Am I the only one who doesn't want a virtual assistant? I just struggle to understand this goal we apparently are all aiming for I want to be an active player in my own life. I want to do things even if there's some…
Today's billionaires aren't like yesterday's. They could be doing cool shit but they are just padding their own private real estate and stock portfolios. Yawn. Why not make an epic bridge or tower with gargoyles on it?…
I'm not American. It's hard to fire people. You have to recycle them into new positions. The author seems to be French so I imagine it's similar there I do wish it were easier to fire people for poor performance though.…
Many places I've worked didn't promote hard workers at all. Hard workers were hard to replace so they were kept where they were and even blocked from promotions at times. People floating about with few duties were easy…
Jokes on him. I'm a peasant and I've been here for years
I find lower intelligence/ status people especially like it. Many of the earliest adopters of AI at my company were the ones who weren't performing. They often felt unappreciated or ignored (for good reason) but AI…
I mean that it's allowed more bad apps to be created. It hasn't lowered the quality of apps necessarily but the low barrier to entry means things can be created that don't need to exist
I've used AI for building a hobbyist note app myself. It's also a mixed bag but a lot of that comes down to how I've changed. Before AI dev was expensive so I'd spend hours planning features. I filled 5 notebooks with…
I feel like I'm crazy here but isn't China just sitting there doing nothing? On one hand there's the relentless barage of American propaganda. I get that a militaristic society needs an enemy to fight against lest they…
I don't trust any American company because they will switch into extraction mode eventually and squeeze every cent they can out of you. Even if the founders didn't want that, eventually the upper ranks will fill with…
What I like about Hacker News is each day I open it up, scan the first three pages, open 2-5 links to read, then close it again. Those pages make it easy to monitor my usage and set limits. I used to do the same with…
Unless you also believe the neutral view is earth being half flat and half round I like this analogy. You can't just average two ideas and call it a centrist position. Sometimes one position is right and the people…
Or if you read Sapiens you'll know money is a story we tell each other. You can't literally do much with a coin or bank note or numbers on a screen but as long as we all believe it has value, it does. It becomes part of…
Agreed with this. The majority would happily stop working but we never hear that message because a small percentage of nutters have tied their whole identity to their job and how hard they work. These people dominate…
How is it legal to have different share classes? You could make 100 shares that can vote and then sell 99.9% of the company while maintaining full control. Seems strongly against the spirit of a publicly traded company
Can you imagine if the world ever actually achieved a state of utopia? Stupid people would burn it down within weeks just to have something to watch
Cowards. I maintain my position that all political polls are either useless or actually detrimental to democracy though - how many didn't vote for Hillary because the polls said she'd win? How many more might have…
Wait so now SpaceX is the company letting you undress people? Why mix gold and poop? SpaceX plus xAI.
I really don't agree. People behave differently when they know they are being recorded. They are less likely to admit mistakes or ask dumb questions. There's just this odd formal air about them and I get annoyed when…
PhD should never be considered a sign of intelligence. Anyone can get one if they pay enough and don't have any better prospects
Skip Crossroads of Twilight. Read the summary on Wikipedia. It's a gimmick that covers the same day and events from lots of different perspectives. None of them are good. That book serves as a slap in the face for the…
Because 'line go up' is the only globally shared value left in modern society
> Humans need a world where being lazy causes their standard of living to deteriorate in a very noticable way, where working hard causes their standard of living to improve The opposite of capitalism then? Right now, as…
Once you learn that online outrage doesn't actually impact your life that much, its easy to ignore. Gone are the days of public apologies and now we just sweep criticism under the rug and carry on.
Jira now makes your requirements for you. They all seem perfectly logical and not connected to anything your actual customers need.
Am I the only one who doesn't want a virtual assistant? I just struggle to understand this goal we apparently are all aiming for I want to be an active player in my own life. I want to do things even if there's some…
Today's billionaires aren't like yesterday's. They could be doing cool shit but they are just padding their own private real estate and stock portfolios. Yawn. Why not make an epic bridge or tower with gargoyles on it?…
I'm not American. It's hard to fire people. You have to recycle them into new positions. The author seems to be French so I imagine it's similar there I do wish it were easier to fire people for poor performance though.…
Many places I've worked didn't promote hard workers at all. Hard workers were hard to replace so they were kept where they were and even blocked from promotions at times. People floating about with few duties were easy…
Jokes on him. I'm a peasant and I've been here for years
I find lower intelligence/ status people especially like it. Many of the earliest adopters of AI at my company were the ones who weren't performing. They often felt unappreciated or ignored (for good reason) but AI…
I mean that it's allowed more bad apps to be created. It hasn't lowered the quality of apps necessarily but the low barrier to entry means things can be created that don't need to exist
I've used AI for building a hobbyist note app myself. It's also a mixed bag but a lot of that comes down to how I've changed. Before AI dev was expensive so I'd spend hours planning features. I filled 5 notebooks with…
I feel like I'm crazy here but isn't China just sitting there doing nothing? On one hand there's the relentless barage of American propaganda. I get that a militaristic society needs an enemy to fight against lest they…
I don't trust any American company because they will switch into extraction mode eventually and squeeze every cent they can out of you. Even if the founders didn't want that, eventually the upper ranks will fill with…
What I like about Hacker News is each day I open it up, scan the first three pages, open 2-5 links to read, then close it again. Those pages make it easy to monitor my usage and set limits. I used to do the same with…
Unless you also believe the neutral view is earth being half flat and half round I like this analogy. You can't just average two ideas and call it a centrist position. Sometimes one position is right and the people…
Or if you read Sapiens you'll know money is a story we tell each other. You can't literally do much with a coin or bank note or numbers on a screen but as long as we all believe it has value, it does. It becomes part of…
Agreed with this. The majority would happily stop working but we never hear that message because a small percentage of nutters have tied their whole identity to their job and how hard they work. These people dominate…
How is it legal to have different share classes? You could make 100 shares that can vote and then sell 99.9% of the company while maintaining full control. Seems strongly against the spirit of a publicly traded company
Can you imagine if the world ever actually achieved a state of utopia? Stupid people would burn it down within weeks just to have something to watch
Cowards. I maintain my position that all political polls are either useless or actually detrimental to democracy though - how many didn't vote for Hillary because the polls said she'd win? How many more might have…
Wait so now SpaceX is the company letting you undress people? Why mix gold and poop? SpaceX plus xAI.
I really don't agree. People behave differently when they know they are being recorded. They are less likely to admit mistakes or ask dumb questions. There's just this odd formal air about them and I get annoyed when…
PhD should never be considered a sign of intelligence. Anyone can get one if they pay enough and don't have any better prospects
Skip Crossroads of Twilight. Read the summary on Wikipedia. It's a gimmick that covers the same day and events from lots of different perspectives. None of them are good. That book serves as a slap in the face for the…
Because 'line go up' is the only globally shared value left in modern society
> Humans need a world where being lazy causes their standard of living to deteriorate in a very noticable way, where working hard causes their standard of living to improve The opposite of capitalism then? Right now, as…
Once you learn that online outrage doesn't actually impact your life that much, its easy to ignore. Gone are the days of public apologies and now we just sweep criticism under the rug and carry on.
Jira now makes your requirements for you. They all seem perfectly logical and not connected to anything your actual customers need.