Cracking up at this quote

Except, uhhhhhhhhhhh, they can't.

Silicon Valley moment from gp

To say that the advantages of location are not capital (or equivalent to capital) is just ignorant. There are plenty of pieces of land that act just like capital - access to natural resources, access to a coastline, fertile for farming, or in a location where a toll road or similar could be employed.

It becomes very difficult for someone to build and own a sapphire mine if they don't have the capital to buy the land that has the sapphires in it!

If a hang nail is bad enough to make you withdraw then that means you don't have a lot of experience of getting sick to the point where you had to push through as it hasn't happened a lot. Over the course of the 14 years I've had with my partner (started year 15 last month!) I've seen how she's had to adapt to remain involved and communicative - and a lot of days, that's a struggle for her that she puts herself through to stay connected to the people she loves.

tl;dr: It's an adaptation, and I'm glad that you've not had to build that adaptation.

Wait....

All I can glean from this is that joining a YC Batch gives you access to a time machine.

Stop this. Stop letting companies you like off the hook by compartmentalizing the things you don't like to "the guys in the legal department".

The local video store would run a deal over the summers when I was a kid where you paid $30 and got three, two night rentals (new releases excluded) a week for the summer school break. Being able to grab a new game or movie every other day (since you were already there to return the previous one on time) was great.

I'm not sure I follow the logic here. Could you please explain?

Normies don't self-host - they go to a game hosting service provider and pay a few bucks a month to have hosting done for them.

Then maybe they shouldn't have published the game in the first place. If you can't do the bare minimum that the market demands/requires by regulation then you can't engage with it. Simple as.

Why?

That's 17 million HOUSEHOLDS that struggled to provide food and 6.8 million HOUSEHOLDS that had to skip meals. I wouldn't call that rare.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=107...