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It's not. I honestly can't even imagine where the author would get this idea.

If anything, having fewer/no children is a mark of status, both globally (higher income countries tend to have lower birth rates) and in the US (vaguely implies both parents are working and have access to contraceptives, etc).

To be clear, I don't think that there's much of a status signal either way.

The author makes a false equivalence between the RSA in France and the typical UBI proposal. An individual's RSA benefit decreases as their work income increases. This has the effect of making an individual weakly indifferent to working, since it will provide no marginal increase in income. Most UBI proposals involve a benefit that doesn't phase out with income (or phases out at an income level so high that it doesn't matter). The RSA, in both design and implementation, is a lot like the already-existing EITC in the US.

The whole point of guaranteeing income is to try to avoid the distortion of incentives that comes from means-testing benefits. When the author claims that a UBI (like the RSA) would create a permanent class of non-workers, he is basing his argument on an elementary misunderstanding of policies involved.

Things 3 is excellent. Any fan of well-designed and well-constructed software will appreciate it.

I also like the philosophy behind Things: make it really easy to add items and make the core workflows fast. Additional complexity (tags, dates, projects) is incremental and optional. It's one of the few GUI apps that can be operated solely from the keyboard with no loss of functionality.

As far as I'm concerned, the only feature that Things lacks is shared lists.

Much of Instagram's application code is written in Python. Python also powers some service infrastructure. For example, FB's release automation system is written in Python.

That rumor was thoroughly debunked (see the discussion in the original HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17216628).

Please don't repeat and spread false rumors. It cheapens discussion about legitimate technical choices that organizations make.