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What do you need to track, and how will you take action from it? It’s valuable to figure that out first.

You may not need user tracking at all. You can track how many signups came from which domain by setting a cookie with the referrer and incrementing a count for that domain at signup. Here’s an interesting post about it https://doingdone.app/blog/building-a-startup-without-user-t...


"implicit proponent" is an oxymoron.


I get what you mean based on the dictionary definitions of implicit and proponent. What I meant was that his actions are aligned with MMT theory, even though he probably doesn't explicitly subscribe to the theory.


You don’t have to see any ads online, by using an adblocker and not visiting websites that lack paid ad-free versions (Facebook, Instagram).


Then the practical solution is to pass a law requiring them to have a machine to load a card with, not banning them outright.

This policy is needlessly destructive.


If you read the article carefully, no one is suggesting banning what you propose (though a machine that makes exact change at checkout seems better).

The article is clickbait.


That is reasonable but it might also be more than Amazon's willing to bear. It costs money to handle cash and it's more work to stock and flush these machines. Amazon may have a business case for these stores that depends on paying the relatively small merchant fee to credit card networks and knowing that they don't have any burden of handling any cash.


People who avoid banking by choice will might not go for a card to load cash with. To them, that's going to look like a bank.


> the practical solution is to pass a law requiring them to have a machine to load a card with

This wouldn't work with Amazon's grab-and-go vision. If someone loads $5 of cash on a card and walks out with $20 of product, what do you do?


Same thing as when someone walks in with no cash or card and walks out with $20 worth of product, probably.


AFAIK these stores employ security/loss-prevention (and stockers as well, just not cashiers). There’s people at the door in the videos I saw. How do they stop people from stealing?


Security is enforced inbound. You can't enter without an account. You can grab "anything" you want and it's charged to the account.


They'd only ban cashless stores, if Amazon would offer the option you suggest, they wouldn't be cashless anymore, and therefore allowed.


Typical Silicon Valley Catholic Church-style moral scorched Earth approach.


Could you please not post this kind of flamebait and comment substantively instead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


According to Brown, as many as 50 percent of black and Latino households in San Francisco go without a bank account

This stat is hard to believe. Does anybody have a link to the actual study? Most national studies (like the FDIC one) put this number around 5%. My wife works in the restaurant industry, and most all of the illegal immigrants have bank accounts, smart phones, use direct deposit, etc.


The FDIC puts the overall unbanked percentage at 6.5%, and "this number" (black and Latino households) at 15-20%. The 50% number is outdated but still, it's a sizable percentage.


According to the article, the data the city is using is from 2005. It is likely access has increased in the past 14 years.


The article doesn’t link to the study and I can’t find it. “As many as” could mean anywhere from 1 to 50%. Smells like deception, but I could be wrong.


There's a PDF (https://prosperitynow.org/sites/default/files/resources/Bank...) that says that an analysis with those figures was done by Matt Fellowes at the Brookings Institute, which is interesting because it doesn't mention any polling or details, so who knows how those numbers were generated.


Thanks! Their numbers seem to be far off from the FDIC studies, despite them claiming they corroborate national averages.

Looking at the FDIC study from 2009, ~20% of Black/Hispanic households in California were unbanked, and when looking at citizens the number is ~7%.


Another reason to use passwordless login. Just send an one-time login code via email.

That’s what my companies do and there’s no way we can leak passwords... there aren’t any!

I honestly don’t understand the point of using passwords when a website allows reset by email.


Instead of using another data silo, consider webmentions. Post a reply on your own blog with rel=“reply-to” and send a webmention notifying the author, who uses a plugin or webmention service to display replies.

It’s decentralized web comments. See indieweb.org for more information.


Agreed. I have yet to find a single use-case that can't be done without JavaScript, with the exception of chat. Like audio and video, chat could have easily been another HTML widget provided by the browser (imagine, standard declarative chat across the web!).

I built my last webapp entirely without JavaScript. Users constantly praise how fast it is. There's no bugs with the back button. It's accessible out-of-the-box. Form inputs work correctly out-of-the-box. It's clear when data is being loaded/submitted and when it's not (since that's already built into the browser). And on and on and on...

JavaScript is the worst thing to happen to UX, privacy, speed, caching, and accessibility. So much of the web's UX is broken because of JS. It's depressing because it was all unnecessary. We went from a standard declarative interface shared by all websites to an "anything goes" black box runtime.


vim-adventures.com is a great way to learn vim by playing a game.

It’s worth the money if you enjoy solving puzzles and learning by doing.


vimtutor is also a good way to get started with the basics of vim. If you have vim installed, it probably came with it.


Its a monthly subscription for a simple "game". vimtutor is free without the cutesy stuff.


Do you really have to read it?

If you must:

- Choose an rss reader and curate your own sources.

- Read long-form news periodicals instead of the daily news, which tend to be less toxic.


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