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Yeah, you can play whatever game you want in life. However, playing the money game is dangerous, and can easily create attachment and greed. I'm not necessarily preaching about his…

I see what you mean as well. But, I don't think this kind of thing should impact your well being. The guy said in other posts that he can't get into those better companies and is c…

Sorry, but is this a serious post? Honest question. > My total comp for the first year is only $145k out of undergrad with a base of $106k. My friends at places like Google, FB and…

Is central control necessary? I know it's a tough pill to swallow, but I encourage you to think about it some more. And don't think in terms of subsystems but rather real entities.…

> Otherwise though, I found that his personas largely reflected his current emotional state. One persona would almost always be "out" when he was upset with a friend, or struggling…

> There are other things like adrenal hyperplasia which are really common and results in developing secondary sexual characteristics of both genders. "Really common" is people bull…

> To suggest that people can't or shouldn't advocate for acceptance of their conceptual identity is pretty misguided. I'm sorry, but made-up genders simply do not find their way in…

> Simply not having XX nor XY chromosomes happens about in one in every 1666 people. Surely you have met at least two thousand people in your life. That's a disease, not a gender. …

I understand now, though I would argue that nothing you call "objective" is actually so. These goals you listed are just the formulation of a game, which a lot of Westerners choose…

Because we're humans, not asset-collection algorithms. I'm sorry that this is an honest question.

Let's be honest here, "non-binary genders" is a weird concept to begin with. It's alien, and doesn't apply to humans. Why is this whacko stuff getting shoved down our throats, and …

Do you view everything in life in terms of investing and value extraction? If so, that is deeply, incredibly sad. > you have several multi-decade goals to work towards Why do you t…

> I deleted the comment in case there is some sort of HN 404 taboo I'm not aware of. Never do this. If someone doesn't like your comment, then you are just letting them win by remo…

That's not true at all. Overtime can most definitely be unpaid, and usually is.

Sounds like something I'd be good at. All I have to do is stroll through the woods and I have 20 ticks on my person.

I enjoyed your comment despite it being light gray. I never considered Google to be particularly rich in "opinions". Some buy into the culture more than others, but the workers are…

> I'm not into new age / whatever stuff but I like to think of it as night time meditation as while it's still not as good as sleep it's still a great deal better than full blown i…

Or the US using Agent Orange and inflicting shocking health effects to millions of Vietnamese. Hiroshima/Nagasaki pale in comparison.

> they belong in the same category as French or Japanese Huh? French food I can understand, though I don't have much of a taste for it, but Japanese food is terrible -- I was there…

> I also remember a time when human decency wasn't shrouded in the pejorative "political correctness". Not sure what you're getting at with this rhetoric (no wonder you're a fan of…

You're absolutely right, but HN users don't realize that most of America exists outside of their ideological bubble. > For example, if child of meth heads grows up to be president,…

Air Asia is the worst airline I've ever flown with. Unfortunately, it's hard to avoid them when flying in Asia.

Japanese people seem to be in a pretty good place emotionally. They are pretty closed-off, as I expected, but they're more laid back than people in many Western countries and defin…

I thought it wouldn't be so bad, but now that I have seen the screenshots... it's pretty bad. The thing is, a lot of developers seem to have no anesthetic sense whatsoever. I reali…

I wrote a blog post on tool mastery a few days ago, mostly in response to an egregious article named "You are not your tools"[0], but also to write down some of my recent thoughts …