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The fact that so many people on HN dislike this proves hacker culture died in programming..
I liked it. I also think he sounds like a dick and a tiring man to know, and I'm confused by the people who themselves confuse dislike for the person with dislike for the writing.
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It's pretty sad, actually, how much negative vibe is here. This man is hustle culture personified. What's the problem? Alternatively, he's the epitome of a "disruptor". What's the issue? Oh, perhaps it's that he's holding up a light at what is at the end of the tunnel if we keep going the way society is--complete instability for the peons who are completely at the whim of a small number of the rich.
Homosexual prostitution for drugs is a long way from most people's definition of hustle culture. Also how is he a disruptor? It seems like he's someone that has been VERY lucky to get opportunities many people strive for and he has fucked them up. Then he acts like his only options are fraud and theft because there's always someone closing the door on him for being himself.
The question I have not yet seen in the comments here is whether or not this post is real or fiction. Is it the journal of a questionable character, or a deliberate attempt to push people's buttons? And honestly, that is why I like it. I really hope it cannot be taken at face value - that would be disappointment.
I don't see anything about a movie called Interlaken being developed. On IMDB, I do see an Andrew Norman Wilson as the director of the short films he mentions in the article. Who knows about the individual details in it. I'm sure it's sort of directionally true. It's believable at any rate.
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I really don't know what to think. Sure, there's 8 billion people on Earth, the chances that I am the main character are tiny. But at the same time whenever I try treating people the same way I treat myself, I quickly get into misunderstandings and disappointments, and navigating the world with an assumption that most people are NPCs while just a handful are actual sentient beings has proven way more practical.
What if you try to treat people the way they want to be treated instead of how you want to be treated? I think the "golden rule" has been often misinterpreted as " treat people how you want to be treated" which leads to this misunderstanding that you called out. If we change it to being empathetic towards them and treating them how they want to be treated, the NPCs seem to become fully fledged characters.
Then it's obvious that I'm not one of them because their needs and wants are different from mine.
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There's something gross about people trying to force this sonder neologism through but I can't put my finger on it I'm hardly a prescriptivist either
I think of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows as an art project. I never got the impression that we were supposed to start using these words. It's interesting and entertaining, like when I learned the Czech word "litost" from "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera. "Litost is a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery." Part five of this book is about Litost, a kind of misery-in…
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I think of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows as an art project. I never got the impression that we were supposed to start using these words. It's interesting and entertaining, like when I learned the Czech word "litost" from "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera. "Litost is a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery." Part five of this book is about Litost, a kind of misery-in…
Listen, if Robert Burton didn't see fit to include it in the Anatomy of Melancholy it doesn't exist. Same goes for all this DSM stuff. Doesn't exist.
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It's pretty sad, actually, how much negative vibe is here. This man is hustle culture personified. What's the problem? Alternatively, he's the epitome of a "disruptor". What's the issue? Oh, perhaps it's that he's holding up a light at what is at the end of the tunnel if we keep going the way society is--complete instability for the peons who are completely at the whim of a small number of the rich.
Homosexual prostitution for drugs is a long way from most people's definition of hustle culture. Also how is he a disruptor? It seems like he's someone that has been VERY lucky to get opportunities many people strive for and he has fucked them up. Then he acts like his only options are fraud and theft because there's always someone closing the door on him for being himself.
The slang term for this is literally "hustling"
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What makes it seem like, from this piece anyway, that he is from an affluent family? (I don’t know the author/artist whatsoever.) Describe to me the phone call you think ought to take place.
"Hey mum, can I move back into your two-bedroom ranch house in North Carolina?" "Oh honey, of course you can!" Note that he did in fact move back in, so this conversation must have happened in some form.
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As a black man, I'd appreciate the lawsuit-opener over my reality, which is just people seeing my alma mater and name and pretending I don't exist.
That would make me pretty mad as well. I'm sorry if that happens to you.