-> That advertising and mass surveillance go hand-in-hand. -> That the slim, slim, slim chance of making out like a bandit in a startup as a non-founder is get

-> That advertising and mass surveillance go hand-in-hand. -> That the slim, slim, slim chance of making out like a bandit in a startup as a non-founder is getting worse every year. -> That most of the products we build don't affect more than 1% of the world, nor ever could. -> That HN, while generally benevolent, does have active censorship (sometimes for the better). -> That many folks in the Midwest are as good as any programmer on the coast.