oldmanthrowit

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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
No. Hacker News has become a forum for uber nationalistic right-winged libertarians. Be them Israeli, Catalanian, Amurrikkkan, or other, HN lays somewhere in-between 4chan and the daily stormer. Imma keep posting what I want, Adolf.
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
Did you really just compare Catalonia: A bunch of rich, entitled Spanish brexiter equivalents to Kurds who are being slaughtered by ISIS, Assad, Russia, and Türkiye? Really???? I spend 2 months per year in Catalonia. There are no kids witho
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
Looking at my records, around February 1994 was when I hit $100k, and I'm really a medicore engineer. This formulaic post is just sad. It's almost as bad as reading Oleg's posts on LinkedIN. I hired a FELON!
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
Why does anybody still use Chrome? Really, Google is a criminal data theft organization. Why not just take all of your browsing data and publish it online, skip the middle man?
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
If ever there were an appropriate time to invoke Godwin's law.
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
Uh, so what, this is tech. I started making 6 figures a few weeks after my 18th birthday, over 20 years ago. I've worked with hundreds, if not thousands of people in their teens, or under 23, who made 6 figures. That's the indust
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
It doesn't work that way. At that point, they cease being militants and become warlords.
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
Agreed, I know at least a dozen atheist Jews who are Jewish ethnically (Sephardic / Ashkenazi) / culturally, but not religiously.
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
> Punk's original ethos was "I don't like my parents' music and culture and I don't know how to play an instrument but I still wanna express myself". This isn't even close to the reality. You might enjo
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
> and so were Nazi skinheads, although they sucked. But as you say, opinions vary. Nazi skinheads are alcoholic sociopaths who dream of an authoritarian, fascist world dictatorship. I'm not sure how that fits the punk ethos?
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
Maybe? Haven't watched television in 20 years.
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
:( I'm sorry to hear that. Have you considered getting a job as a developer? I hit $100k just before my 19th birthday and have never been below it since (I'm almost double now), nor had problems finding work.
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
In parallel, how about hiring an army of nerds to defeat meddling in the election both by foreign agents, and by agents hired by domestic politicians. Social media and hackers have more power than corporations now. It's easier to manip
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
Palantir called me yesterday for a pretty senior position. I politely told them that they would need to pay me $500k just to talk to them, and they said they could probably make a $750k/year package. I responded by sending the recruite
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Ask HN: How much would it cost to sell yourself out to a company like Palantir?
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
OKCupid held onto their integrity as long as they could. After the HotOrNot-derived dating apps popped up, and the Match purchase, they definitely lost their way. If I had to date again, I would just meet people at bars, without OKCupid&#x
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
OKCupid and Tinder, I think, are the only honest dating sites, and they've gotten far less so the past few years.
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by oldmanthrowit 7y ago
A decade or so ago I worked at AdultFriendFinder.com, then the largest dating site. We had 20 or so different properties, covering every niche from "jewishfriendfinder" to "alt.com" On paper we had about 50 million users