[ctdonath]

His point is valid, albeit sarcastic. It's amazing how many respond with variations on "it's too hard" because various luxuries aren't trivial to acquire. Most of humanity spent most of history surviving on a lot less acquired with a lot more work.

We can continue the quibbling over narrow cases and solutions, but it all comes down to a phrase in a memorable HN thread: your life depends on it, so fucking figure it out. Some of us are trying to and doing pretty good at it; naysayers add nothing.