vikinghckr

You have been perma banned from HN fyi

No, that's charity, which while morally great is not sustainable at scale and in the long run.

Yes giving people with fewer resources an option to pay with their attention is a morally good thing for society, actually.

It's the exact opposite. Advertising-based model is why the poorest people in the poorest countries in the world have had access to the exact same Google search, YouTube and Facebook as the richest people in the US. Ad-supported business models are the great equalizers of wealth.

Advertisement is unquestionably a net positive for society and humanity. It's one of the few true positive sum business models where everyone is better off.

Who do you think his 30-40K paying subscriber audience are?

Very interesting read! One question I have is, since the architecture involves quite a thick client on top of base Chromium, and the client seems to be platform-specific (Swift/OSX in this case), how is the team thinking about the overhead of building all this for each platform -- Windows and Android specifically, but also perhaps iOS?

What did they have you don't?

Well, enjoyment or happiness is tricky to measure because happiness = reality - expectation. So people in the 1820s might've been "happy" enough because they simply didn't know a better life like today's was a possibility. There's no reason to think they were happier than today's population though. And certainly, you as someone who experienced today's conveniences will not be happy long term if all those were taken away suddenly.

Well, for a start, it's safe to assume you're not a woman or a minority. And even if you're a young healthy white male, your quality of life would be significantly worse in the 1820s. Not only would you lose access to a lot of the everyday conveniences of life today, you're also far more likely to die a young and painful death from any number of disease.

That this even needed to be said on a forum like HN baffles me. I suspect it's a result of decades of mainstream political/cultural doom-and-gloom propaganda.

The median quality of life is MUCH higher today than 100 years ago. And bottom 1%-tile quality of life might be 1000 times better. All thanks to advance in technology and increased productivity.

I'm not exaggerating but this might just be the highest impact library I've seen. As a backend developer who has lots of great project ideas but bail at the thought of having to use JavaScript and HTML, this library is a godsend!

My only question is why it took so long for someone to implement it? And where are the equivalent libraries for Go, Rust and Java?