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New York was also very poor, barring some rich businessmen. You have to look at it relatively to its surrounding. Of course there were poor people too, but they lived in the “suburbs”, not in the middle of deserts like, say, in the US.

Underdeveloped by whose standard? An underdeveloped city does not seek independence. You have to place it in its context. It probably was not the poorest city by a long shot even at its birth.

I always find it awkward to compare city-states to regular-sized countries. There is no “rural Singapore.” A lot of these independent cities are tiny because they were rich and powerful to begin with; That’s a fantastic starting point that no other country can have.

There’s not much many other countries can learn from Singapore because they all either don’t have enough money or have a greater variety of people to convince.

> residential routers plus a USB stick will make this more possible.

This smells like "let them eat cake" except in the context of technology. Not everyone is able or even wants to mess with that stuff. There's a vast difference between "Yes, backup my stuff, Apple; Here's my card" and "I know what an IP is"

At $12/year you literally cannot get anything like what Apple offers just in terms of backup — not the equipment, not the man hours required to maintain it. Even if I were able to set it all up, it would cost me a huge amount of money in lost revenue just to maintain it safely.

It feels like "I could build dropbox in 5 minutes" never stopped.

That page looks great, I don't know what you're talking about. Are you bothered by 2 very plain gradients? I don't see candy at all

I suppose nobody can ask about résumé anymore

Your parents’ ADSL noodle soup is a little bland.

> This is a proof of concept

If it was a proof of concept, fine, but it's not, the author intends to develop this further and is accepting signups. I do not want this web. Just publish PDFs if you want to design fixed media.

> it's worth exploring

Hard disagree.

> People have said that for literally everything we have on the web now

What I meant is that here the intent is to design something once and display it in the browser as if it was an image (or printed media), i.e. without filling the window properly.

This is 100% like displaying a PDF in a browser and it does not belong in one.

Thanks for sharing this! I'm glad that there's a way

Kids can't explain their emotions. Non-developers can't tell what's wrong with websites.

Just because they don't complain about something specifically, it doesn't mean that they don't feel discomfort.

The problem with SVG is that it performs terribly especially when compared with Flash. This site is relatively small and it's super slow on an i9

To me it sounds like the author has nearly-zero experience in web development and thus prefers publishing websites straight out of Illustrator.

Your site is laggy, zero accessibility, microscopic text unless your window is large enough, does not support anything you'd expect from a regular website. Just ship a PDF already.

The web is not paper, don't design for it as if it as.

Oh, and this little page weighs 4.5MB

This kind of stuff ought to be regulated somehow, one can’t lose access to one’s life.

I recently wasn’t able to recover an old account because I did not have access to my 2FA number and their help site suggested I “contact the phone company to recover the number, then try again.”

I had to do the same exact thing for another service but they did allow me to change the number by providing some information like last transaction, ID, selfie with statement.