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This.

There's been a huge turnover this year, with people quitting the committee out of protest for an absolute lack of oversight into how Google will be using the "smart data" and piss-poor management by the city.

From what I can gather, some politicians want to add a "success" to their career with zero care about the long term consequences. I'd like to see every politician involved in this put their entire net worth into the project so that they have to care about the long-term success. People simply don't care about other people's money.

I'd have loved to see Kathleen Wynne go bankrupt over the hydro projects.

But why would you want to do the credit card company's work for them? That regulation is in place purely because of political bribery by the credit card industry.

The consumer-friendly thing to do is to charge proper rates for things with higher processing fees, like credit cards, and not subsidize them by punishing everyone else.

This.

Canada Post went on strike early winter as a pressure tactic because it knew the company would suffer going into the holiday season. Ultimately, that only screwed over the customers.

It would also seriously stymie innovation. If I risk having to refund an item when I push out improvements, I'm never bothering to push out improvements except bug fixes.

I'm also incentivized to release a new model every month with ANY improvement in order to limit my liability to a smaller window of revenue.

The current system isn't perfect, but it could be much worse.

I like rapid unscheduled disassemblies as a term for things blowing up.

Sugar is absolutely addictive. And juice is just sugar.

Whole fruits are healthy because of the fibers and nutrients in the pulp+skin. The fiber slows absorption and helps with insulin spikes.

Even "fresh juicing", which is crazy popular, isn't the same as just eating the fruit.

Actually, the flat lining investment from the Chinese in Vancouver and Toronto is partially due regulations put in place exactly for that purpose. Additional taxes on non-primary properties and vacant properties were aimed at curbing this.

Step 1: define "good"

Step 2: compare to alternatives, factoring in geography, culture, scale of operations, political environment

It's a hugely complex issue. I wouldn't define Toronto's public transit as bad, but it's not world class.

> if you're doing SEO beyond making your page lightweight and useful to people, you are a part of the problem.

This is, unfortunately, an overly simplistic model. Everything can be manipulative if done to an extreme extent.

There's no individual thing that you can easily draw the line at. The question is where do you draw the line, and what combination of factors is ban worthy.

It's not negative, it's a genuine questions about something that _will_ happen. The number of relationships that are permanent is not 100%, therefore the website _will_ run into this at some point.

If I had to guess, it would be much more than 50% of submissions. Who wants to have a permanent page of their past relationship for all to see?

Also, keep in mind that HN is mostly user curated, and represent the views of it's participants more than ycombinator itself.

What happens when the couple splits and wants their page taken down?

I find this advice useful for breaking out of a slump, not for preventing burnout.

I have to take the opposite approach for burnout: cut things out. Do less. Cross things off the Todo list and _dont_ add a new one.

I find my biggest sources of stress are those little tasks that take you 10 hours, but would take someone else 1 hour. Constantly fighting against unknowns and feeling helpless leads to frustration and burnout.

You can do one or two things in life really, really well. If you're juggling too much, you'll be mediocre and never make try progress you need to find value and positive reinforcement through praise.

There's huge value in novelty seeking as parent pointed out, but I've always had to approach it from a "fill in the missing piece" point, not from "add this extra thing to my overworked life" point.

Again, I disagree. You're beginning with the assumption that native is the only, and best solution. As a user, this is simply not true. You may _prefer_ to develop for native, but that doesn't mean its the best choice for the user.

Very, very few apps need to be developed natively.

The vast, vast majority would be better if developed for the browser.

This obviously depends on exactly what you're talking about, I concede there are some specific applications that require it. Maybe _your_ specific app requires in, in which case, _you_ have to live with the trade-off of the gatekeepers.

Mostly, it's a self imposed prison.

This isn't correct. There are "comingled" and "non comingled". Sellers pay more for the latter.

Also, there's FBA and non-FBA.

Better distinction on the buyer side would go a long way

Of course, Amazon doesn't want any 1 seller becoming too poplular because that means they can stop competing on price.