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by hdhdhsjsbdh 19d ago
Arguably someone at the center of the US political spectrum is right wing by any other standard. This is why someone like Zohran with policies that are otherwise fairly sensible and moderate gets painted as far left. Within that framing it
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 21d ago
I agree.
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 21d ago
Seems like the only thing left to value will be social capital. If all forms of labor are free, the only thing that matters is how many people you know, what they think of you, whether they listen to you.
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 28d ago
Americans are so silly. Resentful of being told to do anything for their own good or the good of others because of “individual liberty”, yet so willing to lick the boot of the police state and corrupt crony capitalists. Good news for you is
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 1mo ago
“Careless People” lays it out pretty well – you either need to make the right friends in college at an Ivy League or you need to be friends with someone else who did. If you made the mistake of not being born into a family that groomed you
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3mo ago
It’s not exactly a free choice when the built environment and infrastructure is designed around a single mode of transport. I can’t just “choose to cycle” when there are no bike paths, or “choose to walk” when things are spread out and sepa
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3mo ago
> I rode across town in a self-driving Tesla the other day while giving orders to its AI system about how and where to go. That was a pretty sci-fi dream world experience. That's worth quite a bit of corruption. This is why people h
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3mo ago
> Would you even want to work somewhere where you need to play a role and where they flip out when you say the wrong word you should've correctly guessed through mind reading? This just sounds like a standard tech interview. Mind re
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3mo ago
You seem to live in the real reality, and presumably people care about what you think there because it’s actually real. So why not enlighten us, help explain it to us deluded people? Or you can just be rude and vague.
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3mo ago
What are the tells? Since COVID I’ve noticed that every new person I meet seems to harbor at least 1 or 2 oddball opinions. Conversation tends to veer into weirder places than it used to, creating a surreal sort of feeling of being in the w
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3mo ago
What an odd thing to say to someone lamenting the passing of their friend. Maybe you should try some cardio.
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 4mo ago
I find this aggressively anti-intellectual, anti-expert strain of thought pretty concerning. Bureaucratic bullshit exists, for sure, but not every single system that requires credentials and expertise to navigate effectively is self-evident
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 4mo ago
I’m not exactly making an argument for Soviet-style central planning. In a way, the system we have is its own form of central planning, except those with the power to do the planning are people like Zuckerberg, Musk, etc, and there is not e
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 4mo ago
When you look at the eye-watering amount of money that Zuckerberg has spent on false starts in the past ~10 years, it makes you wonder whether capitalism truly does produce the most efficient allocation of resources. Granted, a lot of that
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 4mo ago
Parallel to that, I have to imagine Costco makes a lot of money off of impulse purchases, which are induced by uncertainty in the specific items they will have available, plus mutable store layouts. Long ago in undergrad I took a retail mar
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 4mo ago
BYD has to me become an icon of US decline vs Chinese expansion. It’s just one example among many of China charting the way forward and innovating while the US recedes further into backward-looking, protectionist policy. See: US politicians
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 5mo ago
Yet more evidence of the rapid disassembly of the social contract and our collective ethics, aided of course by unregulated tech. If you work for – or are involved in the funding of – these unregulated gambling and insider trading platforms
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 5mo ago
American exceptionalism is crazy. We do not always come out on top. Sometimes – quite frequently actually – we are dumb as shit, overplay our hand, and create more problems for ourselves than we solve. 4D chess is a myth.
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 5mo ago
The American dream in 2026, bundled up and served on an LLM-generated plate. Writing your own posts for real is low-value $5 an hour work. We all know the real meaning of life is “asymmetric upside.” Don’t do it because you love it or becau
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 5mo ago
Yikes, I guess American tendency for narcissism, cultural rot, and attention-seeking at all costs has fully permeated the global culture. This brat will probably be successful in life and that’s exactly why everything’s going to shit.
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 6mo ago
Psychedelic therapy is unlikely to ever become mainstream treatment for serious mental illness like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. In those cases, it’s significantly more likely to cause more problems than it solves. In general these ne
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 6mo ago
Near future being the key term here imo. The entire task I mentioned was not an engineering problem, but a communication issue. The two project owners could have just talked to each other about the design, then coded it correctly in the fir
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 6mo ago
It has made my job an awful slog, and my personal projects move faster. At work, the devs up the chain now do everything with AI – not just coding – then task me with cleaning it up. It is painful and time consuming, the code base is a mess
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 7mo ago
> In our shop, we have hundreds of agents working on various problems at any given time. Most of the code gets discarded. What we accept to merge are the good parts. What you’ve described is an incredibly expensive and inefficient geneti
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 7mo ago
I look forward to the day we pull our heads out of the sand and stop excusing blatant corruption. It takes a naive view of the world to assume the Secretary of Commerce has access to the same limited information as you or I. Let’s call all
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 7mo ago
While some of it is boosting the abnormal behaviors of people suffering from mental illness, I think you’re making a false equivalency. Mental illness is not required to be an asshole. In fact, most Twitter assholes are probably not mentall
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 7mo ago
So why are we still telling ourselves this process is used to assess suitability for a job? Is it not just a hazing process? Maybe tech sucks because people who take the abuse or game the system outnumber the results oriented
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Ask HN: Why does it feel like qualifications are irrelevant to hirers?
2 points by hdhdhsjsbdh 7mo ago|4 comments
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 7mo ago
So then the corps find a way to fire you for something other than AI displacement, replace you with AI anyway, and you’re on your own. Basically identical to firing someone in a clever way that avoids having to pay unemployment, which alrea
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 7mo ago
Goes both ways. You’ve revealed yourself with “little brown strangers”, some weird ass European-style racism. I bet you’ve got a lot of strong opinions about different races of people from neighboring countries who look and sound only margi

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