The use of the word "literally" to be used as emphasis started in the 1700s, and people have been complaining about it since at least 1909

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literally#As_an_intensifier

> Someone who thought webvan was a great lesson in hubris could not have built an Instacart, right?

Not at all. The mistake to learn from in Webvan's case was expanding too quickly and investing in expensive infrastructure all before achieving product-market fit. Not that they delivered groceries.

This micro payments for content idea has been tried a few times, with slight variations. No-one has cracked the problem yet. But maybe one day

I know HN doesn’t love crypto, but this kind of thing seems promising for finally cracking micropayments: https://www.x402.org/

People here are interested in reading about it. Is there a reason you think it shouldn't?

If they don't affect the rich, why have the rock didn't so much time, effort, and money eroding such taxes over decades?

Eroding them is beneficial to other groups of society, not the rich.

It's like with corporations. Corporations love complex legal systems, as they are the only ones with money to deal with them. Simplification actually benefits smaller enterprises.

How is high marginal taxes and high inheritance taxes not simple?

If complexity is the problem then close the loopholes that let people get out of this.

America was not supposed to be a country of monarchs and wealthy dynasties, and high inheritance taxes helped towards that goal.

Because only poor people need income. If you have enough assets, income is optional.

IIRC, the value of randomness went even further than that. I think it was in the allocation of land for rice paddies. I-ching was used to decide if any given farmer's land was to be used that year or something like that. The benefit wasn't divination selecting better land, but by way of random selection, gave an impersonal excuse to leave fields unplanted some years, which is beneficial in the long term to overall yield.

That's oversimplified beyond the point of usefulness. Tribalism and the soldier mindset are very strong and override rationality on topics that are linked to one's identity. In general, for many, the easiest path to feeling good about oneself is by having a group that is inferior to them (and their in-group) by definition. None of this has any impact on the capability for rationality, but does reduce the circumstances it's lonely to be employed under.

I'd further suggest that the choice to phrase the idea in terms of a general population with a flaw, and implicitly claiming non-membership in that group, it's possible you're engaging in that same behavior.

Merriam-Webster defines editorialized as "to introduce opinion into the reporting of facts"

It was the submitter's opinion that "gamified" was an accurate description for this page instead of using the actual title of the page.

So while "editorialized" is a little formal, it is correct.

Reporting on controversial issues is often editorialized, which may be where your feeling that it relates to deceit is coming from.

While I can't tell exactly what the author is thinking, the opinion that I see is that it feels a lot like a video game. The author said "game inspired menu system" which is a far cry from game-like user interface, which would be a corrected version of gamified user interface.

That does seem obviously like an opinion, however there are some things that don't seem like an opinion that can still be considered an opinion.

This fits a whole class of headlines, which are described as editorialized, some of which seem more opinionated than this and some which seem less opinionated. I'm not sure whether it's better wrangle the use of opinion and the definition of opinion to make these satisfy the dictionary definition of editorialized or accept that the use of language has evolved and it's better not to be overly prescriptive.

The opinion is that the title should be something different than the author wrote for the page.

That would be a fact in this case, because "Btop - Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes" is too long for a HN submission

Advice is situational. Some people need to hear "don't give up" and some people need to hear "move on".

No. What's mandated by law is to not track users for reasons not core to delivering your service OR disclose that you are doing so.