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If you watch Jackie Chan's "Rumble in the Bronx" (shot in Vancouver) you can sometimes see the majestic Bronx Mountains in background shots.

>My experience has been that this isn't limited to engineers. To some extent, but the most severe form does seem fairly unique to engineers, specifically programmers. That is, I've…

>RationalWiki calls the third one 'Ultracrepidarianism' LOL because RationalWiki was written by engineers. I've often seen it referred to as "Engineer's Disease" for how it's commo…

This is going to be framed in the usual "weird Japan" way but it's not at all limited to Japan. I don't know if similar studies have been conducted in the US or other other countri…

>You don't know how to build a home. >I do. Do you? Sound like the people you hired built the home. Do you know how to do what they did? Did you do it? What did you do to earn that…

Today a Hacker News user discovers the concept of qualia.

I feel like in the US if you punched a cop the cop and his colleagues are much more likely to just shoot you, or at least unleash brutal violence on you and the rest of the crowd. …

Seems like that'd just discourage people from going above and beyond at work. Why do more than the bare minimum to avoid being fired if nothing else you do counts?

>the well is now poisoned for companies that do care Because there's no such thing. Or rather, there are until it's unprofitable enough that caring seriously threatens the bottom l…

You need to be careful here, you're falling into the inverse "Elon is a visionary genius" trap: "Elon is an evil genius". For example: >buying an election through Twitter It's weir…

Yet!

That reminds me of an interview I heard with comicbook artist Chip Zdarsky. He was talking about how we all love to draw as kids, but eventually around 10 years old or so we start …

But who cares about the long term when you could make a killing this year or even just this quarter and walk away with a fortune.

>Do we think that's impossible? Yes. Even if it weren't, it doesn't even seem to matter anymore. Making better products doesn't seem to lead to more money than churning out shit an…

>I associate the concept of pronatalism with also wanting to be involved in your kids' lives Then don't because it's just wrong. Very few, if any, of the "more babies, bigger famil…

Sure, WFH has some downsides as does anything, but it's always funny to me that we have 150+ years of basically everyone who's ever worked in an office despising it as a place wher…

I know that this is Hacker News and so all rich and important people must be geniuses making only rational moves, but consider the slim possibility that most aren't very good leade…

>I don't think Musk and Andreesseen are who most people would associate with the concept of pronatalism. Musk is for sure. Doesn't he have like 100 kids because he's constantly try…

The second one is mostly accurate, yes. There aren't really many good rational arguments for requiring full-time in-office attendance.

Well, there was the previous whistleblower complaint that members of DOGE accessed and shared sensitive Social Security data without the awareness of agency officials, which the go…

>Everyone adapted. I like the phrasing of this because it tells us nothing of whether your family liked the change (or felt better off with it) or not. You can adapt to a lot.

Does it even actually matter what you do? How many lawsuits/investigations have there been in the last decade revealing that some company or another that swore up and down was foll…

No, it's very much yours and the way you phrased it. Perhaps you didn't mean it this way, but you sound like some kind of "pickup artist" type giving advice on "negging" women.

> I feel like I'm missing something here to properly understand why people ended up working for these companies in the first place Money.

I'll take "begging the question" for $500.