exolymph

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exolymph··on Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI

Nick Land type beat

exolymph··on 23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees have a negative ROI

Was she hot? You can make a ton of money as a bartender if you're an attractive woman.

exolymph··on Venture Capitalists Are Using Podcasts to Lure in Founders

Remember, you're not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.

exolymph··on How enterprise software is like baby clothing

Velcro is actually substantially more annoying to launder because it can clings to fabric.

exolymph··on How enterprise software is like baby clothing

They would stick to the side of the dryer sometimes but no worse for wear, I saved 'em for the next baby.

exolymph··on How enterprise software is like baby clothing

Wow totally disagree, I loved the magnets during the pre-crawling / houseplant phase. So convenient for changes.

exolymph··on Show HN: I've created my first ever website for my upcoming side-business

Congrats, that's a big step!

exolymph··on Roblox Studio boss: children making money on the platform isn't exploitation

> would be financially better off just using a standalone toolkit to make their own app and selling it on Itch or Gumroad.

Arguably not, because Roblox offers distribution. It's like selling on Amazon or Etsy — you give up an onerous-seeming cut to the platform, but people do it because a percentage of something is more than 100% of nothing.

exolymph··on Ask HN: Which tools are the best for internet safety for kids?

My kid is only 11 months old, but I worry about this a lot. My parents gave me all the talks that you're supposed to and attempted to supervise my online activities (though they were woefully out of their depth and I was very sneaky). Despite their best efforts, I still self-groomed via social media, then managed to find predators who were eager to take it to the next level.

exolymph··on Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week

> Spotify does music and podcasts in one app.

and it's super fucking annoying. my kingdom for the ability to tell Spotify I WILL NEVER LISTEN TO A PODCAST

exolymph··on Step aside, influencers – we're now in the era of de-influencing

[shameless reaction to only the headline] lol no we're not

exolymph··on U.S. to Build Pier to Allow Aid Into Gaza by Sea

People often flag topics that are guaranteed to descend into partisan shit-flinging.

exolymph··on The TikTokers Are Revolting

More active discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39633053

exolymph··on Dracula's Biggest Mistake

Out of sheer nerdy curiosity, have you read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and if so what did you think?

I didn't realize Dracula lore was among your many sidelines :P

exolymph··on Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

It sounds like the Replit ecosystem would be a good fit.

exolymph··on Procrastination is connected to perfectionism

*conscientiousness, distinct from consciousness :)

exolymph··on Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

https://www.thediff.co/

like Stratechery meets Money Stuff

exolymph··on The Divorce Colony (2015)

> Compare poor Asian Americans, who have very low divorce rates (similar to rich Asians), to poor whites, who have very high divorce rates. Poor Asian kids have double or triple the chance of becoming upper middle class as adults compared to poor whites.

I'm not pro-divorce, but it's difficult to isolate just one variable here. There are numerous other cultural differences.

exolymph··on Common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children

Nerd-sniped: Free will is an incoherent idea. We don't choose our preferences, which dictate our choices. (And even supposing you can choose a preference, that's only due to the preexisting desire to have such a preference. Turtles all the way down.) What would an unconstrained choice even be? Just random, arbitrary? That doesn't sound "free" either.

exolymph··on Counting Ghosts: A case for abandoning web analytics

One might argue that your cynicism is (drum roll please) data driven.

exolymph··on Chicago’s parking meter disaster

Sometimes it's the account rather than the specific comment. (Idk in this case.)

exolymph··on It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars

The government affects which vehicles are available for purchase.

exolymph··on How Thomas Edison Tricked the Press into Believing He’d Invented the Light Bulb

here's the de-debunking: https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/gcxpr5/saint_mo...

exolymph··on A new AI app lets users ‘text’ with Jesus

Not to mention the Book of Revelation!

exolymph··on Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?

Absolutely gorgeous.

exolymph··on Horrifying numbers of Americans will not make it to old age

I doubt it's the places themselves — rather, the selection effect on who stays and who goes.

exolymph··on Elizabeth Holmes: Inside the Routine at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas

People are generally interested in what happens to celebrities / public figures.

exolymph··on Jeffery Epstein Met with Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers and Woody Allen

Elite* social norms are different, not always in a good way. Consider the many illustrious defenders of Roman Polanski.

*I know this word gets overused but here it is apropos.

exolymph··on Tony Hsieh’s Friends/Family Milked Millions in His Drug-Fueled Final Months

A tragic tale. It is morbidly fascinating from the outside, the results of combining mental illness with lots of money. I hope his family and other loved ones can find peace and closure at some point.

exolymph··on Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

Big thread about it recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35491060

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