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The common use for "bootstrapping" is using personal capital and then funding the business with its own proceeds.

If you'd say "How we grew our business without traditional VCs" that'd be an excellent title. What you describe in your comment here sounds like an interesting alternative approach.

But the way it's introduced looks like an article about how a 25 year old bought their own house, and step 5 is "my parents took the mortgage and I pay them rent."

This feels a little like a decade-old maxim that needs a refresh. Most comparisons that I find of modern flagship handsets against even mid-range point-and-shoots show the dedicated cameras failing to dominate. Particularly with computational processing it gets really tough to honestly just wave a hand and scoff at the mobile as a primary choice for most casual photo situations (and some professional, as well!)

I too love my manual-operation DSLRs and mirrorless swappable cameras, and just bought a new lens for my go-to. But I've not found myself in years compelled to spend what I'd need to on a pocket camera that'd beat what my phone can do.

I never felt that the Internet in the 90's was about turning yourself into a meat robot. Tech businesses want that from their staff and had been slowly working toward it, but the last 2 years feel like that slow creep was accelerated and a lot of people have had enough.

For a long time we watched businesses get leaner, trying to use frameworks and automation so that the same staff could manage 2x, 5x 10x, 100x the amount of resources. The pandemic saw hiring freezes, wage freezes, from which businesses are still recovering. Market analysis is showing that most non-hospitality sectors have recovered though, which infers that folks are really under the gun to deliver more than ever before.

"Trying to be a better person every day, in combination with the wonder of creativity and building, is what made the internet interesting in the early days. Who are these people who are turning communities into sad opposites of these values?"

I'd challenge the assertion that productivity hacking and the self-improvement hustle are what made the internet interesting in the early days. Creativity and exploration, absolutely!

If your flow is converting your time into productivity for a company, for no increase in shared compensation for the result of that productivity, then that's tots cool for you.

I think many are tired of it and you're seeing them say "no."

If you'd like to blog and write, maybe just write for yourself, don't put any trackers on it, don't put any ads on it.

The grind culture thing comes from people trying to make money off of their blogs. So, don't do it for the money :)

If you get to a point where your hosting provider comes knocking because you're generating too much traffic, you'll have a good inflection point to determine if there's some way to get the blog to pay for its own hosting without you having to change your approach (tip services are cool for this).

As something to install and run for yourself? Sounds cool in theory but awful for your neighbors, and what should be a no go generally. Think of areas where liberty and privacy are conditional, or indeed as a fundamental feature that any ISP could turn on by default in their mandatory router/modem boxes?

Slays me that wifi ended up with IEEE instead of the IETF for example. The profit motive really seems to drive a privacy-second approach to some of these standards.

The imprecision of this summary title is like a metaphor for the mixed messages and real-world performance of the systems studied.

I too love having hard work to do and pouring myself into being a part of as much as I can.

I have discovered that, when my personal life has suffered and waned, it's because I'm trying to be a part of too much of the work.

The choice I've needed to make is whether I can give up some of the direct personal responsibility that I've internalized over the success of the program I run (big company).

If you can't be aware of the limits to your personal capacity, you'll end up living in the exhausted, stress-hormone-overdosed purgatory of burnout land, your body rebelling against your refusal to "go home" at the end of the day.

On the "things to do" side, I do better now that I keep a phone for work and don't put any work anything on my personal phone. I do carry both through the day, but I put the work one face down when I'm done and leave it on my desk until the next day.

The work computer is similarly separate from where I'm writing right now, and it too goes on silent mode and closed when I'm done. I'll go as far some weeks to unplug it on Friday and tuck it away, just to really remind myself that I'm not on the clock.

In practice the content that can be challenged under NetzDG is scoped and focused on hate speech and terrorism. While news outlets originally latched onto the "they crush free speech" soundbite, it's really a law to acknowledge the responsibility of the publishing platform for what they're bringing to the world.

There's no need to make the question binary; plenty of liberal states have strong social systems, and yes changing federal state management structures though would be one change that could make Saudi Arabia more attractive an investment partner.

Going into business with the royal family strengthens its power globally and domestically and decreases the chance that the Saudi population could effect a change, whether they wanted to or not. It also legitimizes the actions of the Saudi royal family. That's a consideration that a private individual is under no greater political obligation to make one way or the other, and a consideration that should be made with deliberation (as should any decision of this kind be made).

We're missing I think a good argument for forcing private founders to be critical of how they run their business but to avoid due diligence on whether funding sources come from the Saudi monarchy. How the government of the US and other countries negotiate relations and sovereign trade with Saudi Arabia is a separate though indeed important topic.

Private individuals choose who they want to do business with, including who they take money from.

Your argument really goes both ways. If the sovereign citizens of Saudi Arabia want their national wealth invested in private industry, maybe they need to first change their country to be the sort of place these investment seekers want to do business with. There's great examples of positive changes toward business and investment from liberalization across the globe, which the Saudi people could take as example for how to become a more attractive investment and funding partner.

Firefox for iOS has a suite of tracking protection features built in, including a strict ad blocking service.

I've not gone to compare them both -- are you sure that what's in Firefox Focus for iOS isn't also in Firefox?

I'd really like to see it support native iOS password manager new credential storing and credential updating. The feature in Safari to ask and store a new account makes using the password minder much easier, and being locked into "use our Firefox one or you can only read from others" is really lame.

Where would you see using this over a distributed ledger, or where do you see the distributed ledger still being the better choice?

Good long-term relationship building can be as compelling a feature as what the product actually does. It's short-sighted to discount the value of enjoying having bought what you buy.

I uninstalled Creative Cloud from my PC last week and my oh my, did it feel like I was transported back to e.g. 2007.

I emotionally recoil from businesses whose only remaining competition moat is "we make it hard to get rid of our stuff"

> Ah right, everyone that disagrees must be one of those people so their opinion doesn't matter. > More than "some".

This sounds like disgruntled opinion over having to pay 18 EUR/month for something you don't watch.

Please feel free to put something more substantial behind your snappy retorts. The studies and research I've read indicates that the people mostly trust and appreciate the balance in German public broadcasting, and most disgruntled with public broadcasting in Germany are on the radical sides. The second bit is more universally supported by psychological research indicating that the average person wants to watch stuff that confirms their biases.

> Except you can't give certain organizations a unique monopoly to collect fees from everyone and then call it independent with a straight face.

You're perverting the meaning of monopoly here, I think. There's a publicly funded infrastructure for broadcast programming, as well as privately funded sources of programming. ZDF and ARD don't have exclusive right to broadcast in any market in Germany as far as I know?

The publicly funded infrastructure includes representative oversight mechanisms from political and community sources, which provide a far more robust mechanism for neutrality checking vs the programming decisions of a profit-motivated private organization.

> Finally, unlike taxes

Means testing is a fantastic point, I whole-heartedly agree that statutory funding structures like this shouldn't overburden any slice of the population.

The public broadcasters in Germany aren't propaganda arms of the government and are generally respected across political affiliation, except perhaps by the sort of folks that think AfD has the right approach. They may exhibit some editorial lean (https://www.dw.com/en/a-dual-broadcasting-system/a-435426), but from everything I've seen not even to the level that folks in the US complain about CNBC or Fox News.

Germany, in fact, comes in with one of the highest press freedom scores from Reporters without Borders:

https://rsf.org/en/germany , https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/germany-media-profile/

National public Radio and the Public Broadcast Company in the US, in further illustration, hasn't been Donald Trump's megaphone.

Just generally, independent journalism is important and can be subverted whether the sources are public or private. Open pluralistic oversight is most important to maintaining balance and Germany seems to get it right, while also making sure the media can be accessible to any resident.

Seems a not-awful approach to trying to ensure a more-educated population, which is also good for a democracy.

Is there an Austrian version of Tatort? I've only seen episodes/teams based in German cities.

You found the hot-button topic...

If it was just a CV repository, I would be quite comfortable with this approach. Some regions have a social mandate to include photos on CVs and it bothers me quite a bit. Where I live Marital status / number of children is also common which I really don't understand.

Because this is set up as a web of professional landing pages though, part of the system is discovering people that you may know or finding people that you're looking for (and not just getting a link from someone to their CV).

I'd love an option to turn it off site-wide though, that could be a nice feature if you prefer to more-dissociate your connections from their physical selves.

It sounds like you're both criticising market-rate compensation and lauding it?

But also, companies overpay in SF because if they don't someone else will pay better and pick up the experienced technical labor. So it's an employee's market there, sort of, versus in perhaps Poland where there's less valley-level insane demand for technical labor and so companies aren't so competitive to snag that one extra person.

Given the time that's passed since then, you'd be one of the old rich person.

Austin sounds like an up-and-coming Valley, as do a few other really gorgeous locations around the US. The trick is to pick one and settle in early.

How do people here feel about these changes?

I've the initial impression that this will be a good step for reducing the drift of user content into other websites and spaces where messages or user data may end up outside of the context for which it was generated.

There's a lot of people disagreeing here on the definition of "well," and it's interesting to see in real-time how the various assumed definitions result in assessments that are both valid and disagree with each other.

DC v. Heller specifically in the Decision text does not support or go against CCW laws or prohibitions, rather leaving those to the existing state and federal laws. It was a finding against a ban on private holding and keeping of firearms, and of keeping firearms in the home in a state easily fired.

Why would the Chief Security Officer of a massive corporation need a CCW?

"You happened to find a decent Lexus dealership - maybe somewhere else there will be an equally nice Volkswagen dealership."

The margin on a VW isn't as high and costs significantly less on average than Lexus, so independent dealerships selling VWs have to operate on volume instead of long-term reputation and relationship building. The VW shops will be nice but don't have the time or budget for all the extra.

"Everything you described depends 100% on the individual dealership not on the brand."

This isn't the case. Just like different luxury-leaning domestic brands in Europe have levels of corporate ownership or incentive to provide certain services, leading Lexus also has what I assume is an incentive program for dealerships to offer different levels of lush care: https://www.lexus.com/guest-experience.

There will be outliers but the trends and reputations exist for often explicit reasons.

The what isn't the question dear friend, the why is. And I'm confused why they'd make an unnecessary choice to decrease readability.

I am curious why the author abbreviated the price of the board in such a way that both didn't remove any characters from the sentence and made the number more obscure.

I think there's something in mapping the mental model of interacting with your environment to the new controls for that environment, which isn't quite finished yet.

Humans are good at making tools invisible or subconscious extensions of our physical selves, and there's this moat that VR gets stuck in I think on the way to true integrated physical extensions. i.e., a hammer becomes consciously indistinguishable from the carpenter's hand.

TV-based gaming consoles have had 4 decades of continually improving the screen and the input device. How invisible do the newest Playstation/Xbox/Switch (pro) controllers feel in your hands now?

VR can be immersive, but in the real world outside the goggles you're not yet transparently / invisibly integrated into the physical things you're near. So you kinda don't yet trust it, and some of the cables pull you out of the experience, and things are heavy etc.

When VR can live-integrate the world around you transparently into your virtual world, and the problems with things that pull you out of that subconscious human-tool melding are fixed, then I think there's going to be some really epochal things happening.

Until then AR seems to approach that integration moat from the other side and already looks to be making its way into everyday use.