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Both. If you take 900 reasonably skilled people and direct them towards nonsense for a few years, that is definite value lost to society. It sounds like $1 bill
by graeme 4y ago
Both. If you take 900 reasonably skilled people and direct them towards nonsense for a few years, that is definite value lost to society. It sounds like $1 billion in actual cash was lost this way. And the buildings they were in could have housed useful activity, the computers they bought could have done useful things, etc.
Those people could have been doing useful things. And it sounds like their activities were worse than nonsense, they actually destroyed money they were given.
- Haga 4y agoIt's a whole societal trend, away from real progress towards virtual gambling. I would trade the whole crypto currency space in for one well financed fusion research project.
- graeme 4y ago^Haga, if you can see this, your comment below mine is dead. Went through your history, doesn't look like you've said anything astonishingly objectionable recently. Your comments are all dead
- shagie 4y agoIf you think they're good comments, click directly onto them and [vouch] for them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11589410 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11589410 (edit) going back... a there appears to be a period of fairly consistent one liner hot takes that may have been received poorly.
- graeme 4y agoYeah, noticed that. Figured that warranted downvotes more than being dead, though it is a tough call as the site could become reddit with too much of that
- drexlspivey 4y agoYes imagine how many more ads these 900 people could crank into your feed if they worked at FB. Truly a lost opportunity to put their skills at work for the greater good.
- ethanbond 4y agoBecause these are the only two options that exist for software-capable people. Come on.