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You either accept that people choose to live outside their means, or people have no control over their bodies and therefore should not be punished for crimes.

I don't expect people to share ideas about this topic, it's silly too. Most of us want to help people, but many hn voters would rather by publically empathetic than discuss.

Banking cash feels irresponsible.

But they aren't talking about us who are aware of the looming USD crisis and invest money. They are talking about those who don't invest.

I'm surprised they are considered mainstream media. Is that only because they have a TV channel?

My parents never paid for my college and I Graduated debt free with an engineering degree.

Maybe having to pay for college will cause them to take internships to pay for college.

They don't seem to do investigations, but rather reporting stories with buzz producing titles.

Are these people unaware or fanboys?

We already have diet soda, yet people choose full sugar.

Edit, the downvotes + comments in reply really tell the story. People don't care if things are unhealthy, if it tastes good, they do it. This exactly reflects the original comment, even if people don't want to hear it.

The longer I run this website, the less sympathic I've become.

I see so much waste, I see so many excuses.

I think this paycheck to paycheck lifestyle is chosen by the person (or their biology). There are plenty of opportunities to save money or make more, but people choose not to.

I see my "Defense" counterparts are significantly worse programmers and claim to work less/never, but get paid 20k more per year than me.

These people don't create value, they destroy value.

They don't contribute to our roads/schools/local services that are actually useful.

As much as everyone is afraid of Google and Amazon, I don't see them getting bigger. They have hit a beaurcratic celling that will cause them to act too slow or too expensive.

The only reason government keeps growing is because they are not affected by profit.

Just raise taxes.

Tesla cars are first revision technology, which means almost starting from scratch anyway.

Two companies that live on reputation instead of quality would tarnish both.

As much as everyone wants to build full stack for every application, Excel is fantastic for complex math out of the box.

Excel is the average persons database.

I have found being able to expand on this has been incredibly useful and modular.

And as a note, VBA is definitely a real programming language, it up to the developer on how to treat Excel.

Not Everything is cheap.

Did you want a third option where old people get medicine, but young people pay higher taxes?

Pick your solution, someone loses.

Hope that doesn't cause a black market of effective, expensive drugs.

I thought it was odd at the time.

Now in retrospect, NPR was cheering on the now Terrorists.

What is better? A situation where the poor sometimes get ineffective drugs, or a situation where the poor get no drugs?

If you picked G.) Other. You don't understand how the world works. It's the "cheap, fast, good", you picked 3 instead of 2.

Edit, would love to hear solutions.

Take a look at the conclusions drawn, and how the p values prove insignificant conclusions. Ie, less than 20kcal/day changes.

You can see that at best there is a small correlation. But it seems like they found numbers to prove their theory.

Especially at 30k/vehicle price points.

Citation needed.

It's one of the most common medications. At scale I imagine even small margins create profit.

But there are lots of people who's job depends on high asprin sales.

I am concerned this phenomenon creeps over into these studies.

I have been busy when I worked in a factory and had estops going off, but when the shift is over, Not my problem... Although don't make a mess.

The cookbook was my best seller. Hope you enjoy!

Da Vinci seems popular among everyone.

After 300 sales I decided it was better to let hundreds of thousands learn how to save money, than 300.

My only regret is there is no positive feedback.

With a sale, I get an email and paid. With a book view, I barely get analytics.

I suppose my request as an author, give feedback. At least let me know what you like or didn't like.

Back when I was a kid, if the Mods sucked, you'd stop going to that website.

Serious question, why do unhappy customers keep buying what bad companies sell?

I stopped using Facebook and many subreddits. I have this self control.

Is there anyone here that cannot stop visiting bad websites?

Apple is an exception, which is why it's so fascinating to study.

Why can Apple get away with bugs and overly expensive products?

I'm 50/50 on this. I think the primary reason is marketing/psychology tricks to make Apple users feel happy. Or Apple has created an ecosystem that is impossible to leave.

I'm just glad I never fell for it.