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That's fine and dandy that author was able to go through those hoops to find success.

But there are still those of us who still (maybe naively at this point in history) believe that if you do things honestly, in good faith, and play by the rules, you should be able to make money too.

Just have a kid if you want them. You'll never "be able to afford it."

It will never make "economic sense" to have a child. Luckily, most of us do not place a monetary value on human life.

You can still suffer from the same, every day normal forgetting of things on ADHD medication. It doesn't instantly make you superhuman. You still need systems to remember things effectively, ADHD or not.

IIRC, hackertyper has been used numerous times.

So do you argue then that looking at highway banner ads caused you to deplete your glucose stores in your cells derived from the food you paid for?

Well step one should be to create a product that competes.

> We don't want justices incentivised to work sound bites into their courtroom discourse.

Although foreign to many in our field, arguably the most important work a judge does (besides the obvious) is communicate effectively and clearly. I trust them to be professional.

I somehow knew this would be the first comment. Unfortunately, for these industries, where you sell real goods at affordable prices (not over-inflated fantasyland prices to your "enterprise" customers) margins are razor thin. This is the sector of the economy that has been YoY consistently left behind since the Bush-Oil eras drove prices sky high. Trying my best not trying to sound snooty, but again this shows once more that the majority of people here really haven't ran a business like this.

I don't want to disagree with most of what you are saying, but this is where I can always tell the majority of HN hasn't started a non-tech, low skill business before (restaurants, sales, salons, construction, etc). Your workers consistently put you in bad positions. People will call out for no reason, no shows are frequent. Sometimes you just get people that completely disappear. That's fine in the tech world where most of our deadlines and time estimates are made up anyways, but when you have one of your line cooks or stylists or sales rep fail, to show on a busy Saturday it can be disastrous if you don't have the good will of another one of your employees covering.

Seriously, next time you get a chance, talk to your local restaurant manager, construction manager, barber shop owner or sales manager, they all say the same things: how difficult it is to find good workers. (and "good" here is a pretty low bar: show up when you are scheduled on time)

You are really overstating how many people like that are out there. Compare the sheer number of hotel bookings to AirBnB bookings, even factoring out business travel.

I just think that those still enamoured by it haven’t been burned yet. There is very little [effective] recourse when your AirBnB takes a turn for the worse. There are enough horror stories out there. I personally think the value to risk ratio is way off for them these days. It isn’t cheap anymore and that makes it way less appealing.

To the contrary, I am usually assumed to be middle eastern (egyptian, oddly enough, although it may not be that surprising considering the hellenistic period and where my relatives are from) and despite being Christian, I am not one of the accepted mainstream forms of Christianity in the US, so I face double prejudice, on the one side from those who think Christianity is the cause of all the worlds problems, on the other side from other Evangelical types who think we are idol worshipping heretics. It is only when I correct people, that I get the "oh" reply, usually in disappointment that now I don't qualify for one of their acceptable groups of people who experienced prejudice or a lack of acceptance.

> * You can't tell who's looking at you, so you always feel like you have to remain presentable and vigilant.

Feel free to hit that "Turn off Video" button from time to time. I make liberal use of it.

I have been to 4 Go conferences (two gophercons). Despite being first generation mediterranean-descent (my father is the exact immigrant story touted in many circles), because I fit the 'white christian male' bill, I have felt anything but welcome in the Go community. Actually, many times, I feel like it is actively hostile towards me. I remember one of the closing keynotes, a man stood up on the stage and said "Come take a picture with me out back if you look like me, you know who you are" which left me with my jaw dropped.

1. It's about as made up as the WHO's 3.4% figure.

2. Most thinkers I know and follow widely believe this to be the case as well, it also passes the common sense test.

(OK, 3.4% of reported cases, my point is they have thrown out death rates as well, all of them can be considered fantasy because we have zero clue what the denominator is)

I've worked extensively in both. In my opinion:

Vue embraces web technologies. JS is to enhance your HTML.

React is a javascript-first, FP-first mentality.

Minor point: vue benchmarks slightly faster these days. The react runtime has gotten pretty thick.

4) It's just way too expensive, in general, nowadays. Stripe's market leader position should allow it to negotiate lower fees, but for some reason doesn't seem to be part of the business plan.

It's not an argument, it's a statement designed to point out the sheer hubris of thinking we actually matter, which is the root of all of the world's problems: human pride. If you hate it that much, it was probably meant for you.

Do you have access to the world's most powerful search engine that can locate almost any source for you in an instant?

I understand the US Legal system very well. I think enough people have broken down your fuzziness point as moot at this point, but you downvote and cling to it.

I know it's tough being wrong on the internet, but just the L on this one.

But what you are saying here counters what OP is replying to. "Fuzziness" has no place in a system of law. There should be a way to trace back, as you said with case law, to find an unambiguous decision. If not, the law needs to be clarified, not left fuzzy.

> Almost all laws and legal orders have some ambiguity to them.

That doesn't make this a desired trait that should be willfully accepted. Force them to make them not ambiguous, otherwise they will remain as such. Ambiguous laws and punishments are one of the largest sources of judicial inequality in every nation.

Authority does not need to be respected if it does not respect those who authorized it.

A good theory but doesn't apply here, but I did leave out a key piece of info: the largest drop has actually been in income tax ala large hedge fund managers who have fled the state. Carolina Panthers owner and billionaire David Tepper is one recent-ish high profile example, but there are many others. Corps like Honeywell aren't an infrequent sight either. New Jersey's revenue has fallen YoY since the loss of Tepper et all.

The insane part of me here is NJ politicians keep clamoring to raise taxes more. It's almost as if they heard De Blasio's campaign slogan and thought it was a great idea.

> This isn't a red state: They collect plenty of revenue.

Part of this revenue collection (tax policy) is why corps are moving en masse, the recent largest example is Honeywell's relocation to Charlotte. NJ's latest tax hike has actually caused them a net loss in revenue.

> then that was before a lot of the strong privacy and encryption conversations were being had in the larger audience of consumers

That is an extremely. weak defense. There were plenty of other companies taking user security seriously. Many of our encryption standards and security certifications in use today were created in the 90s and 00s.

Just to offer a counter point: this crisis feels mostly manufactured. Zoom is under a microscope that almost all other comm software would fail just as horribly, if not worse. Maybe the majority of users here were too young to remember, but Skype was far, far worse, and did not have same positive response and seriousness Zoom seems to be having. That said, competition and alternatives is good!

> usually made by culturally narrow-minded Western developers.

Usually made by developers who realize this will suit 99% of their users. I'm culturally eastern myself and realize this.

Also, one that many here should be familiar here with: Newegg.

Walmart shipping is pretty on point as well, and you don't need to pay 120$ a year for 2 day shipping.

Sorry, this needs to be said: The only conspiracy here is this drivel here that you wrote. Fauci has repeatedly stated, and acted as such, that there is no divide between him and the president. Is it feasible Fauci does not like Trump personally? Of course. But we are adults, and we have to work with people we don't like every day and still be able to perform our duties. Fauci is a professional.

So you wish that the digital world, a place where the majority of the youth are spending an ever-increasing amount of their time, to be subject to a culture we wouldn't tolerate in the physical world? Perhaps first define an internally consistent worldview. The reality is the internet isn't this blank space for hackers experimentation and exploitation anymore (used to be one of those kids by the way). It's becoming more and more integral to people's lives. It can cause real harm to people. It can even cause the loss of life. These things need to be taken seriously much more so than our childish notions of some anarchistic society of hackers and trolls doing as they please. Save that for the playgrounds and the skateparks. The real world works differently.

This is simply not true. MSNBC, NPR and PBS ran stories, podcasts, and discussions for an entire week about the “growing disconnect” during this time.