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This is such a lovely idea that I logged into HN for the first time in over 10 years just to leave this comment. Thank you for sharing this with us.

There's a school of thought among "economic leftists" that the disconnect between US productivity and average US worker wages since the 1970s, is due to a decline in "outrage const…

I've lived in Los Angeles in 2004, and I liked this article a lot. But I think there's another aspect that I think the OP overlooked: The dominant industry here will always be Holl…

While the OP was focused on Penn (I'm a Penn grad '04, fwiw), I'm sure this is pretty common at a lot of other selective colleges. I wrestled with a lot of the same exact feelings …

I'd argue the ACA will enhance the market for SimplyInsured. Yes, for an individual who wants a basic policy, Covered CA will probably be sufficient and they won't need more help t…

Yet another handful of anecdotes about a need-based social welfare program. If you're desperate enough, sabotaging yourself to qualify for a need-based social program eventually be…

For years, the two things that most frustrated me to hear from product managers were "how hard would it be..." and "can't you just..." It took me quite a while to figure out why I …

As a resident of Los Angeles, this seems anecdotally (which has the usual caveats) obvious to me. I saw home ownership lead to issues with employment within the Los Angeles metropo…

>>It is now up to you to demand your deposit back and to challenge the validity of your “signature” on any alleged bank “loan” agreement or check. Great. Have fun stashing your cas…

Sorry, but this is asinine. Easy DNS charges $19.95 CAD/yr for its basic package of DNS services for a domain. Amazon's Route 53 charges $0.50 per month, or $6.00 USD/yr. Given the…

For software engineers, it's extremely likely that whatever company you started working for in Year 1 will be completely different in Year 5. Google wasn't the same company in 1999…

Has the OP considered that the perceived lack of intelligence of George W. Bush may be based on the outcome of the decisions made by his administration, rather than his southern dr…

Keynesian economics is mostly just based on the idea that consumer demand drives the economy ("aggregate demand"). This demand usually is discussed in terms of consumer spending, b…

I really liked this, namely because I had never thought about this from this angle. The interaction most people have with marriage and the state is taxation on income. It would see…

The whole point of having a country with a central bank that can print money at will (fiat currency), is to have full control over inflation/deflation. When the increase/decrease o…

This is basically the paradox of US healthcare innovation. Canada can tell its pharmaceutical companies, "yeah, that cool drug you just invented, we're not gonna pay you what you w…

"x10 developers" are, in fact, proficient developers, who are experienced with their stack and problem domain. Well, I'd say this is only true for your typical corporate entity, wh…

We may have some bumps in the road and some dark ages of depravity and extremely concentrated ownership of the means of production and all that Well, this is what I'm personally co…

Most jobs are selling your time in exchange for money. If your time is mostly fungible compared to someone else's time (ie. most low-skill labor), then I'd say all the algebraic eq…

It is tough to compare a healthcare "market" to any other market. Fundamentally, healthcare is a good that nobody will voluntarily want, but that everyone is going to need at some …

Here's my theory: the blocks of time the elite players spend is non-negotiable, because it's their "top idea in the mind."[0] In the past when I've worked with friends on side proj…

It's unfortunate that Gruber has essentially become synonymous with Apple fanboyism, because I think he raises some salient points here. To any reader that is familiar with his wri…

Your analysis starts by excluding any taxes you find inconvenient (such as, apparently, social security, inflation, tariffs, ad-valorem taxes, and especially state and local taxes …

I mentioned George W. Bush a single time. I fully recognize the "Bush did it too" or "Bush was worse" is a poor political argument. I also made my original arguments to be as factu…

We haven't needed Keynesian deficit spending in a long time because the Federal Reserve has done a decent job "moderating" economic cycles. Too much growth/inflation, put the brake…