Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN.
Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines so often that I think we need to ban this account. If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you've read the guidelines and genuinely want to use the site as intended.
Thank you. Some of the poorest people I know are deeply moral. Indeed a poorly run home is the largest predictor - and too little (or too much) money does magnify the problem, poverty isn’t synonymous with crime.
infinitely rising house prices are impossible, so a housing market where everyone expects them to do that is a pyramid scheme, someone will be left holding the bag
The biggest gaslighting of this whole affair has been the political adherence to clearly insane propositions like forcing everyone to wear masks (questionable in any case) but allowing cloth masks (which do, at best, ~nothing, unlike actual rated masks, so definitely pointless) or quarantining billions of young people who accumulate less than 25 micromorts of mortality from covid contraction in the name of adding (on expectation) a few life-months for geriatrics who are not contributing to society and are about to keel over anyway.
The unnecessary manmade destruction of utility over the last year is nearly unprecedented, perhaps the most devastating since WW2.
Why would they have dumped billions into developing these vaccines in the first place if they expected to just lose the IP rights right away anyway? You might be able to save a small number of extra people this time by screwing over the vax manufacturers, but a lot more people will die next time when no one is willing to put up the R&D money.
Many of the vaccines were developed with public funding and for those that were not, then an amount that would cover R&D and incentivize future production could easily be reached so as to save millions of lives...
Last time I looked into this, Apple actually used quite a bit of clever crypto engineering to protect user privacy. It's not just a big database of locations that Apple keeps.
Do you support the right of businesses to refuse business to homosexuals, for example, on religious grounds? If you come back with “homosexuals are legally a protected class”, that’s evading the question and functionally equivalent to “no I don’t actually support freedom of association”.
I ask because in my experience most people on HN only support freedom of association when it’s politically expedient for them.
