JSavageOne

Being able to self-custody and send money anonymously and internationally in seconds without an intermediary. Decentralization, composibility, programmable money. Come on this is literally crypto 101

I don't understand how anyone can be on HN talking about crypto without knowing any of crypto's use cases. I mean you don't see people here in Rust threads commenting "I can't think of a single use case of Rust".

> In every other rich country

Let's not ignore the non-"rich" countries

The inadequacies of the traditional finance industry are not the "blockchain space"'s fault.

There's nothing transphobic in his email.

Where are you struggling? Just `next build && next export` and your static site is compiled to the /out folder which you can subsequently push to S3 or Google Cloud Storage.

No idea what ISR stands for.

Beauty of nextjs though is that you don't have to worry about it unless you want to go under the hood. My quality of life has improved tremendously since I stopped having to deal with webpack config files, and upgrading to the hottest bundler on the street couldn't be lower on my list of priorities.

Their tutorial is fine, but personally I'd much rather just see a GitHub repo of a project that covers all the basics (eg. a CRUD app).

I'm a huge believer in the superiority of walkable cities (the single main reason I left the U.S since outside NYC they don't exist in the U.S), but superblocks aren't my favorite approach. To me it makes everywhere look the same and kind of boring. I prefer how they do it in Asian cities like Seoul and Tokyo where they just have a lot of pedestrian streets and multistory buildings. Virtually every major European city is walkable, and I find it significantly more interesting to walk through cities like London or Paris than the boring grid superblocks of Barcelona (though I still like Barcelona).

The education system itself is a huge part of the problem in my opinion. Women are naturally more obedient, while men are more skeptical of authority. The education system is designed to reward the most obedient - those who can sit still in class for lecture after lecture and complete homework assignments. Add to that the fact that most teachers are women, and it is not surprising to me at all that boys lag girls in school. Boys outperforming girls on standardized tests shows that they're not stupid, just working within a system not suited to them.

As a male I always hated school because I thought it was tyrannical, being forced to learn and do things I didn't care about. Luckily I still complied enough to get by, but had I been more principled I might've just withdrawn from it altogether. I think a lot more men would relate to my experience than women. A better education system I believe would better facilitate independent thinking, real world problems, and entrepreneurship.

> "The cost-benefit analysis showed an overall gain of $69,000 per female participant — a return on investment of at least 12% — compared to an overall loss of $21,000 for each male participant. In short, for men, the program was both costly and ineffective."

I wonder how they calculated this. If they are referring to post-graduation earnings, this does surprise me. I wonder how many years after graduation they are using to calculate these values.

Can you define what you mean by "extreme" pressure (eg. any examples)? Where does this pressure originate from?

This all sounds insane to me and I wouldn't have believed this if not for the fact that I was once asked by the (female) founder of a company I worked for if I knew any female engineers looking for work because another friend of hers was looking to hire specifically female engineers. I was surprised and mentioned that being sexist and she didn't seem to see anything wrong with it. It's incredible what a double standard there is when it comes to sexism because if the genders were reversed, it'd be national news.

Suggesting that high testosterone being correlated with higher rates of violence implies that men are " intrinsically less suited to productive participation in a post-industrial economy" is an enormous logical leap.

Higher testosterone I would guess (this is not my area of expertise so I emphasize "guess" here) is probably also correlated with higher competitiveness, leadership, and work drive, all perfectly suited for a post-industrial economy. Men are significantly more likely to pursue entrepreneurship and be competitive within companies (in fact studies show that the wage gap is the result of women prioritizing temporal flexibility, ie. greater work/life balance).

If you're going to suggest that men aren't suited to productive participation, you need to consider more variables than simply violence rates, which in practice is only relevant to a tiny fraction of the population.

I'm building a site like HN where the goal is to reward quality contributions, while also allowing one to filter by topic (sort of like how Reddit has subreddits).

https://zsync.xyz

Definitely a chicken and egg problem to attract users, but I've got some ideas in the works...

The problem with Twitter is the character limit. Impossible to have a serious in-depth conversation with a 500 character limit.

The article doesn't explain what it means for layoffs to be "anti-racist". That doesn't even make sense.

Layoffs are supposed to be about cutting expenses, and have nothing to do with anyone's skin color. The very mentioning of race in the context of layoffs is itself racist.

It is not this man's fault your country has a 100 year backlog on court cases, it is your country's fault. Take responsibility for your country's failure in managing its judicial system efficiently rather than trying to scapegoat a man who was ripped off by your country's railway system.

I'm not sure how to "settle and slow down and become happy with the way it is without always wanting more". I've found that for me evolution is a necessary constraint for my happiness. If I'm just doing the same thing over and over and don't feel like I'm progressing towards anything meaningful, then I'm probably bored and unhappy. On the other hand if I'm working towards something I care about, then even if the work is grueling and tedious, I'm happier because I'm making progress towards some purpose.

I'm going to guess you don't derive much fulfillment from your work. There is nothing unique about this. I'd guess that this is the case for most workers, and don't think it has much correlation with pay beyond the minimal amount you need to not be stressed about survival. Maybe a radical view, but I'd even go as far as to say that it is hard for many if not most people to derive any deep sense of fulfillment as a wage laborer (aka. "wagie") reporting to a "boss" because you never have any real equity/ownership or autonomy over your work under such an arrangement. True fulfillment and pleasure in work I believe comes from working purely on your own free will, and not selling your time for a wage.

I was similarly recently working a remote job making good money with great work/life balance and little meetings that at least in the beginning was fulfilling, but at some point the lack of any real ownership over the work and equity made it feel more like clocking in at a factory.

Now I'm unemployed living off savings working on my own project(s) which I've wanted to work on for years, and am way happier with my work than I've been since I can remember (though admittedly am only 1.5 months in so still honeymoon phase). Actually all my happiest work periods in life were all after leaving a job to work on my own projects/interests that I'd been putting off or time constrained due to the day job.

I'm not telling you to quit your job. Just that work fulfillment does not come from money or climbing up the career ladder, it comes from doing things that feel meaningful to you - and chances are that nobody's going to hire you in some traditional job and pay you money to do exactly what you find meaningful unless you're the type who finds the work in traditional jobs meaningful (if this were the case then I imagine you wouldn't have written this post though).

It's easy to tell ourselves we should be happy and grateful because of our six figure salaries and good work-life balance, when in reality many of us have given up and even forgotten about our real passions in life, golden handcuffed so long we forgot those handcuffs are still there. The longer one lives like this, suppressing their true desires in life, the more they forget about their own desires, and become a hollow unhappy shell of who they used to be, filling the void with empty addictions like consumerism and hedonism.

If you feel unfulfilled in work, then find something you're actually genuinely passionate about working on ("my job is technically interesting, and I still learn/improve" is better than nothing, but sounds more like rationalization than real passion). Your motivation should not be making money (or you will burn out), but building something you're passionate about that adds value to the world. Of course monetization matters to make something sustainable, but monetization should not be the primary goal, otherwise you will lose interest and feel unfulfilled because money for money's sake is really not that interesting.

I've tried to watch the movie multiple times, always get bored in the beginning and abort early. Once tried to watching with a friend and we were both bored fairly quickly.

To be fair I don't watch movies / TV shows often because I have a low attention span for this stuff, but this is a movie I really wanted to like because I love the genre, but it's too slow paced for me. I do know that pacing was generally slower in older movies (eg. I recently watched "Roman Holiday" because so many older people love that one, and found it incredibly slow).

The problem in your example is crime, not walkability.

Rural areas in the U.S are unwalkable (not just rural areas, but most of the U.S), not to mention probably devoid of people and community. People value community and walkability.

Also degrowth doesn't imply living in rural areas.

> crypto is a solution to a problem we apparently don't really have

Crypto allows for decentralized money that one can self-custody and send/receive without going through any centralized government/bank authority or middleman. If you can't even admit this most basic use case of crypto, then either (1) you know nothing about the thing you are criticizing (2) you have an agenda.

> not an indicator of HN losing quality.

You are case in point to HN losing quality.

How about instead of commenting on stuff you know absolutely nothing about, take a second to actually do some research and learn about what you're criticizing. You're at best wasting other peoples' time, at worst spreading misinformation.

HN's constant unsubstantiated, unimaginative, and irrational hate towards anything crypto related is the reason I almost never frequent this site anymore. If you're going to write a critique, at least put some effort into it.

When the first bullet point of the article is "it's being driven by predatory marketing tactics", it's already clear that this is merely a hit piece with an agenda.

Anytime one is critiquing a futuristic idea that sounds outlandish, they should first stop to ask themselves if they're really given the concept a fair chance. Every major technological revolution was initially considered outlandish and criticized by the mainstream - calculators, computers, the GUI, the internet, cars, planes, remote work, etc.

I'm not saying that web3 is the next evolution of the web. But this article is a very elementary take that suggests the author has no understanding of web3 and hasn't made any effort to.

I'm sick of this meaningless word "bro" being tossed around to condemn every kind of stereotypical archetype. Crypto bro. Tech bro. These phrases are completely meaningless and sexist.

> I truly hate the fact that these people are so rich.

Envy is fairly toxic

Amazing that this is the top comment on this thread. HN is so anti-crypto now it's almost comical

I'm a big fan of the LG Gram 17. It's the lightest laptop with a 17 inch screen ever made, even lighter than a Macbook Air. It's not the most performant machine so I wouldn't buy it if you need the best performance, but it's certainly good enough for software development. Just get a anti-glare screen protector with it since the screen is very reflective.

Here are some suggestions for improving housing affordability

- Land value tax. This incentivizes more efficient land use, such as building denser housing units (eg. apartments) and less wasted space like giant outdoor parking lots - Tax on non-primary residence - Tax on foreign home buyers - Build more housing. I'm not familiar with Canada, but the U.S has many issues with overly restrictive zoning laws preventing the building of affordable housing. Also public housing gets a bad rep, but it works pretty well in Singapore, Korea, Japan, etc.

An artist monetizing their work is a perfectly legitimate use case for NFTs.

I guess you've never heard of stablecoins.

Blaming "lobbyists" absolves the politicians of their responsibility. The fault lies with the politicians for creating and perpetuating this broken system.

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Blaming "lobbyists" absolves the politicians of their responsibility. The fault lies with the politicians for creating and perpetuating this broken system.

Pretty much every other major developed country operates like this. Here in South Korea for example filing taxes is as simple as logging into some government portal, verifying that the information they already have on you is correct, and making any corrections if necessary. 10 minutes, done.

The U.S is unique in forcing its citizens to waste countless hours and pay hundreds/thousands of dollars every year doing the useless unnecessary work of "filing taxes". Why is the system still this backwards? Either plain ignorance of there being a superior alternative, or a broken political system that can't get anything done. My guess is it's a combination of both.

> And billions in international foreign and military aid through non-crypto means

That doesn't invalidate crypto

> Traditional banking and fiat money is good

With flaws that crypto solves

> nobody actually pays anything with crypto because of inconvenience, transfer costs, speed and value instability

False, there are merchants that accept payments in crypto and stablecoins. Though it is true that asset transfers are currently the more prominent use case for crypto than everyday transactions.

> it's an asset used to convert from / to fiat money, it's an investment product, it's a ledger of certificates for poorly drawn or generated jpegs.

Ok, and what's the problem? There are many other applications for crypto you didn't address that could be found in any "intro to web3" article. Also dismissing NFTs as just "a ledger of certificates for poorly drawn or generated jpegs" shows you've done literally zero research on NFTs. There's more to NFTs than pictures of monkeys.

> The only success stories and practical applications for crypto and blockchain technology I've heard is people getting rich off it

That's because you haven't done any research on what you're dismissing.