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Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by chadgpt3 »

everfrustrated wrote: post #27
adlpz wrote: post #6

Wealth concentration beyond a point which would have resulted in widespread revolution 150 years ago, but that is now being tolerated because we've grown accustomed to a level of comfort we don't want to risk losing.

Someone else being rich doesn't make you poor.

That's right, causation goes the other way: many people have to be poor in order for one person to be rich. Where did Elon get his money, again? Being at the right place at the right time in PayPal and being so incompetent they paid him to leave; selling overpriced underperforming electric cybertrucks to his fanbase; billions of taxpayer dollars (which directly make us poorer) to SpaceX; and most recently tricking index fund investors to buy his IPO?

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by chadgpt3 »

fsuts wrote: post #36
everfrustrated wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone else being rich doesn't make you poor.

Well if everyone was rich then prices would go up due to affordability and demand so the less rich would be poorer

That's why it's best if everyone is roughly equal. Not exactly equal, mind, I'm sure a 20:1 difference between the richest and the poorest would be much better than the present situation.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by chadgpt3 »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #79

The death of HTTP/1.1. I posted a link to an article on an HTTP-only website a few days ago, and it was flagged within half an hour because browsers want HTTPS. I know all about JS injection into unencrypted HTTP trafic, but this is beyond the point. The point is, I can not just spawn a website and make it available to the world from anywhere having only a network connection.

Sure you can, just have to install certbot.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by Schiendelman »

chadgpt3 wrote: post #99
Schiendelman wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you believe that across the planet, that is worse or better than it was 20 years ago? 40 years ago?

Do I have to believe it across the planet or just for me right now?

GP said "most people on the planet"; I'm responding to that.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by chadgpt3 »

My life is completely meaningless, I am now 30, I lost my job, nobody is hiring (only ghost jobs), I could be deported at any moment because my visa is linked to my employment, also I am 30 and I have never had a girlfriend or sex, so is it just a slow decline from here until death or what? Also everything fun is illegal, people who make cool software inconvenient to the government (like anonymous social media) seem to always be a hair's breadth away from prison time. Cool stuff is always punished and never rewarded.

Edit: an example of everything worth doing being illegal, from another comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayTV

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by julienreszka »

aureate wrote: post #7

Assuming your two uses of "model" have the same meaning, I'm mad that people are seriously suggesting we scrap representative democracy in favour of government by LLM output.

I didn't mean LLM but honestly at this point why not. No way it can be worse than what we have now

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#107

Post by julienreszka »

kamaal wrote: post #95

Talking to toxic people. Its so exhausting walking on eggshells, and engineering discussions to avoid conflicts.

I can relate to that. I wrote a blog post about it with easy fixes. https://julienreszka.com/blog/difficult-conversations-don-t-...

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by swed420 »

Schiendelman wrote: post #100
Herring wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spend a lot of time here: https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart Housing/medical/college etc are outpacing incomes. Loneliness has skyrocketed. People are voting for fascism and starting wars. Americans like to pretend with their big houses and fancy iphones, but things are NOT ok. Also note on that chart: younger demographics in the US are reporting significantly lower life evaluations compared to older demograp…

I'm unconvinced that younger people have a harder time than the last couple of generations at the same ages, and would like to see evidence that this is not simply them overwhelming themselves with social media comparisons with others. Yes, housing, medical, and college are outpacing incomes. Which item would you want to work on if you only got to pick ONE thing?

> Yes, housing, medical, and college are outpacing incomes. Which item would you want to work on if you only got to pick ONE thing?

Why would we intentionally narrow the discussion like this?

That's something that pretend political parties do to prop up the interests of the uniparty of capital interests while squelching actual progress for the majority.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#109

Post by julienreszka »

someone_old wrote: post #74

sound. my neighbour has some kind of AC or the like that is constantly humming around 30db in my room. there is no way I can sleep with this, even with earplugs. talked to him but he does not care, so I'm reporting him... and that takes time, with no guarantee that that will fix it. maybe this sound much smaller than economic policies in France but for me this sucks big time

I can relate to that had noisy neighbours too and wanted to do illegal stuff to them but eventually learned negotiation is skill and pretty effective. https://julienreszka.com/blog/difficult-conversations-don-t-...
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