BrandonM

The same "lose" language is often used when discussing tax cuts or tax breaks ("lost tax revenue"). I wonder whether those journalists misunderstand economics that much, or if it's done on purpose.

My dad is out of a job now, too, but that’s because he got hurt at work, multiple times. He has had back issues my entire life because he got hurt at work.

The person proposing a consideration of negative consequences was “inspired” by jobs being automated away. Whether a researcher has considered the negative consequences enough will be determined by peer reviewers who have their own political leanings and potential agendas. In the end, I would expect the process to become completely subverted, without accomplishing much along the way.

> In my first ever AI class, we learned about how a system had been developed to automate something that had previously been a person’s job. Everyone said, “Isn’t this amazing?” — but I was concerned about who did these jobs. It stuck with me that no one else’s ears perked up at the significant downside to this very cool invention.

Statements like that are frightening to me. It’s incredibly hard to define “negative“ in a reasonable way, and I guarantee you that someone else is going to define it in a way you don’t like.

What’s the negative impact of the recent discovery of a non-quantum recommendation algorithm on the field of quantum computing? Should the young researcher have spent time considering and detailing that?

For example, Hacker News is absolutely a marketing vehicle for Y Combinator. Would you say that they "intrusively steal people's limited time and attention to force my manipulative product spam right into their faces"? You choose to come here, and in doing so, it elevates the brand of Y Combinator in your mind and in the world.

Marketers do all that stuff every day, and your system would still have them. You seem to be against advertising, which is a tiny subset of marketing.

In Mexico, Belize, southeast Asia, and southern Europe, I found everything to be much less reliable than I was used to. Everyone spent a lot time more waiting around. But I felt happier and more relaxed, and the people around me seemed to as well.

I think it might be more cultural than you seem to think.

It sounds like they were running out of money. So I guess it makes your experience better in that you get to keep using it.

If you can trade, then the right strategy is to rank the most popular school first so that you can trade it for the school you actually want.

The 3rd most popular podcast¹ regularly lasts 3+ hours. It's typically a conversation between Joe Rogan and a single guest.

¹ The Joe Rogan Experience, according to http://www.podbay.fm/browse/top

- Differentiating based on location can create an HR risk/burden.

- After you subtract out living costs, people living in a more desirable area still end up better compensated because they live in a more desirable area, with the associated cost difference subsidized by the employer.

I bet that describes a lot of the early HN (originally: Startup News) users. I don't think it was really "totally aloof engineers", but instead young geeks without much perspective on the world. Most of us weren't even engineers at that point, by any reasonable definition of the term.

I like to think that I've gained a lot of perspective over the last 11 years; it's pretty clear to me that point #1 was short-sighted and exhibited a lot of tunnel vision. Looking back, though, I still think that thread was a reasonable exchange. My 2nd and 3rd points were fair, and I conceded much of point 1 to you after your reply (which was very high quality).

Obviously, we have the benefit of hindsight now in seeing how well you were able to execute. Kudos on that!

Congrats on your success! I wish you nothing but the best going forward!