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Are you really suggesting that the reason 43% of South African youths are unemployed is because they're lazy?

Not at all, it's structural problem. I've seen this in LA as well and it's the number one reason I left. Since I lack the personal capacity to fix LA, I no longer live there.

If anything if you live in a city or a nation where unemployment is rampant , you just need to leave. Not worry about what the government is going to do to fix it.

Babble.

The weird transpilation system constantly breaks. I guess maybe one day they'll be better tooling around this, but it's not there yet. And I've worked with node in some capacity since 2013, things always feel fragmented and broken

I've built multiple JavaScript project at scale, and I would never trust it over java or C sharp. JavaScript allows you to make way too many mistakes.

I do think Dart is the best of both worlds though. Having real types, not hacked together typescript stuff is very good. That's the other thing the nodejs ecosystem feels like a bunch of duct tape slap together again and again

The issue is you'll have to ask for credit card numbers in order to prevent abuse, so you're not really giving anything away. I would still evaluate anything you call free as I would any other product. Plus integrating into my workflow, pitching it to my manager, these things have a real cost.

I'd actually argue you shouldn't offer anything for free, but instead charge whatever makes sense factoring in you're going to have to support customers even if it was a free product. For example if your offering website uptime monitoring, but it's not accurate that can cause a real cost to me

How big of a team do you have. Even if it's from your personal funds, if you're maybe paying a few contractors $10,000 a month, that's still an investment.

Okay, if I send you a study from buygold.net predicting the imminent collapse of the US dollar, wouldn't you be a little skeptical ?

I wouldn't trust a study like this unless it comes out of a university, or a government agency like OSHA.

The unions just lost a major fight to try and get into Amazon's warehouses, they have every interest in disparaging Amazon.

There are downsides to eating Oreos, but we don't need articles which state obvious facts.

Much wrong has been done in this country by telling people their behavior is a moral. As long as you don't hurt me or anyone else do whatever you want, you're free to drink yourself silly every night

Why not let everyone do what they want?

I hate these moralizing articles, if we have a drunk driving problem then write an article about that. But if people want to drink in their own homes let them be.

they can’t afford to house people for free or shoulder the country’s massive rental arrears, which could be as high as $70 billion.

I think the eviction moratorium wasn't thought out very well. You can't just stop evictions while not compensating landlords, and not developing clear plans for what happens when the moratorium ends. No one is going to catch up on their rent of their behind. What I suspect will largely happen is many landlords will forgo a formal eviction as long as the tenants decide to leave voluntarily. Then those tenants will effectively swap houses with someone else who's behind, wiping the rental debt clean. You only understand this if you've gone through an eviction, but the vast majority of the time the landlord just want you to leave. If you vacate before you actually get to court you can often avoid having the eviction on your record.

Oh I'm in full agreement, this is one of the many reasons I left la.

Once I went to car free I got rid of about 25,000 in credit card debt in 6 months or so. Much of why so many Americans are so desperately poor has to do with car ownership. While it's possible to get Uncle Jimmy's Old Jeep running, most people just finance something. Once you make your car payment your insurance and gas, that's easily a third of your income. Compared to a $100 a month bus pass

I've had to commute an hour 30 before. If you're in an expensive city, like LA you're very likely to have this.

It's stressful, expensive and dangerous. I'm really hoping work from home becomes a permanent thing.

I had a starling Revelation today. People just don't read anymore, instead they buy a book so they can take some photos for Instagram and then shove it under a couch or something.

The biggest problem with so much access to information, is it's simply impossible to absorb it all. You can read tweets from hundreds of people before you can get through the first chapter of Harry Potter.

I fear this has caused a permanent dumbing down of society

100% unless you have another offer or otherwise don't need the job, don't counter.

Don't let perfect become the enemy of good.

What's the unique value proposition here ?

You can get an e paper hat for a raspberry pi zero and accomplish the same thing.

Ironically I can't even read this due to the login wall.

I hate the social media aspect of LinkedIn so much. I don't want to validate you , I don't think physical appearance was any role in the hiring process, but LinkedIn keeps telling me to upload a picture.

It's still the best way to find a job, but I try to avoid the social aspects.

Back when I was 19 I learned you could steam vegetables in a rice cooker, you can actually live very cheaply if you don't eat meat. I think I probably spent about $10 a day on food, compared to now where I probably average between 30 to 60 a day

I'd pay for HN to be honest. But just talking about society on the internet isn't really worth while to me. More people should focus on themselves.

I've long accepted no one cares about how I live my life. A friend of mine spends a ton of their good energy getting upset over the latest 'take' some influencer has. It's like getting upset over an episode of WWE Raw. In any case very very little of what other people do or believe has any direct affect on you.

I find stack overflow to be the absolute best resource for experienced software engineers.

However for anyone who has less than 10 years of experience, it's outright hostile. If you ask too many stupid questions in a row you just get banned. While I understand this is a very good quality control measure, unless someone's being racist or otherwise belligerent, a permanent ban is a bit harsh. I found much more help using the unity forums, and some parts of Reddit

Couldn't Tesla agreed to pay out 4 weeks of salary instead.

I've moved cross country a few times, and for the most part it always makes more economic sense to throw everything out and buy it again.

Now I'm planning on traveling abroad and I'm realizing a lot of my junk is only holding me back. Seriously it's just stuff, you can go to a place called stuff Mart and buy more of it. But if you're thinking oh maybe I won't move after all because I'll have to buy more stuff you're cheating yourself

I actually left a job once because not only was the code bad, but my manager wanted me to effectively lie to make him look better.

Ran out as soon as I could. In general it's worth remembering that if your overall team isn't performing well you still can be fired regardless of what your immediate manager thinks.

For better or worse I had a childhood which taught me not everyone's going to like me, but you just need to find people who do. In the case of employers I've left several places where I just didn't like the culture. It's worked extremely well for me.

Bright Memory was created by a single person. Keyword being theoretically, in reality you'd just go insane

I'd be a bit honored if a billionaire took the time to insult me.

Most successful people tend to be a bit above that.

I enjoy HN since the discourse here tends to be fairly intelligent. I've already gained a great deal of very valuable information from this site

People tend to complain about game engines because they're just so accessible, yet allow you to do extremely complex things.

For example if I wanted to make a 3D platformer in unity, I could probably commission an artist to create the character, download a starter kit of some sort, and be done with it in about a week.

However this means I'm tying in so much code, and if anything doesn't work exactly the way I expect it I can complain. I might complain about the starter kit I purchased, I might complain about Unity crashing when the real reason for the crashes are my own crappy code.

Particularly when I was younger, I would often try to do way too much at once and this leads to frustration. But, theoretically you could create the next gears of war with three other people in about a year. Odds are you're going to run into tons of problems though just because it's so hard to do that

Your other option is W3 which fills their site with ads.

If I could, I'd pay Google 50$ a month directly to disable all of their advertising across all sites which use ad sense.

I really like this. MDN can't be maintained for free after all, it's by far the best resource I've found for web development.

The next time I have a web dev job I'll buy this

But you're not chastising me, or my physical appearance. Having people call you ugly all day is probably one of the worst parts of Instagram.

You're merely chastising a few of my opinions. There's so much detachment from the rest of me.

In the early days of Facebook I actually screwed up a relationship as I was worried my first girlfriend would post the wrong thing on my wall, and oh no all my friends would see.

Hacker News isn't really a social media site since there's no concept of followers or friends here.

If in any case you decide to go through my post history to make fun of me, I can just create a new handle. I can do this without even adding an email address.

I'll give it another 5 years before social media is viewed on the same level as cigarettes. The best thing I've ever done for my mental health was deleting social media. I realize I'm not significant enough to argue of other people about my own life. As long as you're not harming anyone else you're free to do whatever you want. Social media says no you have to shape your entire life around what people you'll never meet find cool.

I stopped begging for approval from the masses, I stopped going to Reddit to get "advice" from people who only seek to chastise me.

That sounds like a very good startup idea. Crowdsourcing for translations, with each chapter being a stretch goal.

Of course you would need to navigate international copyright law, but I could definitely see a market for this