dannyphantom

Fully agree with your ideas here; I suspect you and I to be around the same post college age. Is it a lack of morality about "screwing over employers"? No. It's not being disillusioned to the idea that being loyal reaps rewards. If you don't go out of your way to self advocate, you'll end up left far, far behind.

Both Italian and French, actually! Family is from NE Italy :)

This is the second time I've seen this pop up on Hacker News and the second time I've been surprised because it is my last name.

I remember this from StumbleUpon :)

Something that I did as a teenager and just tried again is take a sticky note, cut a small square in it and place it on your screen, you can "refind" pictures so it's not all random. Probably obvious to those more knowledgeable than I but nonetheless amusing.

This sounds like a good idea; though I am not sure how it will work in practice when reviews are such a significant factor the consumer considers when deciding to patron a business.

When I worked in at a hometown pizza place (how stereotypical, right?) we were told again, and again, and again by the again, stereotypically 'Old Italian Man Owner' how important 'word of mouth' was to keeping his business alive after he inherited it from his own father. That was around...2015(ish) and...well, communities are aware of the local good spots to go and visitors are left to seek out online reviews when that word of mouth doesn't reach them to make their decisions. Yeah, trolling can happen but you can also get a good opinion of the place if there are negative reviews. I'll follow with another anecdote.

Earlier that same year(2014-ish) I worked at another pizza place that was newer to the (small-ish but not really) city in a prime downtown location; throughout the 3 high schools a lot of the kids found that the owner was a piece of shit - I'll skim past the health code violations and focus on the prime thing he didn't pay his employees and as high school kids, we didn't really know how to be made whole so our option was to bombard the Facebook page, Google and whatever medium that was available to spread the word of the unfair practices of this owner to the town.

So its a double edged sword. I can't imagine the shithole would have chosen to opt-in when the reviews were used to highlight the problems.

I find the comments here somewhat reassuring but my anxiety is through the roof; I feel as though I would be on the chopping block in the event of a layoff. It's one thing to hear that you're doing a good job by your team and manager but when you _keep_ hearing announcements & reading about layoffs elsewhere it really erodes away at your confidence.

I recently saw that TikTok is moving all US traffic to Oracle servers [0] as to mitigate any potential claims of the app being a threat. Would appreciate anyone expanding on the implications.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/17/tiktok-oracle-us-traffic-c...

My view of TikTok isn't so much that it's purpose is to be used as an threat; but rather a way to create an (insanely) lucrative e-commerce market in the same what it's being used in China. [1]

[1]: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/Move-over-Alibab...

Neat. Thanks for taking the time to post and show it off.

Do you feel as though you're essentially done with the project or is this something you'd like to see yourself working on in the future? neilk brought up that a startup tried this concept so it would seem that there is - or, rather was a niche in the market for it. But very cool and well done.

Reminded of that BMW i8 that had to be put in a dumpster [0]

[0] https://www.autoblog.com/2019/03/26/firefighters-dropped-smo...

> Cleaning up after your parents is a gift you give to them: look at it like them paying it forward for all the times the cleaned up after you as a child.

This is contextual per family; but absolutely not. There are parents who make it known to their children that they were never wanted so when a child goes no-contact, the onus of cleaning up after them post mortem can be handled by someone else.

This is anecdotal; but being genuine is a great pathway to open dialogue. Cut out the formalities and speak openly about your goals as their manager to create an environment where everyone works cohesively. A previous manager was successful in creating this environment and I was never more motivated in my life than working under him.

Severance [1] has a few bits about "office fun" which reflected how awkward work sponsored "fun" can really be.

Personally, the idea of "fundatory" is lost on me; I am working to perform a function that furthers an end goal and in return collect payment for doing so.

If work wishes to have a weekend event or a no-obligation after work get together, the people who wish to be there will happily show up with those who would rather not be there won't.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7M-RcRsow4

Between overreaching parents and parents who make it known that you are a despised blight on their life, hearing anecdotes about parents who seem to care so much about their children as to be an ever-present pest in their ear sounds completely foreign.

Another comment brought up the idea of "no such thing as a free lunch" which essentially waters down the issue to that of "be grateful". You should be able to be self reliant while also able to attend college full time.

But the economic reality often pierces the veil of how unrealistic that scenario actually is when your parents refuse to spend a dime on you or your education.

> Film, television, and literature all tell them better. So why are games still obsessed with narrative?

Well, hey now... Nothing wrong with changing the medium. It should be encouraged! Storytelling shouldn't be constricted to a single format. Imagine how interesting and engaging it would be if school children could interact with a literary world in the classroom.

Specifically I'm reminded of playing user-generated levels in Little Big Planet.

Some of those were especially engaging and told an amazing story and if you followed the creator on Youtube, you could sometimes play an entire storyline when another level was introduced.

The other comments here hit the nail on the head with the article forcing a biased conclusion.

To be fair, HBO has consistently had an awesome catalog whereas Netflix has been unfulfilling for what feels like years.

Not to be pedantic but everything listed here would not be missed in the slightest by those with no desire to see their family or have friends that spontaneously make themselves available to you without prior plans. If you are sufficient in French you will certainly have a better experience than being the American stereotype that arrives without learning to speak for yourself prior to arrival.

Oh, wow; this was certainly unexpected. How neat. Hopefully something similar makes it into their vehicles. Imagine how interesting it would be to play around with making music (safely!) while you drive.

> many servers don't pay taxes on their tip earnings

This was certainly not the case as recent as 2015-2017 when I was working in restaurants. Most of my coworkers would complain around tax time that we would owe as much as $2000+. Working both in a corporate restaurant and smaller family operated one at the same time, the staff was made to essentially over report your nightly earnings as we had to pay out 20% to the bartenders, kitchen staff.

Just looked up whatever the follow-up of guy who made remarks about Captain Sir Tom Moore ended up being and the man avoided prison time for his tweets [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-60930670

I remember reading a discussion on Reddit[1] where someone was discussing how he uses Salesforce for personal relationships and the reception was less than receptive. In the year 2022 I think this idea actually makes a lot of sense as over the last 2 years it became a lot easier to fall out of touch.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/salesforce/comments/bfqb26/does_any...

(edit: oh my god I think you actually commented on that post! awesome work keeping up with the idea!)

> "...Individuals allegedly put in hundreds of millions of dollars for what were described as high-reward, low-risk contracts to fund loans tied to personal-injury lawsuits through two companies..."

Makes you wonder if this type of transaction is practised by billboard personal injury law firms ("ambulance chasers") across the country. With how common personal injury commercials play on the radio and television it seems there is no shortage of attorneys willing to take a personal injury claim where insurance is quick to pay out.

> It'd be funny if the views and likes are also from bots

That would have been so much more interesting of a blog post; I'd love to see a write up that does some investigative work to determine just how much of engagement on instagram is driven by scripts.

> Makes me want to write a short story (I wish I had movie making talents for a short movie) where social media bots keep reposting content and sending heart emojis to each other after the future where Putin's nukes killed us all

I may just post this as written to reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/ :)

Absolutely fantastic article to read, thanks.

Not the impression that I had when reading the headline; it made sense as Facebook has a TikTok [account] now as in FB is now going to be publishing content on the platform. Comparing Instagram reels and TikTok video content, in my mind, aren't really compatible but that comes after having used TikTok and never really engaging with Insta reels.

Huh, how cool. This may just be an odd coincidence but I have very photosensitive eyes so there are a few custom settings I cycle through whenever I need to reduce eye strain. Switched my settings back to mfg preset and for some reason the website is easier on my eyes than regular HN. The colors are all the same, the layout is the same, the zoom is the same - can't really figure out why but I thought that was neat.

I've been frustrated with the 'Mark Cuban Pharmacy' for weeks now as well. At the end of the day, it is a way to capitalize on a lucrative industry and as you've pointed out, doesn't always work out in such a way that consumers will be better off for solely going through this new pharmacy venture.

He really deserves to be left alone.

Oh wow, I remember using that app in high-school. That's awesome.

Hmm. There are five drug classes for controlled substances and oxycontin was always a class 2 narcotic which carries the second highest risk of being abused. I don't think most doctors/pharmacist really bought into the idea there was zero chance of abuse. I think in the beginning Richard Sackler the best intentions (by Creating a successful drug and racking in a bunch of money and there is no crime in that)but ended getting in way over his head leading to Purdue spiral out of control. I don't believe he created the opiod pandemic but he certainly played a role in it. But as Al Pacinos character says in scarface, "You need people like me so you can point your fckn’ fingers and say, “That’s the bad guy.” And that guy happened to he Richard Sackler

>... TVs with built in ads?...

Hah, I have an Amazon Fire TV, not the stick, the actual TV. So...built in ads...huzzah... the UI on the TV has gotten progressively worse.