<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: cool_man_bob</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cool_man_bob</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 11:10:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cool_man_bob" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cool_man_bob in "An investigation into Substrate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The founder is known con-artist involved in such other things as solving nuclear fusion and stealing $2.5M in a Kickstarter scam.<p>Haha, am I still supposed to believe VC’s are competent, intelligent people who deserve their stature when they fall for scams that should be more obvious than a Nigerian prince scam.</p>
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<p>For now, those alliances are always tentative through.</p>
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<p>Meh, I feel we’re entering an era where only the elite will be able to realistically check authoritarians, and they will just be lesser<p>Think more of the earlier end of medieval era, where the peasant class was mostly incapable against feudal armies, even in many cases with massive numbers on their side.<p>There’s an entire surveillance state, eyes everywhere, gait recognition, massive intelligence networks all at a scale unimaginable by kings and dictators of the past.</p>
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<p>Easy. (b)<p>I can continue to milk a specific market while my competitors do other things.<p>Yeah eventually that will be dried up, but by than point enough wealth has been accumulated for generations of me and my family.<p>Plus if the worst comes too quickly there’s a fair chance I’ll get bailed out by my long time buddies in the government.</p>
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<p>The food seems to have become worse and worse too.<p>I’m pretty sure the last several times I’ve eaten chipotle, across several states, I’ve been given hard rice and cold meat. I don’t remember it being that common a decade ago.</p>
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<p>> The statement lacked any detail. It's just attention whoring<p>Everything is now. That’s what you get when you build a mind rape device that explicitly rewards attention whoring an other antisocial behavior.</p>
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<p>Libertarians and 90s republican are about as politically impotent as the democrats these days.<p>The Hannity and Infowars fans will be written off as crazy when no longer useful.</p>
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<p>Call them sycophants, but they know the road to power. Frightening.</p>
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<p>> In our lifetimes, we may see fully realistic virtual reality, abundant fusion power, cognitive enhancement through brain augmentation, mind uploading, relativistic space travel, unlimited personalized entertainment, full control over our genomes, ultra-luxurious hypersonic air travel, and extremely pleasurable drugs that carry no major side effects.<p>Promised before. It was a lie then, it will be a lie now.<p>Seriously though is this sort of stuff just nostalgia bait for people who were naive enough to believe it the last time?</p>
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<p>Notice they’re building castles too. Look deeper you can even find insane sounding manifestos describing feudal style martial-loyalty oaths.</p>
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<p>> These guys think they are prophets.<p>You say this somewhat jokingly, but I think they 100% believe something along those lines.</p>
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<p>> Whether you are an enterprise developer or BigTech in the US you are on average making twice the median income in your area. There is usually no reason for you not to be stacking cash.<p>For now, expect that to be clawed back severely over the next few years.</p>
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<p>Can we not just baker act these people at this point?</p>
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<p>> These days, I think it's better to be in healthcare than IT.<p>Meh, nurse pay seemed alright till I learned how much they’re worked. Maybe physicians get a pretty good deal, but the reasons for that are also why you won’t be able to transition to that career.</p>
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<p>Social media has certainly made very big changes in societies, but overwhelmingly negative</p>
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<p>2. Has me damn ready to leave the industry if I’m not forced out.</p>
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<p>What happened in the 70s to invoke such a reaction? I’m aware of vague issues that plagued the Carter admin, but not a good overall picture.</p>
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<p>I’ve seen Trumps buddy’s (the inhuman lawnmower) big company appear on jobs.now posting for general midlevel dev positions. These people are liars and it’s so painfully obvious.<p>I’ve seen more people realize this since his Trump started beefing with Massie, but they still glaze him so hard as to not offend, that it’s basically meaningless.</p>
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<p>> They have loosened hate speech restrictions in some areas to curry favour with Trump but declared that Zionism is a protected category while they have banned a ton of Palestinian voices<p>That’s crazy because the most explicit antisemitism I see now days is on Facebook. And I mean real antisemitism.</p>
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<p>> Are there specific movies/TV shows that you're thinking of?<p>Not GP, but NCIS is the big one offhand. Of course that show has simply gotten more and more ridiculous on general over the years</p>
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