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Re: Ask HN: What is a HN unpopular opinion that you hold?

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Post by meiraleal »

paulcole wrote: post #35

Remote is not inherently better than in-office work. They’re different things that appeal to different people. A person who prefers to work in-office with other people who work in-office (no remote team) is not a terrible person who has no social life outside of work. They simply have a preference. A company deciding to require in-office work is not evil. They’re making a decision that they think will pay off for the…

> Remote is not inherently better than in-office work

Remote is inherently better than in-office work even if some people prefer to work in-office. AutoCAD is better than drawing in boards even though until a few years ago lots of people would prefer to use drawing boards.

Re: Ask HN: What is a HN unpopular opinion that you hold?

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Post by 082349872349872 »

archagon wrote: post #58

Upvote-based, threaded discussions are not conversations and are severely lacking in nutritional value. They’re popular because they require little commitment and give you a quick dopamine hit. Real conversations happen on forums with linear discussions and are much better suited for community building and the exchange of ideas. Alas, they require a lot more work and we’ve gotten lazy. We all think we’re talking to e…

Or on mailing lists, which require (at most) little more work...

Re: Ask HN: What is a HN unpopular opinion that you hold?

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Post by 082349872349872 »

red-iron-pine wrote: post #47

HN is absolutely rife with shills -- by design to some degree, it's a startup-focused site, and that means talking about and pushing your org. but now it's owned hard by other bots, and for a site that discussed GPT before it was cool it has little protection from the bots. and, in general, agit-prop bot, esp. here, reddit, slashdot, etc. is through the roof

That's ok; the shills largely lose interest in any given convo after a day or so. Anyone left after that is probably real.

Re: Ask HN: What is a HN unpopular opinion that you hold?

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Post by gaws »

archagon wrote: post #58

Upvote-based, threaded discussions are not conversations and are severely lacking in nutritional value. They’re popular because they require little commitment and give you a quick dopamine hit. Real conversations happen on forums with linear discussions and are much better suited for community building and the exchange of ideas. Alas, they require a lot more work and we’ve gotten lazy. We all think we’re talking to e…

> Real conversations happen on forums

What forums?

Re: Ask HN: What is a HN unpopular opinion that you hold?

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Post by badpun »

rolph wrote: post #9

100 years-ish, due to extreme climate changes, we will be destined to live underground, full time surface dwelling will be unsustainable.

What will be wrong with living on the surface, that could be only fixed with living underground? The only thing that comes to my mind is radiation after a nuclear exchange.

Re: Ask HN: What is a HN unpopular opinion that you hold?

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Post by Gerlo »

latexr wrote: post #50
kypro wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a European it makes me sad to read this. The US is exceptional in almost every way – morally, technologically, economically, politically. While the US makes mistakes, and when it does its power means the consequences of those mistakes can be extreme, it's still overwhelmingly a force for good in a world that's becoming increasingly autocratic. Don't let critics put you down. The world needs you, and I for one am g…

> it's still overwhelmingly a force for good in a world that's becoming increasingly autocratic. The two people who hold the record for most votes received in a US presidential election¹ are Joe Biden in first and Donald Trump in second. They set those records in the same election, which was the last one. Donald Trump has said he wants to be a dictator, and plenty of his supporters have said on tape that they want th…

>Donald Trump has said he wants to be a dictator

Then he did a piss poor job of that considering he's not the president anymore.

Re: Ask HN: What is a HN unpopular opinion that you hold?

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Post by Rury »

austin-cheney wrote: post #40
Rury wrote: post #31

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Go tell that to my mother who's now in her 70s, who barely knows how to open her email (and thats assuming nothing out of the ordinary happens like her account gets locked). Yeah, linux isn't for everybody... Understanding this, is why Apple grew to become one of the most valuable companies on the planet.

A minor correction. Apple grew the majority of its wealth from the iTunes Store with exclusive agreements with rights holders and then repeated that pattern of exclusivity with its App Store on iPhones. Everything else is less than 10% of their valuation.

Only if you completely ignore the fact that Apple wouldn't have continued to exist, let alone the iTunes Store and the iPhone coming to exist, if it weren't for Steve Jobs saving the company in the 90s by prioritizing the customer experience above all else, and help making said products come to fruition in the first place. All of Apple's success stems from that. There would be no iTunes or iPhone customers to charge without, you know... iTunes or the iPhone, or if Apple had gone bankrupt. In other words, Apple would have never have grown to be so successful in the first place, if it never had made a good product in the first place.

Steve Jobs himself was vocal about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGKsbt5wii0

Re: Ask HN: What is a HN unpopular opinion that you hold?

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Post by Rury »

red-iron-pine wrote: post #44
Rury wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go tell that to my mother who's now in her 70s, who barely knows how to open her email (and thats assuming nothing out of the ordinary happens like her account gets locked). Yeah, linux isn't for everybody... Understanding this, is why Apple grew to become one of the most valuable companies on the planet.

my grandma cannot deal with changes on her laptop. comcast pop-ups throw her for a loop, and she gets hustled by indian scam callers. so i gave her an ubuntu desktop, changed it up to be comfortable to her, and then setup some reverse DNS so I could troubleshoot for her if needed. no issues so far.

Right, you did/do the work for her. That's why Apple grew to be successful, and Linux isn't for everybody.
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