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People are losing their minds over this. Barely anything web3 has even been built yet. Perhaps it never will. Still, the idea that young people want to do things differently is so …

saw this recently on HN: Men not at work: Why so many men aged 25 to 54 are not working[1]. I know that "not working" and "not leaving your bedroom" are differnt things, but maybe …

Actually, I think they can (also be entrepreneurs and artists) They just can't all be successful ones. However, due to the non-linearity of success, the winners would offset the lo…

What sales figures won't tell you though is how well people are doing who choose not to buy or can't afford those things. Also, your argument does not account for tomorrows sales f…

This is a rather unusual comment and this link is probably the wrong place to have this conversation, as hacker news is probably the wrong place in general. Anyway, it's rather sim…

I was terrified after reading this. Reminded me that I should live a bit healthier, not drink more coffee then water, got to sleep earlier, wake up earlier, maybe even exercise. Bu…

Actually Apple has just accomplished what privacy advocates around the world couldn't have done: Getting people concerned about the issue (by hitting them where it actually hurts: …

I personally enjoyed this comment and this type of humor in general. It was witty, critical and open about it's satirical nature, distinguishing it from a troll post (which would d…

I disagree with the lottery notion. There are two important differences: In a lottery you know exactly what your odds of winning are and what the (best) possible outcomes are. In t…

Speaking of irrational fears: I always fear that I forgot my keys while leaving my flat. Now I know that I just need to post some holiday pictures of myself on instagram and eventu…

This reminds me of Kenneth Goldsmith's notion of "Uncreative Writing" (In a nutshell: There is enough text out there, don't write anything yourself) From the looks of it, this woul…

I just have to ask. If it really is that way, what would prevent the maintainers of open source projects to issue (more or less worthless) "shares" of their projects? Could this be…

Sorry for the deliberately stupid question but: What if I need to login somewhere on my phone?

This is great for writing scientific articles, manuals, tutorials, text books and the like. I'll start using it right now :) However, as far as literature is concerned, I'd not be …

I really don't know how to say this without sounding like a complete bozo, but I really think that this is a very, very sad perspective on life. It tries to quantify every aspect o…

I like that thought, but I think its wrong. or at least it's only true on average. But the average is not really interesting when you are in a domain that's heavily dominated by ex…

This really struck me: "Preventing burnout is part of your job. Staying well rested is part of your job". Many would rather consider optimizing one's productivity as being part of …

I'd like to contrast that with current HR practices. Why is it that HR departments (as far as I can tell) focus on hiring "the best" or "the best available", while it would be more…

Why make the implicit assumption that investment banking is at most socially worthless? The scale doesn't end at 0 here. When evaluating the utility of things (could also be techno…

Didn't they collectively lose more than they ever made in 2008? (and didn't they do so in 1987 already?) How exactly was the free market at work when the government bailed them out…

This really seems like a trivial problem but it's one that has been bothering me ever since. I've found it to be too stupid to even address this, even though I assume that a "non-t…