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I used to go out dancing 4 nights per week. I had to stop because I had kids, but there are still thriving dance places around. It's still very possible if you live in a big city. …

> I'm no business genius, but you'd assume that investors are. Absolutely not a reasonable assumption at all. Most people are not very good at their jobs. > What's the steelman arg…

> decide on a whim that a given word should be replaced with a more 'advanced' alternative without knowing what you'll find or understanding the nuances of your pick. From the arti…

> people here are accepting things Question: what does not accepting these things look like? Because voting, protesting, donating, and lawsuits haven't gotten anywhere. What are yo…

> I'm glad people like you downvote me HN doesn't let you downvote people who respond directly to you. Don't make assumptions like that.

Because causation != correlation. This could just as easily be explained as "severe depression has a genetic factor".

"Atheists are mentally incapable of handing psychedelics" is certainly a take.

I love the implication that thousands of people, from a broad spectrum, who all had the same negative experiences with what was obviously a serious endemic problem with the site, a…

"You can't possibly be right about something being mean, because you're negative about things". Do I have your argument correct?

As much as I hate the veneration of Steve Jobs, this is one thing he was good at. Does anyone seriously think the iPod and iPhone would have ended up the way they were if he was pu…

> Turns out I have ADHD You just magically found this out when the Mental Health Diagnosis Fairy visited you one night? You spent thousands of dollars for a neuropsych evaluation w…

> If you never ship, how can you iterate? Our discipline has swung way too far in this direction. The useful insight of "watch your users use your product -- you will always be sur…

> you don't like to read? I assumed that people who enjoy software would be into intellectual stimulation but I've learned that this is wrong. So HN is OK with being extremely cond…

> If a few CEO's wind up working at 7-11 to make rent money, all the better. There are CEOs who have only ever failed abysmally their entire careers, and they generally only ever m…

> UBI is non-starter no matter what Sam Altman believes. Do you mean it's a non-starter in the current political climate? Or that you personally just don't think it will work?

I am criticizing a common pattern of thought that I observe, including in the post I responded to. "I'm against X in general, but in this case X is warranted" is a very dangerous t…

> there are plenty of software developers who offer lifetime purchases. In fact there was a time that subscriptions for software were virtually unheard of. There's a big difference…

I've taken the stance that garbage is garbage, whether written by a human or an AI. It's not like the internet wasn't chock full of insipid philosophy and astroturfing before LLMs …

You're not in favor of adding regulation, except when it comes to issues you understand and care about. All the oversight and regulation about everything you don't care and/or know…

> all I heard was Biden-flation Listen to different sources then. It's weird to complain that when you listened to overt pathological liars, all you heard were lies.

> the best way to get cars off the road is to replace many if not most of their occupants with AI. I'm so confused by this. Instead of one person driving a car to the store and par…

What a hellscape we've created for ourselves. My job is to get out of the way of an AI agent? People were writing bad code before, but at least they were looking at it. It is very …

> They want it their way, despite there being multiple ways to Rome, and will cut off the conversation with orders, not arguments I don't know about your experiences, but insisting…

The difference is that Squenergy is not conserved.

A good abstraction? As in one? I'd go so far as to say the process of discovering and refining abstractions is the most important part of software engineering. A large project has …