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Very cool, kudos!

It would be even cooler if it had a deeper view of categories. Right now the biggest category by far is People & Blogs but it's possible to get much more information if it was broken down into sub-categories.

Looks and feels like a lightweight code editor that's geared towards React.

What are your future plans/roadmap?

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It is not the lecturers job to police their students. People that cheat only end up cheating themselves, and nobody but the cheater should do anything about it.

The idea you are presenting is very broad, and the explanation doesn't really help narrow it down to anything practical. How would you implement this in practice? How would such a "social construct" operate?

With that said I think that there's a need for digital clans nowadays, similar to multiplayer gaming clans, but for more "serious" games. Could this be it?

"Colombia found the wreck of a Spanish treasure ship, sunk in 1708. Experts believe it contains at least 200 tons of gold, silver and emeralds. Colombia considers wrecks found in its territorial waters to be part of its cultural heritage, meaning the contents cannot be sold.

Spain insists that the bounty is theirs since it was aboard a Spanish ship, while Bolivia's Qhara Qhara nation says it should get the treasures as the Spanish forced the community's people to mine the precious metals."

Sounds like a Star Trek TNG episode. Where's Picard?

The novelty factor IS important. Back in the 90s/00s techies were relatively rare. Being tech-oriented, generally smart but also socially awkward and introverted is an interesting mix - you derive identity and pride from the things that make you special.

Was this the reason I loved tech? No, that's the reason I DID tech. The reason I loved tech is because I believed that tech will make our lives exponentially better. And up to a certain point, it did...

Well yes, but flying drones are not exciting when everybody can build/buy one.

Jurassic Park, while a fictional story, illustrates the problem beautifully. "Life finds a way".

I get why someone may need tools like this, especially if they are in sales or a similar profession, but I can't help thinking how disingenuous this is.

Moreover, it's easy for me to sniff out and block people who try to keep me "engaged" with systems like this.

If you want to engaged me, I hope you have a specific reason to do so.

If I want to engage you I will just do it and you can bet that I won't waste your time on idle chit-chat.

Otherwise, I have friends and family that don't get enough of my time as it is.

Imagine if (apologies for the metaphor) each and every sperm cell knew the odds of fertilizing an egg and had a choice whether to pursue that goal or not. I think that in that case no egg would ever be fertilized, right?

I think success is 99% dumb luck. I think everything in life is 99% dumb luck. The fact that each and every one of us exists is dumb luck. But if we resign to that belief, nobody will ever do anything interesting or grand. The remaining 1% (it's way less than 1% of course), is skill, determination, tenacity, ambition, etc. Without those, we wouldn't have any business successes.

Should you draw lessons from successes like Elon, Bezos, Zuck, Jobs? To an extent. But you can't really emulate anybody else. Everyone needs to find their own path.

But what we can do is get inspired by those people. Get inspired by the fact that some human being WAS able to achieve something interesting.

Something must first be invented, then used, then abused, before laws are enacted.

Yes, but the point of blockchain tech is to enable such social contracts to be formed, and over time, strengthened. Isn't that the point of decentralized anything? You can decentralized tech all you want, but without a social contract to use it...

Here we go again. NFTs is a technology that goes hand in hand with a social contract to abide by the ledger. People disregard that social contract as if it wasn't here, but it IS there. Just like patents are written to some database but are enforced by a social contract, NFTs are written to some database but are enforced by a social contract.

"Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime."

So you're saying there IS a use case :)

Oh I get the purpose of the article and it got ME excited. However, I'm concerned about other voices which may speak out against it in the context of my original reply.

It'd be interesting to follow this thread and see if this sentiment can be heard here.

There's a strong anti Mars settlement sentiment going on, not just anti "space tourism". The idea, which I don't really subscribe to in this context, that we should utilize whatever resources we assign to space towards fighting climate change and fixing problems here on Earth.

This sounds mind-blowing, except that current public sentiment seems strongly against space exploration and that may catch up with budgets.

Even though SpaceX does the launches, it is government agencies that deal with launching missions, and government budgets are influenced by public opinion.

This could be called callous, yes, but I urge you to re-read the post. The OP didn't even complete his degree, and haven't done any other worthwhile project that requires some tenacity.

You're right, you can't try everything. But you could try n things in life, if you're willing to risk picking the "wrong" thing for a while.

I think it's perfectly fine to say "I'm happy where I am, I don't want more".

But that's not the OPs sentiment. I think that deep inside OP feels entitled to higher achievements than they have been able to reach, and are resentful of the fact that life hasn't been unfolding properly for a person of their talent.

To that I say, how long are you going to nurse your ambition without getting up and doing something about it?

Well how can you find something you like without giving it a serious try first?

I've been playing guitar for 16 years. I'm not pro-level, but I'm as good as I want to be and I love it. Did I love it from the get go? Hell no. I actually hated guitar for the entire first year of practice, but I stuck with it and as I got better I eventually developed a deep love for it.

Trying new things, REALLY trying for long enough to actually get somewhere, is a risk. Question is, are you willing to take such a risk? Or would you rather do the alternative which is sitting and waiting until something compelling falls in your lap?

You can't guarantee results, but you can guarantee a good attempt to get results because the latter is under your control.

Reading through the various comments, I wonder what happened to good old-fashioned ambition. Other than my post, all I can see are "it's ok, I feel the same way, don't change" replies.

We used to admire our heroes and try to emulate them, and if fortunate enough, come as close to them as our talents and circumstances would allow. And we did that through hard work, through having lofty goals and working hard to achieve them. Yes, many failed to reach their goals, but ambition and hard work is what built this species, this civilization.

Why are we forsaking that in favor of a "you don't have to try so hard, it's ok to be mediocre" mindset?

Why did we stop trying?

I agree with that, but I had to learn this lesson the hard way: By trying to do things I hate.

If you have that belief, sometimes the way to get out of it is to play it out to conclusion.

Perhaps, but I believe it is a mindset worth pushing forward.

I understand where you're coming from, but a person in the situation that the OP is in has only two options: Do nothing, or do something.

Yes, achieving "greatness" is sadly not in the cards for most of us. But to try is a choice anyone can make. In the end, would you rather have tried and failed or not tried at all?

I'll be brutally honest because I used to be in your situation.

Each and every person you admire has poured thousands of hours into some project. For some that's a degree. For some it's a game they wrote, for others it's company that they've started...

Have you done that? Spent thousands of hours on a single thing? Focused on a project long enough to actually see results? I'm guessing not, because if you would have then this would have been a Show HN post.

Ask yourself why you are content with doing anything besides the one thing that you should do: Commit to some project and don't give up until it is done?

This question is what Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is all about - that quality is objective. I know PG is familiar with that book, which is why I find it odd that there's no mention of it in this essay.

Not sure what "paint by numbers" means in this instance, but making beats is ridiculously easy nowadays. Go listen to the top 10 singles right now. If you have a good ear you'll notice that most of the arrangements are very simple - indeed something many home producers could put together in a couple of hours with just a laptop.

But that's just what the genre requires.