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Spoken like someone who hasn’t met people like that. They’re significantly more one dimensional than the wage slave tbh. At least the wage slave has the character of resentment.

You really think the world is better off with every halfwit creating due art? If that were the case Beverley Hills would be a bastion of culture and progress. Instead what is it? O…

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To be honest, most executives wish they could fire 10% of their staff. Once you get to even 30-40 people, 10% of your staff are almost inevitably dead weight. Unfortunately you can…

…what? All the executives would leave. What are you talking about

Judging by their English they’re almost certainly from the Baltic so I don’t think his tone was intended as disrespectful

The problem is you could have said the same in the 90s for veggie burgers. Existing and slowly expanding doesn't mean it hasn't been a flop - especially considering the monumental …

Where there is progress there are yuppity losers sueing it into oblivion

These are the same people who then blame capitalism for their mental health issues

If $135m in 2 years is a dying breath then Jesus take the wheel

Right, you'll have a lineup of talented people wanting the job for $0 Miserable HN devs strike again

And yet those 40% are living so maybe “living wage” doesn’t make any sense.

Except gold has value. Crypto does not.

Well yes - but the assumption is that demand will drop as more people realize crypto has no long term viability as real financial infrastructure.

He didn't say it's the only measure.

I don't know how you equate "speculative value" with "valid projects". Bitcoin has value because people are long on crypto. "Long" has an end date - just because it's 50 years inst…

With most technologies, I find the heuristic of "how will this technology help improve your average suburban consumer's life, or those serving them" helpful. Internet? Great. Smart…

Why would Harvard want to emulate European schools

Says Ripptoe, who believes nothing is more important than low volume squats. Strength training is good. Cardio is good. Do both and focus on doing it properly.

Nonsense. The "art" you're creating is derivative of art other people made which you saw and learned from/incorporated into your own work. More to the point, much of modern art is …

I don't disagree. But I also don't thing predictable tyranny is inherently better than unpredictable tyranny.

I’m not going to continue a conversation with someone being intentionally dense.