I will never understand people's innate desire to pull the ladder up behind them after they've achieved a comfortable life.

Then again I've never strived for comfort, just the rarest thing of all... equality.

Isn't having a satisfying life subjective?

Yes, but that doesn’t mean we can’t measure subjective enjoyment, and associate higher subjective enjoyment with certain life circumstances.

Wasn't homosexuality still considered a disease in the DSM-III?

Almost. It was declassified as a disease by the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 [1] (and by the American Psychological Association in 1975 [2]), and the DSM-III has been the first edition to not include homosexuality.

It still contained ego-dystonic homosexuality (TL;DR: "I don't want to be gay") - which was opposed by the APA in 1987 [3] - until 1988, with the publication of the DSM-III-R.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/archives/psychiatrists-in...

[2]: https://www.apa.org/about/policy/discrimination

[3]: https://www.apa.org/about/policy/diagnoses-homosexuality-arc...

How many people on HN are volunteering to pay more in taxes and give up their income that is probably more than twice the median amount in the US?

All that live in some European countries?

Well seeing that the article we are discussing is “American life is improving for the lowest paid”, I fail to see how what Europeans are willing to do is relevant....

You personally chose to use "people on HN" as your barometer. So, if you failed to see the point you tried to make then you're the only one to blame here.

Are you as an individual volunteering to give more money in taxes???

Considering the shift in the Overton window the last 50 years in the USA, radically center is right wing.

So figure out when market manipulators are going to act? You'd have to be colluding along side them to know this.

I think you missed the point. All the poster is saying is that these crypto analysis people should actually attempt to predict price moves based on market forces instead of explaining movement in hindsight.

This data that the tech Giants hold close to their chest belongs to the people and should be released for competitors to use in their products.

I envision companies competing on UX/privacy/ect while all using the same data set. People should be able to use Myspace to talk to their grandparents on Facebook.

How it is now is like if Ma Bell was never broken up, and we were only able to use our AT&T phone and data plan to talk to other AT&T customers only. How could any other phone company start with such barriers in place.

But who am I? Just the last human.

Personally I really don't want the data I shared with one company to be shared with others without my explicit content.

I don't particularily like Google, but unlike a bunch of others they haven't shared my data voluntarily AFAIK.

In a way they already compete on privacy.

If my data gets shared among a bunch of them my privacy will be decided by the most sloppy one.

It's so sad that undoing horrible laws and ineffective prohibitions must come down to dollars and cents, rather than the innate freedom we all should have.

Land of the fee, home of the slave.

Governments in capitalist societies are committees of the rich.

The system is working as intended.