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Bulk discounts are common everywhere. ;)

The EU is also working on a digital Euro [1] that is supposed to roll out to the whole EU and support digital payments without any fees. Let's see, if they succeed with that, but if they do it would be great.

[1] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht...


> ideally not-subscription-based competitor

What I think would probably be a more likely thing to happen is for Apple to create a subscription called "Apple Creative" or sth. as soon as they have a similar assortment of programs to rival Adobe as having one subscription for all of their applications is currently their biggest advantage.


> Also ring binders were a pain in the ass.

My suggestion would be to just turn them around so the spiral is on the right side


Yup. I tried that and got scolded by teachers because the lines are all off (big margin at the bottom. Thin red line on the wrong side. ) I tried to get the pads with the spiral at the top- that works.


I could also see seasonal storage for things that you might not want to leave outside for 1-2 months a year.


I worked with a startup in Seattle that was essentially this. Store your skis/kayak/whatever for a flat fee a month depending on the item. They did door to door delivery/drop off as well.

Pretty sure it’s out of business now. They were owned by a big local storage unit company looking for a new market.


I was driving in the burbs yesterday and saw a giant skeleton… like 13’ tall and the skull being 2’ wide. I said to my friend “where do they store that stuff? I’m guessing their Christmas lawn stuff is just as extreme.”

a lot of people love their holiday decor. Not how much resale you can get on a giant skeleton, but it’s not an easy lift. Seems like a good use case for storage… a few thousand a year to make you happy thinking you’re bringing holiday cheer to neighbors and kids.


These giant skeletons have become sort of common out in my rural area. I had assumed you could break them down easily into manageable pieces but since half of them seem to end up left out year round I think the answer to "where do they store that stuff?" is nowhere!

At least one house the owner seems to dress the skeleton up with current holiday attire and decorations which is an amusing solution.


That stuff can easily fit in the attic of most suburban houses I've lived in.


Lots of Burningman groups and theme camps pay for storage for the 50 weeks a year their camp stuff isn't needed.


With inflation being a thing the biggest [sum of money] always leaves me a bit sceptical as people often don't account for it...


The best iPhone of all times!

Same category of headline...


Another common theme I would add is that they didn't have a fatal accident. If you are unlucky you can live as healthy as you want and not have any genes that make you more likely to have a specific disease and still die young. :/


I don't know how much money the internet archive has received from official US government institutions, but they do receive at least some as you can see from their list of foundations that help with funding them: https://archive.org/about/


Because 90% of people would have no idea what that means. Open source on the other hand is usually something many people have at least heard about or read somewhere.


Great little tool, but please don't force me to type https:// and just add it automatically when I type something like example.com


Another suggestion is to use input with type=“url”. This makes mobile keyboards not capitalize and auto correct (I think).


I thought that one was unable to handle domains without a protocol, which makes it pretty much useless for normal business cases. I’ve never met a single non-technical person that understood what that https was, why they should add it, or didn’t get immeasurably bored if you tried to explain it…


To be fair, even Tim Berners Lee doesn't understand what the :// is for and has apologised for adding it.


Which would be even more of a reason to standardise an input field that handles web addresses as humans enter them, not machines prefer them. Yet, here we are.


I think you’d just prefill with https:// and let the user type the rest.


Depending on how your forms are set up, this will cause the field to be marked as invalid as soon as the user interacts with any of the forms fields, if not on load. Also, this requires additional handling for copy paste etc.


> I thought that one was unable to handle domains without a protocol

Check if the protocol is included and add if necessary


No, that doesn’t work. Since the browser validates the field, it is marked as invalid unless there’s a protocol present. So you’re back to using the text field, but loose out on input optimisations for URLs.



Yep, I'll fix it. Fking annoying


Thank you :D


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