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> compared to people who change colors on a webpage every once in a while. I’m sure it’s more complicated than that, but that being said... Finally someone sa

> compared to people who change colors on a webpage every once in a while. I’m sure it’s more complicated than that, but that being said... Finally someone said it! Ok, I understand that we’re in some anal-retentive age as humans, where we’re discovering our new digital medium and whatnot, but enough with the fixation on small shiny digital bullshit - it’s robbing us of real depth and wonder. And if it’s reached to the point where real engineering is depreciated, I wonder what carcasses lie ravaged in fields no one looks at until it’s too late. > It makes no sense. Why is web software so easy to make money in? Why do we value hard engineering so little? I think it’s understandable if you explain it using the same reason that mushrooms are clearly the better drug, but cocaine is the more popular one (our dopamine wiring? idk), criss-crossed with an actively pushed economic bubble that’s high on the rise, and will be for a long while.

galangalalgol 4y ago
Not sure that bubble is long for this world. Scarcity called, it said "remember me? Ive been on vacation to everywhere but the west, now I'm back!". What makes shrooms better than coke? Never tried either one, probably not stable enough to risk it, so curious what your valuation criteria are.
- achenet 4y ago
  not the person you're responding to, but I suspect it would be due to life outcomes of both - mushrooms have been shown to help people resolve past trauma and change their habits for the better, whereas cocaine tends to be habit forming and cokeheads are generally pretty unhappy people.
  - MonkeyClub 4y ago
    Yep that’s pretty much what I meant, plus that psychedelics in general have wider dimensions while cocaine is sort of a dumb drug. Not judging, just saying.
Consultant32452 4y ago
Software development is completely abstract and is one of the most difficult things humans do. An average codebase can easily hold millions of lines of code with millions more hidden in libraries that all have to work together. The complexity is incredible really. This post in no way diminishes the complexity of the hard sciences.

galangalalgol 4y ago

Not sure that bubble is long for this world. Scarcity called, it said "remember me? Ive been on vacation to everywhere but the west, now I'm back!". What makes shrooms better than coke? Never tried either one, probably not stable enough to risk it, so curious what your valuation criteria are.

achenet 4y ago
not the person you're responding to, but I suspect it would be due to life outcomes of both - mushrooms have been shown to help people resolve past trauma and change their habits for the better, whereas cocaine tends to be habit forming and cokeheads are generally pretty unhappy people.
- MonkeyClub 4y ago
  Yep that’s pretty much what I meant, plus that psychedelics in general have wider dimensions while cocaine is sort of a dumb drug. Not judging, just saying.

Consultant32452 4y ago

Software development is completely abstract and is one of the most difficult things humans do. An average codebase can easily hold millions of lines of code with millions more hidden in libraries that all have to work together. The complexity is incredible really. This post in no way diminishes the complexity of the hard sciences.