eric_cc

> working 32 hours is not as productive as 40 hours.

Absolute statements like this on this topic are invalid. It’s relative and fluid and not something you can prove scientifically and definitively.

When they say “defender” or “environmental activist” - what does that mean? I’m struggling to understand how you qualify for those titles. Am I a defender if I say I want to protect land or do I have to go further and do something more agressive?

Absolutely not. Forks are extremely important. Where did you come up with that idea?

A decentralized system that arrives at a shared consensus.

So you’re a self-aware villain. That’s pretty neat.

> I read through this thread and I can't help to feel reminded of the discussion about cryptocurrencies.

Same. Some people are simply wired to be perma-skeptics / perma-bears / perma-negative. This community is still full of people who truly don’t grasp how world changing bitcoin is. They are in complete denial, most often parroting unoriginal talking points that they’ve been handed from others.

It’s easier to bypass deep thinking and deep learning and just imitate being an expert. It takes courage to admit being ignorant.

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not an expert in superconductors. I doubt most people in this thread are. But they are parroting and making ignorant predictions - just like crypto.

> Most people in the field would not be willing to put it at >50% odds at this point.

Do you have a source for this claim? It sounds like you just made it up.

Fair point that it reads negatively. I was smiling while I wrote it. A 10 year period of time does not invoke the word veteran to me. But it’s not a big deal and I’d rather not bring the negative vibes.

> 10 year career veteran

A 10 year career does not make you a veteran..

I’m comparing apples to apples.

No it is absolutely not. The dominion lawsuit does not have anything to do with how utterly biased the NY Times is.

> It might be too late when NYTimes podcasts are openly talking about how the reporters dislike using it anymore.

Nytimes is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. They pretend to be better than something like Fox News but they’re the same thing. Their css and layout plus their history would have fools believe they are a good source of unbiased news. But they’re just as fake as the other news and cater to the left instead, which is anti-Musk for reasons.

Also with twitter and AI threatening to displace journalists I can’t imagine they’d like it much.

Not necessarily disagreeing with any predictions about what becomes of twitter/X though..

This is a total us vs them take. They’re empty. There’s nothing to them. Us, on the other hand..

They bad. We good.

Classic tribal caveman-level thought process.

According to a WSJ report. Which may be true. But where’s the evidence? Why not stick to provable facts instead of this type of tabloid content? This is Reddit-level discourse.

> Elon is doing ketamine

How do you know what he’s doing? Even if he’s said something positive about it and/or used it in the past doesn’t mean anything. I have positive things to say about psilocybin but haven’t done it in 20 years.

While I do think changing twitter to X is foolish, this post is garbage.

> huckster

> has done so many horse tranquilizers as psychedelics that something broke and he is flipping out

> after too many horse tranquilizer trips. He's not there anymore. You're seeing the drugs acting in his stead.

Do you have a credible source for this besides “trust me bro”?

Bitcoin IS money. Record high numbers of people are onboarding to bitcoin and not coming back to fiat. It’s just as much an “investment” as the US dollar is.

There is a lot of hate here for crypto but you have seen nothing yet. The cognitive dissonance is going to be a sight to behold in the next 365 days.

> Forgive me, I know little about crypto, and am bearish on it

Forgive me, how can you form a bearish opinion on something you know very little about?

> The fact that the platform is now explicitly transphobic is a case in point. Musk has made transphobia part of his policy position.

Hacker News has become Reddit. ${the thing I hate} is racist and transphobic!! And mindless anti-Musk hate.

We should not accept this type of comment ^^^ it is objectively and intellectually dishonest.

> You're delusional. Twitter before the acquisition was extremely politically neutral and gave extremist right wing voices way more leeway than should be socially acceptable.

LOL wow.. calling somebody else delusional is serious projection! Twitter was far from neutral. It was obvious to any objective skeptic in real-time then supporting evidence such as Twitter Files confirmed it. Twitter was far left of center and used constant censorship against opposing views.

Bitcoin

Can’t argue your point on governments. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out when Bitcoin reaches the next leg up.

Easy to prove every point you’ve dropped here wrong. But your TL/DR is: you don’t like bitcoin.

Bitcoin is priced in fiat which is itself volatile. Bitcoin must detach from fiat to gain true stability.

It absolutely does. What leads you to believe that it doesn’t?

Bitcoins user experience has taken time to evolve for the better. The real draw is that it’s immutable decentralized money with a predictable print schedule. When it reaches user experience parity with the dollar then it comes down to the true fundamentals of the currency and I suspect that bitcoin wins out.

> crypto.. failed

You realize it’s still here, adoption is increasing, utility is increasing, etc

Just because it’s not a hype cycle does not mean it’s dead or even close to dead.

“Proper monetary policy”

Want to elaborate? Bitcoins monetary policy is beautiful in its simplicity and predictability. In that sense, it stands in stark contrast to fiat.

Its adoption is growing every day. Read up on bitcoin lightning network growth.