Swedish travelers and workers and I totally get why: not only have our numbers been horrible but the government has been so irational at times that it must have been difficult to trust them to make reasonable decisions that wouldn't jepordize the lives of citizens in our neighboring countries.

arkitaip··on Google's Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee 'on-sites'
What made it miserable, if you don't mind me asking?
arkitaip··on 179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown
That's ALL criminals for you. They can be very smart and yet consistently commit silly and avoidable mistakes.
arkitaip··on Handshake – A Namespace for the Decentralized Web
Yes. And his point is perfectly easy to understand.
arkitaip··on Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images
It's really the tragedy of the commons and why we can't have nice things. Ghibli went out of their way and gave something nice, only to have it immediately abused by gluttonous data horders.
arkitaip··on Apple CEO Impressed by Remote Work, Sees Permanent Changes
I remember when everyone said remote work as the default was impossible but then it happened and now it's as if it was the same and rational option all the time...
arkitaip··on Tables: Tracking work for teams
Right but you can be sure that many people across several teams inside of Google have thought about creating a Airtable clone. Somehow Google greenlit this as a standalone product amongst many other options...
arkitaip··on Tables: Tracking work for teams
Google should be inspired by their more nimble competitors! Their main problem is not offering Tables as part of G Suite where it would boost their offerings in the office productivity space and deliver a more complete and coherent strategy. That is, if they are really commit to Tables and are ready to offer proper corporate support and maintenance...
arkitaip··on Tables: Tracking work for teams
Interesting that they would launch this as a totally separate product and not as a part of G Suite.

Do you think they want to create some distance between them and the rest of Google because ofd Google's reputation of shutting down products? Or maybe they want to launch a product outside the usual bureaucracy?

arkitaip··on Domains for the Rest of Us
That's a great name - for the right product!
arkitaip··on Build Personal Moats
It could be equally true that become indispensable, and often thereby expensive, to your organization causes it to seek your replacement, either in the form of people, tech or systems. Without proper scientific research on the topic of career building, we are fumbling in the dark.
arkitaip··on Google and Facebook under pressure to ban children's ads
You know what made me realize that Youtube isn't evil (just really terrible)? TikTok. Watching my small nieces abandon Youtube for TikTok's addicting 6-15 seconds long videos directly targeting kids (made by other kids!) has been depressing. It's the infinite feed in its purest form and I honestly look forward to TikTok getting banned.
arkitaip··on What happened to Firefox Send?
I'm so happy I decided to move away from Chrome's password manager and Firefox Lockwise and instead use Bitwarden.
arkitaip··on Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes
There are so many service that Mozilla could charge money for that tons of people would use because we are paying someone for those service already so it might as well be Mozilla because they are trustworthy and open source. Stuff like file hosting, photo hosting/sharing, password management, blog/site hosting, etc etc. I just don't understand how Mozilla can be this bad at monetization while sitting on top of a gold mine in terms of reputation, developers and organization.
arkitaip··on Ultra Safe Nuclear
> This number may sound like a lot, but it’s actually quite small. In fact, the U.S. has produced roughly 83,000 metrics tons of used fuel since the 1950s—and all of it could fit on a single football field at a depth of less than 10 yards.

A football field of forever death is not a comforting mental image.

arkitaip··on Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations
I don't know why people pretend like the distinction matters.
arkitaip··on .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public
I think you should transfer the domain to a gay rights org or similar because this type of domain squatting is obnoxious. I mean, you didn't even have a plan for the domain, just registered it for the novelty.
arkitaip··on Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316 days)
It happens regularly with Ubisoft's Uplay. Like the launcher can't access the Internet so you can't access your games.
arkitaip··on Apple Tried Charging the Price of a New MacBook Pro for a Screen Replacement
What Apple is doing isn't different from what manufacturers have been doing for centuries. Expensive repairs and parts have always been a way to earn more money at the expense of the consumer. I'm not saying their behavior is acceptable, just that it's very unlikely that laws are a solution to this problem.
arkitaip··on Apple Tried Charging the Price of a New MacBook Pro for a Screen Replacement
It is unfortunate that you are getting downvoted for stating the absolute most sane option. Apple isn't doing anything illegal here, so consumers aren't going to see a change in their behavior. Unless they opt out of Apple's offerings completely.
arkitaip··on Hiring the first head of marketing at a startup
That's HN on pretty much every topic except programming.
arkitaip··on State of Self-Serve Website Building in 2020
I've been thinking about creating a spiritual successor to Frontpage and Dreamweaver for years. A good ol desktop program built for easy and fast publishing and app prototyping.
arkitaip··on State of Self-Serve Website Building in 2020
Squarespace et. al. are not self-serve.
arkitaip··on State of Self-Serve Website Building in 2020
Publii almost gets it right. There's still the issue of getting hosting, setting that up, managing it etc for non-tech people. Your use case is great, though.
arkitaip··on State of Self-Serve Website Building in 2020
That's literally Wordpress minus plugins powered by a theme you created yourself.
arkitaip··on State of Self-Serve Website Building in 2020
Wordpress will probably outlast most of the alternatives mentioned in this thread, including every static site generator. It's too cheap, powerful, flexible and easy to use to disappear. Also, the Wordpress devs do actually make radical new changes to it to keep up with the times, like introducing the visual eidtor Gutenberg or moving towards a headless Wordpress.
arkitaip··on Why ‘Civilization’ is a political masterpiece
Games inherent the biases of their creators, so it's more a reflection of them than you.
arkitaip··on Android 11
Android takes care of your contacts, passwords, wifi settings, browser settings, photos, etc. It requires a Google account but it's astonishing how quickly you can set up a new phone by simply logging into your Google account.

What's missing is better media management for third party apps like WhatsApp and Telegram so important photos and videos are backed up while unimportant ones are ignored and even discarded regularly. Every single family member's phone I've had to deal with has had this issue ("why is my phone out of storage when I barely have any apps installed?!" Meanwhile, WhatsApp is storing 20GB of funny videos).

arkitaip··on Toys from Trash
VERY cool! Kids love when you create fun toys from seemingly nothing. The accompanying Android app seems to be free with tons of instructional videos.
arkitaip··on If high street shopping was like online shopping [video]
Everything is behavior online and behavioral design is everything for a smooth experience. What we could need is a mechanism where you can reliably and safely provide stores with ALL required personal and payment details with the click of a button. Currently, not even autofill works satisfactory due to a myriad of reasons.
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