It's a bit of of a movie/TV trope, especially after a character dies--the widow would try to preserve the scent of their spouse/lover via clothing, pillow, etc.
I would have never imagined that salespeople deter customers from buying electric cars. But I think this could be used as a great selling point: The cars are so low maintenance make less money on more expensive vehicles.
Also, this situation is yet another reason why companies like Tesla need to be able to sell direct-to-consumers.
Again, how is it different than StartupLister or some CSS gallery submission service?
Those sites aren't selling links and neither am I. We're just filling out submission forms that need to be reviewed and rejected or accepted. And most of those sites use nofollow or obfuscated links and that's fine. The goal is to have BetaList--or whatever--showcase your site...not game Google.
So why is my site getting chewed out, but StartupLister (and others like it) is celebrated as a wonderful resource by HN and Reddit users (hence my footnotes)?
I honestly don't understand why people are struggling with this. I keep asking simple questions and I get answers that completely disregard everything I've said.
With porn you get to choose/approve your partner based on attractiveness and compatibility. Whereas prostitution involves total strangers... and they are not really in a position where they get to say "no" (even though "technically" they can).
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Is Chloe Sevingy a prostitute because she had REAL sex in the movie, The Brown Bunny? I'd say no.
Not everybody finances a startup with a mountain of cash. If you're funding your business with your life savings and credit cards, it's difficult to place a premium on a domain name while contemplating how long you can pay your mortgage and put food on the table.
Also, blind optimism is not required for success. And no domain name is an antidote for a shitty idea that nobody cares about.
If the .com name you want is already registered, you can always buy it later once you business is successful enough to justify the investment (much like betali.st and getdropbox.com).
There's no point in buying an expensive domain name for a company that may not survive past the startup stage.
Note: a large swath of web users don't even understand the concept of a domain name or address bar...instead they google terms like "Gmail" and "YouTube" thinking this is how they are supposed to visit web sites.
What's more, tech-savvy users wouldn't think twice about visiting domain name ending in ".io", ".ly" and so on. (Hence their proliferation.)
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I can't help but wonder if this article is some kind of prank--it's far too ill-considered compared to Graham's usual standards.
For a moment there, I thought I was reading The Onion.