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New comment by nxmnxm99 in "America’s fever of workaholism is finally breaking"

nxmnxm99 — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:51:02 +0000

Spoken like someone who hasn’t met people like that.

They’re significantly more one dimensional than the wage slave tbh. At least the wage slave has the character of resentment.

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "America’s fever of workaholism is finally breaking"

nxmnxm99 — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:50:06 +0000

You really think the world is better off with every halfwit creating due art?

If that were the case Beverley Hills would be a bastion of culture and progress.

Instead what is it? Oh yeah, a hedonistic playpen.

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff"

nxmnxm99 — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:56:28 +0000

To be honest, most executives wish they could fire 10% of their staff. Once you get to even 30-40 people, 10% of your staff are almost inevitably dead weight. Unfortunately you can't mass cull without causing morale issues.

This period is just giving us a chance to shed those people without cultural ramifications.

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Apple CEO Tim Cook requests and receives a 40% pay cut"

nxmnxm99 — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:53:48 +0000

…what? All the executives would leave. What are you talking about

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Cal.com: Open Scheduling Infrastructure"

nxmnxm99 — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:35:49 +0000

Judging by their English they’re almost certainly from the Baltic so I don’t think his tone was intended as disrespectful

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop"

nxmnxm99 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:12:01 +0000

The problem is you could have said the same in the 90s for veggie burgers. Existing and slowly expanding doesn't mean it hasn't been a flop - especially considering the monumental amount of capital & hype that was put behind plant based meat

From that perspective, it's definitely been a flop (so far). Jury is still out on long-term lab grown meat.

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "We’ve filed a lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion"

nxmnxm99 — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 23:57:42 +0000

Where there is progress there are yuppity losers sueing it into oblivion

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "There was nothing “wasted” about my youth spent clubbing on ecstasy (2021)"

nxmnxm99 — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 10:16:37 +0000

These are the same people who then blame capitalism for their mental health issues

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years"

nxmnxm99 — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 00:12:03 +0000

If $135m in 2 years is a dying breath then Jesus take the wheel

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Tim Cook to take 50% pay hit after shareholder feedback"

nxmnxm99 — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 17:45:51 +0000

Right, you'll have a lineup of talented people wanting the job for $0

Miserable HN devs strike again

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage"

nxmnxm99 — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:56:42 +0000

And yet those 40% are living so maybe “living wage” doesn’t make any sense.

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%"

nxmnxm99 — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:46:47 +0000

Except gold has value. Crypto does not.

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%"

nxmnxm99 — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:54:54 +0000

Well yes - but the assumption is that demand will drop as more people realize crypto has no long term viability as real financial infrastructure.

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%"

nxmnxm99 — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:24:16 +0000

He didn't say it's the only measure.

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%"

nxmnxm99 — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:23:20 +0000

I don't know how you equate "speculative value" with "valid projects". Bitcoin has value because people are long on crypto. "Long" has an end date - just because it's 50 years instead of 10 years doesn't mean it's not coming.

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%"

nxmnxm99 — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:22:24 +0000

With most technologies, I find the heuristic of "how will this technology help improve your average suburban consumer's life, or those serving them" helpful. Internet? Great. Smartphones? Yep. Electric Vehicles? Kind of.

Crypto has never had a real answer to that question. The opportunities of crypto are things like you owning your money instead of the bank, fast transaction speeds and anonymity - nobody but a tiny percentage of people give a crap about any of this. Certainly not enough to supplant the most prevalent piece of infrastructure in modern society, the fiat.

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Excess management is costing the U.S. $3T per year (2016)"

nxmnxm99 — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 01:48:53 +0000

Why would Harvard want to emulate European schools

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Get Running with Couch to 5K"

nxmnxm99 — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:44:21 +0000

Says Ripptoe, who believes nothing is more important than low volume squats.

Strength training is good. Cardio is good. Do both and focus on doing it properly.

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Kickstarter shuts down campaign for Unstable Diffusion amid changing guidelines"

nxmnxm99 — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 19:13:36 +0000

Nonsense. The "art" you're creating is derivative of art other people made which you saw and learned from/incorporated into your own work.

More to the point, much of modern art is derivative nonsense that lacks soul - which is why it's modern artists who are scared of AI. Their work is easy to mimic.

AI isn't going to replace a Van Gogh anytime soon.

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]"

nxmnxm99 — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 11:15:29 +0000

I don't disagree. But I also don't thing predictable tyranny is inherently better than unpredictable tyranny.

Hacker News: nxmnxm99

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "America’s fever of workaholism is finally breaking"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "America’s fever of workaholism is finally breaking"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Apple CEO Tim Cook requests and receives a 40% pay cut"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Cal.com: Open Scheduling Infrastructure"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "We’ve filed a law­suit chal­leng­ing Sta­ble Dif­fu­sion"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "There was nothing “wasted” about my youth spent clubbing on ecstasy (2021)"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Tim Cook to take 50% pay hit after shareholder feedback"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Excess management is costing the U.S. $3T per year (2016)"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Get Running with Couch to 5K"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Kickstarter shuts down campaign for Unstable Diffusion amid changing guidelines"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]"

New comment by nxmnxm99 in "We’ve filed a lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion"