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Honest question: as a United States internet user, is there any practical reason I need to have a root certificate from the Chinese national Internet authority installed?

Corollary, is there a short list of CAs that folks around here trust more than average? Is there any value in such a whitelist, or are all CAs so rotten it doesn't much matter?

I'm a little slow. Blast you and your Socratic method!

Yes, in the US at least, "a private club for members and their guests" is a common phrase, and would likely apply to a country club.

This would fit Digital Ocean's interpretation of private - not accessible to the general public, but accessible to other members.

How about: free users can track budgets for 1 person (themselves), and the data is stored locally. If they want to share it with several people for free, they can install it on the family tablet.

In the free version you could show ads, and then do an IAP to remove them forever (one time cost). You could skip ads if you wanted, but I would probably go ahead and put them in the free version.

You could then offer a companion service which syncs to "the cloud", allows sharing the budget between several people, and which requires a monthly subscription (sold through your website).

This segments nicely: young people with no cash get it free, and families who have more money are your paid users. Even better, you have a time-honored and very popular plan to eventually convert your free users to paid. :)

Yes, this is what I meant. We want companies to take a chance on people who might not have perfect resumes, or for new ventures that might not work out. This gives people without traditional bona fides a chance to prove themselves, and to get experience.

I was only in the job market very briefly before giving up on the whole mess and starting a business. I didn't finish college, so it was brutal. The jobs I did get were non-traditional companies who took a chance on me. Sales jobs in particular will give anyone a chance to prove themselves. I came to deeply appreciate that.

Congrats on launching this! The site looks nice.

Some feedback:

1) $5 for the Premium Account is too cheap. There is nothing that is $5 a month that I want to use for my business. Its a signal that this is probably a hobby. Make it free or charge a real price (at least $29/month, but $49 is better). If its not worth real money, you should reexamine the value proposition.

Amy Hoy says you need 500 people to pay you $30 a month, which seems about right to me. At $5/month, you're going to need 3000 people paying you every month! That's really tough! Don't do that to yourself!

2) You have to explain what this does, succinctly, right at the top of the page.I read your site, and your Medium post, and I'm still somewhat confused.

How about this headline instead:

Improve Your Accountability With OpenLoopz: Public, threaded, shareable to-do lists.

Anyway, congrats again on launching! And keep in mind that 90% of the readers of your HN post do not have anything in the wild for which people could actually pay them money, so you're way ahead of the curve. Keep going!

I'm having trouble getting my head around the pricing. 1x for one task, 2x for unlimited. Can you expound a bit?

Specifically, what do you mean by unlimited? Could I schedule you every day for a 30 minute consultation?

Also, I'm one shop but we have several properties. Correct to assume I need an account for each one? (roughly 4 accounts)

Very interested!

Edit: I see now that you have one business day turnaround, and allow one order in the queue. Each task is about ~30 minutes, so effectively up to 10 hours of marketing consultation a month for $175. That's very compelling! Cool!

Definitely, I feel bad for them too. Getting fired/laid off sucks.

But remember that the opposite scenario, where companies only hire folks when they are sure they have a permanent role for them, is far worse.

Not only could you publish them in a loop, until 2011 they were not random at all. Rather, the first 3 digits behaved much like an area code - if you know where someone was born, you can pretty easily guess the first 3 digits of their SSN.

Apparently in 2011 they changed this, and now none of the numbers are significant.

I don't disagree that a lot of people would stop pirating if there was a legal alternative. However, in my experience, most adults will simply chose an alternative rather than resort to piracy (which is probably watching a different show, but it could also be simply not watching TV).

I'm in that camp, now. I'll just pick another show which is available on Hulu/Netflix/Amazon, or I'll play my Xbox, or I'll take a walk. Not a big deal.

I think for some segment of the population it will continue forever. But I think most people grow out of piracy eventually.

In my experience, adults generally don't steal things, even if no one is going to catch them and even if they really want it. And consequently most people grow out of piracy. Not everyone of course, but enough for me to believe there's still a future in selling IP.

Perhaps a reputation system for recruiters, i.e., an Angie's List for recruiters, could help here? That could be a useful service.

Its a tough market to serve because the most people don't change jobs more than a couple times in their career.