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by zwkrt 4y ago
That sounds nice but is there a case when 'strong men' created good times? The example that I see people gravitate toward here is how soldiers coming back from WW2 in the US 'created' a society of unprecedented prosperit
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I think it is individualism more than straight-up narcissism, but the two go closely hand-in-hand. But I do think there is a difference between people who have been enculturated to not need (or think they need) community and people who woul
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Girly is a social construct. As such, if a sufficient number of men believe that a Miata is girly, it is girly. I'm a gay guy who used to own a Miata, because I thought it was fun and wasn't overly concerned about how it would aff
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Different strokes for different folks. I would rather the excitement in my life didn't come from my job as much as possible.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Quite a broad generalization. Sounds like people who don't have an actual plan for their money other than to have more of it. The kind of person who retires and realizes they don't even know what to do now that they aren't st
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Explicit nullability is one of my favorite features of kotlin. Kotlin basically treats nulls like a checked exception: deal with a null value immediately or incur the mental overhead of having your data treated like a 2nd-class citizen in a
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I've worked for Amazon and have friends that work for Meta. As much as it pains me to say it, I don't think that as a whole those who were laid off would make a very good company. There are exceptions, like I think Amazon made suc
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Maybe I am just brilliant but this has been obvious to me the whole time. Advertisement and the 'need' to market to groups results in reifying those groups in the population. The more the marketing works, the more the groups actua
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by zwkrt 4y ago
That isn’t what I mean at all. I’m just differentiating “discovery” from “being shown”
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by zwkrt 4y ago
> discovery of content that you're interested in I am skeptical of this line of thinking, even for something like Hacker News. It is the same thing that people say about TikTok, and pretty much every other preceding social network&#
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by zwkrt 4y ago
The big difference between most people's relationship with their father and their mother (at least for us of a certain age) is that fathers historically were not involved in caring how their children felt. The traditional role of the f
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I'm not worried about getting fired, I'm just trying to see if anyone has a similar experience of shifting priorities without finding an entirely new position. For the sake of not having to disclose the specifics of my personal li
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Ask HN: Do you have any experience asking to be down-leveled at $Corporate_Job?
32 points by zwkrt 4y ago|31 comments
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Same as with music theory, writing, programming, or other creative endeavors or art. The thing is that when someone creates something from their heart, from an incredible desire to create and share their vision or experience, it often ends
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by zwkrt 4y ago
This doesn’t make any sense at all to me. If the video itself is a problem, it shouldn’t matter if it was recommended by a human with human intents or by an algorithm designed with capitalistic intent. It would be hard to convince me that t
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Why is this women’s fault somehow?
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by zwkrt 4y ago
If tickets were regularly given out in this way I think it would lead to even worse driving behavior. Sometimes I find myself going 10mph over the speed limit because that is the rate that traffic is going. If I knew that there was some MVT
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I don't know if you meant to, but all three of those links are hilarious if you read them. The first one has `moving toward` in the title, which is academic speak for "it doesn't work and we don't know how to make it wor
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I feel like this is a classic example of trying to engineer a non-engineering problem. Isn't what we need to just maybe not eat so much? As an aside, most people's calories come mainly from carbohydrates anyhow.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
s/produce/replay Yes reproduction allowed the top .01% of musicians to gain world renown, but as GP stated it really made the activity of socially enjoying and creating music less accessible.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
It’s possible but I don’t really buy it. There’s a very real sense in which narcissism is just a lack of acquired skills that most people have. That skill being the ability to see both the good things and the bad things about yourself and a
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Self checkout makes it very easy to buy sushi for the price of peanuts.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
In bike messenger circles there is a phrase "steel is real". The idea being that when you inevitably eat shit going around a corner you might dent your frame, but the chances that a steel frame will crack or shatter is basically z
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by zwkrt 4y ago
At the very least there seem to be 10s of causes of schizophrenia and just as many different manifestations of it. Similar to cancer or depression in that regard.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I loved both it and the book. More than just being fun, I think that it really does a good job of capturing the feeling of what it was like to be a hippie in the early 70s, realizing that the world is moving on and your dreams aren't c
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by zwkrt 4y ago
This doesn’t make any sense at all. If buying twitter was just a complication, why is he being so active in it? If I found myself accidentally buying a company outside my wheelhouse, I would find some suitable management and not touch it an
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by zwkrt 4y ago
The philandering of rich young NYC men is not exactly an unbiased sample.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Weve been "paying" to take care of our elders in various ways since the beginning of humanity. The only problem is that in our ponzi scheme capitalist culture if someone can't make money they are considered dead weight.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Oh I don’t have experience teaching a second language but I have quite a bit of experience teaching programming. Luckily, when I’ve taught programming it’s been in a context where there is no need to validate the learners acquisition outsid
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Top comments are about how gig work can help make ends meet for people who are struggling. By some estimates 9% of adults are currently doing tech-enabled gig-work, or have done it in the past. That is too many people trying to make ends me

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