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

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Post by chadgpt3 »

suttontom wrote: post #134
Herring wrote: post #87

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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 asking genuinely, is there a connection between housing, education, and healthcare becoming so much more expensive and them also being the three parts of the economy that have the most government interference (in the US)? If so is it causal?

Probably reverse causal, people want interference in fucked markets

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

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Post by chadgpt3 »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #112
chadgpt3 wrote: post #103

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Sure you can, just have to install certbot.

I would rather use acme.sh and ZeroSSL for CA, but that's exactly the problem. Why do I have to beg someone for a proof of nothing just to share a random thought?

It's not a beg. Them providing this for free is causal to it being required. No free certs would mean no warnings for not having a cert. You "beg" your domain registrar harder.

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

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Post by swed420 »

Schiendelman wrote: post #142
swed420 wrote: post #108

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> 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.

Why? Because an individual can only positively influence one thing at a time when it's so far outside of their sphere. My goal is to help people make positive change, and the only way to do that is with focus.

> Because an individual can only positively influence one thing at a time when it's so far outside of their sphere.

Not true, but let's pretend it is: then pick the parent item that's affecting all of the child items: aforementioned faux democracy. Then everything else falls into place.

But based on your various comments here, you don't seem interested in solving the root issues.

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

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Post by sph »

chadgpt3 wrote: post #149
sph wrote: post #120

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I don't have an easy solution to your problem, so knowing that someone might have sensible words for you, I'll be the one to suggest to do something drastic. No, not that. If you have your back against the wall, why not completely change your life? Move to another country. Spend a month in Thailand to get over your obsession with sex. Go pick avocadoes in Australia. Take heavy psychedelics. Start smoking and drinking…

I know there's a word for it and that everyone goes through it. That doesn't make it better. By any objective standards my life isn't bad. I lost my job but I'm still financially secure for a while. But it isn't good, either. Picking avocados in Australia wouldn't be any better. I'm not even going to touch on smoking and drinking to forget the pain of the meaninglessness of existence, because I know what happens to p…

I don't think you've read my comment as deeply as I hoped, so...

> But somehow we grow up with the illusion that things matter, and I want that back!

If you're going through hell, keep going. The way out is forward, not back. There is nothing anyone can say that is going to make your moment of disillusionment easier for you.

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

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Post by iberator »

Schiendelman wrote: post #72
iberator wrote: post #69

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I designed and wrote some custom cpu(stack based RISC cpu with fixed operation/operand size) architecture simulator, with assembler and almost with forth compiler on my phone when I was homeless... Nowadays out of tech - too tired after 11h shift to do stuff. No weekends. Got kicked out from McDonald's for being too slow (competing with 20yr olds is HARD), gonna be kicked out from temu in 2 weeks due the AI (80% staf…

I understand you're out of tech right now. I understand it's tough right now. Have you worked professionally in tech before?

Yeah, as backend programmer.

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

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Post by iberator »

bradlys wrote: post #127
iberator wrote: post #10

Unemployment and forced downshifting. From 200k programmer to McDonald's worker and call centre worker in just 4 years... Its brutal. Once you are out at 35+ for an even year or two - it's impossible to go back. AI takes jobs faster than creating new ones. ps. Just got laid off from the Temu call(chat) centre. AI IS taking our jobs. completely devastated

Strange. I took 3 years off from 2022-2025. I got a job immediately at FAANG. I did have to relocate back to Silicon Valley.

I'm from Europe and not FAANG material.

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

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Post by rho138 »

Schiendelman wrote: post #32
rho138 wrote: post #29

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Reparations. The only reason we’re in this mess is because the white portion of the southeastern US was left to fester and breed hate for the past century and a half.

Ah, yeah. I assume you've read Foner's "Reconstruction"? When was the last time you worked with an organization working on that issue?

Ah yes, a snapshot into a brief window where “we did good enough.” I’d recommend Black AF History by Michael Harriott and On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed.

Volunteering for Civil Rights - last week, what about you?

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

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Post by julienreszka »

eithed wrote: post #46

I'm tired of people not taking responsibility for things they do and not being held accountable for their actions - politicians mostly; for example - currently in Poland there's a controversy around Zondacrypto (read here: https://www.politico.eu/article/a-missing-investor-millions-... ); I'm so disillusioned that I believe nothing will come out of it - it will again be a case of "nobody did it, it just a thing that…

It's the constant flood of information. People forget and corrupt politicians bet on that. So I made an app that helps generate investigations with an entity event matrix so people can have a more comprehensive understanding of what happened. https://reloadium.com/reloadium-investigations/
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