> Is HN really a place to criticize administration?

Articles critical of economics policies aren't criticizing the administration, but the policies. Yes, economic policies are of interest to technology, and articles related to it are of interest to us.

Even ignoring the fact that an article critical of a policy isn't specifically critical of the administration, yes, HN is really a place to criticize any administration.

> I don't want competition with the Chinese either.

You also only want to be able to sell your goods in the US? Because the outcome of tariffs is retaliatory tariffs, which will considerably reduce your available market. No matter what you're going to have competition from China, and tariffs ensure markets outside of the US will be more dominated by them.

If your product can so easily be duplicated, and for cheaper, it's probably not a great product.

> If your product can so easily be duplicated, and for cheaper, it's probably not a great product.

Or maybe it is just a good simple product made in an environment with regulations and high living standards.

> in an environment with regulations and high living standards.

Is this a joke? The US has poor living standards for these types of workers. Minimum wage in low minimum wage states. Poor or no healthcare. Most are probably on government assistance programs. Tariffs hit these workers hardest as well, because they're the most likely to be laid off, and also the ones paying the largest percentage of their salaries for products affected by tariffs.

The factories in China cranking these things out also have poor conditions, but the reason they're making stuff so cheaply is because their factories are typically more advanced. You can get small batches made cheaply, which is nearly impossible in the US. This allows them to compete with even somewhat niche products.

Also, let's be a bit real here. Nearly every "American Made" product at some point offloads the production outside of the US, and there's plenty of companies in the US that make dupe products as well.

I don't think I am ever buying another HP product. I've had enough with their office PCs and printers

Start accepting CVs over snail mail. Much more difficult to automate, there is a cost already embedded in the process (72¢ for a stamp) and any attempts to automate this will be obvious.

But isn't it insurers actually set how much a service is going to cost you and then make "a discount" on that figure?

Yes and no.

What happens in practice is that a provider charges $200 for "distributing Advil" and $50 for two pills. Then the insurance company, whose legally allowed profit is proportional to payouts, "negotiates" the price down to $150 total and claims to the person "we saved you $100". Then their accountant says "we paid out $150, so we get a profit margin of $40" (instead of the $0.50 they would get with a real at-cost charge).

But the price is made up nonsense and 100x actual cost for 15 seconds handing a 1¢ pill over. Which is why asking for an itemized receipt and saying you can't afford that suddenly drops the bill to $1.50.

When providers don't "play ball" with the price fixing the way insurance company wants, they go off network.

Medicaid and Medicare set service rates by fiat, which is why many providers don't accept patients on those plans. Commercial health plans have to negotiate service rates with their network providers. There's no discount as such: if you receive service from a network provider then they have to charge the negotiated rate.

Then how our taxes are lower on average than most other developed countries?

Because we pay less tax for other things; for example, making post-secondary education affordable. Our taxpayer-funded system for healthcare-over-65 costs us more than Germany's taxpayer-funded system for healthcare-over-0.

Our incomes are far higher too. Health care in the US isn't perfect, but public systems aren't either. The flaws of private health care seem to be a favorite target by people who are biased against the US.

Peertube? It is such a great piece of software and I use it locally to host family videos and things I want to save from youtube.

I feel like it lacks traction due to how convenient and popular youtube is...but at the same time with more and more ad and the war on ad blockers things can change.

Hello! Can't find DevOps engineer or AI/ML positions on the link you provided, perhaps I should apply to that software engineer role which sounds quite DevOpsey?

Political propaganda on HN?

Comparing contemporary politicians or policies directly to Hitler/Nazism is an emotionally powerful move, but the article uses it inconsistently and without clear criteria. At times the author admits differences (no expansionism, different social base), then asserts equivalence (e.g., linking Trump/Netanyahu to Hitler). Without explicit criteria for what counts as “Nazism” (ideology, methods, goals, scale), these comparisons become rhetorical hyperbole rather than an analytical tool.

It is being reposted / available since February. Perhaps you could find someone already if you actually did interviews instead of rejecting within minutes?

This is a position we hire for on a regular cadence as our team continues to scale. We have multiple openings for this position right now. That's why we don't close the position.

Ghost jobs, nonsense in the job description etc