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by apsurd 3mo ago
You're convincing me to side with this ori_b here. I knee-jerked downvoted their initial take because it reads as ineffective. boycotts just concentrate the energy of the other side even more. If anything we need more participation acr
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by apsurd 3mo ago
it’s easy to agree with your point on the surface, but then we’d be handwaving a lot of negative subtle signaling. I think because HN is mostly developers on the inside we have to assume that a non-Technical audience might see it differentl
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by apsurd 3mo ago
from a business standpoint, PMF was never about the underlying software. It’s a developer’s wet dream to toil away in a garage toward some Technical ideal, and then have the world applaud their genius and shower them with money. Now to be f
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by apsurd 3mo ago
it cannot be discussed or else it becomes the flow.
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by apsurd 3mo ago
i’m not the parent, but you’re using college and learning interchangeably in the discussion. Learning is indisputably causal and necessary and valuable toward a better life and better earning and employment opportunities. what’s in debate i
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by apsurd 3mo ago
Zuck is a world class operator. He’s led one of the top richest companies of all time. I think the world is worse for it but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. The list is just to refute the idea that it was one weird trick that gave him t
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by apsurd 3mo ago
also: face tagging in photos, the fb app platform and the like button pioneered concepts that we take for granted today. also, how product is done internally, growth metrics, all borne from facebook. The like button is an ingenious and insi
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by apsurd 3mo ago
corporate espionage at global scale to get ahead of existential threats is some pretty insightful leadership, it’s all a matter of what team you’re rooting for.
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by apsurd 3mo ago
the distinction is specific to the economic value calculation. it’d be disingenuous to assume the conversation is about anything other than the economic trade off. That said, wholly agree that if school was about learning, it’s great for ad
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by apsurd 3mo ago
Same experience. "Is school worth it" is divisive because it speaks to people's investment and value system. I too have a full and successful career in software without any degree largely for the same reason you mentioned:
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by apsurd 3mo ago
causality direction violation. is it because of the degree that people get jobs or is it because everybody tells everyone that they need a degree that they get a degree to permit themselves to apply to get the job? the productive takeaway i
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by apsurd 3mo ago
Yes, this is documented in Bloom's Taxonomy for learning/education. Creating is the highest level of understanding. Remember – Recall facts, definitions, formulas (memorization). Understand – Explain ideas in your own wo
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by apsurd 3mo ago
point 3 means basically optimize for not retaining wealth? =\
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by apsurd 3mo ago
You'd be missing the point though. The foundational point. All things have their origin story. (both things are true, yes reality is infinitely more complex and no you're probably not going to be the next President or cure cancer
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by apsurd 3mo ago
yeah clearly a manufactured excuse to get attention on the project. This is YC HN after all, can't knock it but I also can't bring myself to upvote either.
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by apsurd 3mo ago
yeah weird, retro pixel is clearly the 8-bit game vibe, but this seems to mean.. square corners?
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by apsurd 3mo ago
I don’t think meaning is as malleable as implied. Yes, meaning is entirely subjective, but it’s not boundlessly so. The reason history is a guide is because the needs were more directly connected to the whole maslov’s hierarchy thing. Survi
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by apsurd 3mo ago
I've read Sapiens. And I liked it. It's very insightful. But that perception is a perception so I don't understand the distinction you're making. Human advancement is a story we tell ourselves. Agree. That it in any way
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by apsurd 3mo ago
no because we have no way to understand the full consequence chain of any stated goal. We see this time and time again in all complex system goals; unintended consequences. So RSI toward what prompted goal? Then, how can you be so sure that
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by apsurd 3mo ago
it doesn’t have to be that deep or specific. all things decay on a curve. pretty much all things in life are not modeled by a straight line. so you’re saying no theres still more UP. sure, but that’s a tale as old as time. when where and ho
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by apsurd 3mo ago
but you’re just on the other end doing the same thing. one end is luddites nothing to see here, and the other end is omg humanity is cooked because programming is solved! and consciousness is coding so -> gg yes there’s a wide surface of
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by apsurd 3mo ago
from a coding perspective, it’s about actual value creation. the llms cost money. The subscriptions are a great value subsidized by the frontier model companies. llms ability to output usable code is insane, I agree. It changed the industry
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by apsurd 3mo ago
I too am immediately fatigued by the insta-landing pages people pump out. react-create-app or whatever. no thought whatsoever because "design is a solved problem". pause for sighing. Ok that said, I mean it makes sense, people are
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by apsurd 3mo ago
hah, that made me laugh. To this day I'm so proud to have learned how to repeatedly just wipe my PC C drive when needed then reinstall XP or whatever. I'm just a web-dev that got their start by googling "how to make a website
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by apsurd 3mo ago
easy: we all need breaks. breaks are not bad. living doesn't only mean "doing actions"
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by apsurd 3mo ago
come on now. so even if you're right, checking out emotionally and spiritually just means more life lived. That ain't some kind of bad thing. life is good sometimes. hard sometimes. and it's long sometimes, so give people a b
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by apsurd 3mo ago
Agreed, I'd say tinkering for profit has become the defacto optimization and tinkering for its own sake is less fashionable because it commands no attention. and everyone is obsessed with the modern currency: attention. To be clear, I&
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by apsurd 3mo ago
My read is that there does seem a clear difference between simple -> advanced machines vs simple -> "smart" machines. Nearly every smart machine is bullshit enshitification-in-waiting. Rent-seeking in-waiting. Smart tvs, sma
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by apsurd 3mo ago
The financialization of everything is what's ruining everything. In the computer and internet realm, there's warm nostalgia from hours spent tinkering, building one's own PC, reformatting C drives due to malware, searching fo
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by apsurd 3mo ago
writing well is really hard. other mediums are other mediums. sure the new mediums have reach going for them, but im not sure socrates would’ve enjoyed or optimized for popularity.

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