Yes we see this comment rehashed on every crypto thread on HN, why?
Because it still bears saying, especially given how many people are just looking for greater fools to hold their bag. Inevitably the replies include a barrage of whataboutism centered on “fiat currency” in an attempt to normalize or justify the cryptocurrency shitshow.
You turned off flags, but now you’re doing something else yourself. You’re being honest, but not really telling the whole story.
Your thumb is very much on the scale however, where existing community sentiment doesn’t do the job.
Edit: I didn’t intend to be cryptic or confuse you. I mean just that proclaiming you’ve put one of many tools on the shelf for this thread in no way implies what you tried to imply.
Ah yes... perks. Makes those endless late nights a bit less awful. Plus you get to work on such wonderful stuff! The Juicero team is probably still swollen with um... pride.
Above average salary paired with wasaay above average cost of living and nightmare commutimg.
Plus a chance at striking it rich which is somewhere between playing Powerball and the nickel slots.
But hey, at least most of you love what you do, and wouldn’t choose to use your skills in a more productive way. I’m sure that a group who talks endlessly about FOSS doesn’t mind Google’s vision. Sure the FB team believes in privacy, but just one more pull on the slots!
Edit: @Dang
I disagree, and your dislike of my style stopped bothering me a while ago.
So save your breath for threatening people with orders of magnitude more time here than me with bans, and then hilariously pleading with their sockpuppets to respect that ban. I am not impressed.
From what I’ve observed, the idea is to work in hell (edit: obviously hyperbole) until enough money is made to work on your own. Needless to say that doesn’t seem to be the majority experience. The carrot is money and security and the dream of fuck you money. The stick is being a code monkey who is still treated like shit, but who can’t even dream of early retirement and personal projects. It’s a shallow philosophy, but there it is.
The willingness to take tons of shit from above, and the ability to rationalize the waste of talent seems to be what you’d expect from a glorified casino for billionaires. Variable-Ratio reward training will fuck you up.
Edit: I would guess that fear plays a role too. I recall a poster here saying they wished they could change their circumstances, but they look at the guy delivering their pizza and feel terrified that could be them.
Edit: Or a mod can just minimize this, but sadly it changes nothing, least of the the reality of your situation.
I had the same issue, and essentially developed a lingo to speak to those kinds of people. More contractions, dropped g’s, “fucking” used as an adjective. It’s been a couple of decades, and every time I switch to that, I feel like an utter fraud, but sadly it works. I can’t imagine what I’d do if that hadn’t been an option though.
Edit: Support group at my place everyone, coffee and donuts will be provided. ;)
Fair point, I took your “one man alone” comment to mean something it didn’t necessarily imply. I’m sorry for any offense I’ve caused with that unwarranted assumption.
It takes far more energy to make new glass than to clean and reuse old glass. Even melting existing glass is valuable, as it lowers the melting point of the raw materials and therefore energy expenditure. Until glass manufacture uses solar or wind or something similar, it’s an issue.
The problem isn’t a lack of silica, it’s yet more waste of energy and pollution purely screwing is over.
Glass can only be recycled so many times and then it is worthless as you say. Value depends on the quality, color, and clarity of the glass. Given that cullet is necessary to make new glass, there is always a market for it. Best of all though, bottles can be cleaned and reused many times for a fraction of the energy cost of making new ones.
There are a lot of subtleties to recycling, some in favor generally, environmentally, and economically... some not.
It’s a feature, in the same way that the decentralized nature of white collar crime is a feature. The bug is in the people who naively believe that technology changes human nature, rather than empowering it.
Those people need to be locked in a small room with an excellent library to study history for at least a year.
I wouldn’t sell NBC weapons short... at least not the B and N parts. Nukes are dangerous in the hands of nations, but my god you just wait until every asshole with a laptop and $10,000 worth of equipment can customize their own plague. We’re not quite there yet, but we’re close, and regulating that is going to be utterly impossible.
It’s possible to exist in a relative detente between nations, but when the capacity to end human civilization is democratized we are dead. Many forms of incredible tech are really maturing, and frankly our laws are a century or more behind. We’re in real trouble if we have to wait to be burned to believe in the fire this time.
Unfortunately it seems that most of the smartest people are desperately trying to strike it rich, and that’s just about all. Even most of the people who want to make a difference only feel they can/should after making “fuck you money.”
I doubt that they still believe that, as much as they are highly incentivized to claim that. Bitcoin is a disasterous enterprise as it continues to scale poorly. But hey, some people get rich (for a while) and others get to have a waking ideological wet dream, so who cares if it’s a tragic exercise in “printing” entropy and calling it value.
Whataboutism isn’t going to change that.
Besides, hasn’t the world suffered enough for the sake of grasping ideologues? Does everything need to be seen through these same bland lenses? This is a truly maddening and mad use of a currently limited resource with globally damaging externalities, and it produces nothing except waste heat.
If the average Joe really understood this, and just how modest the real potential of blockchain tech probably is, there would be lynchings.
What you can do as one man is precisely nothing, except to make yourself feel a bit better. Caring in the absence of organizing and acting, is that really caring? At the very least our priorities are made clear by our actions and not our attitudes.
Because it still bears saying, especially given how many people are just looking for greater fools to hold their bag. Inevitably the replies include a barrage of whataboutism centered on “fiat currency” in an attempt to normalize or justify the cryptocurrency shitshow.