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dmhn··on Launch HN: Modern Labor (YC W19) – Paying People to Learn to Code
This honestly sounds like a pretty cool idea, but I’m a little concerned about something you say:

> Most of the content is open source. Some of it’s from places like Freecodecamp, which is available for free. If you have money, you don’t need us.

If you are not offering much value in terms of the educational content (since it’s freely availabe), then aren’t you essentially just loaning people money. They get money now, and they promise to pay you back a higher amount in a while.

Wouldn’t it be simpler and cheaper for someone to just get a 2k loan on their own and study the freely available content on their own?

dmhn··on Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k
There is a difference between price and value: an art collector may buy a ‘work of art’ for a ridiculous price, hoping that someone else will buy it for an even more ridiculous price. However, the speculations of art collectors do not determine the actual value of the ‘work of art.’ And it seems that very few people outside of the art collecting business actually value AI generated artwork (that’s probably why it was expected to sell for only 10k).
dmhn··on Actuarial science ranked as most valuable college major
The problem with an Actuarial career is that there is no room to advance. When my father finished graduate school, he became an actuary. Fortunately, the insurance company went under, and he moved to finance only a few years later.