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.
Seems like we've got a few of these imbalances now where you'd expect 50:50 but instead it's skewed to one side where nature had a different idea Matter-antimatter ratio Left vs right handed molecules Now galaxy spin…
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.
You joke but the drive to increase profits at any cost is having pretty insidious impacts on the world. Enshittification is everywhere now with companies being forced to degrade customer experience to appease…
I think we might be seeing the end of hyper specialisation. The need for pure coders will decrease in the same way pure scrum masters, business analysts or project managers did. The skills are still there and used but…
A profitable company that lacks DEI is still a success A company that loses money but has plenty of DEI is a failure. DEI is not the factor that determines success or failure. It is a tool that you can use but it makes…
I'm interested in a device like this for my sight impaired older relatives. They struggle with smartphones and would benefit from a single purpose device with big obvious UI elements. Not sure they are the target…
You have to wonder if there's some 1-5% of humans who don't meet the bar of being self aware. They seem to exist as parodies of people who can't learn or reflect on past actions. Being on a continuum would make a lot of…
Free market ideology has a lot in common with religion. Ignore all data and common sense and just embrace the idea that its true. All will make sense once the goal is achieved and until then you just have to have faith.…
Politicians 'come to their senses' when they interact with normal people and are accountable to them. Public funding of elections and bans on large private donations remove the incentive to only talk to rich people.…
Finally a solution to the problem of tech companies sitting on huge piles of cash with nothing to buy! Give it all to NVIDIA
A site with accounts that you never want linked to your real self, or your other accounts, under any circumstances. It bucks the trend of every profile linking to every other one somewhat
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.
Seems like we've got a few of these imbalances now where you'd expect 50:50 but instead it's skewed to one side where nature had a different idea Matter-antimatter ratio Left vs right handed molecules Now galaxy spin…
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.
You joke but the drive to increase profits at any cost is having pretty insidious impacts on the world. Enshittification is everywhere now with companies being forced to degrade customer experience to appease…
I think we might be seeing the end of hyper specialisation. The need for pure coders will decrease in the same way pure scrum masters, business analysts or project managers did. The skills are still there and used but…
A profitable company that lacks DEI is still a success A company that loses money but has plenty of DEI is a failure. DEI is not the factor that determines success or failure. It is a tool that you can use but it makes…
I'm interested in a device like this for my sight impaired older relatives. They struggle with smartphones and would benefit from a single purpose device with big obvious UI elements. Not sure they are the target…
You have to wonder if there's some 1-5% of humans who don't meet the bar of being self aware. They seem to exist as parodies of people who can't learn or reflect on past actions. Being on a continuum would make a lot of…
Free market ideology has a lot in common with religion. Ignore all data and common sense and just embrace the idea that its true. All will make sense once the goal is achieved and until then you just have to have faith.…
Politicians 'come to their senses' when they interact with normal people and are accountable to them. Public funding of elections and bans on large private donations remove the incentive to only talk to rich people.…
Finally a solution to the problem of tech companies sitting on huge piles of cash with nothing to buy! Give it all to NVIDIA
A site with accounts that you never want linked to your real self, or your other accounts, under any circumstances. It bucks the trend of every profile linking to every other one somewhat