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HackerNews in 2022: Filled with luddites, charlatans, and midwits.
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fourstar··on Deepmind’s AlphaCode conquers coding, performing as well as humans
Neuralink blocks your path.
fourstar··on Crypto’s collapse may have done the economy a favor
>Let's give SBF more positive exposure!

- WSJ

fourstar··on Waze Founder Noam Bardin is starting up a Twitter alternative
>Remember when social media was fun, introduced you to big ideas and cool people, and actually made you smarter?

No because it never was like this. Nice try, though. Have fun blowing your fortune on something that will never catch on.

fourstar··on The fall of Sam Bankman-Fried is crypto’s Enron moment
Cue the luddites in 3… 2… ah there you are!
fourstar··on The fall of Sam Bankman-Fried is crypto’s Enron moment
“Meeting with regulators” aka meeting with his tribe which I’m sure Gensler is a part of.
fourstar··on FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam Bankman-Fried
Look up how deep the FTX rabbithole goes. It affects all of crypto and even influenced US politics.
fourstar··on FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam Bankman-Fried
Madoff would be more appropriate. Most normal people weren't affected by Theranos.
fourstar··on In 2021, FTX had a funding round of $420.69M
I do the same with government.
fourstar··on Crows found to be smarter than we think
Crows are incredible. One of my favorites.

Also underrated: scrub jays.

fourstar··on Kanye West is buying Parler
The kvetching and projection intensifies when the enemy is over the target.
fourstar··on Ask HN: Is Substack the new Medium?
Nah I was at Credit Karma and Nextdoor. One of my favorite buildings to work in.
fourstar··on Ask HN: Is Substack the new Medium?
Medium was always a hobby for Ev, it seemed. You guys were in the same building as me for a few years (760 market). I think we may have even subletted from you at one point. But even back then it seemed like you had too many people. You can't get rid of substack, but you can differentiate. I'd suggest going all in on a decentralized platform. It's clear mastodon and others currently on the market will never cross the chasm. You have the network effect to do so while at the same time offering something different.
fourstar··on Twitch finally takes action against gambling
So you're the "uncool" uncle. Thanks for clarifying.
fourstar··on Twitch finally takes action against gambling
>The information imbalance between online casino and players is absolute. Without regulation there would be no way to even know if the odds online casinos are giving you for a given game are true.

Also absolute: you being unable to comprehend OP’s comment about what “provably fair” means.

fourstar··on The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it back (2017)
Seems like he needs to write a 419 email to retrieve it.

https://www.419eater.com/

fourstar··on Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business
That's the trade-off and it's a feature, not a bug.
fourstar··on Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business
Uh, yes if you use Circle (centralized), Coinbase (centralized), etc etc. Get your coins off of exchanges and learn how to actually use crypto with the way it was intended.
fourstar··on The Ethereum merge is done
>we

Speak for yourself, noob.

fourstar··on Who cares about diversity?
The wealthy elites do. They want a race war instead of a class war.
fourstar··on 'We don’t have enough' lithium globally to meet EV targets, mining CEO says
They do?

They don't?!

fourstar··on I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018)
Hotels have always been superior.
fourstar··on Animations in React with Framer Motion
Because it adds unnecessary bloat for something that's negligibly worth it.
fourstar··on Saying goodbye to my parents’ library
Price results: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/251192_fine-books-an... (some of the lots/numbers match up).
fourstar··on DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
>that gets my dander up

Your w0t m8?

fourstar··on Welcome Home, Garry Tan
Congrats, Garry. You told me when I interviewed to have a co-founder. I'm happy to report I still can't find a co-founder but you were right.
fourstar··on Psychedelic drugs take on depression
Braxia (a canadian company) recently acquired KetaMD to expand their US footprint with their ketamine clinics. I believe something between shrooms and K is the future for depression.
fourstar··on The coming tsunami of fakery
>You just need to get off social media and google to find it

Isn't that the point? The general populace isn't getting off of social media and Google, thus, dead internet theory continues to compound itself..

fourstar··on Issues with upstream DNS provider
I moved from Heroku to Render. Can't recommend them enough. Smaller operation, of course so keep that in mind if you need support, but for a hobbyist like myself, I'm running 2 postgres dbs, 1 redis instance, and 4 web services (2 websites).
fourstar··on Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year
Where did your "considerable experience" in the RE industry come from?
fourstar··on Show HN: I grew my startup to 100.000 visitors /m with no time for marketing
Typical "founder" clickbait article.

On his LinkedIn page he has 4 different interviews he did (which promoted his resume builder: "Interview with SEO Buddy", "Interview with Starter Story", "Interview with Clarin", "Interview with IndieHackers").

"It was selected as #1 Product of the Day + #1 Product of the Week on Product Hunt"

"ResumeMaker.Online was also featured by BetaList (6) and Designer News (7), won the "Most Loved" award by OnePageLove.com (8) and selected as one of the Top 25 One Pagers from 2018 (9), and popular weblogs Genbeta (10) and Siecle Digital (11) both wrote articles about it."

Not to mention this (submitted) blog post which is a giant advert for his product and all the blog posts about "resume building" he's already written (plus the additional ones in the queue: https://twitter.com/Fer_MOMENTO/status/1555275471960645632). But sure, he has "no time for marketing".

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