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What if the singularity already happened? How would we know? It’s unfalsifiable unmeasurable woo-woo.

The singularity and AGI are apocalypse for atheists.

Wow, I’m surprised by the downvotes. I thought the American dream would be more accepted here. These principles used to be considered basic foundational ideology of the USA.

There isn’t a numerical upper limit. A job isn’t property that can be owned and stolen from you. You’re presenting a false dichotomy on top of a false premise. And it’s not goodwill, it’s a matter of principle and ethics.

An immigrant can’t take jobs from citizens, since jobs aren’t property owned by citizens. Jobs are trades (an agreement, a relationship) between two people. Do I really need to explain that a job isn’t an entitlement you get for being a citizen? I think you know this.

No matter how many immigrants come here, they can’t steal the fruits of your labor. Immigrants aren’t reaching into your bank account and taking your money.

I’m a third group: Americans that believe in freedom and liberty, that America is a free country, and that everyone regardless of their race, origin, or class can come here and pursue their happiness like the rest of us.

The Sinister Brutality of New York Times Articles on Hacker News

Nope. Life is not a movie. There are no drunken masters. Being president isn’t a kungfu movie, even though Trump voters probably think it is.

Another scam IPO for another scam tech company.

The fucking hot dog stand at my neighborhood park is in better financial shape than these toxic scam businesses like Uber or We.

There’s a market because a -1% rate is a better return on capital than -2%. You’re assuming people are choosing negative rates over positive. Even if bonds are negative investors may have no choice, it’s a better rate than letting the cash sit there.

Maybe. Maybe not. The military being ordered to fire at their fellow citizens and ethnic group is very different than being told to kill people they don’t know on the other side of the world.

Morale undermining command and control is a real issue in the military and a frequent issue historically.

Vegan. In the morning steel cut oats with soy milk nuts and fruits. Lunch smoothie with nuts, seeds, fruits, protein powder. Dinner stir fry veggies with tofu, maybe a homemade bean/barley chili. Dinner varies.

Weird name. Wagyu translates as “Japanese (wa) Beef (gyu)”

Hmm it doesn’t feel that way to me... Only 2/30 of the front page links right now are startup/business related.

Care to link to those measurements ?

1% you are being fucked. You’re building the product that is used to raise money, pre-investment.

You’re really a founder. Ask for 10-30%.

Visit the Internet Archive! They do regular lunch tours on Fridays but if you call and tell them you'd like a tour they'll set something up!

Yes. It’s overengineering and most likely what you’re planning on building doesn’t even work. For example, offline support and caching work just fine with HTML, but you’re probably planning on breaking them.

No you don’t need React to publish some words on the web.

People create their own problems out of nothing. People make mountains out of mole hills. Twitter is one of those problems. Twitter is one of those mountains.

Hyperbole. Social media is not broken. The retweet is not why. And this guy didn't invent the idea of republishing content. Other microblog services had that, and I'm pretty sure Twitter users were doing it on their own.

It’s not good advice. It’s misleading, a poor generalization, and entirely misses the point of what an MVP is.

An MVP is not defined by time to build, but by the minimum necessary to build to make the very first sale. MVP is the minimum necessary to capture the Minimum Viable Audience. That could be a landing page or it could be a spreadsheet or it could be a complex app. It could be a game demo. The point is only build the minimum to be able to capture a customer and iterate.

An MVP is not associated with a time frame at all. YC is wrong. Just read The Lean Startup which popularized the term.

As a founder I’m pretty sick of these unrealistic platitudes tossed around by VCs and accelerators. It’s not educating anyone.

Ditto. One must already be using a database, so just add a table for features that you flip off and on.

How could that possibly be more work than integrating API calls to a third party service just to ascertain a few (mostly unchanging) values?

If anyone from IndieWeb community is reading this thread:

Stop bikeshedding formats and random features (likes, bookmarks, etc) and focus 100% on getting Webmention and rel="in-reply-to" working smoothly and integrated across the blogosphere.

Build on what works, instead of rejecting the entire blogosphere because of some guy's pet project. Forget about bikeshedding microformats and micropub/microsub APIs.

IndieWeb talks a lot about "standards" and interoperability and all this crap but at the end of the day the focus is mostly "let's replace Atom with microformats to do the same things, and argue about how to encode likes and bookmarks." The NIH syndrome regarding replacing Atom/RSS with microformats is incredibly counter-productive.

Start with replies to blog articles, build consensus, build software support, make it a success. THEN move onto replicating Facebook. Webmentions/replies can be done today with Atom/RSS. Just think if all that time spent on microformats was spent building support for webmentions/replies in existing tech stacks!

I like spreadsheets because they are reliable and logical, unlike whatever trash programmers tend to use. Spreadsheets do what they say they do. Outputs are functions of inputs, like math.

Meanwhile software “engineers” are using programming languages that eschew logic, reject reason, reject mathematics, reject determinism, and do different things each time you run them.

Yeah I’ll take a spreadsheet over whatever ball of confusion software engineers are chasing their tail with.

We are conflating different terms. You're saying "value" but meaning something different than the market value of something. Value is a measure. It's quantitative not qualitative.

When someone says "this thing is valued at $5" it means someone traded or is willing to trade $5 for that thing. It doesn't have anything to do with what you can use that thing for.

Yes, water is "valuable" as something to drink. That has little to do with what someone paid for some water.

Instead of taxing companies because it’s an easy method to steal money, maybe France should focus on enabling their people to create a company like Amazon or Facebook and actually generate wealth instead of taking it?

Valuations are not tied to intrinsic value... whatever that means.

“Value” is measured by what someone paid. Nothing more, nothing less. If I buy an apple from you for $5, that means both of us valued the apple at $5. The end.

To understand how meaningless the notion of intrinsic value is, ask yourself what the intrinsic value of water is? Drinking it? Bathing with it? Swimming in it? Cooking with it? Watering a garden with it? Washing a car with it?

Different people value water for different uses at different times for different amounts... there is no dollar value intrinsic to the water itself.

He's a software engineer... Nothing is easier than just opening a text editor and writing HTML. Surely not static site generators and proprietary webapps.

But to each their own. I don't want to have to read documentation in order to write some words using my keyboard.

This is amazing. This is the most comprehensive write-up on software product development I've ever read. By anyone. And it's the only post on product development I've ever read in my entire life that has specific examples that aren't fiction.

Six week cycles? Ha. How nice it would be to work at a company that has a product, customers, and isn’t fucking insane. Remember, friends don’t let friends work for VC funded startups.

> We don’t count hours or question how individual days are spent. We don’t have daily meetings. We don’t rethink our roadmap every two weeks.

I think I've wasted the last 10 years of my life. Let's see 20 minute standup meeting every work day for the last 9 years. That's 20 * 5 * 48 * 9 / 60 = 720 hours of my life wasted in standup meetings.

CORS is useless, unnecessary, insecure, and essentially only serves to annoy developers. Par for the course for all web tech from the last 20 years.

Another turd in the tower of shit that is JavaScript.

HTML files.

HTML works out-of-the-box, offline, and with any editor. It's deployed easily, works with Git, and is practically free.

I like feedbin