And just like the panic over cell phones, this too shall pass. Maybe half of HN is too young to remember (or old enough to have forgotten?) but when cell phones with cameras were becoming mainstream, there was media…
It's particularly sad that we just proved this with the massive Covid-era stimulus and yet didn't collectively learn the lesson. We gave millions of people unemployment checks that were larger than their actual income…
Or they're a student who has to work a part-time job after school. Or they have a long commute. Or they have hours of practice for a competitive sport or extracurricular. Or they have to take care of their siblings,…
This was posted on a Saturday night (in the US). A story posted at lunch time on a Tuesday is going to get 100x or maybe 10,000x more views than a story posted on a Saturday night. It's not that HN readers lack…
> hence more promotion-worthy Relevant for big companies where people intend to have decade spanning careers with multiple promotions. But for the tech worker who is going to have a series of 1-3 year stints at…
> here is where I get confused It doesn't seem like you're confused, it seems like you're using that as a rhetorical device to be pedantic. > I'm not trying to be pedantic, but Followed by 4 paragraphs of pedantry,…
Internet commenters try to get me to hate lots of people for lots of reasons, but "Parents trying to send their kid to a school that fits their kid's needs" seems like such a hard sell. Like, I get the desire in a…
There's no legal mechanism for the vast majority of what the president has done. Often it happens anyway, along with some protests, some resignations and maybe an eventual court case reversal months or years later.
That "huge gap" is probably 3-10 years. A relatively tiny percent of mortgages not getting paid in 2007 & 2008 caused a global financial crisis. If even just 10% of current office workers lose their jobs and quit paying…
> a home is the largest purchase they will ever make and the bulk of their net worth That's bad and a central part of the problem. I accept that my car is depreciating in value every year I own it, and but I need a car…
This is much ado about nothing. The US has so much excess capacity in farmland that we do absurd things with our excess corn and soybeans. We refine soybeans into ethanol to put into our gasoline. We feed corn to cows…
I've gotta know which side of Poe's law this falls on. Was this written in earnest or as an ironic/facetious joke?
There are a lot of misunderstandings in this post. I'll try to explain a few of them, which maybe can help realign your whole understanding. For starters, American insurance has a "maximum out-of-pocket" amount, which…
> your personal (not hosted by a corp) website I'm not sure that's enough. A few years ago there were some set of websites that wanted less censorship than the main corporate sites (or at least, a different set of…
It's crazy to me that you're still blaming the poorest, most exploited, least powerful person in the economy for the problems instead of the people actually responsible. Since you moved the goalposts after I pointed out…
Kinda. Maybe I'm too optimistic and we're just doomed, but I think the average voter would have cared more if a handful of things had gone differently. For starters of course, Biden's rapid cognitive decline and the…
For years, we've talked about how much of the workforce was "bullshit jobs". HN would be full of incredulous comments from people confused by the headcount at various companies, wondering what all those people were…
> by having a Honduran guy come into the country and do his job for half the price, then use that to compete with him for an apartment, increasing his cost of living So the immigrants are making half the income, but…
I think like, 90% of the crypto trading volume is by people who know it's all a grift, but are hoping to get rich while the music is still playing. People knowingly buy into pump & dumps, gambling that they're on the…
Man, your anger is just pointed in the wrong direction here. Be mad at the CEO & hedge fund managers making millions of dollars a year by exploiting the working classes, who will happily move all the jobs overseas…
> Especially South Park I think desensitized the millennial generation Desensitized some people, who understood and appreciated the irony, absurdity and inversion of norms. It hyper-sensitized others, who often…
Sending innocent people to prison would absolutely be a horrible form of violence against those people. That's why we have trials, with independent judges, juries and rules. Remember when the Boston marathon bombing…
Or perhaps, that is the centralist position. To take an apolitical comparison, think about an ordinary crime- a murder, a rape, an arson, etc. There is some set of people saying "We know that this man murdered these…
There should be a public service campaign telling users something like "Even in the best case scenario, the moderators are weirdos. Most likely they're shills". People with careers, families, friends and hobbies are…
As a thought experiment to check your own biases, how do you feel about people like Colin Kaepernick speaking out about police abuses and racism in the justice system? There are people who made roughly the same argument…
And just like the panic over cell phones, this too shall pass. Maybe half of HN is too young to remember (or old enough to have forgotten?) but when cell phones with cameras were becoming mainstream, there was media…
It's particularly sad that we just proved this with the massive Covid-era stimulus and yet didn't collectively learn the lesson. We gave millions of people unemployment checks that were larger than their actual income…
Or they're a student who has to work a part-time job after school. Or they have a long commute. Or they have hours of practice for a competitive sport or extracurricular. Or they have to take care of their siblings,…
This was posted on a Saturday night (in the US). A story posted at lunch time on a Tuesday is going to get 100x or maybe 10,000x more views than a story posted on a Saturday night. It's not that HN readers lack…
> hence more promotion-worthy Relevant for big companies where people intend to have decade spanning careers with multiple promotions. But for the tech worker who is going to have a series of 1-3 year stints at…
> here is where I get confused It doesn't seem like you're confused, it seems like you're using that as a rhetorical device to be pedantic. > I'm not trying to be pedantic, but Followed by 4 paragraphs of pedantry,…
Internet commenters try to get me to hate lots of people for lots of reasons, but "Parents trying to send their kid to a school that fits their kid's needs" seems like such a hard sell. Like, I get the desire in a…
There's no legal mechanism for the vast majority of what the president has done. Often it happens anyway, along with some protests, some resignations and maybe an eventual court case reversal months or years later.
That "huge gap" is probably 3-10 years. A relatively tiny percent of mortgages not getting paid in 2007 & 2008 caused a global financial crisis. If even just 10% of current office workers lose their jobs and quit paying…
> a home is the largest purchase they will ever make and the bulk of their net worth That's bad and a central part of the problem. I accept that my car is depreciating in value every year I own it, and but I need a car…
This is much ado about nothing. The US has so much excess capacity in farmland that we do absurd things with our excess corn and soybeans. We refine soybeans into ethanol to put into our gasoline. We feed corn to cows…
I've gotta know which side of Poe's law this falls on. Was this written in earnest or as an ironic/facetious joke?
There are a lot of misunderstandings in this post. I'll try to explain a few of them, which maybe can help realign your whole understanding. For starters, American insurance has a "maximum out-of-pocket" amount, which…
> your personal (not hosted by a corp) website I'm not sure that's enough. A few years ago there were some set of websites that wanted less censorship than the main corporate sites (or at least, a different set of…
It's crazy to me that you're still blaming the poorest, most exploited, least powerful person in the economy for the problems instead of the people actually responsible. Since you moved the goalposts after I pointed out…
Kinda. Maybe I'm too optimistic and we're just doomed, but I think the average voter would have cared more if a handful of things had gone differently. For starters of course, Biden's rapid cognitive decline and the…
For years, we've talked about how much of the workforce was "bullshit jobs". HN would be full of incredulous comments from people confused by the headcount at various companies, wondering what all those people were…
> by having a Honduran guy come into the country and do his job for half the price, then use that to compete with him for an apartment, increasing his cost of living So the immigrants are making half the income, but…
I think like, 90% of the crypto trading volume is by people who know it's all a grift, but are hoping to get rich while the music is still playing. People knowingly buy into pump & dumps, gambling that they're on the…
Man, your anger is just pointed in the wrong direction here. Be mad at the CEO & hedge fund managers making millions of dollars a year by exploiting the working classes, who will happily move all the jobs overseas…
> Especially South Park I think desensitized the millennial generation Desensitized some people, who understood and appreciated the irony, absurdity and inversion of norms. It hyper-sensitized others, who often…
Sending innocent people to prison would absolutely be a horrible form of violence against those people. That's why we have trials, with independent judges, juries and rules. Remember when the Boston marathon bombing…
Or perhaps, that is the centralist position. To take an apolitical comparison, think about an ordinary crime- a murder, a rape, an arson, etc. There is some set of people saying "We know that this man murdered these…
There should be a public service campaign telling users something like "Even in the best case scenario, the moderators are weirdos. Most likely they're shills". People with careers, families, friends and hobbies are…
As a thought experiment to check your own biases, how do you feel about people like Colin Kaepernick speaking out about police abuses and racism in the justice system? There are people who made roughly the same argument…