What alternative term would you suggest?

I think the telling part is that so many people believed it without questioning.

Like there's the oft-debunked "factoid" that says that the Windows Start Menu is written in react native... While the fact itself may be false, the fact that so many people readily believed it says a lot about the start menu.

If someone were to make a similar claim about something like HN was built in react then almost everyone here would instantly fact check.

I mean, I think it didn't even need an AI detection tool. Why would an Uber engineer who works on Eats have a badge that says Uber Eats? This would be easily corroborated by talking to any Uber engineer, like a journalist ought to do.

> I don't get the cooking pain or dinner problem

Wait, do you really not understand why people have issues cooking healthy stuff for dinner? I don't think the average person can bake a loaf of bread every morning, or cook a meal for a family of four every day.

Personally I tend to batch cook for my wife and me, but my daughter's almost gonna start needing to eat solids soon, so we'll have to cook for her as well. My mom also brings us a lot of food but not every family is fortunate like that.

Meals are simple — a protein (usually meat, but sometimes beans or lentils), a carb (rice or pasta, usually rice) and veggies (frozen). Make a lot and freeze it. I can't imagine cooking real meals for 3 people every day with our work schedules.

But not having time every day is not the same as just not cook right? I cook batches since uni from fresh ingredients and freeze it; thats 30 years ago and I still do. We always have so much choise just from that while it takes cooking 1 day a week but 10 liter pots of curries etc. Now I have more time and can do more cooking so thats a luxury. I get why people cannot do that, I guess GP their comment, to me, seemed more like a burden than just no time and I find that a difference. Many take the time to spend hours in the gym just to throw crap into themselves the rest of the time.

But yes, we do the same as you generally and we can always eat well. Getting up at 5 to bake bread and make new dough for the next day is not actually eating into anything for me and I enjoy the work and the smells. It is a luxury I know that and I could not do that when in uni but most other cooking I could and did.

There's bread making techniques that allow you to make bread multiple times a week relatively easily and quickly, even without kneading.

Cold fermentation allows you the bread to rise overnight, so you can take 20 min to make the dough the night before, and then let it ferment overnight. Then the next day shape it, wait for it to proof and bake it.

Some breads also can last days, even up to weeks, even for homebaked breads without any additives.

Like for example, there's recipes where you make the dough the night before, put it in the oven after you wake up, and it's ready by the time you go to work.

Chainbaker on youtube has lots of guides for all kinds of breads.

That's fair, and I'm not claiming rent disappears, or that nobody should ever earn money from operating rental housing. Some people will always need or want to rent, and providing rental housing is real work that should be compensated.

The distinction I'm trying to draw is between operating housing as a service and owning housing primarily as a financial asset whose returns are driven by scarcity and leverage.

In a healthier system, the incentive to own rental property would look closer to running a utility or a hospitality business: you earn steady, relatively bounded returns for providing a well-run service (maintenance, risk, capital deployment, tenant experience), not outsized returns from appreciation and from pushing rents faster than incomes.

People would still buy rental properties to earn income, but the business case would be built more on operational efficiency and quality of service, and less on financial engineering, tax advantages, and asset inflation.

Practically, that can show up in a lot of forms that already exist in pieces today: regulated or capped-return rental models, co-ops and shared-equity housing, community land trusts, public-private development, developer-operator splits, or tax structures that favor building and selling over hoarding and rent maximization.

So I'm not saying "don’t make money on rent." I'm saying a system where most of the upside comes from perpetual control of a scarce necessity will naturally concentrate ownership and make entry harder and harder. A system where most of the upside comes from creating, improving, and operating housing can still support rentals while keeping the door open for new owners.

Well, the primary incentive today, for most people, is a place to live. Profit just skews the preference on how that is accomplished.

I'm OK with a unobtrusive banner ad. I hate forced ads that get in the way of my flow (whether it's gaming or reading or work). I hate forced ads that can't be skipped.

I understand the reason for these (they often have an IAP that will remove ads, so the more annoying the ads the more likely folks will be tempted to buy it). But doesn't make it ok. I usually just leave a one star review and uninstall.

Do you like Windows dark patterns more than Mac's shitty designs? Seems like no one wins here. I personally just refrained from upgrading to Tahoe

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I thought it was too, but when my daughter was born she had trouble regulating her temperature so I had to stay with her while she was under the warmer for an hour, then another hour swaddled in my arms. They didn't allow phones, so I got to spend two hours with her, no distraction. The time passed surprisingly quickly. I sang to her, I told her stories from my head.

Nowadays when I'm feeding her or napping her I admittedly do have a phone behind her head, but I'll always cherish those two hours where it was just us two.

Having only ever worked for startups or consulting agencies, this is really weird to me. Across 6 different companies I almost always interfaced directly with the users of the apps I built to understand their pain points, bugs, etc. And I've always ever been an IC. I think it's a great way to build empathy for the users of your apps.

Of course, if you're a multi billion dollar conglomerate, empathy for users only exists as far as it benefits the bottom line.

That's neat, but now it's almost as if YouTube is encouraging people not to watch videos, but to just make AI give you the cliff notes.

I absolutely use it for this because lots of videos drone on and pad their length for the ad revenue, so I ask the AI to summarize and then I can click through exactly what I want to see. I found myself actually watching more videos now, not less, because I know I don't have to listen to them for 10 minutes and waste my time when they don't get to the point.

Oh I agree, I use it for the same reason. It just seems counterintuitive to YouTubes bottom line (ie discouraging folks like us from watching to video to give them ad money)