skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the answer to your question, but my intuition is that it has something to do with repeat value. I'll watch a movie once, maybe twice, but music? I'll listen to the same song 30 times in one week, not listen to it at all for 6 months, then listen to it with 20 times more, etc.

Music has a very different consumption profile.
> I wish modern Western economies would have the guts to do this with about 20% of their GDP. Economic history shows that (especially progressive) taxation actually matters very little when it comes to economic growth.

UBI is much more than just taxation - a UBI at 20% of GDP would almost certainly cause massive inflation. That's ~$10000 per person per year in the US.

And that's not to mention that a 20% UBI would have to be on top of already existing government spending to maintain infrastructure and services. If it replaced social benefits in the US, it'd add an extra trillion or two to the federal budget (already 25% of GDP!) depending on which services you allowed it to replace.
Add to the list content aggregation, upvote/downvote, user comments, ..., site such as HN.
Let's continue the example. Established owns a $1 billion factory (equipment and real estate) to make it's $100/year profits.

Growth doesn't own anything yet, they have to build that factory before they get their profits.

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The $1 billion factory will itself be worth $1.07 billion after 7% inflation, and the $1.14 the year after that (after another 7% inflation).
> All over Europe and in much of the rest of the world, public transit is operated by private companies. (Usually with great results.)

Speaking for Europe, primarily Germany:
The infrastructure is usually public (or via a company, owned by the state). Local transit planning is usually also public and only (sometimes) operated by private companies, which bid on a tender offered by the state. Busses can be often private, but train (tram, subway) operation are more primarily operated by some public entity (even more so if the ones operated by other countries are counted).

Long distance transit can have private entities even creating their own schedules, but most service is performed by publicly owned entities (with rail).

There are many companies owned by public entities (even competing), which I'd count as public.

I think almost are all long distance busses are private.

In Austria and Switzerland, the top countries in regard to rail things in europe, almost nothing is private.
People don't use these other schemes because they are clumsy, inconvenient, look bad, and have never caught on.

With it as part of the syntax, it becomes natural to use them. I'm not making this up, it is based on extensive experience.

The runtime overflow checks can be turned on and off with a compiler switch, so it becomes trivial to see what performance effect it actually has. Critical loops can be coded with ordinary pointers as necessary. For the rest, the performance effect is not measurable.

Again, this is from experience, not supposition.
This article was posted sometime last week, apparently got picked up by the Atlantic. Interesting read, interesting prior discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29999110
Hey this solves both the karma not to have value and new users posting. Let karma be negative and display it as such.
I think you are missing the argument.

The point they made was that hospitals would/should have been able to handle the case burden without mandates.

They further argue that hospital mandates have resulted in reduced capacity, due to staffing issues. They claim that hospitals should have accepted prior infection for workers as a valid exemption, and thereby avoided firings and resignations.
> Only 9/52 US states even have common law marriage

10/51 States (including D.C. as a state) per your source.
Space is a huge problem. I would have had the same issue as 25 year old.
Is it possible to invest in this lawsuit? Considering how Peter Theil invested in the Hogan lawsuit, perhaps there should be a legal investment concept.

Edit: Well, it appears there is something like this already. "Crowd Justice" https://www.crowdjustice.com/
There are several videos at the end of the article under section Supplementary Information, for example:

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...