That's in the shadows, right?
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Can I ask, does that mean you got so worn out so you couldn't work, had to stay at home / away-from-work for some time?
I wonder what happened afterwards. Seems you now work as an independent contractor now? (looking at your external profile, I hope you don't mind)
I can understand if you feel bad about the article, then. Autism is a bit often discussed here at HN, is it?
At the same time, the article focuses on borderline (BPD), which is very different from autism or ADHD, is it?
I had a mental illness too (something else than BPD, autism and ADHD). Like you, I didn't write or say anything bad to others. Still, I appreciate the article, I think it's a small step for me towards understanding the Internet even better:
I know a borderline person, and I'm not the slightest surprised if in some cases, such a person can write extremely mean things to others on the internet. The person I know, does this in real life to people s/he loves, when too stressed up (about minor things others wouldn't think much about). It's not her fault; instead, s/he had a bad childhood.
(At the same time, there're also, of course, many other reasons for bad behavior on the net.)
Here are some things that can be done:
- Stop exporting weapons and military and police equipment.
- Support women and them starting their own businesses, so they'll make money and get more influence in society. Women are, when looking at large numbers of people, more often altruistic minded (compared to men) and less likely to be psychopaths.
- Education, provide for free over the Internet.
- Support pro democracy organizations. But I guess one would need to be careful, if doing this, so people won't just start protesting on the street and get shot down, for example see in Iran recently (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-gasoline-protests-id...).
And, 2)
> These distant-water fleets mainly fish for shortfin squid, which are vital to Argentina’s economy
1 and 2 combined make me wonder if destroying the ocean ecosystem, and damaging Argentina's economy could be a goal in itself, somehow.
Maybe to (now I'm guessing), in the future, get to lend out money to the government in Argentina, if they're in a bad economic situation -- and make the country depend on the CCP or something like that?
I'm just guessing and wondering. However it'd be weird to me if the CCP hadn't thought about what'll happen, because of the overfishing, and they said that, yes this is good for us; it's something we want (the party, probably not the people).
Whilst here at HN, different people have different viewpoints (not all of them the same) -- there are 1) some who think like those at Twitter, whilst 2) others see things more from DHH's and Jason's perspective.
And 3) some here at HN, seems you're one of them, understand both perspectives at the same time.
Why no people from the last two "groups", on Twitter? (at least I didn't stumble upon any such tweets)
"Death to the Armenian dogs",
said B. Leylani, who was, back then, the vice president of the Turkish National Association of Sweden. The spectators (Turkish extremists?) were cheering. Later he had to resign (there are also, of course, kind and reasonable people in that organization, who don't want any more genocides, and I presume they didn't like what he said).
Apparently when the genocidal state, the Ottoman Empire, doesn't get defeated in a war (like happened to the nazis), and doesn't get removed / put in prison, then the genocidal ideas can a bit live on and be somewhat strong, 100 years later.
I'm not saying that people in Turkey would be like that. Angry extremists are always few, in comparison to the many more people who are silent, right. I have friends who are Turkish (they don't like Erdagon b.t.w.).
In the Swedish news: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/starka-reaktioner-efter-t...
A video recording: https://www.facebook.com/The-state-of-Turkey-uncensored-1502...
"Annihilate" is another word he was using.
If you use such a proxy in a completely legal way, but that the dictator thinks might make him lose his power, then he can make up fake charges against you and put you in prison.
So, if you haven't decided that you'll stay permanently in the new country, but maybe instead you'll move to a 2nd new country, a 3rd and so on, then you might consider yourself an expat, but not an immigrant. At least that's how foreign students here, seem to refer to themselves: They're here for a few years, and then will probably leave, and they call themselves "expats".
And also, what about this: If you still have your identity in your home country (e.g. the culture there?), you'd think of yourself as someone from that country: "I expatriated from Home-Country". But if your identity is in the new country, then you'd think of yourself primarily as an immigrant to country New-Country?
So that if one forgets to save / make-use-of the secret thing, and accidentally reload the browser tab, or power off the computer -- it'll still be there, an hour later. But not a week later.
Or if you share the message with a tech illiterate person, who doesn't realize what "expires after first access" means. Then, instead, you can say to him/her: "After you've read my message, you need to use it within two days, thereafter it disappears automatically". And it won't matter if he or she accidentally reloads the browser tab (with the message in it -- trying to access it for a 2nd time), or leaves for lunch and powers off the computer and wants to continue handling your message, after lunch.
(Could be combined with expiring the message after Y days, without any access.)
> the stream of evolution will wash the greedy and lazy out
Are there ways to speed up this tens of thousands of years of evolution? I can think of some things
On the other hand, is there a risk that instead this species gets stuck for millions of years, in a "local maximum" with somewhat bright sociopath dictators, and a huge crowd of clueless people (if there's evolutionary pressure against being a bright person? Are there such tendencies?, e.g. bright women just working, working, no babies, or political dissidents disappearing in prison?), with regularly occurring massacres of minorities, so that eventually anyone who looks slightly different is at risk? ... Well, until a 3rd world war with nukes, mostly puts an end to all of it
They might also be unable to know if a job applicant is good at IT or not? And listen mostly to how he/she describes him/herself, and how confident he/she sounds?
Meaning, the company in effect hires IT people a bit randomly, and then mostly finds people who aren't that good at their job.
And if the company started paying more, then, more competent people, but also lots of more so-so competent people, would apply for the job? And I wonder if the company then still ends up with a random mediocre IT people who are unable to really secure the network? Just that the salaries are higher?
I wonder if the underlying problem is that 99% of the population is unable to know if someone is good at software or not
The competitor, was it DigitalOcean? (Or am I misunderstanding :-) )
I was just thinking that the executives at the prison, are clueless about software, and likely couldn't hire a competent consultancy agency, even if they wanted to.
And also, that the prison execs anyway are generally ok with bugs like this one — which keeps people longer in prison. I presume the prisons make more money, with more prisoners. (Although now some prison staff need to do extra manual work, but someone wrote elsewhere that that was only for squeaky wheels prisoners, i.e. those who knew enough to complain.)
And maybe the consultancy agency prefers to build software that actually never starts working completely, so they can continue billing the prisons forever?
It's a bit as if the prisons, and the consultancy agency, cooperated with each other, both of them making money, by exploiting the defenseless prisoners?
Was what I was thinking.
What are your thoughts?
Why should [different religion countries] care less?
(I cannot imagine that there's any good answer to that question)
Now, because of your reply, I found this old HN post:
"Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause"
Makes me think I could intentionally ask for 1 or 2 stupid things, and see if the supplier tells me about it?
I could get arrested too easily, by law enforcement who skipped some steps in the process and got the wrong person? Maybe LEOs more eagerly do SWAT raids when they know the person's exact location? (I'm guessing)
So, could it be a partial violation of "secure"?
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses"
> Now they're stuck: they need to turn it around and do so quickly
Situation about the same here where I live (also in Europe).
Thanks for having written a bit more about how you're thinking.
then I'm thinking this will lower the trust in the police and make people inclined to ignore the rules. Meaning, I think what the police did here, damages the trust in the legal system and covid response, slightly changing things for the worse.
[1] London Christmas Lights Walk 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz7wJZln6Kw
Edit: Maybe this is part of the answer:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25681432
One more likely dies from cancer, because any treatment likely won't start until too late.
But how do you know they do? How did you learn this? If I may ask
A friend/acquaintance of mine has Alex J and Info Wars as her primary (only?) news source, and she sounded proud about this, as if she's discovered something others didn't know about.
Let's say someone X cannot understand much mathematics -- then, if someone else, person Q, solves a quadratic equation, and person F solves, say, Fermat's Last Theorem, then, it's not easy for X to know that F is extraordinarily talented (right?) whilst Q is more likely an ordinary person. Because to X both problems are equally hard -- namely impossibly hard.
Instead, like @dcolkitt indicated, X will look at how Q and F dress (better looking = better at mathematics), and which one has the most self confident voice?
(However in things like sports, when one clearly sees who, say, is the fastest runner, then it's simpler of course.)
I think so too, look at this angry (it says "fucking" 3 times) comment over at Reddit:
> It’s a waste of fucking time. I’m a really talented programmer [...] I’ve been eliminated based solely on messing up some dumbass arbitrary puzzle.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kcwqij/every_s...
And the only reply that to me somewhat seems to understand what's going on, getting lots of downvotes, so it got collapsed and you cannot easily find it:
> They just play a numbers game, and are able to discard perfectly capable candidates with this kind of questions, and still get a bunch of great candidates
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kcwqij/every_s...
(although it started in a bit weird way with "Lmao", however the other replies weren't any more polite were they?)
(Personally I get upset at the computer more easily, if I'm tired. Hmm maybe I should stop working now)