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New comment by sadmann1 in "Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying"

sadmann1 — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 12:38:43 +0000

In the end be it democracy or totalitarianism there's always a small elite controlling discourse. And I'm starting to think china's is managing their country better than ours

New comment by sadmann1 in "Developers can't fix bad management (2020)"

sadmann1 — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:36:15 +0000

No but they can bear the blame until they burn out and afterwards be replaced by a fresh bundle of youngsters. That's how it usually goes at the companies I consult to clean the mess

New comment by sadmann1 in "LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online"

sadmann1 — Thu, 06 May 2021 04:13:14 +0000

Liveleak made me appreciate just how fragile our abstractions of human rights and rule of law are. When the chips are down reality can transform into a hell few can imagine.

New comment by sadmann1 in "Why I’ll never create modules for VCV Rack anymore–and what I’ll make instead"

sadmann1 — Tue, 04 May 2021 09:24:47 +0000

Try doing the same as a man and see how far you get without getting flagged lol

New comment by sadmann1 in "Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him"

sadmann1 — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 13:56:33 +0000

Here we go again

New comment by sadmann1 in "Richard Stallman Removed from the GCC Steering Committee"

sadmann1 — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 13:57:11 +0000

These foundations have always been a thorn in the sides of corporate interests. Kicking their teeth in under the guise of tolerance is an efficient way of doing it. Weird how the movement is as tolerant as the nazis to whoever doesn't subscribe to their buzzwords and blatant exploitation of minorities' problems for faux outrage.

New comment by sadmann1 in "Paul Erdős (2000)"

sadmann1 — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 01:00:33 +0000

The power of all consuming passion and meth

New comment by sadmann1 in "Cargo Cult Science (1974)"

sadmann1 — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 06:32:29 +0000

If you think it's just psychology and not 99% of all publications in all domains including computer science you're quite optimistic

New comment by sadmann1 in "YouTube and Patreon Still Aren’t Paying the Rent for Most Creatives"

sadmann1 — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:18:30 +0000

Don't know about you lads but furry porn is booming right now. Gotta fit the needs of the market instead of your artistic needs

New comment by sadmann1 in "Ask HN: Have your physical characteristics impacted your career?"

sadmann1 — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 07:22:51 +0000

I have seen this happen a few times in my career however the bias against ugliness is so ingrained there's no possible way of bypassing it. I think the current consensus is that exclusion based on physical characteristics is ethical because it is a very natural behaviour. I don't really believe this but it is what it is.

New comment by sadmann1 in "Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland"

sadmann1 — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:32:14 +0000

How will Switzerland counter this change of events

New comment by sadmann1 in "Covid herd immunity is probably impossible"

sadmann1 — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:52:38 +0000

Alright what's the way forward then

New comment by sadmann1 in "Its the Sugar, Folks (2013)"

sadmann1 — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 09:06:06 +0000

Weirdly enough the comments on this thread seem much less disjointed and hostile than the comments on most hn and Twitter posts nowadays. People actuality respond in good faith. Seems the internet really did a number on us this past decade

New comment by sadmann1 in "Four Basic Truths of Macroeconomics"

sadmann1 — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 04:49:06 +0000

What are the best introductory books to get more grounded in economics

New comment by sadmann1 in "'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry'"

sadmann1 — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:11:53 +0000

Stardom levels of success will always be based on relationships and all the power dynamic baggage that entails

New comment by sadmann1 in "Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked"

sadmann1 — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:36:32 +0000

The only thing scarier than the thought that Google has algorithms that track your every move is that these algorithms are fundamentally faulty and furthermore they take decisions based on these algorithms. Case in point Google ads thinks I'm 70 years old and married

New comment by sadmann1 in "Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?"

sadmann1 — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:53:18 +0000

Highly intelligent people are highly adaptable. If the incentives set by the system favor certain traits deemed as dark there will be a non zero percentage of people developing these traits. Especially in highly competitive fields. For example is it a dark trait to work at the minimum required level in a company while spending the time gained to sharpen my skills so I get a 50% salary increase changing jobs instead of a possible 5% increase for performance?

New comment by sadmann1 in "Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up"

sadmann1 — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 06:54:55 +0000

And is this strategy working?

New comment by sadmann1 in "US budget deficit soars to $3tn record"

sadmann1 — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 06:49:13 +0000

What's one trillion more

New comment by sadmann1 in "Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones"

sadmann1 — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:17:05 +0000

Heh there was that killerbot video back in the day, swarm of small bomb drones hunting via facial recognition. Cartels are quite innovative when it comes to killing