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Haha, hi Vlad and thanks for the kind words!

They already do, in the form of taxes.

Microsoft.

'Buy a law'? Do you think everyone who voted for it is isn't capable of independent decision-making?

Absolutely not. You will find winners and losers for every language.

I have nothing to say other than to encourage you to keep going and ignore any haters. This is really great - I wish I was doing things like this when I was your age.

It's rather unfortunate that tax increase as a solution is such a common fallacy. It's rather like immediately recommending a salary increase every time you encounter a failing employee.

I live in California. Unfortunately you're going to be disappointed - California has the highest tax rates and the worst infrastructure. The failure to solve these problems isn't due to having too little money (states and countries with a fraction of California's wealth have solved these problems).

Eat a mango from India or Pakistan (in the summer) before you die. Hard to find in the US unfortunately, but you'll realise that the mangoes you're familiar with taste like tree bark.

The BA 747's in particular are ghastly by current standards. Glad I won't be stuck in one anymore.

Unfortunately actually being in a BA 747 is nowhere near as enjoyable. I'm glad for this.

The NYT operates on an online subscription model, no?

While this place isn't a hotbed of humour, this may be the funniest comment I have come across in over 13 years of reading HN.

The word 'hire' has nothing to do with whether the job is full-time or part-time: it applies to both (e.g. 'I hired a babysitter').

The problem is the lack of new construction leading to limited supply of housing, not AirBnB.

They have a manual flush too.

Unfortunately it’s not on any paid streaming services. Either you buy the Blu-ray discs or use illicit means.

Curious: why not take the words at face value rather than redefining them in a way that annoys you?

Where did he say that his friends were rich?

The World at War (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071075). 26 hour-long episodes; one of the best documentaries I have ever seen.

Mass transit can both be profitable and a multiplier (just like any other set of goods and services). See Japan: excellent train systems that are private and profitable.

What would it take for you to change your mind about your 'attend Stanford' tip claim?

What about Braintree?

This is very interesting; thanks for sharing your experiments!

What worked for me was writing business logic for a customer-facing app. The amount of unavoidable boilerplate made me understand what Paul Graham had been on about.

Yep, only if you're using Apollo though.

Interview the users and ask them why they abandoned your site.

I agree with the other comrade who commented. Avoid joining this employer if you can.

This is not common at all. What is common is to have such a clause apply to the period of employment but not after.

Please feel comfortable telling your employer to remove it (many people don't know that every contract is negotiable).