> earning money off of your looks
I'm assuming your taking about the sex workers of OnlyFans. I find your attitudes a bit dismissive and offensive. These are real humans with real feelings that you're talking about with such little regard.
Plus, I earn money off of my natural intelligence. I didn't do anything to gain it in the first place, I just happened to have intelligent parents.
> doesn't qualify as hard-working job
Two questions:
1. Why doesn't it qualify as a job if they are earning income?
2. Why should someone have to "work hard" to earn a living? If have a high-value easy-to-sell product, then why work harder than you need to?
Revenue == Usefulness (to the recipient of the revenue)
Analogy to non-software biz:
1. CandyCo buys ChocolateCo
2. CandyCo changes ChocolateCo recipe to use less expensive ingredients, generating new revenue for CandyCo, but less tasty chocolates for ChocolateCo's long time customers.
3. The new revenue has disparate usefulness for the two interested parties.
Strange thing, I tried it on my FireTV to block youtube ads, but it didn't work. I wouldn't be surprised if the FireTV monkies around with user settings. The other explanation could be that youtube uses the same hostname for videos and ads, so the DNS blocking can't distinguish.
It's about rejecting the default career path which our society considers normal and desirable. The default path is the one where you go to school, enter a career, work the career until you retire ... etc.
I have been a lot of trouble lately figuring out why I'm so unhappy with my career. I knew I was on the wrong path, but I couldn't see the next step on my trail in life. This book made me see that there are plenty of people living happily off the default path. The books made me more determined to seek the pathless path.
I suggest reading it for anyone who is feeling listless in their career and needs a fresh new perspective.
I like the idea, I'll fill out your form later today.
Feedback on the website:
On the graphic at the bottom where you overlay different models of phone:
1. I think the red/green/blue borders would benefit from more contrast. It's hard for my eyes to distinguish.
2. I think you should add a deck of cards to the graphic. It would provide a frame of reference for scale.
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P.S.
I just noticed the "Extrapolating from past models, the Pixel 10 will be roughly the size of California" below the graphic. If the purpose of the graphic was purely to accompany that joke, then I guess ignore my suggestions.
Although, a deck of cards may contribute to the joke. Hmmm
I have this speculative theory that Elon Musk's public behavior is a complex long term ruse. I suspect his odd behavior is intentionally designed to get other to underestimate him. Consider it a mental form of the drunken fist martial arts style [1], where a fighter will use unpredictable body movements to confuse the opponent.
I use the word "theory" intentionally. I have explainable reasons for how I formed this theory. But now is not the place for that.
I could never have read Atlas Shrugged if not for the audio book. I've always struggled with staying focused while reading a book. I'm too easily distracted.
If you are actually interested in learning more about the ideas presented in the book, I suggest you get a copy of the audio book. You might be able to find it at your local library ... thought I can't imagine how many CDs that would be. It's on Audible too, and other less official online sources.
For me, it's was sort of eye opening to read the book. It smoothed out some chips on my shoulder that drove my cynical view in life. Even though it was fiction, I still empathized with the character's struggles. I could connect it to real world events and human behavior that I had observed.
There are some books that help you see the world through different eyes. For me, Atlas Shrugged was an effective one.
The Fountainhead was similar. I connected with the frustration of young Wynand's attempts at grade school, only to find himself surrounded by dumb children and incompetent adults.
Trains derailing regularly is consider acceptable and to be expected, infrastructure being tasked with jobs for which it was not designed, calls for more resources ignored, policy makers prioritizing profit over safe and efficient transportation of goods.
This sounds like something from a fictional dystopian novel.
Interesting little article. To me, it speaks like the author is a bit remorseful for spending so much time on academic pursuits, and not building important social skills.
I can recall in my youth making the assumption that someone was entirely stupid because they didn't share my breadth of knowledge. Like the author, I never considered that they spent their time in pursuit of other knowledge.
I'm not sure where that inclination originated. It seems like a modeled behavior, but I can't think from where I learned it. Or perhaps it's just human nature, and the behavior we need to taught is to appreciate how vastly different everyone is from yourself.
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It's funny to see the replies to this post where the people thought the topic was "Ask HN: What video game are you playing right now?"
Eh, it's one thing to know a highly memorable quote. It's another to remember the following line.
I've listened to the audiobooks of that series so many times.
Tangent, they got Simon Jones to read for book 6. which i thought was a mistake. He played Arthur in he radio dramas. It made the audiobook hard to follow because every character sounded like Authur.
I feel the same way about my time in elementary school. My theory is that it was boredom that made school time feel so slow. Summer vacation always seemed to fly by.
I like to use DEBT for times when I'm writing code that I know are poor practices, and will need to be refactored, but I'm in a mood where I just want to get something built that I can see and UI test.
> that this should be intrinsic to product design at this point
I don't think it is feasible to engineer products in a way which optimizes their disposal. Certainly that is not something most consumers are concerned with. Surely if it were, there would be fewer manufacturers selling junk fall-apart products.
> Politicians should be melted at the stake (pour molten plastic over them) - as they have failed to hold ZERO petroleum (plastics) producing company TRULY accountable for anything.
I find it unlikely that many politicians are interested in holding to account any plastics manufacturer for the pollution caused by their products. But, for exactly what should they be held accountable ?
And, on whose onus the proper disposal of plastics products? I say it's the consumer, not the manufacturer.
I worked at a startup where the single room bathroom opened into the kitchenette. It's rather unpleasant to smell your co-worker's poo as you're heating up your lunch.
I'm not sure if the office space was like that when they leased it, or if they had it designed that way intentionally due to space constrains. But when they expanded the office, they missed the opportunity to change the bathroom so it opened into a hallway of the new square-footage.
> Does it become toxic micro particles in our waters, bodies?
I think the answer to that question lays somewhere between maybe and probably.
I'm curious, what made you bring up the point ? Is micro-particle poisoning a common concern for you. Or perhaps it was it the context of micro-particles being used in the aforementioned products which have short ownership-periods ?
I'm not trying to dismiss your concern, I'm just curious why bring it up now.
On the topic of shortly-owned-products, I for one have a dislike for cheap plastic beach toys. For example, the retailer Dollar Tree sells plastic sand buckets that break at an amount of force easily exerted by a child. At the beach where I vacation, you can peer into any trashcan and find broken sand toys and foam boogie boards which only break after one day of use.
Plus, I earn money off of my natural intelligence. I didn't do anything to gain it in the first place, I just happened to have intelligent parents.
> doesn't qualify as hard-working job
Two questions:
1. Why doesn't it qualify as a job if they are earning income?
2. Why should someone have to "work hard" to earn a living? If have a high-value easy-to-sell product, then why work harder than you need to?