halapro

If you remember Windows Phone 8, it has already been tried and nobody (ahem, no company) wanted that.

No company is stupid enough to give up their content and infra and get none of the screen real estate.

I can see a parallel with hotels and OTAs, but in that case appearing on an OTA brings in sales. Showing $userA's content on $userB's screen won't earn any money from $company.

You have to manually start the change, it doesn't do it continuously.

For the vast majority of services, even if this action fails and the wrong password is saved (!?) you're still just a "forgot password" click away.

> everything was fine

Everything was fine best viewed in IE5.5 at 1024x768. Time has changed.

If only you could add 500 bytes of CSS so the content fits the screen.

> Does not require JavaScript

Who mentioned JavaScript?

Ew. I mean 500 bytes of CSS would make this so much better.

I wish so too, but clearly this is not in any way practical. The EU is the closest thing we got to "fewer borders"

I'm surprised that they're working on HB cures since there's been an HB vaccine for 40 years.

I'd love to see more work done towards other incurable viruses like HSV (no vaccine) and HPV (limited vaccine)

> without knowing how it was built

It helps to understand the constraints of a medium, but you really don't need to know every level down to the electrons moving through the silicon.

People don't make a company. Stripe exists as is because it's not a EU company.

This is why I love Apple's Hide My Email. I use it ALL the time and the unsubscribe button is always there. It's not the most polished interface, but it works perfectly.

Also, for any subscription for which I don't use HME, I will immediately "mark as spam" any minimally-spammy email I get. The ones described in the article would be insta-marked due to the lack of Unsubscribe button.

Which it makes perfect since this it's the same company which "deprecated" MP4 support a long while ago in an effort to push to WebM.

> 3. Time passes

Correct, protectionism still saved the industry for years, it did its job perfectly.

Look at the car makers in Europe, they had decades to produce affordable electric cars, even lawmakers pushed their own population to buy electric cars with timelines and incentives, and they still failed miserably. How?

Tariffs are a last-ditch effort to buy more time. If you fail to use this time effectively, you will close shop. If you don't have tariffs, you close shop today.

Europe sells gasoline shitboxes for €30K when China could easily sell EVs for €20K, Europe (and the US) already lost.