Your morning latte costs $4.50.
The author traced every penny through 17 years of coffee industry data, from your local café to farms in Honduras.
The result? Your barista captured $1.67 for 3 minutes of work. The farmer who spent 6 months growing your coffee? They profited $0.04.
That's not a typo. Four cents.
This isn't about individual greed—it's about infrastructure. The entire supply chain is architected to ensure 97% of value is captured before coffee reaches the farm gate.
Readit Newssomberi commented on The $4 Coffee Map molotovespresso.substack.... · Posted by u/somberi
somberi commented on Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS scriberpro.cc/hn/... · Posted by u/rezivor
somberi commented on Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows withaqua.com... · Posted by u/the_king
I use MacWhisper and it works well enough for me to stop looking for options.(MBA M2 24GB Ram - Large V3 English)
I wouldn't feel comfortable if someone were looking over my shoulder while I'm typing at a coffee shop.
I am not your customer.
somberi commented on Thoughts on Daylight Computer jon.bo/posts/daylight-com... · Posted by u/3r7j6qzi9jvnve
I have one and agree with the technical issues mentioned in this thread. This is my first experience with a writing tablet, although I have occasionally dabbled with an iPad with a stylus.
What draws me to use this device is that it creates a sense of "roominess," allowing me to lean back and consume, write, and engage in a non-aggressive way. This quality is something I miss in my other devices.
The monochrome display makes playing Wordle harder :).
somberi commented on Tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant github.com/TabbyML/tabby... · Posted by u/saikatsg
Do you have a plugin for MSVC?
I was a 16-year-old kid in still-developing India, 1986. One had to wait seven years to get a landline connection.
My friends and I went through the Morse Code speed test and evaluation course, for which we prepared weeks and weeks. I was issued the handle OM118.
The non-profit organization that issues the license had a single Ham Radio for which you need to apply well in advance for 30-minute slots.
Four of us huddled in a small booth of a room, fiddling with knobs, wondering why there was static instead of some exotic voice from another part of the world - Sri Lanka, at least, please God.
A voice crackled in. We immediately knew who it was, but we were too cool to admit it. The voice asked us where we were...Madras, we said. He was too...We went around talking over each other, and the other end said, "I am an actor. My name is Kamal Haasan."
1. Madras is now called Chennai.
somberi commented on Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27B fraud case theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/spxneo
This entry from Wikipedia was impactful:
"Lan's embezzlement of $12.5 billion equals about three percent of Vietnam's total GDP for 2022."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_M%E1%BB%B9_La....
King Lear comes to mind:
As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.
somberi commented on Ask HN: Books that gave you different perspective on religion · Posted by u/kaycebasques
I suggest two books by Hesse - Siddhartha / Narcissus and Goldmund.
somberi commented on Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs github.com/OnedocLabs/rea... · Posted by u/AugusteLef
certifications (SOC2 / ISO27001) and offer an on-premise solution! I see there's already a discussion about pricing, so I'll leave that be. However, would an unlimited volume at a fixed cost (and self-host) be an attractive solution? It could be interesting for very high volumes.
I can tell you that the world I operate in will want something like what you are proposing (fixed rate + OnPrem) and the pricing is going to have a ceiling because building this in-house is a real and viable alternative. Our problem is not so much lack of talent but other product-roadmap priorities. What is the ceiling? I do not know, but can hazard a guess. 1/4th of the yearly cost of a good developer.