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Wrong tense. Chalking it up on English being my third language :)

> "notes are useless, note-taking is indispensable."

This is very, very true for me. I read, optimistically, 5% of my notes.

As a corollary, I’m unable to take notes if the notepad is too fancy. I get analysis paralysis from something like a moleskine, like something this nice deserves nicely formatted notes. Only cheapo gas station notpads work for me.

> I still remember my grandfather telling us, everything you do, you must strive to do it well.

I’d like to counter with “perfect is the enemy of good”. Knowing when to half-ass something can be a skill in of itself.

If you’re planning on selling your pdf internationally and building it yourself, you’re basically planning to commit tax fraud. Unknowingly, yes, but it’s going to happen.

Just use Gumroad.

Am I reading this comment correctly - don’t US workers get pensions that aren’t tied to their employers?

I’d say that it’s not a social media per se, HN shares _a lot_ its of traits

Do you persist any data? Where does business logic reside? How do you validate inputs?

Sorry, good point. For GDPR purposes the company need to be Eu based

> 10 kilowatt-hours of energy, which is considered the average daily electricity usage for a household.

Excluding heating.

Not really! It’s just weird that every places I’ve worked at basically invents it from first principles rather knowing about it.

Tangentially, it’s curious there hasn’t emerged A Proper Way of version controlling and deploying stored procedures outside of “stick a bunch of sql scripts in a folder in the project root”

I think it’s because we’ve realized we’re not building a better future but rather Yet Another Online Ad* System.

* “online ad” can be replaced with “gig economy” if you like

> occasional situations where injured parties can't be made whole but that is an acceptable trade off for the benefits to society as a whole

https://amp.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...

It’s not a popular opinion on this site, and I’m probably going to be savagely downvoted, but whatever talent Musk had for business was eroded at least a decade ago by him surrounding himself with ego-stroking yes men.

He drank his own cool aid.

If you’re ok with the pace and general culture, “boring” places like banks and insurance companies can be fantastic for contractors. Especially if you know some of the niche products it’s pretty easy to command very respectable rates without the stress or grind of sexier companies. Oh, they _always_ pay on time and unless you’re terrible you can usually stay as long as you want.

Disclaimer: the above is my experience in Sweden, but I imagine the same applies elsewhere

> like medical transcription

There’s no way this is remotely legal, right? Unless it’s some sort of on-prem product?

> making wider sections of the populace unemployable faster than new job areas open up

This is a real threat to the fabric of society and will require us to rethink things like UBI and taxing the means of production rather labor.

> Google ranking is critically important.

I wonder how long this will be true. Already today Googles search result are mostly SEO-optimized garbage and I can't fathom that this will get better now that "content creators" have access to plutonium grade bullshit generators.

Still, it’s produced and it’s produced because there’s demand.

But yes, I agree, the vast majority of CO2 is produced by corporations who don’t pay for the externalities they create.

> I take offense to your sentiment.

I’m sorry I offended you. Do you have a better term for someone using several hundred percent more than their allotment of a resource?

The current average in the US is ~16 tonnes per year, so around.

A sustainable level of CO2 emissions per person is 2.3 tonnes per year. This includes food, housing, clothing and transportation.

A 20 hour flight produces ~3 tonnes of CO2. This is ON TOP of the CO2 used up for living.

> proper competition

Are you suggesting the headphone market is rigged?

It's known as "market segmentation" and it's been around forever. Look at CPUs, car engines, smart phones - same hardware with different feature bits enabled allows you to sell the same widget cheaper to a different demographic without destroying the value proposition of the more expensive variant.

> Call me cynical, but I didn't find this recent wave of startups to be innovative

I’ll stick my neck out and say that the vast majority of startups never were innovative, it’s just that money was essentially free for a decade.

> European developer to consider because taking a US job

Nitpicking, but this is technically not possible. The US company has to have a EU presence or the developer needs to be self employed and invoice the US company

I heard it discussed on this episode (could’ve been in the follow up episode)

https://saas.transistor.fm/episodes/nobody-in-saas-wants-to-...

Gumroads USP isn’t payment processing. Gumroads USP is that they handle international sales tax (also know as Merchant of Record), which, I’ve you’ve ever tried selling something on the Internet without committing tax fraud¹, will know that 12.9% is _cheap_.

¹) I’d estimate some 95% of all small online business are doing sales tax wrong. Hell, Basecamp just now cleaned up their act.

> There's plenty of billionaires creating bugout fortresses with private security contractors to keep them safe.

Being locked in a fortress with a few dozen armed men who’s loyalty depends on “currency in a bank” having any value doesn’t seem very safe to me.

But what do I know, I’m not a billionaire.

> US covers EU defence for access to the EU common market

Care to point me in the direction of more information about this?

Meta’s chock full of very smart, highly paid people. I’m sure they’ll figure something out.