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Have smoked for several decades. If you think weed does not affect productivity, then you haven’t smoked enough of it.

If something can have a positive effect it can also have a negative effect. The idea that weed is a net positive with no downsides just isn’t reality.

“Cutting off a means of income” should not be looked on so callously either. It is only a few ideological hops away from “terminating someone’s life.”

People supporting any form of “Re-education camps” or course do not end up on the right side of history.

If you are in support of the forced “re education” of an individual, under threat of revoking their livelihood, no matter your ideological leanings, I would encourage you to think on this.

Is there a precedent for something like this?

Genuinely curious if there are any examples for large scale reparations such as Jews post WW2 or Armenians post-genocide or Cambodian people post-Khmer Rouge.

Hey Dang you got this guy calling people idiots by association and ranting about left wing conspiracies. No flagging on him, but the people responding get flagged. I guess this behavior is ok because he’s ideologically aligned with you?

Thanks for keeping HN civil.

GP is an antivaxxer? How could you conclude that from 1 line of text?

VCs and boards will look at this negatively. Their expectation is that you are 100% focused on the company they backed.

By definition, you cannot be 100% focused on their company if you have two jobs.

There are exceptions when companies are performing well and founders have an exceptional track record (see: Jack Dorsey square/Twitter, Elon’s multiple ceo roles, etc)

?? I did just that using the app.

Is this not posted in ask HN?

Unless there is something wrong with the UX, my understanding was that this was to be an Ask HN post.

Strange

This is really useful. I am curious how it works. Is it as simple as asking ChatGPT “did you write this?”

That would be epic

GP did not misrepresent the comment. It’s clear as day. “We should look to China, where they executed a corrupt CEO.”

I can glean no other message from the comment. What you’re describing would require quite a bit of mental gymnastics on my part.

I think you’re ignoring what the comment says in clear plain English and interpreting it in a way you think is less controversial.

China executing a person is not an example I’m interested in modeling anything after.

Wait till you find out who owned the means of production in the USSR. Oof.

It depends on your space. If you are up against a competitor with venture backing, you will be at a disadvantage.

It doesn’t matter how good your product is. If they have $20M to spend on a sales and marketing team you will be drowned out and no one will ever get to see your amazing product.

We can knock VC all day and dumb founders who over capitalized and over spent… but there’s a reason some of the worlds biggest companies are venture backed.

People you don’t like, some of whom do terrible things and hold horrendous ideologies, will participate in the same economies as you do.

The notion that people on separate planes of morality will occupy completely separate economic systems is … not realistic.

You answered your own question. The top down pressure to invest in minority-led is immense. Doing too much due diligence on Frank might be characterized by some as being skeptical of a minority-led company.

Couple that with the FOMO culture of 2021 and you have a recipe for minimal DD and maximum deal speed.

Ok having this on your resume / certifications is exactly how you avoid getting hired.

HN activists listen to me - tech bosses are actively avoiding hiring people who want to bring this stuff to work. Some are more vocal than others, but even the ones who agree with your views and ideologies will actively avoid hiring an activist. They do not want their companies to be distracted by your interest in changing the world.

If this offends you I am sorry but this is a growing trend in the valley and beyond. My advice would be to return to university or work in an institution where social activism and extra curricular activities are part of the mission.

Why not? Because some article said so?

Adderall is speed. It has numerous negative side effects, is overprescribed, and in many cases is unnecessary. The fact that we so easily prescribe it to children is horrible, and I suspect it will be looked back on as legal cocaine of the 1900s is today.

Adderall is bad.

Source: spent many years on adderall. Deeply regret it.

Then remove the plastic cases protecting all of the aisle items in the store.

Really Scientific American? That’s your observation from all this?

Nothing about CTE, long term physical or mental issues, financial problems players face?

Nothing insightful, Just more race baiting headlines.

Unfortunately I have no suggestions. Am not a policy expert nor do I know enough about collective human psychology. I’m simply pointing out that the current approach hasn’t been effective.

Climate change is real, but taxing people and yelling at them has led to a lot of people disconnecting.

I’m not sure how else to explain this to folks passionate about climate change, but telling people the world is going to end, calling them stupid for asking “are you sure?” and telling them to pull out their wallet - is not effective policy.

It is interesting because these people tend to use people of other races as a tool with which they make themselves look virtuous, while simultaneously calling anyone who disagrees with them as racist. It’s an interesting tactic.

“Republicans are shit people.”

Waiting for Dang or the mods to swoop in on this one.

Not gonna hold my breath.

Also, imagine thinking 80 million people (and many billion more in the world) are literal human shit. And simultaneously thinking you’re the smart good person in the room. Imagine that.

I’m not part of any of those institutions he was “shitting on” and I don’t think he did a good job. Jon Stewart was funny, and when he made fun of republicans it was genuinely funny.

Trevor Noah’s shtick is “conservatards are dumb hurr durr America sucks” and I’m supposed to clap like a sea lion?

Ok lol

It’s so obviously a BS philosophy that it collapsed in the most ironic way possible - with the biggest BS scam of our generation.

“Disinformation” means … what exactly?

It seems to be anything the government finds inconvenient, whether that be related to political corruption, taxes, health, education, politicization of institutions, bodily autonomy, sexual assault, politicians taking bribes, war crimes, etc.

Exactly, he’s running Tesla bad because spaceship man bad

We should feel fortunate that we have bloggers to help us arrive at these conclusions

This is absurd but not surprising. The people calling stuff “offensive” are often not even the people who are supposed to be offended. In this case, woke activist students are speaking on behalf of a people/culture/religion that doesn’t even consider this offensive.

I suspect there are a couple of reasons for this

1. Some of these people are made extremely uncomfortable by other cultures and genuinely don’t know how to act. A lot of these activists tend to be high income whites. It is unsurprising they genuinely don’t know what other cultures are thinking/feeling?

2. They want to DO good but they end up using other people/cultures/groups as a tool to make themselves LOOK good.