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Cryptobros are just like early christians in the Roman Empire, yep. In fact, SBF was just like Christ himself.

Fortunately for me this isn’t something I have to reconcile. We’re a Java shop.

Cool anecdote, but ultimately unrealistic. If I make a job posting on LinkedIn for a front end developer for example, I will get up to 500 (USA) applicants. Filters (such as absolutely no cryptobros) are a tool for finding the best applicant.

That would be inappropriate.

Which specific comments do you take issue with?

Sounds like you put crypto on your resume, so don’t worry about getting accidentally hired :)

I can only speak for my own company. I recently (6 months ago) hired a junior web developer. He’s now a senior, and the highest paid engineer in the company.

If you’re a junior developer, and you want to make good money at it, you no longer have hobbies or a life (don’t worry, you get them back when you get good). Instead, all your free time is now dedicated to hobby projects & studying. Of course, only a small % of junior developers want/are capable of that lifestyle (the 10x engineers), and if you’re not one, you’ll just have to suffer making only 80k a year + benefits as a regular junior.

Sorry, my real name as a username was taken.

Discrimination based on life choices is called consequences. The Unabomber, while a genius mathematician, will never be offered a position in my company.

Well, that was pre war. I was pretty nouveau riche. Then I almost got blown up in combat, and my tastes changed.

That’s an interesting point. But I still wouldn’t include crypto on my resume - instead, leave a gap in the resume, and if the hiring manager asks, explain.

It reminds me of how I see a lot of applicants to LinkedIn job posts with people who list their work history all the way back, past their time in the industry. Eg McDonald’s cashier. You may think that has a positive effect (has experience talking to customers, can be trusted to handle petty cash, held a job even at minimum wage..) but in reality the first thought I have is “did bro really put McDonald’s on a backend dev resume lmfao”

A lot is being demonstrated with it being on your resume:

1) enjoying the technical challenges of crypto is to me like a guilty pleasure. So do I, but I don’t tell the world about it (outside of this HN comment).

2) such a high % of the people involved in crypto are doing something shady or illegal. Personally I would bet that only a slim slim slim monitory of US crypto holders pay their taxes accurately. For any top security clearance jobs in the US, you can’t have any major outstanding debts, because they could be used as leverage against you. In the same way, hiring a cryptobro looks like an unnecessary risk to me.

3) they probably can’t do the job I need them to do. For example, any front end change to our sales funnel requires a sign off from compliance. Can I trust a cryptobro to work in an environment with stricter rules & compliance requirements? Not really.

Multi cam works surprisingly well in green forests.

It’s weird that there’s only one LEO in multicam and the rest are in black uniforms.

I entered EN to RU simply “distributed systems engineer” and the results were totally off. It returned something about distributed energy management.

I don’t understand how anyone can call “various religious constructs” absurd. It’s a very “Reddit moment” thing to do. Religion has existed since the dawn of man. The internal feeling that there is something more out there - something that created us, is something almost all of us have.

As for the feeling that life is too short; I’ll offer a comparison to the early biblical figures: Adam and his sons lived almost a thousand years. Noah the same. Isaac lived almost 200 years. Compared to biblical figures, we live very short lifespans.

I read the article. The headline is awful. For example:

> The most commonly-used bot type both by pro-Ukraine and pro-Russia sides is the “self-declared bots — accounts that are transparent about being bots

Quite honestly, I refuse to deal with anyone who is a Russian apologist. There is presently no better example of Good vs Evil in the world than Ukraine vs Russia.

I’ve been very happy with MeiliSearch. It powers internal search services for customer support at my ecom site.

Student 94871! Drink your verification can of Mtn Dew (tm) to begin the exam!

And 20k GBP will buy a lot more in your EU country than in the UK.

You know that your startup doesn’t need to target the US/UK/English speaking world right? You can launch a service or product in your EU country and, similar to the cost of living difference, your capital requirements will be much smaller.

I’m an immigrant in Ukraine. I love this country very much. Speak the language, understand the culture, etc.

After checking out your page, I’m absolutely appalled. I’ve forwarded this to a personal friend who works in the immigration department here.

Ukraine isn’t your playground to pimp women to men who aren’t successful with them in their own countries.

Btw you’ve probably seen me around Kyiv in bars/clubs/whatever. I’m the guy always wearing designer + an iced out rolex

For all of my travel in mainland US, I fly private. $2k Miami to NY for example is very reasonable. But I don’t know of any service which offers shared private across the Atlantic, I just can’t justify spending 50k on a flight.

Is the only real option for the 8 figure club to buy a jet card/fractional for international private flight?

Oh I love food - quality food. I don’t eat trash like McDonald’s (at least not very often..).

But I have to consume like 5k calories every day for sports, and that gets tiring.

I don’t eat veggies, and I’m definitely not eating the gross parts of my meat like liver, so I have to take a big bowl of supplements. It works out for me.

Why don’t you just hire a chef?

I really don’t understand libertarians. You hate the idea of a government having any power that could theoretically/historically be used to oppress you, but when corporations do it, it should be celebrated.

Thank God it was IRS LLC that put me in their private prison for not paying my Land Ownership Subscription instead of the government.

You’re incredibly wrong. Rich people just make friends with other rich people.

Speaking from experience, I don’t care if girls want me for my $. But I’m not looking for a wife right now. If I was, I would probably date women that I meet at higher social events instead of lingerie models.

I have a couple friends from before I got rich, but most of my friends now have similar status.

After tax I make a few hundred k/month. I spend almost all of it. I’m always motivated to keep growing my business, because if I don’t, I’ll go broke.

I love this lifestyle.

Nice, now I get to read spam on HN too.

I have a few dozen pieces from LV, and they’ve already increased in value since his passing.

But I wouldn’t sell any of them for any reasonable price. He was truly a uniquely talented artist & designer. A real loss for the world.

You think transactional updates are a mistake? I guess you’ve never had to worry about the integrity of your data?

Bank -> debit card purchase -> perform all required database work in a transaction -> transaction fails -> decline debit card purchase

Without transactions, in this scenario, maybe the debit card transaction fails but money is still taken out of your account? Doesn’t sound very pleasant.