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CCTV in his cell conveniently malfunctioned. Psychologist took him off suicide watch when he clearly shouldn’t have been. Occam’s razor is invoked far too often here.

Not being able to type fuck is such a weird cultural quirk America has forced down our throats.

The problem is inflammation with no cause other than a breakdown of immune processes. I have an autoimmune condition and this tool could help guide treatment decisions.

Only because we haven't priced in the externalized costs of ICE (anywhere in the world).

One of the German ICE CEO's was going on about how they have over a century of experience and Tesla will never catch up. There is something in this as most parts of the car don't change when becoming electric and the bits that do become simpler. They surely have the resources, architects and design teams to do this migration (which they have proven as they all now have electric car platforms in production). It was a matter of will not inability.

Considering where car manufacturers are now with their electric platforms I think 10 years from now would be ok and 5 years possible. Sometimes you just have to rip off the plaster.

The counterpoint is that Telsa managed to emerge from nothing in that time. Incumbent ICE car companies had no incentive to start the transition so it's necessary to introduce an artificial constraint.

Underwhelming. No more petrol and diesel cars in 20 years? That should have been the policy 20 years ago.

I'm not trans and I also wouldn't like to live somewhere where trans people are harassed. It's just not a vibe I want in my life.

Based on how they bill it, it looks like it's running on VMs

So rule of law has completely broken down in the US?

I don't understand how this practice of using VC money to offer services below cost to undercut competition isn't illegal. In Ireland loss leading (offering certain goods below cost to entice customers who will then spend on other goods/services) is illegal. Not sure about other countries but doing what Uber did is straight up theft with huge negative externalities for society.

There is no incentive to sell it as something to make you quit

Lots of startup business models have been based around breaking the rules and then asking for forgiveness. See Uber etc

OK. For the record I believe you however I would like to clarify I'm not wrong on the facts but I was wrong on the motivations. I hope you understand that the questions aren't personal but a reaction to what is happening in the broader world. What grated me was you calling it nationalism. Calling out that Xi is committing crimes against humanity has nothing to do with nationalism unless you conflate the CCP with China which is a standard tactic of authoritarian regimes. It is quite literally a core tactic in their playbook. Every day we hear new stories about how the propaganda arm of the CCP is subjugating western institutions to do their bidding, using the weakness of the capitalist system and ideology (prioritising financial gain above all else) against us.

All in all I really meant that I appreciate the work that you do. You do an excellent job in maintaining HN as my favourite forum on the internet. I understand this is probably wearing you thin so I'm going to leave it now but I hope you can understand why I felt it necessary to clarify the above.

YC got out of China but still invests in Chinese companies. At least that's what the press release that I read said. Is that wrong?

At some stage not taking a position is a position in itself, especially in matters of existential threat.

First let me say I think dang does an exceptional job (far better than I could) in moderating this site and I am very grateful for it. Anytime I have fallen on the wrong side of the rules dang has been very fair and patient.

I don't disagree with your comment however none of the rules dang mentioned were actually broken. I read through the link and it only raised more questions. As I see it either the rules need to be updated or an official announcement from YC stating their position on this ever returning topic will put this to bed.

Better than welcoming them in through the front door like we have been doing until now.

It’s come to the point where we need to have a constant and sustain vocalisation against the CCP and the dystopian future they are building. They represent an existential threat to anything that isn’t the CCP and they’ve been very successful in getting their hooks into western society and the world at large. You see it on Reddit all the time. Moderators remove comments because it doesn’t follow some sort of vague guideline, about facts for example, when really it is removed because it is critical of the CCP. The cleverness of this is that it’s hard to prove. While I don’t believe there is direct censorship here on hackernews the above comment and reasoning by dang can be interpreted in the same way. None of the reasons dang gave were present in the comment that was replied to. CCP censorship is here now in western society directly and indirectly through self censorship to protect investments. Our short termism makes us very vulnerable to their bs.

Eventually sticking your head in the sand is condoning behaviour. I understand your perspective however given YC's conflict of interest due to investing in Chinese companies I think it would be prudent to stick YC's flag in the ground. Inaction and fence-sitting is radically political too.

It's the one reason why I have hope that Chinese world domination attempts will fall flat. They will just be out thought eventually if they continue down this road.

In contrast people are being forced to move now without UBI. Take Portugal for example. Lots of the younger generation can't afford to stay in Lisbon or Porto due to rising costs and low pay.

I don't think that is a concern. I had this exact conversation on Reddit a couple days ago. What I wrote:

>The flip side is it's much easier to make up the difference due to the increased economic opportunity in <high cost of living area>. If you can't it's a good incentive to move somewhere cheaper in turn reducing the pressure on housing in <high cost of living area>.

Say I'd like to live in Monaco or Luxembourg. No one owes me that privilege. I can't just demand to get that. Even if I get a job in a grocery store or whatever to legitimise my residency.

The whole point of UBI is to remove means testing. I think we can set a number that works on average and let people move to suit their needs. We definitely should avoid all incentives to game the system as it will only distract and get the initiative bogged down in paper pushing bs.

In my peer group. Incentives drive behaviour

All that will happen is people will pretend to live in rich expensive countries and actually live in cheaper countries. I already see this all the time with benefits.

My main concern is it will give non-technical managers funny ideas about what goes into writing code. Writing out what you want to do is the easy part. Figuring out how to do what you want to do in context of the broader environment is the main challenge and that requires time to think and reason.

It’s unacceptable to ship this kind of security flaw even for a half baked internal proof of concept.

You make a good case for innovation through acquisitions rather than in-house development. Once the derisking aspect is factored in acquisitions suddenly look a lot more attractive.

I saw this type of thing coming a mile away and left GitHub as soon as they were bought by Microsoft. TBH even despite my inherent distrust of Microsoft this is way beyond the hypotheticals I had in mind when I deleted all content from my GitHub account. Now I’m worried about VSCode as another potential vulnerability vector. Has anyone done a recent independent audit of what is sent across the wire to Microsoft from VSCode?