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Ideally everyone would only get the job that they verifiably deserve. Society does not scale to the level of the individual. We can't have an entire jury to judge whether vague cri…

Discriminating in favor or certain minorities is as close as you can get to balancing the injustice. Consider how many covert ways there is for biases to systematically screw over …

> Doesn't loan forgiveness just encourage MORE lending? Does a rational person base their lending decisions on a chance of politically precarious one-off presidential forgiveness? …

I didn't say it's preparing them for adulthood. It's a start in preventing predatory lenders from trapping 18 year olds in loans they'll never get rid of.

Nah, the changes made today are a decent start. I'm glad moving out at 18 and working a minimum wage job worked well for you. It works out alright sometimes but I wouldn't want tha…

22+ wasn't mentioned in the quote...?

Kids are heavily pressured to go to college. Some kids are in fact under the threat of going to college or getting kicked out of their home at 18. That kid doesn't really have a "c…

There's a ton of opportunities to work anonymously in blockchain. At my last job, we were paying 10k for a bounty to someone I was surprised to hear was a teenager. It's very acces…

At my school, everyone was tested... but you needed a recommendation along with a high score to get in. I scored highly on the test year after year but was never given the recommen…

Ha, it's fun seeing this topic on hacker news. I've been in the extracting MEV for a while now. It's really fun and complex. MEV isn't going anywhere and not all MEV is bad. Some p…

I'm one of the oldest of generation Z born to parents who are the youngest of the boomers. I had completely unregulated access to the internet since age 7 because my parents weren'…

Yup it's more like risk of investment. Someone wealthy can risk a lot more than someone poor can without worrying about putting food on the table. They can afford many more lottery…

In my opinion, the amount of risk taken on has a large role to play in the vast difference in outcomes. Starting a company would be like buying a bunch of lottery tickets. For ever…

It's the fact that decentralization is now an option for those things when centralization used to be the only option

There are some very interesting technical challenges that NFTs are being used for. Stuff like baskets of assets, appraising and taking out loans on assets, and certain distributed …

Maybe the US needs to change it's regulations. It's handling of cryptocurrency is hostile to legitimate use of the technology. The current tax situation being the worst of it in my…

And the school's gonna eat that 20 million dollar lawsuit for it. Witch hunts on social media are one thing. Forcing students out on on a rumor of something that happened years ago…

It's really incredible that the adults took a rumor so far without hearing all sides of it. Sounds like the boys had their whole lives upended for a picture of some stupid green fa…

I had been working on this project https://github.com/Fluffy9/Zenbase . I've been trying to figure out what it's good for and making an Agar.io like game is one thing I've started …

I'm your age :) I started my current one in college. Since high school I had every intention of making a living starting my own business, so that was the plan all along. I've been …

I'm not sure why this article is so controversial. Whether her app deserved funding or not wasn't what the main point of the article was. No one is saying they are obligated to fun…

I'm on hiatus on my main project due to the virus. I came up with https://unirender.io in my spare time. It does prerendering of React/Vue/etc SPA similar to https://prerender.com …

I just recently added some features and fixed some bugs. I think it's good enough to show. I'm also doing Startup School for this project