<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: LiquidSky</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=LiquidSky</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:29:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=LiquidSky" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by LiquidSky in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like that'd just discourage people from going above and beyond at work. Why do more than the bare minimum to avoid being fired if nothing else you do counts?</p>
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<p>>the well is now poisoned for companies that do care<p>Because there's no such thing. Or rather, there are until it's unprofitable enough that caring seriously threatens the bottom line, or the nice owners sell off to someone less nice.</p>
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<p>You need to be careful here, you're falling into the inverse "Elon is a visionary genius" trap: "Elon is an evil genius". For example:<p>>buying an election through Twitter<p>It's weirdly forgotten now, but Musk didn't want to end up owning Twitter. After making the impulsive buy offer, he spent that summer and fall desperately trying to get out of the deal. He finally gave in when it became clear he was going to lose in court. It was a major failure for him, and it's odd seeing this aspect of the Twitter purchase memory-holed and reframed as some 19D chess move.</p>
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<p>Yet!</p>
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<p>That reminds me of an interview I heard with comicbook artist Chip Zdarsky. He was talking about how we all love to draw as kids, but eventually around 10 years old or so we start to become aware that what we see in our heads isn't anywhere near what's appearing on the page in our drawings, and that gap acts as a powerful filter discouraging most people from pursuing art any further.</p>
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<p>But who cares about the long term when you could make a killing this year or even just this quarter and walk away with a fortune.</p>
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<p>>Do we think that's impossible?<p>Yes. Even if it weren't, it doesn't even seem to matter anymore. Making better products doesn't seem to lead to more money than churning out shit and financializing it, so why would anyone bother?</p>
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<p>>I associate the concept of pronatalism with also wanting to be involved in your kids' lives<p>Then don't because it's just wrong. Very few, if any, of the "more babies, bigger families" types have any interest in or concern for the children after they're born. In fact they're usually the ones fighting tooth and nail to prevent any kinds of programs or services that might help the resulting children and families.<p>For them it's just a pure numbers game/bizarre sexual fetish disguised as a philosophy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:20:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414786</link><dc:creator>LiquidSky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414786</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by LiquidSky in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure, WFH has some downsides as does anything, but it's always funny to me that we have 150+ years of basically everyone who's ever worked in an office despising it as a place where productivity goes to die mired in pointless meetings, office politics, etc., but when WFH becomes a realistic option all of a sudden the office is now Plato's Academy reborn.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:31:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414102</link><dc:creator>LiquidSky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by LiquidSky in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know that this is Hacker News and so all rich and important people must be geniuses making only rational moves, but consider the slim possibility that most aren't very good leaders and make poor decisions.<p>Maybe there's some 19D "soft layoff" motivation, but I suspect a large part is just about control and appearance. You spent all that money on offices so workers better be there. And what's the point of having your own nice big office if you can't look out on the peons toiling for you? And more fundamentally, some people just have this deep belief that work = something you do in an office and can't compute working at home as "real" work, no matter what the results show.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:40:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413361</link><dc:creator>LiquidSky</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413361</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by LiquidSky in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>I don't think Musk and Andreesseen are who most people would associate with the concept of pronatalism.<p>Musk is for sure. Doesn't he have like 100 kids because he's constantly trying to get women to become pregnant by his sperm?</p>
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<p>The second one is mostly accurate, yes. There aren't really many good rational arguments for requiring full-time in-office attendance.</p>
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<p>Well, there was the previous whistleblower complaint that members of DOGE accessed and shared sensitive Social Security data without the awareness of agency officials, which the government denied...until this January when they were forced to admit in a court filing that it was true. [<a href="https://archive.is/efY6S" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/efY6S</a>]<p>That is to say, there is no reason to extend this administration or anything DOGE-related the benefit of the doubt.</p>
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<p>>Everyone adapted.<p>I like the phrasing of this because it tells us nothing of whether your family liked the change (or felt better off with it) or not. You can <i>adapt</i> to a lot.</p>
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<p>Does it even actually matter what you do? How many lawsuits/investigations have there been in the last decade revealing that some company or another that swore up and down was following privacy laws, protecting your data, and not selling it actually were. I'm at the point where I figure anyone who wants to track me is, and any privacy pop-ups or the like are just for show.</p>
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<p>No, it's very much yours and the way you phrased it. Perhaps you didn't mean it this way, but you sound like some kind of "pickup artist" type giving advice on "negging" women.</p>
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<p>> I feel like I'm missing something here to properly understand why people ended up working for these companies in the first place<p>Money.</p>
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<p>I'll take "begging the question" for $500.</p>
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<p>We're talking about environmental regulations. It is no more good for a small business to pollute than a large one, and it's precisely the poor who are most harmed by environmental pollution.</p>
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<p>You're noting how they describe themselves, but my experience has been the same as the parent comment, that "independent" always means conservative/Republican but not wanting to call themselves that.</p>
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