[–] 5 points 1 month ago

If you want to attract new users, the visuals are the first thing that people will notice. Better technicals will help to retain users, but if people are immediately turned off by an aging, less intuitive, or even a less "pretty" UI, then none of what's under the hood will matter since they won't even try it in the first place.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    Also, which shareholders? Shareholders have no say in the business decisions outside of the annual voting for board members and whatever broad issues are brought up for a vote. If someone holds stock and then sells it before a vote, are they responsible for the business decisions? If a swing trader bought and then sold in one day/week/month (even at a loss), how much is their liability? If someone sells their shares just before a vote, then buys them again after, are they liable?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That has the advantage of hindsight, though. At the time Microsoft came on the market, would you have been as confident as you are now that your buy-in was a good choice? Without knowing how the market is going to move, would you have known that NASDAQ was the right market to pay in? Can you pick the Microsofts and Oracles of today with a high degree of confidence without insider information?

    I'm not saying it's not possible, but it would be much more difficult, the confidence wouldn't be as high, and not many people could beat the couch doing it. If it were so easy to beat the couch, a lot more people would be very rich.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Without a central server, hostname resolution is handled with mDNS. It is designed to do exactly what you're asking: allow you to resolve hostnames to IP addresses without a DNS server. A node simply broadcasts (multicasts) a request for who has a name, and whichever node has it responds with their IP.

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