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You are just repeating the framing of the article. Next you'll mention a citation from a biased source.

Tht article doesn't mention the majority of those marriages between 17 year old female "children" marrying male "adults" (that are 18, 19 or 20 years old).

Children versus adults is a common framing, that is repeated by even the less biased sources such as the BBC or PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interactive/child-marriag...

Crossing a legal line from a "child" of 17 to an "adult" of 18 doesn't have the implications about real world differences in wisdom we might hope for.

I've seen a pattern of judgemental women and men saying they are thinking of the children, while not understanding or not giving a shit, just how much hurt they cause those same children.

Our "justice" and "health" systems in New Zealand can cause lifelong harm to kids by black-and-white following the rules (at best, because wisdom is difficult or caring is risky).

Calling two midteens having sex "rape" or even worse "pedophilia" is plain abusive.

I'm not talking about older men here.

I'm saying that we need to be careful to avoid creating harm where there was none.

I think you're ignoring risk.

Even if you've saved enough for 1 to 3 years of university, there's a risk that you won't get a job especially if you're getting towards 40+.

Drawing down savings is a very high risk move, since you could easily never recover those savings because you may struggle to get a job that has a better ability to save as much.

Fairly normal if having kids before 20 is normal.

And I suspect disaster to have correlated chances of killing parents or grandparents or children. i.e. if you've become a parent there's a good chance your parents did too.

Our own lived experiences are likely outliers, since developed countries have different outcomes than the past.

Conpiracy theory: someone wants to track you. It looks like a typo but switching one letter in an uncommon word can make the word a unique enough fingerprint to track an account. Of course I'm assuming you're typing on a computer that has been compromised.

Alternatively you have fat fingers and use Linux (is there a correlation?) and you hit AltGr+T. From Wikipedia about British keyboard:

  Using the AltGr key on Linux produces many other characters and symbols, e.g. ¹²³€½{[]}@łe¶ŧ←↓→øþæßðđŋħjĸł«»¢“”nµΩŁE®Ŧ¥↑ıØÞƧЪŊĦJ&Ł<>©‘’Nº×÷· (If reconfigured as a compose key, an even larger repertoire is available)

It appears your brain has been compromised and needs an antivirus scam.

  DBA most likely means “don’t believe anything” or “don’t believe anybody”

Just checking Yandex - it did give a better result for "flat earth" as a search with lots of great YouTube videos near the top. Wikipedia came in at the 10th result in the list so that was good too.

I'm sure Yandex welcomes malcontented revolutionary thinkers. To quote Yandex:

  Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me

> Unfortunately in our society it always comes down to an issue of cost

A ugly way to say that our society has limited resources.

Working hours especially are a zero-sum choice.

We require some way to choose between different usages of people's time. All choices are suboptimal. Our societies have slowly developed something that mostly works.

Money as a topic is distracting: instead think about how we allocate the lives (time) of people: especially when trading one person's life/work against another's rights.

> þunish

Today I learned that the Icelandic keyboard has a dedicated key for typing þ

I wonder what the troublemakers learnt?

Although for self-selected friends my personal saying is that "All the smartest left school at 15". My other friends are academically educted which doesn't smarten up anyone.

As far as I can tell, the problem is that abusive adults with a power imbalance really enjoy dishing out corporal punishment.

I'm guessing you're supporting when a loving parent smacks their kid in outlier circumstances.

Your comment includes the abusers.

Isn't YouTube adequate for alternative results?

I just tested "flat earth" as a search on both Google and YouTube, and the results are quite distinctively different.

> rent seeking

I would worry that you just substitute a rent seeking landlord with a rent seeking government (local?).

The video in the link of this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49861051 says Jesse wasn't the inventor - seemed reasonably researched to me - skip to half a minute in.

Thank you for correcting me. I'm in an armchair but I did find this good article on the topic:

https://ilyastrebulaev.substack.com/p/who-controls-your-star...

Just looking at shares is over simplistic.

You can't know what other conditions Mullenweg signed in contracts such as shareholders agreements etc.

Typically if you take VC money, the VCs will require the ability to sack the founder and take control, perhaps if particular targets are not met.

I've seen it: an ambitious owner agreed to stretch goals, and the VCs took took over the company from the founder after they had predictably failed to meet the goals.

Apparently he didn't and he wouldn't.

It's just been credited to him.

You are mischaracterising the author who would love one. They said:

  these kinds of prototypes are built to inspire and show what is possible, not to be mass produced for actual users

The links within the article point to better examples of people designing without caring about usability.

I spent a lot of time looking for better equipment for my mum. There's so much dangerous or unusable mobility tech out there, that is often unaffordably expensive. You usually need to buy new, because the second-hand market is abysmal, and customisation is often critical.

Rollator designs with good wheels and working brakes were what I struggled most to find. Most designs couldn't handle basic needs. Wheelchairs were a nightmare - I was just fortunate she only needed one very occasionally.

> SF has too little housing relative to its population

The population that's already living in those houses?

Note that "native-born Californians are ~37% of San Francisco County. That percentage has remained relatively flat over recent decades"

  natural population change was positive in San Francisco County, CA, with births exceeding deaths by 574

https://usafacts.org/answers/is-the-population-growing-or-sh...

You're referring to the studies that show people have less children due to car seat laws but this article also covers some of the other consequences: https://ifstudies.org/blog/this-item-in-your-back-seat-might...

Great article on programmed aging as a tradeoff of telomeres versus cancer: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liver

What happens if someone only uses their mobile data?

Me and some acquittances (zero Netflix) have cut their broadband because the fixed charges are already excessive compared with cheaper mobile data.

If you really hate someone: mention small randomly intermittent noises. Or other minor niggles that you never would have noticed unless the niggles were pointed out to you.

If you want to be nice to yourself, don't train yourself to notice small annoying common problems.

Tautologically if you know what you want to change it to.

Starting a business self-selects for people that desire money (over other benefits).

The purpose of a business is money (otherwise you start a hobby or charity or something non-businessey).

Being very successful at business is a selection bias for people that are highly competitive at chasing money.

There's a bunch of traits in very wealthy self-made people due to the filter they have run through.

Tax too much, and we kill the golden geese of the economy. Examples abound around the world of crappy economies that can't afford good socialist stuff because they've demotivated the rain makers.

> can't pay their tax bills

Labour in the UK introduced a 20% inheritance tax on >£2M rural property.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/01/farmers-shoc...

Although the rules were later somewhat changed. Perhaps after pressure due to terminally ill farmers committing suicide (before the tax came into effect so that they could pass on their inheritance).

> The vast majority

Not vast. About 55% (workers and the family members) are covered by employer-sponsored health insurance. And that mostly self-selects for the younger and healthier so the coverage is less for random person.

Most retired people are not covered, and ironically very often the sick are not covered.

> absurdly wrong

I think you need to research the HN guidelines a bit more: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Healthcare demand far exceeds any sane resource constrictions. And everybody is idealistic about spending more.

We all want more and better health services, but our economies do not have infinite resources.

And few people are reasonable about restrictions because how do we cost life or health?

Death is predictable, our responses are unreasonable.

I'm quite sure we are agreeing on many things.

I sometimes wonder whether capitalism is an emergent property? Or perhaps it is a dominant strategy. I visited Shenzhen and it was chokka full of entrepreneurs - I'm yet to structure my ideas around that.

Then I read about those weird papers that use basic trading strategies that result in power-law wealth distributions.

I always wonder when people complain about those that have more than them, because I seldom see them reflect upon themselves to see how much more they have than those below them. This especially applies to anyone living in the USA since everybody is relatively wealthy there, compared against most in the world. Too often I see the 1% complain about the 1%.

All healthcare systems I am aware of are horrors. Compare the US to the UK. We all struggle to understand the driving forces.

One underlying issue is that few people are proactive about the factors they control. Too many people are reckless with their health, and we all are great at excuses and casting blame elsewhere (and there can be evil that deserves some blame).

I'm fortunate enough that I know to chase intangibles.

Too many people let money dominate their worldview.

I'm also incredibly lucky to be born in New Zealand, where plenty of people also want good intangibles. And I see fewer in my circle here fight to get money/power/status.

I thought I disliked philosophy, but perhaps I like it ;)

The point is that I'm in a country that is closer to what you said you wanted (compared against the USA).

The vast majority of healthcare here is not profit oriented but instead is run by the NZ govt.

The purpose of most business is money, and few people would choose to be a boss without the financial winnings. I had the opportunity to roll the dice with everything: because fortunately I'm in a country that still has a backstop.

However the boss payout result is quite simply not worth the risk; because the median return for a startup is $0. Remaining an employee would have been a more sensible decision.

Other people like you complain, and I accept that is part of the deal I chose.

I am smart enough to have had the choice of alternative lifestyle paths like teaching or being an artist.

Meanwhile, I'm literally the guy paying for our social welfare and health system because I'm an export earner. Obviously the NZ economy deserves its return on its investment in me and our business environment.

But if you want to imply someone is greedy, then look at yourself or at your government.