Subscription or some premium version. Like many news outlets. And Medium, the blogging platform, doesn't even do ads for its free version.

An outlet has to not only be premium but it would also have to be alluring for me to even think about giving them money.

True - not wiped out. Just a bit lost as to what is the advantage of using one of the smaller companies' premium products vs AWS/GCP managed versions, and how sustainable that advantage is. I'll update the question.

I would say both the company and the project. They seem to go hand-in-hand.

Their business model is to allow free access to a limited version of their product -- which admittedly is good enough for many to use in production.

And if these companies stop getting revenue for the premium product, then I worry it's goodbye to substantial progress on open source version.

Getting my fingerprints hacked sounds worse than getting my password hacked, I can’t change my fingerprint!

Whatever is the current most popular form of social media will always be the worst for people's mental health.

Like fb ranks lower on how much stress it induces since "kids these days" simply don't use it much.

I guess my point was more that any application on such technology would need a trusted organization to maintain the blockchain to gain the trust of the users.

I wouldn’t want, eg my health records stored on a system that isn’t trusted. This is one often cited application of blockchain.

Note that storing health records is a very dumb try of using blockchain. No wonder that you have trouble seeing how blockchain would be of any help, though probably for reasons different than the proper ones.

Blockchain is a service that adds a (cryptographic) timestamp to documents, so everybody can tell which of the two related documents was issued earlier. Blockchain doesn't do absolutely anything else! If a specific use case is not made easier when you can tell which of the two documents was earlier, then using blockchain is pointless.

let me rephrase: give me one good use where the majority of potential users would be OK with storing timestamped documents on a system not maintained by a trusted organization.

Ownership transfer contracts are one such example. We assume here that the signatures under a contract cannot be forged and the contract itself cannot be modified without the consent of the involved parties, but digital signatures used in (on top of) blockchain satisfy this requirement.

No meetings, no politics? Lots a dev jobs have both don’t they, especially as you become more senior and/or want to drive change in how things are done.

MIT Tech Review, which keeps me up to date with a whole spectrum of advances and trends in tech, and The Atlantic for politics — most if not all The Atlantic is free online, but it’s dirt cheap to get the physical copy and I’m more likely to read the longer articles with the physical copy.

The multiple device part seems tricky to improve on. I don't see how this approach can be tweaked to make it easy for non-technical people to access on multiple devices.

It seems like you have to define a new device on a existing logged in device before using the new device. Is there a way around that? If I want to log into an app for the first time at work and forgot to define a new device name at home where I already can log in, I wouldn't be able to do so from what I understand.

Why is this article with this click-bait title on the top of HN? A lot of leaders start off as engineers then go to CTOs, VP level, CEOs etc.

And this idea that engineers are purely scientifically minded totally ignores the endless number of articles suggesting that the best senior engineers have strong product and business sense, and in many places (but not all) having those skills are a defining quality of a senior engineer.

Engineers definitely NEED scientific background to enter the field, but this totally ignores that engineers grow business and product skills throughout their career, and need to do so to be effective