This looks nicely polished and I might pay for this since it provides some real value but it has the same problem many other front-end SaaS products have - it hijacks the end user.
What I mean is that I can't use it without sending my users to your site. For example, I use sendgrid for marketing and transactional mail. I think our bill fluctuates between $200-500/month. I would consider using Sendgrid's WYSIWYG editor (even though it's not very good) but I can't do it without:
What I would like from a product like yours is to be able to use your frontend as a javascript embed without the other clutter. i.e. a hosted library rather than a full product.
Your embed would have to define some sort of plug-in API for uploading images/attachments and browsing existing ones and then your clients would have to provide end points for those APIs.
I would then request the completed HTML after editing and handle all the sending and related issues myself (through my vendor like sendgrid).
I know building hosted javascript embeds isn't as sexy as a full SaaS offering but there is definitely a market for it. Lots of people sell products that send email - you could sell to those people.
So basically you'd want an embeddable white-label version of Tabular that you can integrate in your app. I'd be interested to discuss this idea further with you. If you'd want to add me through our Linkedin or Twitter, I'd be interested to have a chat about this.
What's admirable about it? This is just a fiction that you Americans tell yourselves about the next revolution.
Name one, just one way, that ease of gun ownership has protected Americans from their government in a way that citizens of other western democracies have suffered?
There is no scenario in which any citizen with a gun in any country defeats their government. Your gun will keep you safe about as well as your password protected Word document keeps you safe from the NSA snooping.
If you were an officer of the law pressed to go door-to-door to say, purely hypothetically, take the oldest child by force to inscribe them in some dystopian military program, you'd probably be a lot more hesitant if you knew that there was a chance you'd get shot in the process right?
I believe that's the security that us Americans (I imagine your sneer with that) feel by being armed.
Isn't it that the Swiss are all armed as well? They seem to have fared rather well in a 20th century Europe fraught with conflict. Tell me that's a coincidence with absolutely no correlation to their pro-gun culture.
Every authoritarian regime is a pure hypothetical until it is not. I believe that the US has not fallen to that, partly, because the population is armed to the teeth.
Swiss gun culture has nothing to do with American gun culture. Guns are for hunting and sport that's it.
Essentially no one even thinks of getting a gun for self defence. There also has never been an idea that guns are for defending yourself against your own government here.
Yet every swiss male citizen does military training and is issued a weapon to keep, to use in staying proficient.
There's no need for a military culture, when the government has already mandated it for you.
Not that it isn't popular:
>On September 22, 2013, a referendum that aimed to abolish conscription was held in Switzerland. However, the referendum failed with over 73% of the electorate voting against it, showing strong support for conscription of men in Switzerland.
Military service isn't popular at all, but the majority of people do agree that it's necessary to have a military and they don't want a professional army. So that leaves the current system.
The popular mechanism remains- there's no need to encourage a voluntary interest in military culture and therefore military readiness, when it's already a popular idea to mandate the readiness.
In the absence of that mandate, there would be a vacuum in which citizens suddenly have self-interest in promoting voluntary readiness, which is implemented culturally.
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.'' ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956"
Fine. Perhaps I shouldn't have said any nation, but Afghanistan is not a modern nation state. It's a time warp back to some era 1000 years ago with poorly run government theater that only existed to keep the kleptocrats stealing from their wealthy benefactor.
Do you imagine some well armed coalition of militias in Idaho or wherever is going to be rampaging through the American countryside and declaring a new nation? I wonder if these guys hugged their rifles in their last moments: https://youtu.be/t9K0fhMCTGk?t=102 NSFW
> Name one, just one way, that ease of gun ownership has protected Americans from their government in a way that citizens of other western democracies have suffered?
1776
> There is no scenario in which any citizen with a gun in any country defeats their government. Your gun will keep you safe about as well as your password protected Word document keeps you safe from the NSA snooping.
Good thing it's not just one citizen then. Is the government going to nuke/drone all its citizens? If not, then they have to have some presence on the ground. At which point I'll take having arms vs nothing.
I don't know anything about the situation over there but did they really ban it? For example this bloomberg report talks about foreign ownership via holding companies. So are foreigners not able to hold stakes in NZ companies or are NZ companies not able to hold realestate (doubtful?).
Yeah all you need now is an IRD number, a NZ bank account or a corporation. All 3 you can setup without setting foot in the country. To those that say that's not possible, it very much is. There's little checks and balances, and COVID's made it even easier.
It's lip service and the government does nothing to help track it. The most investigative journalism that's gone into it was a few years where people tried to look up owners of holding companies and based the research on people's last names. You can imagine how well that last bit went down in the media.
Well, our trust privacy laws are very strict - so it's near impossible to tell who actually owns the companies if it's director is fronted by a corporate holding firm. These are used to protect property in the event of bankruptcies and debts, but can also be used to hide your residency.
Not only that but it is easy to have people who front the purchases on behalf of foreigners. Only have to look at some of the recent OIO cases and news to see that this is exactly what is happening. Govt is a decade behind the ball and not sure they'll ever want to fix it (no matter who you vote for).
I'm really like this combined side scrolling table + graph component you use on the pulse page. Looking at the source I see a mention of echarts in the html but I don't think I've seen anything like that in their examples.
Did you build this yourself as a custom rendered chart or is this something that someone else built?
All the charts are by echarts. For the timeline chart (the one in the pulse view) think of it as a scatter chart that is zoomed in. echarts provides labels and drawing lines and other things which is how I was able to create the timeline chart.
Sure. However if you were to fall for that. Who knows what else you’d fall for? What if you then staked all your immense profits on Nikola, with leverage. Lose most of it. 5x your initial amount with dogecoin only to lose 90% of it again with some other peddling stuff. All while spending your time believing all the BS every one is saying.
I guess this is for my self too. My thinking is I’d be a wildly different person if I not only fell for shills peddling stuff and “successful experts” selling courses. On top of that, keeping the money in risky investments is a whole other thing. Like staking a big stake of money in Bitcoin or Eth for the past 5+ years without cashing out. Or still having tons of money in dogecoin without cashing out.
Of course I too wish I made tons of easy money. The fact that a friend bought into dogecoin a month ago and I didn’t. Means I’m never going to do this sort of stuff. Same friend/acquaintance wants me to buy into dogecoin during the next dip. Which to him is dropping ~15%. He wants me to buy in at 45+ cents. It’s at 55 cents right now after rising like 40% or something in a couple of days. He’s probably going to max out his credit cards to buy more dogecoin before Elon Musk’s SNL appearance.
I am very tempted to buy in to dogecoin as well just for the hype of him. Sell before he actually presents. We’ll see.
This is a bit of digression on this thread, but it's stuff like this that makes it seem like traditional car companies are still out to lunch vs Tesla. They're just too slow to adapt and give up what has worked for decades.
Isn’t it their first plug-in hybrid? Seems like they could be testing the waters and ended up with way more demand than they anticipated. I guess we will see in a year or two if they can ramp up.
Toyota’s blunders with electric vehicles has nothing to do with its supply chain and everything to do with its strategic decisions. The Rav4 Prime has a long wait list because they chose to make a small quantity of them.
They partly choose to make so few of them because they’re still trying to make hydrogen happen.
Price Distribution by Year -- this is an interesting one. Looks like eventually there isn't a huge variance in price. So brands with "good resale value" probably don't matter if you're keeping your car a really long time.
I run a hobby .net core website on a $5 digital ocean instance and it runs fast as hell. You definitively don't need to spend $30. I'm using a PG database but it looks like maybe it would even be possible to run SQL server on a 2GB instance.
What I mean is that I can't use it without sending my users to your site. For example, I use sendgrid for marketing and transactional mail. I think our bill fluctuates between $200-500/month. I would consider using Sendgrid's WYSIWYG editor (even though it's not very good) but I can't do it without:
- sending my users to their website,
- managing separate accounts/permission,
- breaking continuity with my product,
- storing potentially private attachments offsite,
- loosing any integrations I could provide
What I would like from a product like yours is to be able to use your frontend as a javascript embed without the other clutter. i.e. a hosted library rather than a full product.
Your embed would have to define some sort of plug-in API for uploading images/attachments and browsing existing ones and then your clients would have to provide end points for those APIs.
I would then request the completed HTML after editing and handle all the sending and related issues myself (through my vendor like sendgrid).
I know building hosted javascript embeds isn't as sexy as a full SaaS offering but there is definitely a market for it. Lots of people sell products that send email - you could sell to those people.