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Yeah, SEO has become hell hole in the last 6 months. Crippled businesses across the board from what I've seen and heard on the grape vine.

After 8 years of SEO expertise I honestly can say that there's nothing about SEO these days that makes sense, pages are not being indexed for weeks at a time, spam/crap at the top result. Throw in the endless (and ambiguous) requirements to adhere to the mighty G's requirements.

VW is setup to do just that with their goliath bank: https://www.vwfs.pl/ - I would imagine this is where the larger brands may come into their own with larger legislation and legality issues. VW provides a whole range of financial offerings.

I can honestly say that I think it made little to no difference, across the board. The requirements etc have not been fulfilled by most companies, why bother.

This is what cripples most indie hacking projects. The idea that if you build it well enough the customers will come to you.

Right now, you need more selling than ever to get found and heard. Put this in perspective, even if you went down the low-touch, organic selling route of content marketing and you were building a MarTech product. You would as of my last check be competing against 2000+ MarTech SaaS all effectively blogging to the marketing department, every week. You then could switch to advertising but again, there's probably 200+ platforms already in your product area.

Slow growth is the best growth, technical debt is minimized and you can call the customer directly to learn from them what they like and dislike. Which is still considered selling and unless you 'ship' you get no feedback. I feel like people are too focused on the 'meaning' of words when really, it's sink or swim when most products launch.

Because of the original argument being that it's a US incorporated company when in fact it's an EU incorporated too therefore why would a EU based creator pay US based taxes when clearly Google is functioning and registered in the EU?

Hmmm, makes me want to check out Integromat further. I've tried it but have basically stuck with Automate as it's basic but there's enough to automate things. Zapier got a little hectic for some of these tasks too.

> most developed corporate law of any state

Honestly this just sounds like the old Swiss tax rules of 'we never disclose your details, even to the feds'.

You do know that they are incorporated in Dublin too, right alongside all the tech companies - because it's a tax haven.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/explainer-google...

Remote workers will be screwed then. I've worked for companies incorporated in Switzerland and I live in Poland, why on earth would that make sense to pay Swiss tax if I live and work in PL?

Also Alphabet is a Delaware incorporated company - tax haven, plus there's the good ol' tax haven of Dublin that FANGs love and Google is located in, like Facebook, Amazon, insert other multi-billion turnover company.

For anyone interested in Ireland's tax loopholes: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/explainer-google...

Asbestos was being used from the 1800's and I can see that all of a sudden there's plenty of impact that has been caused by it. Fukushima was 10 years ago, come back again in another 10 years time, then another and see what the damage is.

Exactly! I can cite 5+ women here in Poland who I know that all have thyroid related issues. Not blood related to each other but born close to each other. As far as I can tell no one is humping their cousin...

My mum died when she was 36 because she had spent a couple of years working in a battery production factory in LT. I remember visiting her too! The amount of cancer, the locations of it and the aggressiveness of the growths found in her pointed to the simple fact that she was exposed to incredibly harsh chemicals. But it could be blamed on X, Y, Z if need be but this is the reality of it.

Cousin marriages and cancer? Wow.

> After extensive, long-term, high-quality studies of the effects of (mid- to low-level) radiation on populations after Chernobyl

Ever heard of the Chernobyl babies born in Poland and Ukraine? My wife happens to be in that category and safe to say she has plenty of similar issues to other people in the same 'category'. Thyroid issues are a serious problem for many young women around here and it cannot be a coincidence.

But I still do believe that nuclear is the way forward without doubt though. Just that these studies seem to be way off with the ongoing effects.

> job training for lifeguards is not feasible (why?)

Growing up anyone that could swim well was desperate to become a life guard. Well above minimum pay and for 16+ that's pretty good. Plus there's an aura about being a life guard that was incredibly interesting. You get to wear shorts and t-shirts all day too.

That being said I assume most of these upcoming life guards have disappeared to do a tiktok dance...

Ditto, I have that fine pale, eastern european, 12 hours in front of a screen colour going. Honestly, the lobster jokes were quite funny for me as sometimes I would wear a matching red t-shirt without noticing just how lobster looking I was. I've had plenty of sun strokes too when I was younger and playing football in peak lunch heat. That's my level of pasty. My wife tans in minutes so I am jealous but so what.

I had plenty of eastern european cheap labour jokes from friends, I just played along depending on their skin colour or race. No one was upset and we all laughed at our unique differences.

That's like someone being offended when someone gets called pasty or pale as hell.

Card not present is the bane of the ecommerce world. Which is how most fraud is done but it makes it very easy for banks to recover it.

I work in digital marketing so generally I make purchases for random ebooks, courses etc. Chrome tells me that basically every major website has been hacked or exposed.

But here is my PIN **

I've never been robbed for cash. I have had my bank account emptied multiple times though, recently too.

When I hand cash over to someone, I know how much is leaving and coming back right then and there. When I fill out a payment form with my card details I'm handing over my entire balance into the ether. I could be sleeping and quietly money is leaving my bank account, which happened. So cash is king still.

Plus it's generational. If I said walkman's are the best I would guess you have a different response, more digital based I imagine.

> None of them are actually money, like in the paper-or-gold-coin sense. They're all ledgers.

This is the same when people's net worth is discussed though. To the average individual that hears a net worth it almost feels like they think it's cash money. But it's on paper, as in sell all the shares of businesses and assets to cash it in.

Perception is the mother of all great products and marketing.

Yeah, to be fair you are right. It's amazing when you speak to non-tech people about some of the subjects discussed in HN and they honestly wouldn't care or know what anything is about.

I agree here, everyone seems to just be on some rabid rampage talking about the if's, what's and maybe's.

I couldn't access my Xbox for 2 months, I got it setup over the weekend. Downloaded 5 new games thanks to Game Pass, there's a lot more there as well but I need to play them and all for basically nothing.

Netflix - everyone pays $5 per month for the pleasure of scrolling. Add in Amazon, Hulu and everything else and you have over $50 worth of scrolling to do to watch the same movies and TV shows that was watched many times over.

> I don't get how food consumption can increase in a pandemic

There are a lot of people comfort eating and generally grazing out of boredom. I'm sure I've been eating a little more than I should with the crappy foods. Plus, people are saving so they are probably buying more foods to stock up on and thus throwing it all away.

> [insert AI/ML/other tech] announcements are always extremely over hyped. Mostly by media and PR departments rather than actual scientific or domain specific outlets.

Rule of thumb, if it sounds to good to be true. It probably is but the PR department needs to do something.

OK that makes sense.

Could there not be an EV/hydrogen combo that potentially fixes range anxiety or another issue?

Besides competition never hurt anyone, batteries will be developed faster, research conducting more often and so on.

Wasn't this the same argument being made for EVs? Literally infrastructure, cost of production and the cheapness of oil were all major arguments for a lack of success and growth.

Then economies of scale come into play to make things cheaper as per batteries. Plus it's Toyota and they are well known for industrial processes (they also own a part of Tesla, no?)

What's the issue with having Hydrogen/EV's together? Diesel and petrol had no issues.

I get the fear but what do you imagine would happen to you and your data if the Chinese government got their hands on it? Will they create an internal credit system for the West? If so, how would this affect you.

I'm genuinely curious what people fear will happen to them and their data if it went to a Chinese server. What are the consequences? What is the difference between Amazon running A/B tests to get as much money from you as quickly as possible VS TikTok trying to improve their suggestion algo to improve their engagement for increased ad revenue?

The United Kingdom has more CCTV activity than any other European country, per capita. No-one bats an eyelid. They have also been using facial recognition to find people in the crowd with a really poor rate of success. No one seems to batter an eye lid, China does the same and everyone is going crazy.

There's word out there that SEMRush is entangled with the Russian mafia. Literally everyone right now is getting in on this bubble.

> Look what happened to Sergei and Yulia Skripal in UK?

The UK is Russia's poison playground so in this instance it would seem that realistically no one is safe, even if you reside in a democratic country. But then again these were people with major clout or enemies of the state.

> I cringe because because every goddamn privacy invasion has come from our friendly American overlords

Exactly! It seems that the propaganda machine is still rolling heavy.