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This is the least hacker news comment of all time and I love it. Maybe this weird era of SV-type a-social-life-and-sleep-is-for-pussies work mentality is actual

This is the least hacker news comment of all time and I love it. Maybe this weird era of SV-type a-social-life-and-sleep-is-for-pussies work mentality is actually starting the begin of its end. Or not. Maybe we're fucked.

dang 7y ago
That's a misperception of Hacker News. The majority of this community identifies strongly against the clichéd view you're describing. It lost its currency in SV years ago too, so far as I can tell. By the way, the last time I ran the numbers only about 10% of HN users turned out to be in the Bay Area.
- subhobroto 7y ago
  Agreed Daniel! > Maybe this weird era of SV-type a-social-life-and-sleep-is-for-pussies work mentality is actually starting the begin of its end. > Or not. Maybe we're fucked Well, we are very smart here. We have all worked through challenges, adversity and naysayers and landed on the top. However, we still have a long way to go. We still have to ask ourselves - so what's next? Each of us run FIRE simulations on our wealth, set our objectives on how much money to make next quarter so our conservative withdrawal rate on retirement still gets us the money we need to enjoy life. Why don't we run simulations on what happens when we get there? What do we do then? Who all do we spend it with? We can engineer complex systems that scale to a million users: we sure can engineer our own lives to scale to a dozen or so people if we give our future equal priority as the JIRA tickets on our plate this week. Surely?
- qwsxyh 7y ago
  If the majority of the community identifies against it why is it constantly upvoted?
  - that_jojo 7y ago
    Bizarrely, I was at +4 moments ago and now sit at -1
    - subhobroto 7y ago
      That's HN for you. If you can listen to me, don't correlate HN karma points with your worth. It's a measure of how closely you correlate with the typical HN reader and that itself changes over time. I have made more friends just through HN than the 200 odd HN karma points I have. Have learned infinitely more thanks to HN. As a person who believes that gun, healthcare and education are unalienable rights, people have a very tough time agreeing with me on all things, and me with them!
  - dang 7y ago
    Perceptions of what's "constantly upvoted" are in the eye of the beholder. People notice and remember the things they dislike. Since (I'm guessing) you dislike that attitude, you're more likely to remember such cases than, say, the GP comment, which is heavily upvoted. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20beholder https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
- that_jojo 7y ago
  That's totally fair. Every now and then I do see a "you're not working hard enough" flare-up on here though. But of course, the loudest voices are often minorities. That last bit is a pretty interesting stat, though.

dang 7y ago

That's a misperception of Hacker News. The majority of this community identifies strongly against the clichéd view you're describing. It lost its currency in SV years ago too, so far as I can tell. By the way, the last time I ran the numbers only about 10% of HN users turned out to be in the Bay Area.

subhobroto 7y ago
Agreed Daniel! > Maybe this weird era of SV-type a-social-life-and-sleep-is-for-pussies work mentality is actually starting the begin of its end. > Or not. Maybe we're fucked Well, we are very smart here. We have all worked through challenges, adversity and naysayers and landed on the top. However, we still have a long way to go. We still have to ask ourselves - so what's next? Each of us run FIRE simulations on our wealth, set our objectives on how much money to make next quarter so our conservative withdrawal rate on retirement still gets us the money we need to enjoy life. Why don't we run simulations on what happens when we get there? What do we do then? Who all do we spend it with? We can engineer complex systems that scale to a million users: we sure can engineer our own lives to scale to a dozen or so people if we give our future equal priority as the JIRA tickets on our plate this week. Surely?
qwsxyh 7y ago
If the majority of the community identifies against it why is it constantly upvoted?
- that_jojo 7y ago
  Bizarrely, I was at +4 moments ago and now sit at -1
  - subhobroto 7y ago
    That's HN for you. If you can listen to me, don't correlate HN karma points with your worth. It's a measure of how closely you correlate with the typical HN reader and that itself changes over time. I have made more friends just through HN than the 200 odd HN karma points I have. Have learned infinitely more thanks to HN. As a person who believes that gun, healthcare and education are unalienable rights, people have a very tough time agreeing with me on all things, and me with them!
- dang 7y ago
  Perceptions of what's "constantly upvoted" are in the eye of the beholder. People notice and remember the things they dislike. Since (I'm guessing) you dislike that attitude, you're more likely to remember such cases than, say, the GP comment, which is heavily upvoted. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20beholder https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
that_jojo 7y ago
That's totally fair. Every now and then I do see a "you're not working hard enough" flare-up on here though. But of course, the loudest voices are often minorities. That last bit is a pretty interesting stat, though.