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Good point, I didn't think this comment through as well as I should have.

The fact that homes appreciate and value is a bug in our system. If we allowed homes to be built freely and with less regulation, then old homes that actually decline in value compared to new homes.

It's far more efficient to share resources then to buy. That is why Uber makes sense. If you own your own car, it might get used on average 40 minutes per day. With Uber that resource is used at least 10 hours each day.

By the way, I think baby boomers are the worst generation in history. They're incredibly selfish and have caused huge externalities (climate change, national debt, global destabilization). The greed of the baby boomers has meant that the average standard of living and income has dropped for those coming behind them. We should eliminate benefits these people voted for themselves including Social Security and Medicare. No one else will get them later.

I should have clarified that this applies to the US.

The scientific research supporting exercise is vastly stronger than the scientific research supporting meditation. The proven benefits of exercise are in order of magnitude different than the benefits of meditation.

We need to help evacuate Hong Kong and offer asylum and citizenships in the USA, Japan, Canada, etc to anyone who wants to flee totalitarianism.

Living with family is fantastic and should be strongly encouraged.

I was shocked when the author of the post said he had had twins and founded his business in the same month. I just had twins a few months ago and founded my business ten years ago. I couldn't imagine doing both at the same time.

I have massive newfound respect for parents, and especially for working single mothers. I have no idea how they do what they do. I am fortunate enough to have a nanny, work from home, and it's still very challenging.

Why is this comment downvoted?

Alcohol destroys lives. These are all attempts to regulate this common but dangerous drug.

I hate this ongoing PR attack on Google now being joined by politically ambitious state AG's. Google has done more positive things than any other company over the last twenty years. Instead of targeting bad companies that destroy people's lives (think gambling or alcohol or junk food), they are trying to destroy the company that gave us free search, maps, and email.

I agree with you, if money is being used to do good the source does not matter.

Fox news should not be allowed as an information source on HN. I read FN each day along with a number of other major publications and FN is bottom of the barrel for honesty or trustworthy reporting.

I hate this ongoing PR attack on Google now being joined by politically ambitious state AG's. Google has done more positive things than any other company over the last twenty years. Instead of targeting bad companies that destroy people's lives (think gambling or alcohol or junk food), they are trying to destroy the company that gave us free search, maps, and email.

I agree! These limitations on labor are simply abusive to the kids they apply to and enable a predatory monopoly of old white men (the NCAA and universities and the coaches) to continue to profit on free labor.

Europe has a more sensible policy it seems... Athletics are attached to cities not universities and participants are paid.

Impressive... I wish I knew more about how factory automation worked. Would be cool to have a breakdown of this.

I like this rule to an extent. However I think businesses like WeWork and Uber don't make sense when they are losing billions.

Crazy story. Paypal and GoDaddy are not known as good businesses.

It needs to be far easier and far more common to fire judges for bad behaviors.

I hate this ongoing PR attack on Google now being joined by politically ambitious state AG's. Google has done more positive things than any other company over the last twenty years. Instead of targeting bad companies that destroy people's lives (think gambling or alcohol or junk food), they are trying to destroy the company that gave us free search, maps, and email.

I agree completely with your logic, especially that a password vendor can see passwords anyways. Introducing fewer parties reduces points of failure.

I save all money related passwords... Much safer than my faulty memory or having them listed in a doc somewhere.

Documentation should be created as you go... Not before and not after.

This is extremely concerning, such advocacy should be protected speech.

>4. MANAGER JOBS ARE THE FIRST TO GET CUT.

As a CEO with many managers, this is false. I would fire all the people under the manager before I would fire a manager. My managers earned their way to management by being the best producers in their jobs.

I love PHP! Very easy to learn, universally used, tons of code written for pretty much anything you can think of.

This is crazy to me. Why are people so obsessed with fighting a company that has made all of our lives better with amazing free email, search, maps and other services in only twenty years?

Why doesn't HN have the courage to go after MBS who murders journalists, or Putin who invaded the Crimea and attacked free elections everywhere? Come on people get your priorities straightened out.

An alternative idea to UBI that achieves many of the same ends is to remove all taxes other than a wealth tax. A wealth tax actually would greatly augment UBI.

Waste of money to run ads on your brand name. You rank for it already.

If you are doing something that is a good cause, you should take money wherever you can get it without any ethical concerns. I would much rather have the MIT media lab to have that money than Jeffrey Epstein.

The only thing to watch out for is to make sure you are not rehabilitating an evil person's reputation. But if it donation is made anonymously or quietly, it should be okay.

It might be just a feeling, but it seems that superstitions in every area from medicine to politics are expanding their reach over the last 5 years.