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And just like the panic over cell phones, this too shall pass. Maybe half of HN is too young to remember (or old enough to have forgotten?) but when cell phones with cameras were b…

It's particularly sad that we just proved this with the massive Covid-era stimulus and yet didn't collectively learn the lesson. We gave millions of people unemployment checks that…

Or they're a student who has to work a part-time job after school. Or they have a long commute. Or they have hours of practice for a competitive sport or extracurricular. Or they h…

This was posted on a Saturday night (in the US). A story posted at lunch time on a Tuesday is going to get 100x or maybe 10,000x more views than a story posted on a Saturday night.…

> hence more promotion-worthy Relevant for big companies where people intend to have decade spanning careers with multiple promotions. But for the tech worker who is going to have …

> here is where I get confused It doesn't seem like you're confused, it seems like you're using that as a rhetorical device to be pedantic. > I'm not trying to be pedantic, but Fol…

Internet commenters try to get me to hate lots of people for lots of reasons, but "Parents trying to send their kid to a school that fits their kid's needs" seems like such a hard …

There's no legal mechanism for the vast majority of what the president has done. Often it happens anyway, along with some protests, some resignations and maybe an eventual court ca…

That "huge gap" is probably 3-10 years. A relatively tiny percent of mortgages not getting paid in 2007 & 2008 caused a global financial crisis. If even just 10% of current office …

> a home is the largest purchase they will ever make and the bulk of their net worth That's bad and a central part of the problem. I accept that my car is depreciating in value eve…

This is much ado about nothing. The US has so much excess capacity in farmland that we do absurd things with our excess corn and soybeans. We refine soybeans into ethanol to put in…

I've gotta know which side of Poe's law this falls on. Was this written in earnest or as an ironic/facetious joke?

There are a lot of misunderstandings in this post. I'll try to explain a few of them, which maybe can help realign your whole understanding. For starters, American insurance has a …

> your personal (not hosted by a corp) website I'm not sure that's enough. A few years ago there were some set of websites that wanted less censorship than the main corporate sites…

It's crazy to me that you're still blaming the poorest, most exploited, least powerful person in the economy for the problems instead of the people actually responsible. Since you …

Kinda. Maybe I'm too optimistic and we're just doomed, but I think the average voter would have cared more if a handful of things had gone differently. For starters of course, Bide…

For years, we've talked about how much of the workforce was "bullshit jobs". HN would be full of incredulous comments from people confused by the headcount at various companies, wo…

> by having a Honduran guy come into the country and do his job for half the price, then use that to compete with him for an apartment, increasing his cost of living So the immigra…

I think like, 90% of the crypto trading volume is by people who know it's all a grift, but are hoping to get rich while the music is still playing. People knowingly buy into pump &…

Man, your anger is just pointed in the wrong direction here. Be mad at the CEO & hedge fund managers making millions of dollars a year by exploiting the working classes, who will h…

> Especially South Park I think desensitized the millennial generation Desensitized some people, who understood and appreciated the irony, absurdity and inversion of norms. It hype…

Sending innocent people to prison would absolutely be a horrible form of violence against those people. That's why we have trials, with independent judges, juries and rules. Rememb…

Or perhaps, that is the centralist position. To take an apolitical comparison, think about an ordinary crime- a murder, a rape, an arson, etc. There is some set of people saying "W…

There should be a public service campaign telling users something like "Even in the best case scenario, the moderators are weirdos. Most likely they're shills". People with careers…

As a thought experiment to check your own biases, how do you feel about people like Colin Kaepernick speaking out about police abuses and racism in the justice system? There are pe…