Do they? I think users are amazed if anything works without internet with modern applications.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43702368

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Surely the level of intellectual difficulty in software engineering is similar to practicing law, medicine, banking… ?

Well this sounds delightful! Glad to be free of the thinking and creativity!

What pain does writing the tests first resolve? Tests should only be added when you are scared of making changes or want to support assumptions about how things work.

You can’t raise prices beyond value or no one will buy it.

You can’t lower prices below costs (for too long) or you go out of business.

Competition pushes prices down towards costs.

Therefore businesses are always looking for markets with barriers so they can rise prices to value.

Tariffs typically raise costs for all producers, but this only inevitably leads to price increases when competition has driven prices down to near costs.

Unfortunately many staple grocery products fall into this category.

I think this view of humans - that they look at all the available information and then make calm decisions in their own interests - is simply wrong. We are manipulated all the damn time. I struggle to go to the supermarket without buying excess sugar. The biggest corporations in the world grew fat off showing us products to impulse buy before our more rational brain functions could stop us. We are not a little pilot in a meat vessel.

The only response in my view is to ban technology (like in Dune) or engage in acts of terror Unabomber style.

Yeah, sure they do.

Everyone seems to think AI will take someone else’s jobs!