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I also might be wrong but I assumed that a local app still has an edge over a website.

This [1] is an old video about how Excel is used professionally. If that's not possible then the website is not good enough.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12450070

Am I mistaken or are all the note taking systems optimized for isolated usage? Some allow some form of communication by publishing notes but the last time I checked, there was no public pool of notes that were open for discovery.

I would love to have a system where my notes are automatically linked with notes from other users who have the same ideas or goals.

Capitalism can also mean that politics shouldn't intervene when monopolies dominate markets. Then markets may also disappear in capitalism.

Why is there a need to remain employed for vesting? Can't OP offer the right to vest in the separation package and terminate immediately?

Why is there not a non-typical UBI trial run by those who believe in UBI? It doesn't have to be tax funded and it doesn't have to pay out in a low purchasing power country.

For sure there is a 'living on one dollar a day' community that is willing to receive a UBI. That would be $400 per year. With a $4000 pledge per year, it takes 1000 people to finance a 10000 community. Add some technology transfer, and if UBI works, then the community should be able to finance its UBI by themselves after some years.

Doesn't Google use the Libreoffice code on the server side?

You still need at least a locally running spreadsheet application for the Excel wizards. If I were Google or Slack, I would push Libreoffice Calc to be better than Excel. Only then will big companies be able to use an MS Office alternative.

Without an income tax, would the spending power remain at the lower and middle class? The housing market has shown that people are loose with their money and pay any price that they can finance. Likewise, all goods will become more expensive until people can only buy the same things as today.

Income tax can be seen as a tax on companies that can't be embezzled. Most people are honest and want to see their full income on documents so a company has to pay the full amount of the taxes.

This leaves the lower and middle classes with less money, but it also forces the market to offer the goods for less.

The alternative would be taxing the companies directly. People would earn more, but companies would also request more for their goods because they have to pay more taxes. But would the tax payout be the same if companies have an even bigger incentive to hide their profits?

This feels like tablets all over again. Microsoft had them for years but couldn't make something convincing.

The core of Facebook is the idea of reinventing Myspace as a business app with a formal design. From that point of view, it makes sense to let Microsoft reinvent the 3d user experience.

I doubt that it will create the package that will establish 3d headsets. For a workplace, it's a feature that the colleagues in a meeting are at a distance. On the other hand, we would already know if a virtual desktop with a huge spreadsheet would be more efficient than a monitor.

Without a Steve Jobs, users have to figure out the purpose of 3d headsets by themselves. Meta should follow the model of the PC and let every producer of electronics build a compatible product. Let everybody use the patents as long as they build a headset that fulfills the spec.

They should also avoid any lock-in and choose a free operating system. Only then can it be used by enthusiasts to experiment until the purpose of 3d headsets is found.

This can still be beneficial for Meta because they can establish themselves as the leading market place for 3d apps. Furthermore, like ads on the web, there is a need for an ad network because all the free apps need to be financed. Meta can ride the network effect of being the first mover.

Meta has the chance to create the next platform. I doubt that they will take the risk. By locking it down, they can be sure that they will never lose whatever they create. Unfortunately, they are only on a way to create the precursor to the 3d ipad.

Slack should invest in Libreoffice and offer a better office suite.

Can this already be called the spiritual successor of Lotus Notes or are important components missing?

Global warming shows that we have already passed that point. People care more about status and lifestyle than life.

But is it bleak? When we go all in on virtuality, and the resolution is high enough and all senses are covered, what would be missed from the physical world?

Have you considered the network effect? Users can't switch if there is no competitor with possible matches.

Instead of cloning, they could just pay stackexchange to host it.

Bhutan is a country that does improve on well-being. They measure Gross National Happiness (GNH). That should give a first approximation of the potential of that idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness

Do you have an example for the 'shitting'?

I don't understand how the shitting, and slapping right back is economically relevant. How is it preventing a country or a region from picking a market and becoming a global leader and thus earning high margins? E.g. people have been dissing China's product quality for ages and yet that hasn't prevented China from improving.

As a side note, it shouldn't be an economic disadvantage that Germany exports 30% to the European periphery. Cars are a competitive market with French, Korean, Japanese and American offers. The periphery should be able to make back much more if they specialize in products of a high-margin market. E.g. if I were a politician, I would go all-in on medical research and try to develop some world-leading equipment or cures.

To spell it out:

>President François Mitterrand argued for the single currency because he hoped to bolster French influence in an EU that would otherwise fall under the sway of a unified Germany

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2012/11/17/the-time-bomb-a...

If you look at the USA then the profits are made at the periphery. Profits can be made anywhere. Sooner or later, they will be made where living is more pleasant and that's at the European periphery.

Which cultural problems exists that keeps the periphery poor? I would like to argue that the cultures of the periphery are what will attract people and customers and what will allow the periphery to develop.

>It's definitely not worth an engineer's time to resolve random customer issues, especially as Stripe has grown from ~500 people to ~7000 people

That's true if you assume a constant rate of incidents. But when engineers are responsible for customer issues, they become aware of problems and can change the product to reduce those incidents.

In services like this one, letting engineers do the customer support is the closest they can get to eating their own dog food.

If incidents are handled by another department then it's more rewarding to implement another bonus-relevant goal than to reduce the number of problems.

There is also the internet. Maybe everybody agrees and there is no objection to a correction?

It could be as easy as creating a Mastodon instance to find out.