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In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are essential to a career

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Re: In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are essential to a career

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Post by rchaud »

jm20 wrote: post #36

Attractiveness has always affected opportunities afforded to people and other people’s perceptions of you. This is not just in tech. Hell, it influences elections! This is just human nature and has been studied extensively. It’s just trendy to bash Silicon Valley for this, because, you know, everyone on Wall Street is wearing suits for the comfort factor... However, I think there’s an upper bounds on where that matte…

The richest men in the world didn't get rich as an employee of someone else, which is the case for most people in the article and on this board. They either created a company, inherited or married into wealth, or simply looted and pillaged it from other people.

These people make up an infinitesimally small proportion of the general population, and as such don't make for a good counter-example.

Re: In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are essential to a career

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Post by jacquesm »

1996 wrote: post #110
jacquesm wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've got bad news for both of you: you're going to die, and you won't be resurrected. So better live your lives as if every day matters.

Not bad news- I accept that by default, I'm going to lose the game. That's the "give me death" part. Still that don't mean I won't try the other part, removing everything that could stand between me and my objective. No kids = no college fund = more money to spend on life extending treatments if they become available I trust the human creativity will hack death someday. The only question is whether I will be alive to…

The question you will need to answer is what you are living for. I do have children and their college fund is a rounding error on a lifetime of expenses, if I had to live life again and could choose to add another 100 years to the life I have or have children I would definitely have children again.

Re: In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are essential to a career

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Post by sitkack »

adamch wrote: post #100

80% of male attractiveness comes down having a good haircut and clothes that fit you. Assuming you're in SF and have a high-paying software job. Find a hair stylist in a mid-range salon who you can actually talk to, show them some pictures of haircuts you like, and let them find something that works. If you find a professional and are OK paying them a bit extra, you'll get good results. As for "clothes that fit", I h…

Physical attractiveness.

The majority comes from personality and being genuinely nice of which being interested in other people is the key.

Even w/o being a hole, most dudes in tech don’t ask questions about other people. Self centered man babies.

Re: In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are essential to a career

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Post by rchaud »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #52

So SV is slowly becoming like other large industries - you win less in value created than on internal politics - on impressing a VC instead of amazing a customer, on impressing the boss not actually managing a SLA. Perhaps it is how SV eventually fizzles out- it must happen sometime.

SV has already fizzled out. The two biggest SV successes of recent times (Google and FB) sell advertisements and surveillance services under the guise of "connecting people" or "information discovery".

Its hot new bets are in food delivery and e-bike sharing. And even after sinking in billions there, they can't figure out how to turn a profit.

Re: In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are essential to a career

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Post by jelliclesfarm »

jacquesm wrote: post #112
1996 wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not bad news- I accept that by default, I'm going to lose the game. That's the "give me death" part. Still that don't mean I won't try the other part, removing everything that could stand between me and my objective. No kids = no college fund = more money to spend on life extending treatments if they become available I trust the human creativity will hack death someday. The only question is whether I will be alive to…

The question you will need to answer is what you are living for. I do have children and their college fund is a rounding error on a lifetime of expenses, if I had to live life again and could choose to add another 100 years to the life I have or have children I would definitely have children again.

Children are a way of copying DNA. They are NOT “you”.

We will have a world where expenses and money will have no meaning whatsoever. What then?

If you could have parts of your dna copied as your children and still retain you, what’s so awful about it?

Re: In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are essential to a career

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Post by jelliclesfarm »

jacquesm wrote: post #91
1996 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Count me in! I don't want to squander my resources on anyone but myself. As I often say, give me death or give me immortality! I am hopeful some crypto billionaires will share the same mindset, and pour resources into anti aging research at the cellular level.

I've got bad news for both of you: you're going to die, and you won't be resurrected. So better live your lives as if every day matters.

Of course. Every day matters. That’s why I want to have more quality in my days. I don’t want to grow old in an aging deteriorating physical shell. Others may feel different and that’s ok.

I want life and experiences. I want to be able to control and maintain and manage my shell while still retaining the inner core of me.

Because the inner core changes if the body fails us. Women know this and feel this more acutely than men. Because. Biology.

It seems like these days men are competing with other men for resources just like women had to compete with men for resources. That’s what an overpopulated with fixed or shrinking resources/land mass will do to you.

Re: In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are essential to a career

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Post by jelliclesfarm »

1996 wrote: post #81
jelliclesfarm wrote: post #49

I am very pro-body modification. And it’s affordable to the masses now and safer with non invasive medtech. One day...I hope in my lifetime..we will be able to have implants to download our thoughts, memories and feelings..dare I say..consciousness..or soul..into a chip. Looking at the physical body as a vessel and getting used to the idea that it is merely necessary hardware to our mind is important. I don’t want to…

Count me in! I don't want to squander my resources on anyone but myself. As I often say, give me death or give me immortality! I am hopeful some crypto billionaires will share the same mindset, and pour resources into anti aging research at the cellular level.

you could start with intermittent fasting. Can’t guarantee immortality but hey! It’s free.

Re: In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are essential to a career

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Post by hadiz »

adamch wrote: post #100

80% of male attractiveness comes down having a good haircut and clothes that fit you. Assuming you're in SF and have a high-paying software job. Find a hair stylist in a mid-range salon who you can actually talk to, show them some pictures of haircuts you like, and let them find something that works. If you find a professional and are OK paying them a bit extra, you'll get good results. As for "clothes that fit", I h…

This advice is throttled around here. There is an implication to this: if you're bald, you're fucking screwed as a man. Attractiveness would not be achievable.

Re: In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are essential to a career

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Post by thatfrenchguy »

maximente wrote: post #18
thatfrenchguy wrote: post #3

> Only the previous week, he says, he returned from a 10-day trip to Italy’s Amalfi Coast We really need to start CO2 emissions from flying / day of vacation, because 10 days to Italy is really ridiculous.

assuming you plan to return does it matter if the trip is 1 day, 10 days, 100 days? you still have two flights.

Personal benefit versus cost to the planet ? You’re emitting 10x less CO2 per day if you stay there 10x as long :-)

Re: In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are essential to a career

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Post by jelliclesfarm »

jacquesm wrote: post #91
1996 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Count me in! I don't want to squander my resources on anyone but myself. As I often say, give me death or give me immortality! I am hopeful some crypto billionaires will share the same mindset, and pour resources into anti aging research at the cellular level.

I've got bad news for both of you: you're going to die, and you won't be resurrected. So better live your lives as if every day matters.

Life extension is not resurrection. It’s not possible to bring back the dead(Russians and J.B.S.Haldane may disagree)...but to put it in simpler terms..can Entropy be reversed? Second law says no. But if only...

The only other alternative is to upload ‘consciousness’, as it were.. entropy can be slowed down. Can’t be reversed or stopped. The arrow of time travels in only one direction.

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