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16 year old here, I've got a few thoughts on this from being in the middle of it. Background: I live in a moderately sized urban center (Austin).

First, some anecdotal data: roughly half my friends have no plans to even get a license before they're 18, many of the rest (including myself) regularly borrow a parent's car, a smaller sub-set have parents who bought them cars, and a couple have bought cars with earned money.

> Yup, the road trip is as dead as the western

This is plainly wrong. Myself, and most of my friends grew up going on road trips with parents and now we're starting to take them ourselves.

> To the younger generation cars are transportation, nothing more. They take you from a to b.

This is 100% on-point. They're a convenient tool, and not much more. Granted, we still appreciate a Porsche, but we don't fantasize about them in the way I think previous generations did. They still represent some freedom, because they provide a space that's not controlled by authority figures in our lives, along with mobility. But we feel no need to own that car, it can just as easily be a parent's.

> So long Ferrari. So long Aston Martin.

I'm not sure this is true. My friends and I occasionally talk about, and appreciate things like the Model S, McLarens, and Ferraris. I don't doubt that several of my friends would buy them as successful adults. But given the choice of a nice apartment in NYC or SF or the nice car, almost all of us would take the better living location.

My job is three miles away, and my other work is all remote. Enough of my friends have cars, or access to family cars, that for any social outing someone can get access to a car. So buying a car doesn't provide much value to me. It's expensive, stressful, and any car a teenager can afford is mediocre at best. So instead of buying a car, I'm spending time in Europe with my two best friends next summer.

Cars are still viewed as a nice thing to have, but to us they're not worth working for months and months to buy. Driving is still very much a thing that many teenagers are interested in.

Employed 16 year old here who has intentionally chosen not to buy a car. My job is three miles away, it's healthier to walk, and my other work is all remote. I'm using the money I could have spent buying/maintaining a car to travel Europe with my two best friends next summer.

Employment doesn't require a car, even for teens.

My main question would be salary. You really can't reasonably expect your employer to pay you the same salary as someone working more than twice the hours.

Are you comfortable making less than half the salary of a programmer working 40 hours a week instead of 16?

Can vet zach as an incredibly talented dev.

Mattermark wasn't founded by a guy, it was founded by Danielle Morrill, who also founded YC-backed referly

I'd gladly work an 11 hour day at a company that provided food if two of those hours were meals (lunch and dinner) and another hour was time spent in the gym/playing games. That's 8 hours of work, and three hours of free recreation that would have cost me a non-trivial sum of money elsewhere. I just wouldn't want that to be expected.

I hate to see DRM in HTML, but I'd much rather have DRM HTML5 video from netflix than Silverlight or Flash.

For a company like Netflix it isn't non-DRM HTML5 vs DRM HTML5, it's DRM HTML5 or Flash/Silverlight/other proprietary plugin.

> Move to NYC or SF

Factor in cost of living and you're really not making much more.

Average at Goldman Sachs is $400k iirc.

Sorry, this was overly harsh on my part.

Of course if you'd looked at the web page you'd see that you can do exactly the same here.

https://github.com/brunophilipe/Cakebrew/releases/tag/v1.0.2

I know ".ngo" is planning on being released at some point this year and will (supposedly) only be available to registered NGOs

"The intelligence was as clear as any intelligence I've ever seen and I've been in this business a long time. ... When you had intelligence assessments that said Saddam Hussein has reconstituted his biological and chemical weapons and could reconstitute his nuclear weapon in a year if he got foreign assistance — by the end of the decade if he didn't — I've actually never seen clearer indications than that."

Other side: why does everything need to be watered down, emotionless, PR speak?

>If founders from elsewhere want to pay taxes and create jobs in the US, we should let them.

Spot on.

>This is just a start. We are also in need of broad-based immigration reform, and I believe more immigrants will help our country.

This is really what needs to happen. Shameless plug, I'm on the code squad at http://fwd.us and this is what we're trying to do.

I think Sam is doing great work advocating to bring more founders here to the U.S.

Does this have to do with the size of the country? 2 day shipments have to be easier to do within Italy than the continental United States.

I stopped pirating music the day I got spotify premium, if that's worth anything to this discussion.

I can back Krish up as a talented dev.

Net neutrality is dead. The FCC has failed us.

You're aware Jan, the CEO and other founder, is a Ukrainian immigrant, right?

> 2) NetFlix, Amazon Prime et al will become really popular as a result of all the customers saying "FU ComcastWarner"

Not when they're direct competitors to Comcast, Comcast is the only ISP for most people, and Comcast can legally charge Netflix et al out of the market.

How could this not be considered a monopoly over the majority of the US?

It makes it all at once, and that's the issue.

For code projects that are between me and a couple of other devs, none of whom are infrastructure security experts, I trust a company like Github a lot more than one of us trying to hack something together on a server.

I've found #web to be slightly toxic.

> Technology improves over time

Not so much in battery tech. It's really holding back a lot of hardware innovation on computers and also holding back the viability of EVs for many consumers.

Nope, not just you. I consider it digital hoarding in a lot of ways. I keep a lot of emails around as they're actually useful to reference at later times and easily searched and archived. But IM, Twitter, IRC, Facebook, SMS, etc I treat as passing and never look at messages further than a few weeks back.

>especially with a (less than insane) commute

Worth noting that this is quickly going away. Traffic is projected to get far, far worse over the next few years at current growth rates and public transit is still very disappointing in comparison to other large cities.

That said I love this city.

> When I feel that the oncoming vehicle's lights are too bright, they get my high beams, which stay on them, despite their frantic high beam flashing. If more people did this, perhaps these people would switch back to their OEM lights.

Sounds like you're really endangering other people's lives in response to an annoyance.

I'm also interested in what the infrastructure of HN looks like. One of the tweets via @HNStatus seemed to imply that the site runs off of one application server.