kharak

Among other things, he is one of the founders of Ycombinator. He is quite known in the tech world. You've might stumbled across one of his essays which are frequently linked here.

To clarify, 5% of what? Of capital in the non-profit? Of revenue generated by the non-profit? Something else?

Also never observed a problem between mods and other users in other Sub-Reddits. Maybe because mods on Reddit are not that visible?

As far as I understand, Twitter is financially in a terrible state. Huge changes have to happen. Let’s all just wait and see how it will turn out.

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It's funny to read all of this, because it always felt like this for me. I think I skipped the "this is fun and easy" part and went straight to the "what is all of this? Why are there so many frameworks? What are all those annotations? How are they all mixed together and somehow this works but only if written in arcane ways? Why is everything so overengineered and complicated?"

I also never thought the problems I'm solving are significant in any way. So doing it for the paycheck alone is my default mode of operation.

I never stopped feeling confused by the tech I'm using. There is just too much tech. Each new project another round of more tech to learn. As consequence, I now focus on understanding a base layer of project related tech in order to get things done. Most of it is going to be irrelevant with the next project anyway.

Here is a guideline for a good Twitter experience:

1. Everyone who is negative, irrational, too political and so on gets unfollowed.

2. Everyone who is interesting gets followed.

3. Unfollow is more important than follow, because negative Tweets are more attention grapping.

The most difficult part about Twitter is to start out and curate your feed from nothing. But once you have that, it's one of the best social media tools out there.

He seems to have a problem with the idea that the western world figured something out that China hasn’t (yet). Or the idea that different values cause different outcomes.

Or the issue is that I’m not making much of an argument? Seemingly implying that my conclusion is obvious. In that case, I apologise for not going into more detail here.

Still, the consequences of having and not having human rights have been observed often enough by now. Including in Chinas (recent) history.

China doesn't recognize human rights as we know them. The collective, represented by state interests (CCP), is above all. Hence any individual right can be sacrificed for the greater good. Aka state interests.

And that's why situations like this shutdown in Shanghai can unfold. It's a deeply philosophical problem that China hasn't resolved, despite ample opportunity to learn the lesson.

Why not move back?

Is there an expat community you could mingle with?

Your first post could be read as a thinly disguised insult. Your second post is the same, but even more in the open. I wonder what you get out of this behavior?

I hoped for an interesting insight, given your strong assertion.

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I see you edited your first post. I guess that is as good as it gets.

How is not catcalling a problem?

Example of how I understand it with gold: L1 is gold itself. L2 would be currencies with gold backing. L3 would be bank / credit card services based on that currency.

Bitcoin: L1 is Bitcoin itself. L2 are certain technologies, like the Lightning Network, that allow for bundling of transactions. L3 would be service providers who use L1 and L2 Bitcoin technologies in the background.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Others here write about the beauty of the article. All I read are convoluted, never ending paragraphs that don't tell me anything.

I stoppend reading carefully after 1 minute, started jumping ahead to see if this is leading somewhere. Finally, hopped to the comments here in hope they'd tell me the gist of what the core message of the article is about.

It's funny, I like reading fiction, well written sentences with grand narratives and all of that. But not in an article.

So my walkable city is more time efficient and has health benefits for using your own body instead of a machine to do the traveling. It's better if we measure for time efficiency and health. And it shows. Looking around, 95% of the people here, at least those not in cars, are healthy, slim and fit. All as it should be. What else would you optimize for?

edit just to clarify, for men. Dating pool for homosexual/heterosexual men.

I don't hate programming. They money is good. Everything else I could do, would come with a serious slash to my salary. And that's just something else. Jobs that might be interesting require additional years of degrees. It's too late for that.

What remains? It is hard to keep the motivation going. I wish it wouldn't be like this. I want to give 100%, each day. But I can't force myself to care. I tried. Let's see how long I can go on like this.

I personally don't get it. It actually frustrates me a little, they are talented and could achieve real wealth if they'd cared for that. But I accept that people who just work 100% no matter what exist.

We'd need some data about this question to see whether it is a cultural or individual thing.