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But in the real world ease of use is _everything_ for the vast majority of people.

How much of this is just the hacker news demographic skewing perceptions? For a lot of people here, it makes far more sense to hire someone to do home maintenance while you continue to work on a well-paid technology job. Doing a lot of home repair is a hobby/choice, not something you're doing out of necessity.

How much of that is just a cost thing? Is hiring people to do home maintenance inexpensive and easily available where you are? That's usually not the case in American cities.

That just illustrates how important California is to the world economy.

I'm shocked that you think having a lawyer involves reputation costs.

I have one of those too out in the garage. It runs a hobby CNC router, so it's basically bathed in very fine sawdust often. I'm astonished every time it actually boots up.

Or possibly while pros are having endless meetings about how in theory they would play 4d chess, or which varieties of 4d chess are best for career enhancement, or just evaluating proposals for outsourcing 4d-chess-playing to the private sector.

Mostly to corporate subsidies labeled "defense" spending.

I can't figure out if this is sarcasm or an actual response.

I think you're hearing a typical Vulcan accent...

That's very much an artifact of parts of the east coast. My sister (like, totally a native English speaker from California) had the same issue.

That sounds like a very American thing to say. You're talking about Italian law here?

Why? What would make you think this has any impact?

Which makes it a very good bet that they're Canadian.

Afaik AWS and GCP refuse visa gift cards, although it's been a while since I tried. Wouldn't surprise me to hear Oracle is the same.