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current_thingon “No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tFgF1JPNR5E&t=9m35s

Tom Cruise was right then.

current_thingon Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?

Go on a vacation with an engineer and make him breakfast and and hug him daily. (Worked for my wife)

current_thingon Ask HN: Coworkers are suggesting I should slow down

Leave.

current_thingon UK Goverment keen on 50-year mortgages

Probably not fixed rate.

Every country hates on its poor in different ways: in the USA it’s the lack of healthcare, in the Uk the lack of long term fixed rate mortgages.

current_thingon Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics

ottime notizie. vietare google e monetizzare le bellissime spiagge, e mangiare pasta autentica.

current_thingon “Google” programmers. How one idiot hired a couple more idiots

I am in the opposite camp. I want to work for the author of the article because he gets it and he has humility, a trait that top level commenter (who informs us unironically in his profile that he likes grapes and other plants) needs some work on.

current_thingon “Google” programmers. How one idiot hired a couple more idiots

Author seems to have struck a nerve with many such programmers in this comments section.

current_thingon Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it

Agree with this part.

current_thingon Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it

> we, the users, are compliant with such abuse of monopoly.

But Bolt is not a monopoly. There are many taxi services in Riga.

> I invite you to boycott any company that forces (or coerces) you to install an app...

I do not think I will boycott Bolt just because you hacked their product and somehow become outraged. Bolt rides are cheaper than the alternative and .. the app works. The alternative mainstream taxi app needs an ios upgrade, and the ios upgrade fails on my shitty old phone.

Edit: There is no uber in riga looks like. Nice work, but running a company that generates cash at scale is hard. So i am sympathetic to the app developer.

current_thingon Wayfire is a Wayland compositor based on wlroots

Someone wrote a goddamn wayland compositor and you shrug it off like it’s nothing?

Nobody gives a rats ass about your opinion about its usefulness. I’m installing this tonight.

I have to bet you have released little or no open source software.

current_thingon Getting hired after fifty

Not sure why corporate drones like you visit hacker news. Why not go start middle-management-cop out news and take your office-worker-class opinions with you?

current_thingon Introducing a16z START

Nah. America is going to get another nationalist president, the EU will go its own way. The future does not look like the past.

current_thingon Introducing a16z START

have you seen the profiles of these new "partners"?

current_thingon Introducing a16z START

The number of "a16z partner" announcements on twitter lately make me think a16z is becoming something of a joke.

current_thingon Introducing a16z START

A pacifist European might balk at the a16z brand and support companies funded by a less nationalistic VC, exit their liquidity pools in crypto etc.

Sequoias seed program is SV + London. Very nice.

current_thingon Introducing a16z START

One of the four investment themes: "American Dynamism: Investing in founders and companies that support the national interest".

Haha. No thanks.

Are there any seed funds that invest in "supporting human progress"?

current_thingon Ask HN: Taking Time Off?

Maybe apply to YC or some other seed stage fund with your best idea once you spend a few months developing the concept and talking to potential customers. By the time the process completes you should be well recharged too.

My startup was funded through revenues from day zero, the world entered a recession soon after, and that was a motherf** hard grind. Spending other peoples risk capital would be easier on yourself.

current_thingon Ask HN: Taking Time Off?

From the been-there-done-that department:

* Sitting in a beach chair gets old in one or two weeks. Use the time to skill up: spend a few hours a day building something, or do a masters degree or short term course - maybe somewhere picturesque in Europe.

* Starting up is going to burn you out more than you are now. And possibly in addition to being burnt out you will have much less money than you do now.

* You will find another job unless you quit into the start of the recession.. then you have hiring freezes all around and you might need to take a sh*y job or work with sh*y people.

* Even if the bubble doesn't pop - for your next gig its unlikely you come in from a position of strength. They WILL low ball your comp on your next job. HR scum have seen this movie enough times.

* Boredom breeds a gambling habit. Don't use your free time to trade exciting markets.

* Cut up your credit cards. Its super easy to pile up "just a months income when I get back to work".

* Put half your money into a long term investment account. Put the rest in a cash account. Never eat into that long term account. When the cash account goes to 10% of what you started with drop everything and begin searching for paid work.

* Be accountable to yourself. Try to something meaningful to show for yourself when you're done.