Public transportation is the backbone of a functioning economy. It doesn't need to be fully paid by riders precisely because the rest of society benefits from it multiple times over.

Most of the world's population lives in places where trains and public transit works far better than cars. Density doesn't move around, people do.

I don’t believe the data supports that claim.

https://csh.ac.at/news/over-half-of-global-commutes-are-by-c...

many services that require SMS 2FA outright won't work on VOIP providers

Not once have I been unable to sign up for something. Likely because I ported a number that once belonged to a real cell phone carrier.

Mandatory SMS 2FA is always a red flag on a product anyway as SMS is wildly insecure. FIDO2 or GTFO.

the transfer fee isn't the main appeal of Wise, the currency exchange rate is. I've never seen a bank that offered anywhere near close as theirs.

> Honest question, what does Bandcamp provide?

Actual money going to the actual people who make the music you listen to on spotify.

... for them. Not us.

And evasion of capital controls.

Classic Faustian bargain. Offer people money, obtain control in exchange.

I'm pretty sure that this took more than 1 junior engineer-month.

I love that you're being downvoted for saying something so utterly non-controversial. It's almost as if the fact that there were large matriarchal societies inhabiting America for centuries (arguably millenia) before the first European man set foot on the continent has never been taught to the average HN reader..

"I know of many exceptions to your evolutionary argument, which makes it entirely worthless"

It's not controversial, but it's missing the point. Nobody is arguing that ever single woman in our history preceding capitalism had to prioritize child care over leadership or labor.

If you're talking about the role of women over time, you're talking about how it applies to averages. It'd be impossible to discuss this with any sort of scale if you had to reconcile every generality with it's various exceptions.

"at the launch"

mac os at large has a quality problem. I have gotten more kernel panics on my personal and work laptops in the last 6 months than I have on my windows machines in the past 5 years.

I think the difference is, that Apple threw everything they could to fix iOS13, as their survival depends on it, so it did stabilize, while Catalina still hasn't recovered.