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I thought the same thing. Incredibly short term thinking at the corporate and government level to flip flop. Meanwhile Norway is now 97% EV sales and covered in chargers north to south. Not to mention China's fierce EV market domestically.

Amazing. Exactly the insightful comments that I hope to see on HN...perhaps not on the current subject but nonetheless

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

That's not very useful. The market has seen volatility for unrelated reasons over the past month.

And effects of this, resist and unsubscribe, wouldn't be a factor so quickly. AFAIK this only launched less than a week or two ago.

Sorry, but as an outsider from one of those other countries you mention, I don't get what you mean by top notch? Top notch for whom? The people who can afford to pay out of pocket? Or those willing to do into debt to just get treatment? Whenever I see news from places like PBS News Hour, it's about some low wage or senior person struggling to just care for their medical needs or prescriptions.

I don't know my guy, your system isn't exactly top notch for most people - I don't think you need to look very hard to see that if you try.

Random examples:

- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/OECD_hea... - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Life_exp...

There's something very very wrong here when your paying that much per capita and a lot of people are still struggling.

Looks like a simple and non intrusive and potentially useful feature. Your concern seems unnecessary (for now). They may not be perfect, but they seem to be better than most SaaS companies as far as my experience with them goes. Their web app works, hasnt enshitified or gotten slow, they aren't shoving AI into their stuff afaik. Theyre alright imo for now.

What type of chemicals would these be?

I can only think of cosmetics (makeup), skin care (acne, moisturizer), botox, and steroids/PEDs/HGH/etc that could improve physical disadvantages that cant be improved otherwise. But not an area I'm too experienced in. What type of chemicals are you talking about?

It's a very bad hiring market according to some accounts (personal, as well as people on HN).

US figures are here, https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/employment-l..., click "Information" in the graph options and you'll notice it hasn't rebounded much since the 2022/23 downturn.

If you have people you can get your direct referrals for positions, you'll better your odds of getting something right now vs cold applications.

Basically. So many startups pivoted so hard to try and get some AI exposure it's absurd. An insurance startup is now an AI insurance startup, finance startup is now an AI finance startup, accounting startup is now an AI accounting startup, blockchain startups are now AI-blockchain startups.

This to shall pass.

Basically you can read that above article as: Hey Mark, we've got a bunch of our money riding on your stock going up, so make your stock go up. I know in the past (2010-2022) we wanted you to grow like crazy and throw money around and grow some more, but like now with interest rates not 0 anymore and stuff, we need you to like start making money and you know, make the stock go up and up. K, thanks, bye.

I found it funny because these are the same VC who spent a decade throwing money at anything with first Cloud, then ML/Deep Learning, then Blockchain, then threw money like no tomorrow during Covid, and now are like, yeah, we want you to not do any of that stuff anymore, just like actually make money now.

The '/s' is an indicator of sarcasm in text, you'll see it in online comments from time to time. Hard to convey sarcasm online otherwise.

And yes, as the other guy said, oh you're an AI company!? Here's a few million. We'll see how long that hype lasts for these "AI" startups.

Interesting to think about. I did the math quickly, assuming you take the ~$12 and invest it instead here's what you end up with

$12/mo invested to return ~6% over 30 years:

    End balance: $11,751.08
    Total Interest: $7,431.08
    Total not spent on Spotify: $4,320.00
Over a 50 year time horizon, the numbers become more fun:
    End balance: $43,155.05
    Total Interest: $35,955.05
    Total not spent on Spotify: $7,200.00
Of course, bunch of assumption, 6% return, past performance doesn't indicate future return etc etc, and I doubt Spotify is going to exist in 30 in its current form, small probably it does, but odds are against that if I had to bet.

Maybe those boomers are onto something about avocado toast /s

CWuestefeld is correct to ask for some source. Anyone can claim anything on the internet. It's not some fake academic interest.

And you're clearly conflating a user's karma with how many comments they have.

Cite your source (did you see it first hand? If so say that) or you're just spewing BS even if there's some truth to it.

Thanks for the reply. It was a good read. And I can agree on the points from experience.

One suggestion/correction: "Your only way to track message flow is with extensive and expressive logging.", you can do distributed tracing. It not a silver bullet, nor does it replace a proper debugger, but it's better than following logs. You can use a number of distributed tracing SaaS's, but you still have to do at least some manual instrumentation in your code to add additional info.