Please explain as I am curious

Adding dark mode CSS adds a few hundred bytes, maybe a couple kb at most to the site.

A separate subdomain:

- Requires separate TLS certificates to be maintained.

- Doesn't play nice with caching.

- Doesn't play nice with password managers.

- Doesn't work with any existing links. Users would have to manually add the `dark` prefix.

- Is generally a bad user experience.

While I agree with most of your points, I disagree with

> Doesn't play nice with password managers.

Check your password manager settings. Most have options to match on domain, subdomain, port or have the ability to set equivalent domains either globally or per credential.

If they screw it up then I'll personally host some service that scrapes all the text and only dumps a few kbs to you :)

Honestly theres a lot of other sites that would benefit from that too. A well written and maintained scraper for a bunch of popular sites may be worth a subscription for some bandwidth limited people.

I've thought about this, too; some of my favorite sites are forums that are a pain to use on mobile (e.g. RuTracker).

Seems like a fun project, so I may start planning it when I have time.

Be careful with that: it very probably goes against all sorts of TOS and can get you in trouble

A court recently ruled [1] that LinkedIn had to allow scraping, but it has to be public data (i.e. you can't log into your Facebook account and then scrape all your friends' pages).

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...

It's not the scraping itself that I would be worried about, it's using this data to create what could be seen as a competitor (especially if you make it commercial). For a lot of these websites, traffic is essentially money: diverting users to another website using their own content would be very badly received

Thanks for the heads up.

I was more thinking about a local web-app that consumes the site and then outputs it in a nice mobile layout, without actually archiving or saving anything.

The tax rate is also low enough that if he does pay, it's not much. 15% total instead of the 30-40‰ I currently pay.

A nitpick: the long term capital gains tax for the top bracket is 20%, not 15% [1]. My guess is that Jeff Bezos is in the top bracket.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_Unite...

Oooo neato I never knew there was a tiering of rates like this-- probably because I haven't had a reason to find out XD thanks for the info

40‰ = 4% < 15%

Oooo hey wow I have no idea why that character was entered, guess I typoed something on mobile with a long press. Weird :)

6 months of unemployment payments (if you have worked for at least 6 months and live in a state that doesn't play games with unemployment) is a somewhat cilivized safety net.

While finding a job in a bad economy can certainly be hard, at least you will be able to pay your rent and buy food and plan for the event that you are not able to maintain your current lifestyle.

However our medical insurance situation, unless you are able to qualify for a free/less than $30 per month plan, is really horrific and cannot be justified. If someone is healthy and becomes unemployed, it is not terrible but definitely not good. If you have routine medicines and you are unemployed.... death sentence.

>6 months of unemployment payments (if you have worked for at least 6 months and live in a state that doesn't play games with unemployment) is a somewhat cilivized safety net.

I think this misses self-employed people, under-employed people / people with reduced work hours who are working. It also under-appreciates how difficult it has been for people in even well-meaning states to get through the hurdles of filing.

Write once, read never!

Implying that these dev shops simply won't just hire any college grad with a pulse and pay them 40k to do the same job the Ukrainian did, or worse.

The real problem is the incentive structure, and of course, difficulty of the job that is programming.