You could really stop speeding by limiting the car's max speed based on GPS location, yet this means reducing the speeding fines revenue to a net zero.
Let them have it. Complete and absolute control over all citizens. Nothing more, nothing less. Then what? They will finally realise absolute power is an empty pursuit that brings nothing but misery for both the masses and the so called elites.
False leaders have no place leading anyone as they lead through fear and insecurity. Their lack of trust cemented in incompetence, arrogance and hubris leads to a neurotic chase for absolute and utter control over everything and everybody. How empty that path must be... and deemed for nothing but failure.
True leaders inspire through visions for the future and they will eventually rise to lead. A true leader inspires action and trust, unity and purpose. True leaders are instinctually acknowledged by everyone, are accountable to everyone and value responsibility over personal power. Maturity, good character and wisdom is naturally part of their character.
Hardly anything resembling a true leader can be observed in the current political space... and that speaks volumes to the state of our society.
Here comes the change, unexpected and imminent, to sweep away all falsities and reveal the truth.
Entirely the point I am making, albeit indirectly. The majority of rules and regulations nowadays are aimed at more and more control over the people at little to no benefit to them. People get angry and protest such measures. Rinse and repeat, for at least the last decade or two. It’s repetitive and pointless. When does it become clear the once great system which brought us growth and prosperity is no longer fit for purpose? At what point people realise we need to shed the old system and its top crème de la crème in favour of a new one?
We need new leaders capable of creating a vision for our future to inspire 8+ BLN people and to put in place the means to get us there.
The systems we instate adapt based on human evolution. We began living in small groups, then tribes, alliances, principates, republics, nation states, mega states. It is hard to believe we've reached the pentacle of governance systems. All participants are impacted to a certain degree, be it positively or negatively, by change. Digesting the current state of the world leads me to be believe a system change may be around the corner.
First principles, everything is in a continuous state of decay. Every living or non-living being, every system, institution or organisation by-product of a living being. What goes up must come down. Institutions start out with noble goals for society. As they grow and amass power, their values tend shift inwards, creating a fertile ground for hubris, nepotism driven incompetence, corruption and disconnect. Most often then not, given a long enough time span, they crumble over their own incompetence and lack of accountability to the environment around them.
Using the programming analogy, it's not as much of a rewrite as it is a major version upgrade (i.e. from 1.x to 2.x) we need.
Keeping your assets is important. Creating opportunities to gather new assets is also important. We are in need of a vision that brings prosperity and purpose for all of us.
Observing the gluttonous initiatives of outdated institutions to swindle our rights, freedoms and assets is hardly ever inspiring. Things change with time.
Homes should be afforded by and owned by families. Corporations have no business owning family homes. The fact this is even a thing shows how broken the system actually is.
Substack is easy (and free) to set up. You have the option to turn on subscriptions and monetise your content via Stripe.
Ghost gives you more flexibility / personalisation. You'll need some web coding/hosting skills or you can subscribe to one of their plans (starts at $9/mo).
Unfortunately, substack has also started down the same path as Medium. You'll be reading an article someone sent you a link to and mid-way through you'll get a pop-up that obstructs the content requesting you to subscribe. Just let me read in peace!
If you just want a place to dump articles it's probably fine, but for people hoping to attract the HN audience, do us a favor and set up your own blog. These days, you can host it for free on Render, GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel... static site hosting is table stakes, and then you can fully stop pop-ups from annoying your readers.
One one hand.. damn do you guys sound entitled! There's a cost whenever you want to do something on the web, I'm sure I don't need to explain this to you. Are we really mad at Medium for attempting to monetize their infrastructure? I mean I get that ads/marketing is generally bad but how else do you suggest they make money to continue to operate a free service? Can you think of a truly free service? Even distributing flat files on a usb key or stapling printed sheets on trees has a cost, if you don't pay for the product you don't get to complain about how the product tries to stay alive..
> There's a cost whenever you want to do something on the web, I'm sure I don't need to explain this to you. Are we really mad at Medium for attempting to monetize their infrastructure?
Q: Just how much infrastructure does it take to publish a page of well-written content on the web?
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A: Not that much. You can serve an awful lot of static content from a $5/month VM.
VMs don't magically appear or stay on the Internet. What costs you 5$ month uses hardware, Internet networks, and let's not mention virtualization technology. You can try throwing a piece of paper up in "the cloud" and see how long it stays.
> VMs don't magically appear or stay on the Internet. What costs you 5$ month uses hardware, Internet networks, and let's not mention virtualization technology
I run dozens of $5/month VMs. You'd be surprised what you can do with one.
> You can try throwing a piece of paper up in "the cloud" and see how long it stays.
Is that a question?
One answer of mine would be along the lines of "up 126 days, 9:19, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00", picking one of mine completely at random.
Of course you're welcome to pay for AWS/Kubernetes or whatever software [over-]engineering fad rocks your boat.
However, I say phooey to that! If you know what you're doing, a $5 VM is really good way of publishing content for cheap.
... and we know that either the cost to provide all these things is under $5/month, or the company providing that service is using it as a loss leader.
I don't think it's a loss leader; there are too many suppliers.
I would actually be fine with passive display ads next to the content (I don’t even use ublock these days). It’s that I find getting a pop-up in the middle of reading something jarring and rude. I’m not mad at Medium for trying to make money, nor do I feel entitled to anything, but HN is a competitive forum for content and if I see a medium/substack link I’ll avoid clicking it, which is what OP asked about.
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It's uncertain how Figma will change as an Adobe product. It's wise to have a few alternatives ready just in case.
Sketch remains one of the top UI design apps. I remember when I switched the first time from Photoshop to Sketch. Saved me tons of time and I easily 2-3x my design process.
