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This makes me so tremendously sad. Danya was one of the biggest blessings to the online chess community.

When the cost is directly paid by the actor, it isn't an externality. It is the literal opposite of what externality means.

That's an argument for a different question, which is "should we allow people to waste electricity if they pay for it?". If your answer is that we should regulate what people are allowed to use electricity for, then we'll need to change the laws in this country.

It is very difficult to start being the moral judge for every single use of electricity. Instead, we let the free market decide in most situations. And when there are true externalities (meaning costs that borne by the broader population, e.g. car emissions) we do impose regulations to reduce those externalities.

Regardless of what you think of NFTs, you have to recognize that the author's only counterargument against NFTs is that they're bad for the "rest of us" due to externalities that everyone else has to pay.

The "rest of us" don't pay for the electricity use. The ETH miners are paying for it directly. And creators and buyers are paying for it indirectly through ETH usage. It isn't an externality. That's like saying the physical art world shouldn't exist because it uses physical real estate, electricity, and raw materials to be made on -- and the rest of us pay for those things.

Is it a good use of electricity? Maybe, maybe not. That's for people to decide individually, unless we'd want to go down the moral rabbit hole of judging every single use of electricity.

This is what I come to HN on the weekends for. Thanks OP.

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Seems reasonable when your core business has been massively impacted. Being a public company can't make it easier.

Also as a startup, good sub-answer to the "Isn't Uber / Twitter / Dropbox etc working on this?". Yes, but in a market downturn, your investors want you to dig in harder while their investors want them to survive and focus on core.

Anything?

It likely isn't in the contract now, but it might be in the future in way form or another.

This comment will not age well. I'll remind you in 14 days.

Plugging a friend's super cool product: a pop-up 24" monitor with full HDMI support and a long lasting battery that uses short throw projection.

https://www.arovia.com/

This is an oversimplification of why aeroponics or any form of hydroponics is great. A few of the most notable benefits:

1) Growing density - you use a lot less square footage by growing up!

2) Can grow anywhere - you control a ton of the variables due to setup indoors away from weather conditions, indoor lights, control of water and nutrients, etc.

3) The ability to very carefully fine tune the end product due to a large number of controllable inputs into the growing process (rather than spreading nutrients and water over large acres of land)

The overwhelming method of communication in China is WeChat, whether that is in messaging or voice call. WeChat is the absolute most important communication medium -- this is true for all age ranges.

You statement doesn't sound ridiculous, just uninformed and lacking awareness of how people communicate in China.

There are countless examples of products that help people who can't "just do it". Nicotine patches, non-alcoholic alcohol, direct deposit savings programs, exercise buddies, etc. Everyone needs help, everyone has weak points. No shame in using technology to assist you in one of the hundreds of points in your day that require willpower.

If I had to guess, you're not being down voted for intellectual curiosity, but rather how you frame the question.

There are many ways you could have framed the question, but the way you did sounds like you're challenging the premise of what OP is trying to do.

Someone built something. If your first response is "Why did you build this thing?" or in your case "Please elaborate why you think building this thing helps?" it comes across as being intentionally and unnecessarily negative, even if perhaps your intent is not to do so.

If you are actually curious, a few similar ways to frame the question:

- How have you seen your work impact women?

- What are the most meaningful ways this community has helped your users?

All positive ways of framing the similar "I'm curious how or why this works" question.

Not that interesting, just the result of a cherry picked list.

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/biggest-startup-frauds/

Most are men. Not indicative of men, just that most VC-backed startup founders are men.

Seems like a fairly light penalty for manipulating the markets, especially not having the accept responsibility for the charges.

On a side note, indoor hydroponics is a super fun DIY project that combines tech and gardening. Having a decent amount of fun with it, whole yielding produce to cook every week.

You can make your same point without being dismissive.

I think you answered your own question. Email marketing platform? Yes they do track emails, but only providing the data for open rates, not a list of timestamps and locations where you opened the email.

The problem is that the person that "doesn't like it" isn't the user of Superhuman, it is the recipient, who doesn't get a choice as to what email client the sender is using.

You can disable loading images in Gmail, which has the same effect.

I think this misses the points from the original post, the most critical IMO are:

(1) Recipient generally doesn't know they're being tracked. Even in the argument that 'email is catching up to IM', the recipient always knows that read receipts are turned on -- because it is built into the UI.

(2) Recipient doesn't know they're being tracked multiple times, with multiple locations. Again, in that same argument, messenger doesn't tell you the number of times I viewed your message and where I am when I viewed it.

BTW -- you can absolutely turn off read receipts across both Facebook and Twitter.

Public company, that is their job and legal fiduciary duty.

There is absolutely a better way you could have phrased this. In fact, the easiest is to entirely remove your first sentence. You could make a counter-point, stating that not everyone is driven by external motivation, providing yourself as an anecdotal example.

Instead you provided an insult and then gave anecdotal evidence.

You're going to miss out on quite a few opportunities if you consider someone's second email as spam.

I think you can make the same point without calling it foolish.

I think the former: "Among the very fastest-growing new tech companies, the average founder was 45 at the time of founding."

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Exactly this. Huge repercussions from the US government, not some kind of nefarious political play by Google.