iratewizard

What crime are you being charged in? Piracy of a game cartridge is a clear crime. Downloading an emulator that interacts with a game cartridge you legally own? Not so clear.

That's how gyms subsidize costs. January firsters are often make or break gyms. Mostly due to the fact that leases on those spaces are expensive and the insurance for them is a complete racket (all insurance is a racket, though).

I'm getting really tired of people spamming their uninteresting blogs on HN.

This is the sort of take you hear from a Reddit dopamine addict who's idea of 4chan comes from the losers on his favorite marketing platform.

> I'm even more confused about how you got from the biome to the stock market and NFTs

He's regurgitating trending topics from Reddit. Don't overthink the thought process of a comment automata.

China also doesn't share our value of craftsmanship. By letting them own a portion of our supply chain, they own a lot more than just the manual labor. They put us in situations where measuring temperature means buying an antique mercury thermometer, buying a $400 nist certified alcohol one, or getting Chinese made garbage that is not accurate within 2°.

Far richer, but with less plastic junk that has to be thrown away in a few months.

You didn't take into account the heat death of the universe.

If only we had hundreds of millions starving to death to prevent the horrors of crony capitalism.

I personally find this style of writing pretentious, obnoxious and egotistical.

Profit is investment plus risk plus labor paying dividends to the entrepreneur. Go be a nutjob somewhere else.

Sure, but what you said above is compete bullshit. The non-specific "efforts" to improve "quantitative measures" haven't pulled any of the social sciences out of the reproducibility crisis. What's the best of social science's reproducibility rate? 20%?

> There is no inherent property of Marxism that causes one to be more likely to publish "bogus propaganda"

Cult ideologies have no inherent properties that would cause the same, and yet no sane person would expect cult members not to shill for your their cult. Corporate shilling doesn't prove the opposite. It proves how easy it is to game soft science.

I once fired a Jr dev who lied about having done work and was generally being a salary thief. When I told him, he said he would work for free, it would never happen again, it was a misunderstanding and pleaded for his job. I told him no, so he went into the office crying to beg the founder for his job.

If someone were to ask me about hiring him, I would say in no uncertain terms that it's a mistake. I wonder, though, if he was telling his side of the story on HN, how I would have been painted as the villain.

It specifically illustrates my last point. The field is filled with ideological zealots who put our bogus propaganda to further their ideology. More in common with a cult than a science.

Social sciences have the highest number of people who self-identified as Marxist back in 06. The rate was 17.6 as Marxist, 24.0 as radicals [1]. They've also been the worst field for the three decades of reproducibility crisis. You would have trouble convincing me that they aren't a fake, compromised "science" that ignores the scientific method to produce whitepaper propaganda.

1 - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.147...

What's a good solution? A steep fine everytime they fail to vet a source properly? A yearly report that has to be displayed prominently on their website and lists false claims, changes and settled lawsuits against paper?

The one I've found that works well is ignoring the deceitful liars.

This comment thread is the core of what's wrong with nu-HN. The loudest and least informed are the quickest to make a comment and collect internet points. If you need a dopamine fix go to reddit.

I agree that HN has for a long time been focused on interesting and illuminating posts. The past several years, though, have been marked with reddit refugees, far fewer interesting posts, and far more average midwit discussion.

If you go through the comment section on posts from 10 years ago, you'll find a higher concentration of posts from C-level execs, startup founders, and experts with deep domain knowledge.

This speaks more to the incompetence of supposed experts and less to the sophistication of scams.

You'd be surprised how much of that you actually need to actually get a software project off the ground and into customer's hands.

I've come into projects as the architect for refactoring what was built by someone who had only just learned to code. It was bad, sure, but they were bringing in enough revenue to hire me and get things on course. All with 0 knowledge of devops and 0 lines of test code coverage.

DuckDuckGo isn't trustable either. The only benefit to using them is just changing google's market share at your own expense

Even shitty Microsoft Skype isn't as bad as teams. Skype never just held onto messages without delivering them. Teams can't even do the core thing it's supposed to do correctly - send messages.

I've been doing software engineering for about 16 years now and 10 of them have been specializing in design, UI and UX. Modern UI principles are good. A stark improvement from the days when hapless engineers were in charge of design because nobody considered it. There are always bad trends and bad apples, but they stick out a lot more now. Mostly because they're contrasted so sharply with good design everywhere.

Yes but ironically

90% sure he's a troll and you fed him. Look at his about.

You don't understand what schizoposting is. It's not whatever pseudointellectual gibberish you wrote up top. It's a drawing of a crazed gunman aiming at children getting off a bus, but calling the children gangstalkers and the school bus a surveillance van. It's a mix of sardonic and absurd humor.

That's about as warm as Iceland gets. Maybe they're Scandinavian?

I can't name a single messenger with worse user experience.

> A few condescending comments about how you've been coding for a very, very long time - since the times when programming was done properly by experts.

To be fair, the average quality of professional development work has dropped as the number of developers has increased, the demand for developers has increased and the focus on fundamentals in programming related curriculum has decreased.

It's a necessary evil as we have no room for gatekeepers to prevent perfectly adequate developers from helping with the immense amount of work that needs to be done. The downside is putting up with obnoxious MacBook toting soydevs who think their insert hybridization of two tech fads will change the world.