Its someong taking something that exists in culture and is "cool" (dabbing) and doing it in a weird / lame / cringey way.
Similarly this site has a lot of the astehtic trappings and language of indieweb et al. but (IMO) doesn't stick the landing. And it comes off a little as the cool culture being exploited by someone who doesn't get it.
Idk if they're doing it in a greedy or sinister way, like when corporations co-opt social movements or big brands use the "quirky local indie" astehtic. It's probably someone well meaning with different taste than me. But the site does rub me the wrong way regardless
i am grateful that at least one person other than me got the memo on my bit lmao
you're right, it might not be intentionally malicious, but it still comes off as wrong due to the visual and mechanical design of the service. if you want to support smallweb, it's better to host a VPS service than a shittier linktree.
So if I wanted to mess with someone I can just send them tons of cheap crap from Temu and they'll be forced to pay tariffs for items they never asked for?
> Meaning, if the company's stock went up 2x after year 1, your salary has effectively doubled for years 2-4. If the stock went down -50% however, you just leave and get market salary somewhere else.
If you get 25k shares worth <$1.00 and, you won't double your salary even if the share price doubles. Not to mention that only 1/4 would be able to be exercised, and you have no liquidity to realize the gain.
The assumption in my comment is that your entire salary is in stock — otherwise, obviously you need to adjust accordingly. But only 1/4th of the stock being exercisable makes sense if you think of vesting like a monthly salary — each month, another 1/48th becomes exercisable. Even if you technically own the rest as well, it's more appropriate to think that you don't.
The demo uses 2 html pages - one for instructions, the second one for the actual site that is prefetched. But maybe I will create a repo with it.
HN is a perfect candidate to integrate Signed Exchanges - it's a link aggregator, the type of website SXG authors have in mind while designing this standard.
> I also read that Congress controls spending only from internal taxation; it does not control spending from tariffs. That money goes directly to executive, which is to say Donald, and he does with it as he pleases.
It is strange, I tried to add my public key but received a response that it was already in use (!). Is there a way to determine the user associated with a public key? Perhaps it's possible I have previously created an account but I feel I would remember the UI.
> I know that I lost my wallet with the only BTC I owned 10 years ago. I can name several other people that have done the same. I would think this one property makes it undesirable for use as a currency.
How is this any different from losing your wallet with physical currency?
In many cases if you lose your physical wallet, someone else will find it and the cash will stay in circulation, but even if not, as physical currency is much more inflationary it's no big deal.
The second point is that most people keep a lot less money in a physical wallet, usually no more than say a few hundred dollars. Whereas a bitcoin wallet will often contain thousands or more so is more akin to a bank account.
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