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Is this going to be a thing now where someone releases a doubled version every week?

I would like that.


I just built my own version because I was curious how this would look like in a server-side rendered framework like LiveView. But I'm all for it that we build different versions in different stacks and compare notes :)


I’d like to see it go exponential: “one million websites of one million checkboxes”

Perhaps every checkbox in the toplevel site spawns a new, million-checkbox page? :)


If there were to be an arms race like that, my first attempt would be infinite-checkboxes or similar. Would probably run absolutely horribly on anything but the beefiest machines, and cost thousands of dollars for bandwidth.

Would need to come up with a way to make (un)checking computationally expensive to stop the state immediately ballooning to gigabytes in size.


We could call it More's Law.


I’ll setup a chessboard to keep track of them on.


Except Belgian "Dutch" is called Flemish. And is different enough from the other Dutch to warrant its own i18n.

Belgium is an exceptional case but I'm sure you can find more.


As an example: "weerhouden" in Flemish means "to be included", while in Netherlands' Dutch it means "to be excluded".

Or take "poepen" which means "to have sex" or "to take a shit" depending on which country you are in.

I frequently have to ask my friends from the Netherlands to clarify something because, even though I hear which word they're using, I have no idea what they mean because the words mean something different or are just never used that way in Flemish.


Technically it's "none"

You can also say "Ik denk niet dat...". But using "geen" adds emphasis


As I understand, the board could (probably would) fire him if he added a $655M expense without having to legally pay that.

I'm not sure what the alternative is here, other than becoming a social purpose company.


Depends on the board, and depends on the circumstance.

If the $655M is pitched in terms of "This will save us from lawsuits that could cost billions, go some way towards shining up our tarnished image, increase driver retention and keep the money rolling in", then I imagine it may go down better. Particularly if it can be seen as a way to head off legislation that could cost them more.

Personally I hope they get spanked and have to recognise that their drivers are employees with flexible hours, not some new category of conveniently cheap labour that doesn't have to be properly remunerated.


I agree, the question is unfortunately in many of these cases. Will the lawsuits actually cost us billions, or will we get a slap on the wrist and actually be better off in the end if we take that hit. Because we can grow faster now. See Google or Microsoft anti-trust.


How about quitting?

Yeah, we all for those poor people but only if it doesn't cost us much.


Quitting would be an act of protest in argument for a better alternative. Such as a government-mandated requirement.


You could argue he should quit because of personal ethical considerations.

But it seems like this is a broader issue regarding exploitation within modern capitalism. Not just limited to Uber.

In other words: if we allow it, it will happen. If not by Mr. Khosrowshahi, then someone else.


I 100% agree, but in this case it's just another type-A guy making an observation perhaps so he can feel good with himself but not really doing anything.

These people like to pretend they are poor empathetic souls but with no power, which is bullshit. If their ass is on the line or their business has an existencial threat, all of a sudden they know how to make the right phone calls and make things happen.

I buy what he's trying to paint, but I don't buy his hypocrisy.


This guy has a talk too with the same kind of tone about the whole industry.

Had a good laugh when I was starting out.

https://youtu.be/AUYPnxv0yss


Here's his github too, if anyone's interested. Fairly prolific to say the least:

https://github.com/tef



Yeah, that's the joke....



and they were made in the future


Could get close to a full day of work on the X1 Carbon Yoga Gen2. T480s not so much, but also packs a lot more punch. x1s seem to have best portability


How about 3rd party storage through the users own dropbox, gdrive, 1drive. Then it's still sort of self hosted

Also easy to use same data across devices.

Not sure on the syncing strategy/performance


Draw.io does storage federation to OneDrive and others pretty well.


i'll have to look into the drive api. If easy enough, this sounds like a plan.


I like this reference style of documentation, it tries to give a full overview of everything there is. Which is usually what I'm looking for. The sections are also concise.


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