I think GP was making a joke that the ions are the moving part.
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I like the idea. Genuinely curious how big of a market there is. How many people do you have signed up so far?
The style looks nice and I like the classless approach. Couple things though: The snippet block in the demo page [0] doesn't work. Some CSS variables are declared (e.g. --silver, --orange) but never used. Grabbing fonts from some catbox.moe is risky and a privacy concern for would-be user.
[0] https://srht.githack.com/~tsukii/subreply-css/blob/main/test...
The auto-refresh and "See passwords" ones are kind of neat, but I don't see myself using them. Although, I could totally see people use the former. In any cases, nice work shipping and putting them out there!
Looks clean and the easy to remember domain name means I might actually use it in the future. Nice work! Honestly, if you made it into a PWA, I might just "install" it.
And yet plenty of websites that don't have ads are painfully slow. The snark is a little unwarranted in my opinion.
Oh my bad. Yeah that's much more reasonable!
Nice work on the page and on shipping! What surprises me the most from this is how fast USA Today is given the amount of stuff going on on their page.
I like how you've put the ranking by speed and I think that's a really good way to advertise your service. That being said, $9.99/mo seems pretty steep for what is basically a really fast aggregator of other sources. The $1/mo to Wikimedia is good but really just a small amount going to the creators of the actual content. $25/mo for the NYT does give you a slow website, but you know they're funding investigative journalism with it.
Edit: My mistake, it's $9.99/y, not /mo. That is way more reasonable
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I’m not sure why LVT would be assessed this way? I’m pretty sure the idea would be to keep the same assessment mechanisms, but tax only land, not improvements.
What I guess the parent is implying is that by taxing something, you’re effectively disincentivizing it. Tax land value, you’re punishing people for making land valuable. Tax pollution, you’re incentivizing people to pollute less.
One way to solve the issue of people being taxed out of their property would be to give the option to put a lien on the property if they’re earning less than a certain income (or over a certain age). This way, the owner gets to stay in their home, but the city is (eventually) getting the taxes it’s owed.
I haven’t fully thought through all the incentives it brings though. However, it seems like a better solution than telling people to reverse mortgage their houses. Especially given how predatory that industry seems to be.
Pretty much all Seattle centered except maybe Geekwire that’s a bit broader. If you live in Capitol Hill, then CHS blog is by far the one I’d recommend the most
I cancelled my Seattle Times subscription since the ads on their site are garbage. From the full page red and yellow "Video Only!" ads to some that would redirect to some scam site on mobile without clicking. After complaining repeatedly by email I decided to vote with my wallet and called to unsubscribe. They did their whole retention spiel and said I should just use an ad blocker on their site...
Some of the local coverage was good, but I prefer even more focused coverage like CHS Blog/The Urbanist/Seattle Transit Blog and Geekwire.
Nothing. I only use ACHs and my debit card though, no wire transfers so I can’t comment on that. Everything has been free for me.
Same. I don’t make much money (started by making ~10$/mo. Now averaging 500$/mo). I only deposited $1k in my account and never had much more than that in it to give you an idea of the scale.
My experience has been really good though and the whole process has been really painless. I recommend them too.
A downside is that it strengthens huge companies (e.g. Google, Apple) that have that information from one of their products (e.g. Google Maps) and are able to use it in another one (e.g. Google Ads).
That being said, data brokers seem to be rather poorly behaved players in the market with little respects for users privacy. So it's a tradeoff I guess.
That's a fair take, especially for a market in which the general sentiment impacts them so much. I guess we'd have to see if they fill those positions to prove they ever intended to.
It is a tricky situation. On the one hand, subscription models are great as they don't incentivize flashy click-bait as much and reward steady, high-quality content. On the other hand, you don't know whether a publication is worth subscribing to until you've sampled some of their content.
The "free-articles-then-paywall" model seems to be working for a lot of publications to tackle this and get people to pay, but when your limit is 1 article a month, you can't be too shocked if people go around it. I like the idea of TechCrunch free + paid content, but I wonder how it's working for them.
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