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My favorite example is the Expat Software guy: https://expatsoftware.com/articles/

Another good one is Daedtech/Hit Subscribe

Not to mention that working two jobs poorly is a lot more work and a lot less money than boostrapping a decent SaaS

EDIT: Pretty rich that I'm getting downvoted so much, despite multiple examples of successful SaaS creators showing up in the comments, and this being a forum started by a VC partly to promote and encourage tech startups. If you think that starting a tech business is so impossibly difficult that you're personally offended at the idea of someone recommending you do it, I'd say you should just go back to Reddit or Twitter.

If you're bristling at me calling SaaS "easy", I just meant it's easier than running a multi-year scam and probably committing fraud, depending on the details of your employment contracts.

I remember that the Dreamcast was already dead by the time piracy started becoming rampant, at least in the USA where I lived

ah, if you wanted to say it that way in English, you'd say

"If you >don't< want to meet people don't use Tinder"

the way it's phrased means (unambiguously) that Tinder sucks, and Tinder doesn't work

OK, I've been married for a long time and never had any luck with any dating service before that, but I don't think that's necessarily as true as you think

You're within 2-3 degrees of separation of dozens or hundreds of single people you can date, so if you just start putting the word out among your friends, family, etc I think they'll start introducing you to people

haha, if a country wants to spend a 9 figure sum or someone comes back in time from the future to hack me, I'll be happy to consider myself pwned

It's a huge bummer that I HAVE TO block all ads as a security measure, though, and that people accept "Download advertisement.exe and run it in a half-assed sandbox or you're stealing that clickbait article" as the way things should be

"Google Pixel 6 charger" -> Google, Looptimo, "Superer", "color rokk"

I guess you could just admit you're completely wrong about Amazon search rather than change the subject to Google search

Amazon search for "Good Mixer"

Top results:

Hamilton Beach

KUCCU

VIVOHOME

Cuisinart

Vospeed

CUSIMAX

Aucma

Hey, if you want, you can give me $200k/month and I'll scan your ads to make sure they're just flat fucking image files without any arbitrary bullshit code

What the hell are you talking about? No-name Shenzhen manufacturers rocket to the #1 slot all the time, through a combination of being cheaper and literally paying for 5 star reviews

Just search for anything on Amazon right now and you can see what I mean. I ran afoul of this when I needed a humidifier last year, but just now I searched for "phone charger" and the front page was mostly brands that exist solely on Amazon and some tiny Facebook page

It's pretty funny that corporations can levy a multi-million dollar judgement against a single mother for pirating a CD, but then when the tables are turned, it's no big deal

> Trump, whom they hated just as much

Does anyone in power actually hate Trump? So far as I could tell, all he did for most of his tenure was slash taxes and carefully shepherd the market upward while playing a lot of golf

While we're on the subject, silencers don't turn handguns silent, gas tanks don't explode when shot, and you can die from being buried chest-deep in sand

Basically nobody in Japan has ever heard of this. Whenever I'm hanging out in Japan and run across another viral post about "The ancient and time-honored Japanese tradition of goldjoin", I ask Japanese people about it in Japanese*

Not once has anyone heard of it.

It's just another fake viral sensation that we cooked up in the USA

There's plenty of historical evidence that it's been done, but it's not some common thing that people in Japan regularly do. Modern Japanese people actually love buying disposable plastic crap, then throwing it out when there's the slightest thing wrong with it.

Since they're right next door to China, they can get a lot of fairly nice plastic stuff at the dollar store. You pop into the 100 yen store, and pay 100 yen +tax for the exact same plastic junk that would cost you $5 to $20 per item at Target or Wal-Mart in the USA

* For the record, I'm not asking "What's kintsugi?", I'm asking "Hey, have you ever heard of this thing where you fix a broken item using gold? Like gold glue?", and I show them the viral post du jour

Mark Fields (the CEO) could put in a process to make it difficult or impossible to accidentally get your customers arrested, but he doesn't give a shit if that happens right now

The idea is that Mark would feel some sort of inconvenience if something was screwed up this badly, ideally, in light of the fact that he's receiving $16,000,000/year

At least you can change the wake word on Amazon devices

All Apple devices interpret "Hey Sarah" as "Hey Siri" and then start shooting their stupid mouths off, bugs the hell out of Sarah

yeah, it's pretty frustrating, regular people on the street and even semi-technical people I talk to say "Oh, Apple is just as bad as all the others"

They legitimately don't understand the difference between Facebook tracking every detail about your life and Apple having an account with your name on it

You can pass out layoffs across the whole company in a couple of hours through the same infrastructure you use to pass out work items, KPIs, and paychecks

I've had decent luck with Blokada

The nice thing is that it's open source

How much UBI could we realistically afford right now? Keeping in mind that there'd be an incredibly huge reduction in economic productivity, since pretty much everyone hates working

I'm guessing we could actually keep people fed, but I'm wondering if we'd end up living in really crappy shacks without first world quality utilities

I dunno if I'd want a UBI utopia if it requires a 1700s-quality lifestyle

Man, that's really interesting

Looks like Monero hasn't been pumping or dumping quite as much as other cryptocurrencies, maybe that means its creators actually care about making it useful as currency rather than as a medium for ~~scams~~ "investments"

I'd love an ad-free future, but something tells me that there'll always just be too much pressure to make more ads. Hell, Amazon is pumping $10,000,000 per episode into a TV show that's arguably just a big ad for Amazon (subscribe to our TV service to watch this show, buy some socks and video games while you're here)

9 percent of your workforce isn't going to work 2 hours a day, man. Almost nobody can handle being that much of a lazy, sleazy piece of crap. What probably happened is that the idiot CEO decided to check productivity via some BS metric, then discard all the time his employees had to spend on anything else

I've been on the receiving end of that before, it's infuriating.

That's the cost of doing business, you keep the profits and in exchange you don't treat your employees like fucking garbage.

He didn't even need to lay them off, according to the article. He just wanted "a fortress balance sheet going into the holidays"

Easy answer: Quit giving money to Valve, and use GOG instead

GOG for buying stuff DRM free, and Game Pass for renting it cheaply if you don't care to own it

Some six month old FUD and it hijacked my back button, pass on this article

Getting a free all-expenses-paid weekend in Mountain View is a perk to a lot of people

If I weren't busy with the familoids at home I'd love a free plane trip and fancy hotel stay. Er, in non-pandemic times at least

If something changes within ~300ms before your click, the only way you'd be intentionally clicking whatever's there now is if you're amped up playing some online game

Smart TVs scan what's on the screen to get data on what people are watching and sell that data to anyone who wants it

The idea is to make sure they can keep that data flowing even if someone intentionally disconnects the TV from the internet

> Unless your only alternative is some mildly unpleasant activity which doesn't allow you to rest, that time was not valueless.

So you're saying I shouldn't be playing MMORPGs all the time?

He's saying rich people have assets with large intrinsic value that won't be hurt by inflation, like houses and stock shares, while poor people just have a little cash on hand and cash flow from their jobs.

I have no comment/insight into the rest of the statements though