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This is exactly the kind of thinking that keeps mac-only or mac-first businesses from becoming successful more frequently.

As usual counterculture isn't part of mainstream media. Duh.

The terminal is the best terminal version

This is so incredibly false, I've been working on a project for the last six months and MoM I've seen steady increase in usage. Tbh much much higher usage then I expected. Most users find my site via Google or Facebook however they are looking for content that's not in those silos and have no problems leaving them.

If you have high quality content and you get it indexed properly by Google, users will come.

There are reasons users are not using your website.

1. It's not solving a problem people have.

2. Users can't find it.

Who, in their right mind searches for search engines? Nobody I know.

If you want users you have to go out and get them (literally pound the pavement and talk to people) or create a LOT more content ironically, so they can find your site on the search engines they are using today.

It gets out of your way almost as much as the text on this landing page.

If you only look at your lifetime things might not look great at this exact moment. But this too shall pass.

Expand your lense to include a few hundred or thousand years and you'll realize we're doing fine. Things have never been better. However the perception of what could be has shifted because memory is short.

Yeah, you're right! We should have stopped with Emacs in 1976. After all, everything after that point has been pointless and derivative.

Don't forget the perverse incentives of the folks working on these things. They don't get paid for projects getting completed, they bill by the hour.

And if that wasn't bad enough, taking a call on the way from one job to another? Bill them both for the time.

It went down svbtly

It takes time (investment) to change time... this bit of consultation will likely save a lot of stress for the people implementing this change.

Any shared hosting provider is extremely susceptible to this type of issue and this type of list just doesn't work. It's a scam. There are lots of good blocklists, but there are also lots of bad ones like this.

When I worked with a company who ran email systems like this we'd always steer customers away from lists like this, in cases where we couldn't deliver mail because of it we blamed the other provider. This actually worked a lot of the time and the customer would wind up contacting the sender another way to let them know they had a problem, and fairly often they'd change lists.

Our standard messaging was something like, "Google and Microsoft are receiving our emails just fine, something is wrong with the receiving service"

Any economic growth helps the government in innumerable ways, the government isn't meant to be a profitable industry with a huge upside.

Now that you can afford to, why not buy some time for yourself instead of stuff?

Haha. Such correlation, such little data. But hey, at least someone got paid.

The broken images to me look like instances where two or more cameras or images were used and then stitched together. Probably also done while the camera and object are moving making it more likely to be wonky.

Really great example of the long-term impact of opensource.

ENS is great until you lose control of it due to a hack or a death. Compare the reprocussions of that with the traditional system.

We all want better, and in so many ways we're getting there.

If the author of this believes what they wrote then I feel sorry for them, they're seeing the worst in a good situation and they're substantiating it with an opinion piece that's purported as scientific. Ironically the paper quoted in this article is a victim, or maybe a symptom of the citation issue it points out.

You don't need to be a genius to see the innovations of the last 5-20 years however they are so much more complex that they're harder to understand. It's a LOT harder to explain Amazon (the global teleportation of goods and services) then it is to explain electricity.

Who cares, this is a beta(?) or brand new product, send them your feedback

Oh I see. You're saying that crypto inverts the problem libertarians want to address with the financial system. Which is nifty!

I think you might find libertarians would be split about this... In my case I'm against anything that would throw out the existing system to start over from scratch, I'd rather work from the existing system and tactically remove things when they can't be justified.

There's different levels of e-signatures, for various circumstances.

The most sophisticated includes having an agent video chat with you and verify your identity when signing. If that won't hold up, then you'll probably have problems with an in person wet signature too.

Most of the time "parents caring for children" is considered a good thing. It only is an issue when there's societal pressure to do otherwise, which is also a good thing.

Sounds great, nobody should ever have anything nicer then anyone else. Please try to create that and get back with me about how it goes.

What does this mean?

(Libertarian here asking)

The concern should be about how "the law" can't be applied here

All of this is just pessimistic complaining. Flip this and be optimistic and you'll find life isn't all that bad. Think about the last hundred years...

* Rich people are still rich and poor people have access to more food, medicine, and opportunity then any time in human history.

* Families have and always should lookout for themselves first. That's the way things work and should work.

* Society is able to support more art then ever before.

* We have computers... HOW are you complaining about one super amazing piece of technology that didn't exist 5 years ago compared to another piece of incredible technology. Seriously? Be more amazed with how far this stuff has come in such a short time.

And like... We're not even in world war 3. Life is pretty good on planet earth, idk where you've been but come on back down.

It's a service every company needs and most aren't willing to build. This is in large part because most companies don't have the security expertise to handle sensitive data so it makes tons of sense to outsource. Even the companies that do have that expertise may not want to invest their resources outside their core business.

The important thing to consider is how much would it cost you to build/deploy a solution to send and request signatures from clients? Lawyers, developers, and security professionals are all needed and can quickly push the cost to build much much higher then paying for a service.

As for the valuation, it's also high in part because the market segment is so large.. anyone and everyone doing business online is a potential customer.

Disclaimer: I work for HelloSign. My experience here is from having seen many companies try to build it themselves only to return as customers a few months later.

If you've been doing it for most of your career, certainly. But a lot of people start their careers later or make dumb decisions with money for a chunk of the time, those things can totally push retirement well past 50.

I've found a couple odd instances where it'd be nice. But also utility classes work just fine too.