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I'd rather they pick up the pace, but I also don't see a "need" to be at the head of the pack either.

They should be doing better, focusing on easy wins, siri and etc. But if they get there they get there and nobody cares after the fact.


IMO the definition of an MVP is pretty low on features, just bare bones, works well enough to demonstrate the main concept(s). 3 months is a LONG time for an MVP.

Depending on the product ... in 3 months, you could do better than an MVP with good direction / clear vision. (good direction and clear vision aren't easy to be sure of tho...)

YC? No idea, I got the impression they were more concerned with the Business IDEA more than raw product output.


> Kennedy announced the change in an editorial in The Wall Street Journal, claiming that the “committee has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine.”

Presumably to be replaced with political appointees / friends?


To be replaced with people who will not approve vaccines regardless of safety, reducing our total health.

I can't wait to travel to Mexico or Canada to get a vaccine!


Prepare to have your phone scanned for anti-American activities when you try and get back in.

   > I can't wait to travel to Mexico or Canada to get a vaccine!
But... how? I do remember times during COVID when you couldn't even get on the plane without proof of vaccine.

I thought it was vaccine or a negative test within the past x days.

In any event, Mexico and Canada are special in that they share a terrestrial border with most of the United States.


I don't know about Mexico but Canada enforced vax requirements for anyone crossing by land, with the exception of truckers.

For covid. Presumably ebiester is interested in being vaccinated against other diseases.

Yup. If they take this far enough I’ll be taking my son out of the country for boosters. I’m not letting my son be hurt, become sick, or die (depending on the wide range of diseases young children are vaccinated or inoculated against) because of this out of touch scam artist nepo baby.

Have you considered taking your child to a European state? Reason I ask is that there is a vaccine for tuberculosis (the BCG vaccine) which is widely available in European countries but not in the USA. On my next trip to Europe I hope to take that vaccine.

FWIW TB was the leading infectious disease killer in 2023 (surpassing COVID-19)

https://www.who.int/news/item/29-10-2024-tuberculosis-resurg...

and remained so in 2024.


All Cancer vaccines that trains your body to kill the cancer cells, we won't be able to get in the US.

> reducing our total health

Because America has been the paragon of health over the past few decades...because America spends the most per capita on Health Care. What a super effective system. Obviously everything was working out so great before this JFK guy came.


America has excellent healthcare if you have money. We've lead more medical advances than any other country and our doctors have the longest and most extensive education and training requirements.

I work in healthcare - most problems we see in the hospital are related to chronic illness caused by poverty and the gutting of social services. Many other countries spend more on social services than healthcare, but in the US it's flipped.


To be replaced with crackpots like RFK Jr.

I think the "has apple lost its way" is a meme now.

The fact that a PR video goes on long is ... normal?


I suspect this is just meant to create a scapegoat of the week / month or whatever.

> That includes user uploads that discuss issues like elections, race, gender, sexuality, abortion, immigration, and censorship.

This doesn't seem to include the more obvious issues with automated DMCA violation abuse / automated requests ... that is something that impacts free expression regularly.


That not the intended audience of this pandering..

Yeah probably not.


The issue on the web where "I don't want to pay." and "On noes people who do pay are terrible." is inescapable.

Yet as a whole it's what people seem to choose it time and again.

I choose to pay / support news orgs, software, etc, but most seem to not wish to.


Many people don’t have money. Moreover, many people are careful what they spend money on, because there are many seemingly-useful services; while a news subscription doesn’t cost much, if they spent money on everything that seemed as useful, it would be a lot.

Presumably many people want others to be informed (and want local news to exist in general), some of whom do have money. Maybe the news could introduce a way for those people to pay extra, where the extra proportionally lowers the price for everyone else. If enough people pay enough extra, the baseline price would $0, then the news would be freely available online and maybe distributed in paper. Also make it a trend to post gift codes to social media for people who are desperate or thrifty.


If lies are free than the truth has to be to. In moderate-sized cities there is not enough news to justify a daily paper but weeklies and web-based papers have better economics and fill the gap ne can be financed with advertising.

This is less on that specific topic and more general: While I enjoy the hacker news forums a great deal, I've no relationship with YC as an org. I am not sure that YC has any particular interest in things that might impact me as an individual contributor in an org as much as it impacts them.

Understandably there's an everyone for themselves aspect here, but that makes these kinds of call to actions a bit hollow to me.


This is something that both impacts them and impacts you if you're a developer.

This tax treatment can increase the cost of a dev by 5-15% which leads to less hiring and a looser job market. Which will impact us even if we're not looking for work because most companies look at market rates when deciding raises.


Possibly, but I think if YC companies could get away with just cutting everyone they would too.

I don't doubt there's an impact here, but it's not because they have a real interest in any other topics that concern me and hiring, H1B and so on.


All companies would prefer to have 0 employees if possible. This isn't special about YC companies. Heck it's not even special about companies. If I could buy a roof that was slightly more expensive but I never had to hire a roofer I would.

Devils advocate might say

1. Lots of groups want to pay less tax to suit them. Just because it benefits us doesn't make the lobbying logical.

2. We call ourselves builders. But you presumably can't claim the cost of building your house against income tax. So why is out building different.

3. Come on; be honest: software development was always the loophole. You have coders building next year's features and you are saying that is a legitimate expense against this year's profit. You couldn't have made profit this year without a half implemented unreleased AI sparkle?

I really think the law is silly from a practical point of view but it's good insofar that other countries' silicon valleys need a chance ;)


Sure, YC is a business. But HN has so many people building software that there's also a community interest here—otherwise I wouldn't have suggested this thread.

pg used to do this kind of thing on HN from time to time, especially on internet freedom issues, so this is a bit of return-to-roots for the site. SOPA is the one I remember but there were others.


Just my two cents of course, but I think this is an excellent post for HN. One of the most directly relevant to people in this community (even those who don't seem to understand why) in a very long time.

I have a "wild" area around the borders of my home. I love it.

However, the idea that it is wonderful to just leave entirely is a little alien to me. I don't mow or landscape it like a yard, but it IS work to even just leave it wild. We've got several invasive species in my area and it's a regular fight with them to allow the local species to thrive.

The invasive species wouldn't be invasive if local species were able to handle them ... it is still work to trim them out / fight them.


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