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Jokes on him. I'm a peasant and I've been here for years

I find lower intelligence/ status people especially like it. Many of the earliest adopters of AI at my company were the ones who weren't performing. They often felt unappreciated o…

I mean that it's allowed more bad apps to be created. It hasn't lowered the quality of apps necessarily but the low barrier to entry means things can be created that don't need to …

I've used AI for building a hobbyist note app myself. It's also a mixed bag but a lot of that comes down to how I've changed. Before AI dev was expensive so I'd spend hours plannin…

I feel like I'm crazy here but isn't China just sitting there doing nothing? On one hand there's the relentless barage of American propaganda. I get that a militaristic society nee…

I don't trust any American company because they will switch into extraction mode eventually and squeeze every cent they can out of you. Even if the founders didn't want that, event…

What I like about Hacker News is each day I open it up, scan the first three pages, open 2-5 links to read, then close it again. Those pages make it easy to monitor my usage and se…

Unless you also believe the neutral view is earth being half flat and half round I like this analogy. You can't just average two ideas and call it a centrist position. Sometimes on…

Or if you read Sapiens you'll know money is a story we tell each other. You can't literally do much with a coin or bank note or numbers on a screen but as long as we all believe it…

Agreed with this. The majority would happily stop working but we never hear that message because a small percentage of nutters have tied their whole identity to their job and how h…

How is it legal to have different share classes? You could make 100 shares that can vote and then sell 99.9% of the company while maintaining full control. Seems strongly against t…

Can you imagine if the world ever actually achieved a state of utopia? Stupid people would burn it down within weeks just to have something to watch

Cowards. I maintain my position that all political polls are either useless or actually detrimental to democracy though - how many didn't vote for Hillary because the polls said sh…

Wait so now SpaceX is the company letting you undress people? Why mix gold and poop? SpaceX plus xAI.

Seems like we've got a few of these imbalances now where you'd expect 50:50 but instead it's skewed to one side where nature had a different idea Matter-antimatter ratio Left vs ri…

I really don't agree. People behave differently when they know they are being recorded. They are less likely to admit mistakes or ask dumb questions. There's just this odd formal a…

PhD should never be considered a sign of intelligence. Anyone can get one if they pay enough and don't have any better prospects

Skip Crossroads of Twilight. Read the summary on Wikipedia. It's a gimmick that covers the same day and events from lots of different perspectives. None of them are good. That book…

Because 'line go up' is the only globally shared value left in modern society

> Humans need a world where being lazy causes their standard of living to deteriorate in a very noticable way, where working hard causes their standard of living to improve The opp…

Once you learn that online outrage doesn't actually impact your life that much, its easy to ignore. Gone are the days of public apologies and now we just sweep criticism under the …

Jira now makes your requirements for you. They all seem perfectly logical and not connected to anything your actual customers need.

You joke but the drive to increase profits at any cost is having pretty insidious impacts on the world. Enshittification is everywhere now with companies being forced to degrade cu…

I think we might be seeing the end of hyper specialisation. The need for pure coders will decrease in the same way pure scrum masters, business analysts or project managers did. Th…

A profitable company that lacks DEI is still a success A company that loses money but has plenty of DEI is a failure. DEI is not the factor that determines success or failure. It i…