Well... it's because HN community is only driven by VC money and disruptors and have absolutely no morals - just to abuse whatever the heck is possible to abuse so any notion of trying to regulate the "wild wild west" is to them like a total abuse... it's cute and amusing :)
> No it's not. It's as any other regulation that tries to prevent overusing ones power.
That's an alien concept to a lot of Americans, even more the ones who grew up after Reaganomics with the true belief that corporations should be free to do as they please, nowadays it's always veiled under the empty platitude "it will hamper innovation".
Only in utterly narrow-minded USA-centric view of the world... I'm fine with US being terrible place to function without a car but please don't spread that cancer abroad.
> Why does everyone seem to blame digital nomads - that seems lazy and probably not backed by numbers. I bet if you actually look into it, there’s way more retirees from northern European countries in the desirable sunny, warm places. And those ones actually have money to spend and buy property, etc.
Most retirees mostly choose Costa del Sol. Barcelona usually attracts said "digital nomads" to have vibrant atmosphere of "international crowd"... and even until recently it was "very cheap".
> Also, if “capitalism” means “freedom of movement” of people and of money I think I’m gonna stick with that system versus the alternatives that we’ve seen play out…
Why do you think you are entitled to FoM?
> also, people do not wanna hear this ever - but the solution is often to build more housing, to build housing up (meaning vertical).
Barcelona is one of the densely populated cities... What's more, it's usually building up (though luckily those are not skyscraper but sane 4-8 storeys which makes living there nicer). There is also problem with spreading out due to geography but still lots of people go to Sabadell, Terrassa o Mataró and everything in-between.
> For example, more people would be interested in moving out of London if housing was affordable.
Welcome to the UK, where old NIMBYs rule the world (you seem to be thrilled by the system of "people with money" doing the f* they want, including blocking everyone else) and public transit being ruled by "capitalism" (i.e. "money rule the world")... so... everything is perfect according to your worldview? :P
Author misses the point of self-hosted GitLab and conflates for some bizarre reason "self-hosted" as "free"... no, you still have to pay for it but it's not beloved VC "saas" model.
And in Europe topic of data governance is very much a thing...
> 1. Operating a heavy, dangerous piece of machinery in the field without learning how to operate it first is most certainly the operator’s fault. That’s careless, irresponsible, and endangers others. If they had hurt or killed someone, they would’ve been prosecuted and would possibly be in jail right now.
Yet I can switch between very different cars and "it just works" and I dont' have to go through the darn manual each time... weird inni't?
> 3. You may not appreciate the benefits of the changes that Tesla made, as these things are ultimately subjective, but those changes contributed to the Model Y becoming the best selling vehicle on the planet.
Have you considered that Tesla mayb got to that point because it was 1) very efficient and 2) Musk has a cult-like following (something akin Apple users making pointless decissions) even DESPITE dumb solution like tablet stuck in the middle of the dashboard or stupid changes like this one?
