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I thought this was interesting because I was talking to a friend who's a web designer for small, traditional businesses like photographers, local liquor brands, etc. And when I was mentioning my …

I think this also has a lot to do with HOW your product is bought. May products are discovered. They're cool, they're novel, let's try. Those commonly end up in this situation where use…

Yes, I mean that's true. But the idea that Aunt Sally writes a Kindle ebook in her kitchen is idealizing the self-publishing world. Even human writing for Kindle eBooks was mostly not Aunt Sally&…

well one of the problems of legislating against these things is that legislation is never global, so as long as there's money to be made, someone, somewhere (where the laws don't exist or ar…

cost to the producer I guess

In principle you're right, the cost of publishing is decreasing, which increases the garbage out there. But I think there's a tipping point when the cost of anything hits (basically) zero, a…

> A typical belief among students is that classes are a series of hurdles to be overcome; at the end of this obstacle course, they shall receive a degree as testament to their completion of these a…

Well lago is open core and can be self-hosted but I see your point

It’s content marketing I guess

Yep! Though I guess that weirdly does get us back to some version of the 1960s/70s America these tariffs are supposed to revive: Where things were expensive (relative to buying power) but you bou…

That's the big problem. You can find cheap housing easily, but not where most people want to live. The problem could even get worse if there are fewer opportunities, but they remain concentrated …

The problem is that factories take years to build, many forms of agriculture take years to yield results too. So when the tariffs can change every day and you don't know if they'll be around…

I do think it's a genuinely interesting speculation—what happens if we paid real-life things not as a subscription, but based on usage, like an API. Not advocating for that at all, but it makes m…

yeah but isn't that precisely what banning smartphones in schools fixes? Nobody said anything about outside of school.

1. Correct, I think you've changed my mind on this and I'll investigate further. Though they should probably get foundational knowledge on tech literacy. 2. True, though less true over time.…

Bingo. The decline of smoking wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for banning smoking in most public places and everywhere indoors, removing cigarette vending machines, etc.

I'm totally in favor of this, but there's something poetic about the country of Nokia banning smartphones.

I think you're right in a way because if school wants to prepare kids for work, then they'll have to get competent with tech. But at the same time, I think banning smartphones is perfectly f…

There's also a different angle: EdTech doesn't have to sell to schools, but could also be learner-facing.

I think an underrated aspect of this is also that YC is ultimately a VC fund and so they're talking about companies that have the potential to be massive, multi-billion dollar companies. Many typ…