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I think you’re right, little dopamine hits from attention or feeling self righteous. But I doesn’t seem to work on everyone, and that’s the part of tech Twitter I follow.

Even if you unfollow everyone who occasionally shares outrage posts, there are still a lot of interesting people to follow. That seems to work for me.

It is a site for technical discussion, so it’s important to start with the assumption that nobody except yourself has any idea what they are talking about and go from there. :)

Joking aside, I do think it’s a bit to be expected in an anonymous forum. It’s quite at a tolerable level here, even if it’s not what I’d look for in my irl friends.

And quite handsome as well.

On a more serious note I think people on HN tend to be way more pedantic than anyone I would want to spend time with in real life.

Maybe some kind of sewage treatment metaphor would be more apt?

My opinion of course, but it was terrible immediately after the end of the first season. But that first season was incredible.

It’s a meme, people repost and retweet it. Whether memes are funny is an exercise left to the reader but they are certainly popular.

Or, we the member countries of the general assembly. You can argue whether or not any of those countries have any power, but probably nobody is invading the US to break the embargo if that’s what you mean.

Did Riot eventually sort out the toxic community? If so that would be amazing, and definitely relevant. I stopped playing when it was still there, and it was a big part of the reason I stopped.

Agreed it would be strange, more wondering about how “making a list of richest people based on stocks is disingenuous because they will never be able to get that valuation if they sold it on the market”

That makes sense. But even if you’re one of the world’s richest people and decide for some reason to retire just on the savings of a FAANG engineer, you still eventually die and your assets must be sold or passed on to others. Someone is going to cash out.

I just don’t understand how once you reach a certain level of wealth you are functionally locked out of ever accessing it except on paper. Someone must have kept their wealth or cashed out (one way or the other) at some point. It feels like, if true, no business would ever exist more than 30 years but clearly there are many businesses that have.

Quite common in rise and grind hustler culture in any industry as well.

If this is true, how would a founder or large shareholder ever retire (or even unexpectedly die and have their estate liquidated) without immediately killing the company they are a majority shareholder in? It seems like this must have happened at some point.

Liquid definitely doesn’t mean legal tender, just that you can quickly sell (like stocks on the market.) In contrast with property, collectibles, etc.

My personal experience is that, while you’re absolutely right for startups, large multinationals and companies that don’t see themselves as necessarily tech-first still use it as a selling point.

I don’t know if it is effective to do so or not, but I do see it highlighted on job ads/recruiting landing pages.

It’s agile for companies that absolutely do not want to adopt agile but want to be able to tell their (prospective) employees that they have.

Honestly that would be wonderful

Or Pilot.co

It seems there are a few companies that handle that for you now, not sure if any are really worth it though.

You can just say you're early. If your vision resonates and you're solving a real problem they will be excited.

Binding of Isaac is really great as an approachable Roguelike.

I don’t think the person you are replying to was saying child slavery was ok, just adding more info on they sometimes get away with it.

I guess it was their aspiration, but they behaved so apallingly to other people that they never went anywhere past middle management.

Realistically he was probably considered something like a prop more than anything.

The worst manager I ever had used to keep a copy of The Prince at his desk. He definitely looked at other people the way this article seems to encourage you to.

This looks like a 2002 Nintendo GameCube release called like “World Baby”

(Credit https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1559665074868031490)

I didn’t read that as spewing hate at all, especially compared to what cesspool forums are capable of. They listed a few things that are still not up to a realistic level, which started some interesting conversations around why that stuff is still hard.

The crowd/background sound in general sounds nothing like walking around in Amsterdam. Small thing but it really stood out to me.

This seems to refer to some new consensus that everyone now agrees to, but I am not sure what they are referencing. Does anyone know?

Or conversely, was post-wwii prosperity in the US directly attributable to a rigid hierarchical age-oriented society? I am not sure that’s entirely clear either.