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arcaster··on Chicago Is America's Last Remaining Affordable Skyscraper City
Austin has SkyScrapers... It's vastly more affordable than Chicago and has superior weather...
arcaster··on Elon Musk Needs to Stop Tweeting Things He Can’t Prove
I think the millennial journalist without ample purpose or tools to navigate life is the one who's "obsessive and deranged".
arcaster··on Elon Musk Needs to Stop Tweeting Things He Can’t Prove
Journalists need to stop "commenting" or "sharing knowledge" on topics they are woefully under-powered (both in terms of rhetoric and intellect) to understand at even a basic cursory level...

Slate has tweeted a number of things they haven't been able to prove, some that could even be considered slander...

arcaster··on Google Is Building a City of the Future – Would Anyone Want to Live There?
Does citizenship imply unlimited kool-aid?
arcaster··on Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime
Scooters are ruining Austin.

Fuck The Scooters!

arcaster··on Carnegie Mellon Admission Levels Field by Eliminating Demonstrated Interest
Shakes fist at rich people
arcaster··on America’s Millennials Are Waking Up to a Grim Financial Future
Found the millennial who majored in art and took out ludicrous student loans.

Good luck blaming others for your problems...

Poor you.

arcaster··on America’s Millennials Are Waking Up to a Grim Financial Future
As a millennial, this is why my generation is pathetic.

I'm not sure where I read this, but a quote that really resonates with me as a millennial who went out and found / fought for nearly all their opportunities "I love being a millennial, because it's so easy to be better than most of my generation".

arcaster··on Star Citizen's ARK Starmap
You've got it!
arcaster··on Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee
Jesus, why would you throw that kind of power and money away for that...

Regardless of your gender, orientation... whatever... keep it in your pants regarding the workplace!

arcaster··on The US startup is disappearing
Oh please... People are just realizing that startups aren't all that glamorous and at times attract a special breed of shitty egotistical workaholics.

By the merits of this article we should wait to see Paris or some other benign socialist hell-hole become "the next startup hub". I can assure you that won't be happening anytime soon.

Silicon Valley is an incredibly un-sustainable incestuous bubble. The future of startups will be distributed, not in one place.

arcaster··on Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant
I don't really understand the appeal of these restaurants. While living in Boston I went to the MIT "automated" wock-esque' restaurants a few times. It wasn't even that, "automated" per-se outside of the wock-cooking. Humans still handled a majority of meal prep, stocking machines, and dealing with payment problems.

IMO I'd rather have spent less money at the neighboring Chipotle for better food.

arcaster··on Star Citizen's ARK Starmap
Runs perfectly smooth for me in chrome at 1440 x what ever 31" is in pixels...
arcaster··on Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Seeks Investors for New Company
I thought her plea bargain with the FTC / SEC deemed that she couldn't hold executive positions in any company within the U.S. for ten years?
arcaster··on California debuts ‘digital’ license plates
This seems like something that should be blocked by California's own proposed privacy legislation...

Also, who on earth would choose this over a plate of screen-printed metal for $699 with a monthly fee...?

arcaster··on Do Pro-Women Groups on Campus Discriminate Against Men?
The fact that you just referred to your wife as a "big girl" speaks volumes in regards to this issue...
arcaster··on Do Pro-Women Groups on Campus Discriminate Against Men?
As a recently graduated computer science student with deep experience working with startups, notedly with highly experienced women developers and staff within those startups, I find groups like this deeply troubling.

I believe what these groups advocate for on paper and what they knowingly actually advocate for are very different. IMO these groups foster division and group-think that makes learning harder for all involved and if anything promotes the portrayal of toxic culture as a purely gendered issue along with wrapping everything under a poorly though-out victim mentality.

Some of the best female developers I've come to know both as co-workers and mentors (although I'm a man) avoid these groups and find them counter-productive. Some have even been banned for just speaking on the issue of these groups, regarding their "real" benefit. I acknowledge there are problems with tech culture, but pro advocacy and labeling of any groups involved will never be a productive way to solve these problems.

arcaster··on Launch HN: Dharma (YC S17) an open protocol for borrowing/lending cryptoassets
This service sounds incredible! However, naming it "Plex" seems like a bit of a hiccup since most just think of Plex as the most pervasive home media server in existence...
arcaster··on Millennials may never be as rich as their parents
As a millennial who's started their own business and been very active in moving my work life forward, I'd say a lot of millennials just have no clue how the real world works in regards to hard work + lots of failure => maybe success.

Many believe they are owed absurd luxuries from society and believe that all people who are financially independent / business owners are privileged evil people who took advantage of others. Complaining seems to be more mainstream than taking legitimate action to improve ones life / society in general.

I'm very much a fan of the rhetoric behind "Being a millennial is great because it's so easy to be better than the entirety of the millennial generation".

arcaster··on Coinbase blocks WikiLeaks Shop
This is why we need decentralized exchanges... It was only a matter of time before Coinbase started acting like traditional payment processors / PayPal...
arcaster··on Show HN: Cointabb
Can we start flagging this kind of garbage soon?...
arcaster··on Ask HN: Thoughts on Cryptocurrency Indices?
Awesome to see great stuff like this coming from the Enigma team! Founders are a great group of talented ppl!
arcaster··on Intel Announces New Coffee Lake Desktop CPUs: Twice as Many Cores for Less
Are these still vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown?
arcaster··on Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Development
At least it's slightly more reasonable than Bay Area prices... haha
arcaster··on Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Development
As someone on the younger end of what seems to be considered "millennial" (graduating from uni in May), I hope this means cheaper rent in cities like New York, Austin and Boston?
arcaster··on Tesla owner almost crashes on video trying to recreate fatal Autopilot accident
Leave it to shitty Boston roads to nearly kill occupants and confuse Tesla's auto-pilot!
arcaster··on Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties
This is deeply troubling. Anyone who uses Tinder or any other dating site should try requesting their data and realize that these services could likely label you a sexual deviant, racist or otherwise based on your swipes alone.
arcaster··on AI can help spot coding mistakes before they happen
Fluid AI, a Boston based startup is considering taking a similar approach (currently implemented as an IntelliJ plugin) to ethereum smart contract IDE's.
arcaster··on Struggles of Women Who Mask Their Autism
I agree that this is a really important and positive step in the right direction, however, I think many may pick up ideas that might not be as beneficial with only a cursory skim of the article.
arcaster··on Struggles of Women Who Mask Their Autism
IMO it's a loss for everyone to make mental health / disability a gendered issue. Mental illness is hard for everyone, regardless of what gender they identify as...
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