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New comment by dantheman in "From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access"

dantheman — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:13:17 +0000

One bad apple does spoil the bunch. Apples release a gas when rotting which accelerates the rotting of nearby ones. And in politics corruption spreads.

New comment by dantheman in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

dantheman — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:48:03 +0000

Getting a diagnosis to get more time to complete tests. https://accommodations.collegeboard.org/how-accommodations-w...

New comment by dantheman in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

dantheman — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 06:22:58 +0000

Rent control increase the rent for everyone, lowers the amount of housing stock, and reduces its quality.

New comment by dantheman in "Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA's Gamble on America's Drugs"

dantheman — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:28:03 +0000

The majority of medical care and expenses are not emergency.

New comment by dantheman in "Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA's Gamble on America's Drugs"

dantheman — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:27:23 +0000

Medicine is one of the most regulated and least capitalist markets.

New comment by dantheman in "Will the AI backlash spill into the streets?"

dantheman — Sat, 24 May 2025 17:20:04 +0000

Hint it has - the standard of living is far higher now; medical care is far better; and the number of people subsidized by those working has greatly increased (this may not be considered a benefit, but it's where the extra income is going).

New comment by dantheman in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

dantheman — Sat, 10 May 2025 20:10:15 +0000

Throughout history there are very few monopolies and they don't normally last that long; that is unless they get are granted special privileges by the government.

New comment by dantheman in "Is AI the new research scientist? Not so, according to a human-led study"

dantheman — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 01:15:29 +0000

Why? to increase productivity and improve the human condition. If AI can do research then technological and scientific progress will increase dramatically.

New comment by dantheman in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

dantheman — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 06:47:01 +0000

I wish people would actually read the Budapest Memorandum and see what it actually promises. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%203007/P...

New comment by dantheman in "Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?"

dantheman — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:12:11 +0000

You might like: Discrimination and Disparities (2019) by Thomas Sowell

New comment by dantheman in "FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies"

dantheman — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:52:59 +0000

Perhaps you're not aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

New comment by dantheman in "The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy"

dantheman — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:58:02 +0000

What benefits?

New comment by dantheman in "New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike"

dantheman — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:54:33 +0000

Yep for instance: 1932–1933 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

New comment by dantheman in "Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules"

dantheman — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:16:30 +0000

The EU is more of a problem than any sort of solution.

New comment by dantheman in "Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules"

dantheman — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:15:13 +0000

It's not a funding problem, it's a spending problem. Taxes are insanely high around the world.

New comment by dantheman in "Judge stops FTC from enforcing ban on non-compete agreements"

dantheman — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 06:00:47 +0000

The answer is the court rules that the FTC overstepped it's power. It's now back to congress to grant that power if that's truly what they wanted, or hell they could have written a better law in the past. Sloppy legislation should not be encouraged.

New comment by dantheman in "1970 Clean Air Act was intended to cover carbon dioxide"

dantheman — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 04:14:08 +0000

If the public thinks it's a federal issue then just pass an amendment granting the federal government the authority to handle it.

New comment by dantheman in "Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling"

dantheman — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:15:21 +0000

What are you talking about - that is deregulation. This was a government granted monopoly - you don't get more regulated than that.

New comment by dantheman in "Americans' confidence in higher education has taken a nosedive"

dantheman — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 03:21:08 +0000

Only 18% of degrees are in STEM https://nces.ed.gov/programs/raceindicators/indicator_reg.as...

New comment by dantheman in "Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts"

dantheman — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:30:31 +0000

Completely agree :)