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upside-down thinking: the law is not for entrepreneurs (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A well-respected pirate, neighbor, and Lisper is also a chud. Welcome to HN, the Nazi Bar where everybody's also an expert in technology.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Raise your hands if you’d rather go back to a world without Airbnb.

I mean the sneers just write themselves

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (8 children)

the very next paragraph:

Self driving cars, ditto. Cruise’s fleet is finally deployed all around SF, according to pg. It’s about to become as ubiquitous as electricity. And in the beginning, so many people argued that it’s against the law and therefore shouldn’t be developed. Then it quietly shifted to well, maybe the law should change.

it’s fun to watch self-described engineers tie themselves into knots to defend dangerous technology. this is why programmers aren’t allowed to design bridges (at least until we find a billionaire stupid enough to fund a bridgetech startup (and it’s probably going to be musk))

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've argued for a while that software "engineers" regularly develop the equivalent of the First Tay Bridge.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Wish we'd gone with software carpenter or software plumber.

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