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New comment by imgabe in "How to earn a billion dollars"

imgabe — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:44:18 +0000

So you mean workers who find it disagreeable freely leave to do something else? Hmm, doesn't sound like exploitation to me.

New comment by imgabe in "How to earn a billion dollars"

imgabe — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:07:02 +0000

None of the other workers know how to build a house. The electrician doesn't know how to build a house. The carpenter doesn't know how to build a house. The guy hanging drywall doesn't know how to build a house.

They know how to do one piece and finding and coordinating all those people (something else they don't know how to do) is work on its own that is valuable.

New comment by imgabe in "How to earn a billion dollars"

imgabe — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:53:49 +0000

In the extreme there is no distinction. This is why the US and almost every other democracy are not direct democracies.

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imgabe — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:11:33 +0000

Mob rule is not something to celebrate.

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imgabe — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:10:16 +0000

Now the kids can learn to code online or post videos on YouTube or do a hundred other things we couldn’t do. The world moves on.

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imgabe — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:03:14 +0000

Sure if people could just pick whatever they want we'd all be sitting on the beach having drinks with supermodels, but then who's going to make the drinks?

People can pick among various jobs. If they picked warehouse worker that was the best option available to them. Taking it away means they have to choose something worse.

And a job is not a lifetime commitment. Warehouse worker may be a stop on the way to something else. I worked in a warehouse for a while, now I don't. People are not static blobs.

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imgabe — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:59:40 +0000

Who is going to cap how much a company is allowed to be worth? Or how much of the company you start you are allowed to own? Why should anyone have the power to do that? That is a far more evil power than any billionaire has.

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imgabe — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:54:05 +0000

Someone working a job they freely chose is not being exploited. This word is losing all meaning. Amazon pays more with better benefits than most other warehouse jobs.

New comment by imgabe in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

imgabe — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:12:02 +0000

This is something people keep saying out of inertia. It hasn't really been true for a few years. There's been a ton of original movies lately. I guess they just don't get a lot of press or people don't go to the movies anymore. Here's a few from the last couple years:

    Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die    
    Honey Bunch
    Cold Storage
    Send Help
    Marty Supreme
    Dust Bunny
    Fackham Hall
    Eternity
    Rental Family
    Bugonia
    Roofman

Ok, going to cut this short because I'm only back to October 2025 and it's already long. Seriously, there's lots of movies out there that aren't part of a franchise or other IP (other than maybe books).

New comment by imgabe in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

imgabe — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:57:17 +0000

It's not a qualification, it's a competition. It's not like there is a minimum bar to meet and everyone who meets it gets to go in. It's like "We have 10 seats, so we take the 10 best people who apply". Your qualification is that you have to be one of the 10 best people, however good they are.

New comment by imgabe in "My graduation cap runs Rust"

imgabe — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:44:24 +0000

> Warning: the following video contains rapid strobing of light. I’ve written this out so people who are reading this with a screen reader know not to watch the video!

Uh...if you need a screen reader are the strobing lights really going to be a problem?

New comment by imgabe in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

imgabe — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:50:32 +0000

Being old enough now to have lived through several golden ages of this or that, you have to understand there's always another golden age around the corner. Don't spend so much time wishing for the past that you miss what's happening now.

New comment by imgabe in "“It turns out” (2010)"

imgabe — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:10:11 +0000

This should be called “The Engineer’s Credo”

New comment by imgabe in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

imgabe — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:26:17 +0000

If you just place the pie to cool on your window sill, the smell will cause some nearby hobos to float over, or so cartoons have lead me to believe. Then you'll have some friends.

New comment by imgabe in "See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments"

imgabe — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:59:54 +0000

Aw man, I'm only 112 places away from breaking into the top 1000. Time to go pick some fights...

(I kid, I kid, dang don't hurt me)

New comment by imgabe in "Ian's Shoelace Site"

imgabe — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:21:17 +0000

I've been using the secure knot for years now. It's vastly superior to the standard shoelace knot.

New comment by imgabe in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

imgabe — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:12:08 +0000

If they were going to bankrupt you with a legal fight, how would posting the video on Tiktok help? Do you think Tiktok is going to assume the liability for what you post? Because they aren't.

New comment by imgabe in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

imgabe — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:20:56 +0000

You flooded yourselves with bullshit. The people yearn for bullshit. Always have.

New comment by imgabe in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

imgabe — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:16:56 +0000

100,000 protestors and not a single one can upload a video to a CDN and throw up a static page with an HTML5 player?

Sucks to suck, I guess.

New comment by imgabe in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

imgabe — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:52:47 +0000

Of course, because TikTok is the only way people in the US can access information.