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New comment by GaylordTuring in "How to know when it's time to go"

GaylordTuring — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:33:18 +0000

I’ve never understood this infinite loop thinking. Why is it meaning to create new people who in turn will have to create new people to derive meaning for themselves?

New comment by GaylordTuring in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

GaylordTuring — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:18:29 +0000

Can’t you say this for every activity that humans undertake? As a cleaner, you have a very clear purpose: to clean toilets so that you can make money to provide for your family. People can feel a sense of purpose for almost anything, but the fact the you theoretically could come up with a purpose for an activity doesn’t mean they automatically have the sense of it.

New comment by GaylordTuring in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

GaylordTuring — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:11:24 +0000

Did you feel like this before having kids as well?

I am vehemently against the concept of getting kids (that is, when it comes to myself; you do you) and sometimes hear people say that they reasoned the same way until they actually had kids. My only question then is how they ended up having kids? Sure, mistakes can happen, but for someone like me to have kids would be like someone who said they really, really never wanted to go to India to somehow end up there.

What I’m trying to say is that there probably is a self-selection bias going on here: People who says that getting children gives you purpose are probably people who were quite positive towards the idea of getting them in the first place. But does that mean it is good advice for people in general, including people who are very skeptical? What other activity/life goal works this way? Lifting weights at the gym? Going on a trip around the world? Trying BDSM?

New comment by GaylordTuring in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

GaylordTuring — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 07:49:32 +0000

Exactly this. I’m of the option that you have to spend at least a couple of hours in deep conversation with most people in order to even think about calling them an asshole, despite them writing what to you feels like obnoxious texts. It’s not intellectually honest to throw around the asshole judgement whenever you read a sentence that upsets you.

New comment by GaylordTuring in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

GaylordTuring — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 07:43:15 +0000

Musk has contributed towards a more sustainable future with electric cars, fueled the dream of being an interplanetary species with reusable rockets, and defended free speech in the western world via Twitter.

New comment by GaylordTuring in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

GaylordTuring — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 07:36:18 +0000

What point does it defeat and why? I’m assuming that you’re talking about evolution here, where having your own kids rather than taking care of someone else’s have been adaptive, but that’s just like saying that the point of a large rock on a beach is to be so large as to not be swept into sea by the waves.

If you meant something else, please clarify!

New comment by GaylordTuring in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

GaylordTuring — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:51:57 +0000

I have a better solution: Just lie. Nobody is going to conduct a deep investigation.

> Oh yeah, for who?

Microsoft.

New comment by GaylordTuring in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

GaylordTuring — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:29:30 +0000

It does? What happens if you don’t show up for a month? Or just keep it open once a week? As long as you remember to clear out the fridge every now and then, you should be fine :)

New comment by GaylordTuring in "As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)"

GaylordTuring — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:53:22 +0000

When saying “it’s profitable to lay someone off”, isn’t it implied that it’s profitable in a long-term perspective? Otherwise, it would according to the definition to be profitable to lay someone of as soon as they take their first lunch break.

New comment by GaylordTuring in "A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves"

GaylordTuring — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:30:04 +0000

God dammit! I thought Valve had released a stationary computer. I was ready to open my wallet even before clicking the link ;(

New comment by GaylordTuring in "Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide"

GaylordTuring — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 07:36:55 +0000

If you feel like this, you shouldn’t take a job that can’t guarantee in writing that they will keep you for X number of years. If you took a calculated risk and took the job anyway, well that’s on you.

New comment by GaylordTuring in "What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans?"

GaylordTuring — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 12:07:46 +0000

Those things are nice, but individually they each only have an expected value of maybe a couple of extra years of living time. Contrast that to curing ageing that would put that number in the hundreds or thousands.

New comment by GaylordTuring in "What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans?"

GaylordTuring — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 12:04:02 +0000

So the solution is to have the equivalent of a mass genocide in old people? I would much, much, much rather be alive in a fucked up world than dead in a nice world.

New comment by GaylordTuring in "Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”"

GaylordTuring — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:43:32 +0000

Most people writing in this comment section at the time of writing didn't have all the facts. It would have been much better if they held off commenting until today when we know much, much more. That was my only request. Was that unreasonable?

New comment by GaylordTuring in "Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”"

GaylordTuring — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:42:36 +0000

That's great that it was clearified. _Now_ we can actually have a discussion about it rather than reacting based on assumptions and guesses, which was taking place when I wrote my comment. That was all that I asked for.

New comment by GaylordTuring in "Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”"

GaylordTuring — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:40:52 +0000

Did I express an opition on Elon Musik? I was just urging people to wait for the facts before getting all hyped up. Is that too much to ask for? If all the news here would be posted with a one week lag or so, we would all have a much more fruitful discussion than what we have now where people are reacting instinctively with their own guesses of what happened.

New comment by GaylordTuring in "Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”"

GaylordTuring — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 05:02:51 +0000

Everybody here seems to be jumping to conclusions immediately, which frankly seems intellectually dishonest.

Take a breath, wait for a while, see if the ban stands (or if it was some technical fluke), see if Twitter/Elon Musk comes with an official statement regarding this matter. Right now, it just seems like all of HN are having a gigantic confirmation bias session together.

New comment by GaylordTuring in "Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”"

GaylordTuring — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 05:00:16 +0000

But you don’t know what happened in this instance. Wait for a while to see if the van stands and/or Twitter makes a statement regarding this. As of now, it just seems that everybody on HN are taking part in a collective confirmation bias session.

New comment by GaylordTuring in "Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists"

GaylordTuring — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 03:25:04 +0000

Who said it was a business decision on his part? If Elon Musk just tried to make money, do you think this is the way he would behave?

New comment by GaylordTuring in "Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists"

GaylordTuring — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 03:23:23 +0000

It might have lost short-term gamblers a lot of money, yes. But if you lose money through gambling, the only person you should blame is yourself.

If you’re an investor who’s in it for the long run, I don’t see what today’s stock price has to do with anything though. You can’t use the current stock price as an answer to what the stock is worth.