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gustavo-fringon Crazy New Ideas

How exactly would we deal with this issue then? I'm sure you've seen where people have accused you of editing Austin Allred's username on his account. Nobody else can do that.If I believe that lambda school or coinbase has been involved in shady business practices, is HN not the place to discuss that? Do you not have a conflict of interest here?

gustavo-fringon Crazy New Ideas

I feel like Godwin saying this, but the other side of that coin is that's the same process that Joachim Feist's biography describes Hitler as going through.

You might be a Skywalker, but you don't know which one.

gustavo-fringon Crazy New Ideas

WeWork?

gustavo-fringon Crazy New Ideas

Do you not think there is a balance between unalloyed boosterism and lying (the YC way) and not giving you any good feedback?

There are just way more people that I know and trust personally that I think could give positive, but constructive advice. I would believe absolutely nothing coming out of Paul's mouth because he hasn't shown that he's an honest person. He's not disinterested about any of this, but feigns like he is above it.

I think some of us are very sick of the absolutely fake and fraudulent way he and others like him and Musk operate. They do not care about the truth or other people, they care about their own egos and people for whatever reason buy that.

gustavo-fringon Crazy New Ideas

What part is baseless? Sorry for the edit, I know that it's too critical for dang and HN readers, but I promise, having been on Reddit since the summer it came out, that it is as accurate as it can be from my perspective.

You call it rambling because you don't agree with it.

gustavo-fringon Crazy New Ideas

Yeah but if you found out a quicker and more efficient way to stop people from reading HN, every business would want it because their workers would stop bloviating 4 hours a day for those who know what it is, and the rest of the world would continue on ignorant of it as it always has.

But it's not worth anything. Sometimes you just can't clean up garbage. Graham has too many dishonest people in YC. They're like gollum and want their precious but think they're Gandalf.

We all know HN mods fuck around with rankings, but you know how I know they fuck around with rankings?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27062309

This post has 30 upvotes, it got those 30 upvotes in 30 minutes. It's now at the very, very, very bottom of this thread just above all the dead guys because it is critical of Graham.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046196

This post has over 60 upvotes and is critical but is also completely relevant. It has been "detached" by dang.

gustavo-fringon Crazy New Ideas

I'll be real, it's interesting to post this stuff and see how many downvotes saying factually correct stuff will get you compared to comments.

It's like people downvote when they have nothing to say. What's wrong with this comment, HN? Is it too on the nose? We are supposed to wrap all of our disagreements in snide pedantry, no?

We supposed to act like most of YCs founders and to use tacky business speak when we hit any rough patches?

Is this too mean to change the world? I see it's flagged now. Good, gooood. dang and company and YCs alums and all you groupies close ranks and edit, shuffle, and remove posts and people when they talk a little too different from you. That's why this place is a dead echo chamber composed of 90% males of the same demographics.

gustavo-fringon Crazy New Ideas

Graham should know better, he talked about arc as the messiah for five years before getting beat to market by Clojure. Now they barely do proper language releases.

gustavo-fringon Crazy New Ideas

Graham does this often. Instead of directly saying what he wants to say, he beats around the bush. When Allred was getting criticized for shady business practices, Graham wrote haters and thanked him and Musk and a bunch of other people. Not sure why he does it, it is very underhanded, as though he's afraid of actually getting in a legit argument with the person. Easier to pontificate form his essays, have them posted to his website, then have the mods defend him.

"Essay is french for attempt." There are good and there are bad attempts, of course.

gustavo-fringon Crazy New Ideas

Was the Playstation not revolutionary?

gustavo-fringon Crazy New Ideas

Graham has a tendency to use hindsight to show that, yes, indeed he is contrarian and genius.

The Ethereum people do it, too. They use the example of old massively successful tech to prove that Eth too can catch on, but they don't cite all the failures.

gustavo-fringon Crazy New Ideas

Graham's obviously inspired by some Kuhnian paradigms here, but in Grahamiam fashion, he doesn't cite anything to back it up.

What I find interesting where he calls most people conservative is how when I'm discussing VCs, YC, etc with non SV people is we talk about how conservative they are. YC's business model for years was predicated on finding talent (kids) that was undervalued, underpaying them (10k was the initial payouts?), getting them to pack up and move to super-expensive monocultural SV like everyone else, and then when they made bukku money, lose interest in improving the service (Reddit, Dropbox). There's nothing original there, it's the business model of carpetbaggers and robber barons. How boring.

I often feel like Jonah Hill in Moneyball, a pariah for pointing out how ancient VC thinking is. Or maybe I just imagine it. Well, it is my experience that true deep domain knowledge can only come from years of insights. People without years of experience will be lacking maturity and/or won't have time to even consider those insights. Usually people who mainly care about money, influence "becoming powerful" (Graham's words about his protege, not mine) will jump at whatever shortcut they can take instead of spending the card work necessary for learning these deep insights PG is interested in.

With all due respect, Coinbase didn't require deep insight. It was the equivalent of "You like money, too?" . PG, you should stop the contrarian persecuted intellectual look. You're not the little guy anymore, haven't been for 2 decades.

gustavo-fringon Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact

You assume we're talking about different things with different results, but I understand your description of depression. I get different results from it than you because I handle it differently.

gustavo-fringon Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact

You can judge the whole book based upon your beliefs or you could read it and learn.

gustavo-fringon Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact

There might not be a reason for us existing at all, that doesn't mean we can't and shouldn't make reasons.

This is all unsettled science. I've suffered depression for a decade. In my experience you learn to live with it and you learn from it even if you never fully get used to it.

gustavo-fringon Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact

"There is no reason to create silly rationales to justify it."

I don't agree with that and I don't agree with how it is stated. It's an absolutist statement (poster is not an expert) and it is dismissive via "silly".

I don't understand your objection. I don't understand the pedantry across this entire thread over like two or three words that aren't even wrong. Just read the extra sentence in the post.

I know this sounds rude, but how many arguments are we going to have over bikeshedding? It's like yall are looking for things to jump on and bully people about without any empathy.

I don't personally care but I don't understand why you do it.

This is what I'm talking about.

You guys can't imagine any way in which depressions might provide benefits? That's how multiple people in this thread have acted. But maybe, just maybe, people that are depressed have a different perspective on life and maybe feel differently.

What is the issue?

gustavo-fringon Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact

Depression affects everyone differently. But it does not mean a constant unending, it can come and go and those peaks and valleys lead to what I'm talking about.

gustavo-fringon Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact

Cancer has an evolutionary cause, that doesn't mean we associate it with good.

gustavo-fringon Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact

Resilience, endurance, learning to overcome adversity, learning to overcome yourself, learning to be self-aware, thinking "differently". I could think of dozens of other reasons. No?

gustavo-fringon Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact

Thank you. I fixed it, but that is the book.

gustavo-fringon Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact

Or, more likely, we don't know right now.

gustavo-fringon Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact

I didn't say it was a good reason.

gustavo-fringon Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact

I disagree. Depression appeared in humans for a reason. It is possible that one of the results of it, and the reason it sticks around is because there is value to it, even if it is exceedingly painful. Regardless, having a reason to endure, even if incorrect, has value in and of itself, even if you don't see it.

gustavo-fringon Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact

https://www.amazon.com/First-Rate-Madness-Uncovering-Between...

Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, offers a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership and sets forth a controversial, compelling thesis: The very qualities that mark those with mood disorders also make for the best leaders in times of crisis. From the importance of Lincoln's "depressive realism" to the lackluster leadership of exceedingly sane men as Neville Chamberlain, A First-Rate Madness overturns many of our most cherished perceptions about greatness and the mind.

gustavo-fringon MH370 pilot made many turns and speed changes, new report reveals

It's just very, very smug.

It's not wrong but it's very pedantic and not considerijng that the reason I didn't spell it all out and cite a bunch of sources is because the entire subthread is besides my main point. That shit is exhausting.

Not to make an argument from authority but having dealt with OCD and a lot of caregivers over a decade and having been in graduate level academia for a decade I know a little more about scientific research and how it ideally works than the poster gives any credit for. It's just very rude and not half as smart as it thinks it is.

Yes, I know what a literature review is. I mean, in their words, come onnn.

gustavo-fringon How Basecamp Blew Up

Why was this moved? I'm interested in what norm this was contrary to.

gustavo-fringon WW1: Was it the first world war? (2014)

That (still relatively local conflict) dates back to the Greeks and Persians if not earlier.

See "Persian Fire".

"The Silk Roads" is a good account of the specific events you are talking about.

gustavo-fringon Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app

I love CS. I mean I love the franchise as a whole but the original was such a breath of fresh air in what 2000. The gunplay is so good.

It's unfortunate that even today it is impossible to play without hearing 4chan racial slurs for the lulz. Very toxic community.

gustavo-fringon Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app

This probably sounds like an old man but Halo 2 weas doing this back in 2004 when you could immediately after the game get detailed game reports, even available via Rss.

No surprise that Bungie made revolutionary games with Halo (series) and Destiny. Halo 1 was the basis of FPS on the console and Halo 2 was the basis for Xbox live

gustavo-fringon How Basecamp Blew Up

Nobody linked to that here, they made a lot of vague assertions. But you could, yes, and I'm sure that wiki page would be much easier to source than with the Democrats, because there are more people (many more) using overt racism in the Republican party today.

That's still not an actual response to what I posted, it is what we all know to be whataboutism. Nobody wins by playing the "they do it, too, but better" card. It just makes the losing party look incompetent and a little evil.