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"dropbox is just rsync"

It feels a bit like hard work to use. They seem to have support for Dropbox but just as an afterthought and not the main thing. The main thing means running your own server, but it doesn't look easy to set up.

I want to think of an approach that is really easy to use so it becomes popular for that reason.

I think we can ethically sell things that don't exist to "sophisticated" investors - which is hard to define but probably based on net worth. Maybe limit the $ amount you can invest per person from "poor" investors to $1000 or something. But the question is, is it a scheme or an investment?

That said people buying crazy options on sites like /r/wallstreetbets, or just betting on sports are in the same boat, so where to draw the line? I think it is better to err on the side of controlling such investment schemes though rather than let them run loose.

The solution to the US controlling everything is to set up truly decentralised currencies like Bitcoin and keep a brand or controller out of that. Someone in the world can do this anonymously and it would be hard to shut down. Has anyone shut Bitcoin down yet?

Free snacks & beer are an anti-perk if you want to maintain a healthy BMI, and a healthy body. Alcohol is a drug with side effects (even if you don't have a hangover), but most people don't think of it that way.

Everyone will be minimizing expenses, so cash velocity is going to dramatically decrease. A recession to affect all sectors unless a miracle cure comes out this week. On that basis I expect real estate values to fall and stocks to continue to fall. Companies that are not profitable and rely on investor money to keep going will fail.

> Chinese folks with rural roots still associate freshness with how recently the meat was slaughtered. This is why sellers keep their animals alive and only butcher them before their customers’ eyes.

Anecdotally: I ate the best tasting salmon I've had for a long while. It was frozen salmon from ALDI.

Yes it's like the "cancel all debts" idea. Great idea, but emm.. by the way you do realise that "money in your bank account" is technically a debt that the bank owes you, so that gets cancelled too!

Ah "cancel all debts to people not banks". Great idea, but emm. OK so the bank now doesn't have the assets on it's books, goes bankrupt can't pay you that money in your savings account.

"cancel all debts to people not banks, and let the government bail out those banks". Great Idea, but.... something something hyperinflation.

etc.

"No such thing as a free lunch" - some 80's unpopular lady, but she might have a point!

Who has used the mentioned Amazon Workspaces? It looks cool I'd like to try it. Any good for this sort of thing?

Let 'em play!

New problem: debt secured on property investments to businesses.

What about solvency, and the knock on effect to creditors. They can't pay the booze supplier and they go out of business etc. This could go on for months. Most businesses don't make those sweet SaaS margins. Same for airlines.

Thanks that is what I meant. Sorry to confuse people.

By the way HN by the way seems to be the nicest site in terms of privacy, simplicity and page load times.

Ironically this page sent a payload to a domain call permuative.com, without my permission.

This payload contains user events e.g. how long I read the article, a user identity guid (presumably a fingerprint of my browser), my isp name

That's a real stones in glasshouses argument.

More like crashing you car and getting it fixed under insurance sorts out that rust spot!

My hands got a bit bloody trying to catch this falling knife

Give me my own cube and a < 15 minute walk/cycle commute and then for me office would be better.

I'd really prefer RSS instead of marketing emails I choose to opt in to. An email feels like a todo, a stressor! An RSS feed feels like a "to read at lesiure" stream.

Or even worse... interruptions!

"You can sleep when you are dead, and luckily due to lack of sleep that will happen sooner"

This will be an interesting challenge to suddenly be thrust as a team into WFH.

Thank Alex for the response.

Looks like you have run up against a shortcoming of git itself. I accept that you may need to store the data on your end for those reasons. If this is the case it might be worth having that in the FAQ too, and convince me that you ensure a decent uptime and that you can export the data nicely if you want to move on later.

Good luck with it. Hope it does well.

Hi Alex

Love the idea. I love there are people working on this kind of tool.

My biggest question is where the data is stored. I think the storage model for the comments should be mentioned in the FAQ. If it is on your server only then I don't think I'd use it.

I would ideally like the comments to be stored as metadata files committed to the repo or inline with the code. I'd probably therefore prefer a tool-user-based pricing model. And I think $100/y would be a fair price per user.

I don't get the repo based pricing. I could have a repo with a single docker file in, or a repo with a million lines of C++. Having a lot of repos forces me onto the expensive per-user licensing. It would be ok at $100-$200 /y but $69/m === $828/y seems too much. That's 1%+ of a senior dev's salary in most part of the world, for one tool.

I'm closer to MTV than MM

Isn't this an airport (or any port) security headache?

What about buying the monitors on a local board when you arrive somewhere, then sell them on that same board when you leave? I think this would work well in most cities, in that you'd find one pretty quick.

I mean you could probably find a company that'll lend you some of their dustier monitors. Most software companies seem to have a problem that they have ones they need to get rid of.

But then you are saying you don't understand why people do digital nomading. While I am not sure I'd like it, I can see why people are attracted to perpetual travel.