coffeesque

> But even our human desires are mostly good. When we see evil in our midst, that is mostly not a failure of our own moral perception, nor of an unjust world, but just another problem that we have yet to solve. We are young in our reign and despite our occasional lapses into evil and failure we have been rewarded richly thus far for pursuing our best visions of flourishing futures and charitable goodwill. There is no reason to lose faith that this providential bounty will continue.

kudos to the author for this high quality unintentional satire

I find the following useful for my own sanity, some might say it's a little overkill, but whatever ig

news.ycombinator.com##td.title:nth-of-type(3):has-text("AI")

> There's constant postings on Reddit about it

I don't think reddit is a reliable source for pretty much anything, especially making country-wide generalizations

> The American Way

Is this an American thing, or a northern European thing?

It's a win for them because they're better off not being users in the first place

> That’s a very self-serving interpretation and I don’t understand why people don’t question it more.

People say "don't talk to police" because they can fuck you over, legally speaking. Regardless of whether you're innocent or guilty, you stfu when police are around

Psychologists can also fuck people over legally speaking (and likely will be able to even more so in the future), but the same standard doesn't exist for some reason, instead it's a bunch of people willingly talking. And there's also no due process either, the entire system goes around it

> People who own houses in expensive coastal markets can't easily be dislodged.

They also have an incentive to drive up their own property values via NIMBYism.

Maybe prop 13 should be repealed so that all of these greedy people can pay their fair share of property taxes on their inflated property values

> The first type, my favourite commenters, whose grim-faced no-nonsense corporate visages grace standups across the world.

I'd have to put myself in this camp, how dare this guy prioritize making things not shit. Hasn't he gotten the message yet? I don't think the author is as smart as he thinks, he should definitely seek counseling

> plunking down $9k for a 20-week course.

I find this attitude kind of depressing. When I was in CS undergrad I thought about going into security because it seemed like this thing where you needed a bunch of systems background. To understand some exploits e.g. [0] you'd need hardware-related knowledge like branch prediction and memory hierarchy. Or something like stack smashing you'd need to know the process memory model and maybe some assembly

It seems to me like security is split into two camps: the people who are out there in the wild who find exploits and the "bootcamp" crowd

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit...

I also started running again relatively recently - about one month ago - definitely not to the same extent parent is doing it, but it managed to reduce the upper back pain I was getting from dev work

Also the mental health benefits cannot be understated, very glad I built it into my routine

> because this allows the slave to be less financially dependent on the master

Just a little back of the envelope economics: if everyone thinks the way you do -> labor supply doubles -> wages go down -> working two jobs is now the expectation

Similar economic side effects to having both genders in the workforce. This lifestyle only "works out" so long as most people are unwilling to do what you're doing