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mam4··on At SpaceX, I couldn't stop getting sexually harassed
Im pretty sure its horrible (not kidding). Im also pretty sure it doesnt qualify your entire workplace as "rampant misandry" and im not 100% convinced (but i may be wrong if you actually tried to solve the problem in other ways) it requires the intervention of HR.
mam4··on At SpaceX, I couldn't stop getting sexually harassed
How many clues exactly so you need to conclude she's overacting to normal vaguely annoying behaviors in semi professional settings (except the butt grabbing) and globally playing the victim card ?

She is offended to literally everythin fashionable these days on the offense scale (sexisme, racisme/colonialism and evironmentalism), and literally comparing Elon Musk to her father who sexually assaulted her in her full letter..

mam4··on At SpaceX, I couldn't stop getting sexually harassed
" Some of the men who work at SpaceX hug women without consent, stare at women while they work, and interpret every company-related social event as an opportunity to date (or hit on) women in the office. I saw one woman pressured into dancing with a male colleague in front of other male employees. "

I was with her for the butt grabbing incident but that part sounds absolutely insane. Either you have blatant sexism incidents, or you don't, and then you resort to spin random stuff into a drama.

Of course in every "slightly less professional settings" there are annoying people with have annoying behavior such as being insisting to dance. But that's not "rampant misogyny" ffs.

Add to that the whole environmental thing when you work at a rocket compagny, and sending a message directly to elon musk shows a level of entitlement that lightyears (pun intended) over the top for a random employee

"While there are solar panels on campus, any attempts to make new buildings and infrastructure sustainable (LEED) are deprioritized in favor of expanding the factory as fast as possible."

No kidding. Even if the compagny had positive cash flow you'd have to fight for it, but now you make a drama while the compagny is still running on investor's money. You're just not fit for a corporate environement...

mam4··on Groups never admit failure
You speak as if theres anotver reality than profit. There is none
mam4··on SF suspends cannabis tax to help dispensaries compete with drug dealers
We could probably change the world a whole lot of people who "should" or "shouldn't" do stuff were applying this principle
mam4··on SF suspends cannabis tax to help dispensaries compete with drug dealers
Even if i agree to part 2 of your messagr, part 1 shows gow disconnected from people who dont have that much money
mam4··on The Secret Life of Seconds: The Minds Behind the World Chess Championship
What's the difference ? if you win against best play you win against less good play too no ?
mam4··on Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane
I doubt the security services would oppose Bill Clinton doing whatever he wants
mam4··on Elon Musk: Dick Moves
Elon doesn't own it as much as it controls it.

And who else would own it anyway if it was not it? One of the main arguments against taxes are the fact the governement is incompetent in the ways to spend it compared to industrials who actually made money BECAUSE they were creating value.

This may not be true always, but as a french person, in this case the american governement is pretty incompetent at doing stuff for the people such as universal healthcare, while elon musk is pretty efficient at creating industries.

The incompetence of the governement and the lack of universal high quality education and healthcare is not a money problem at all... Maybe it should get itself in check before stealing efficient people's money.

(not even considering that a lot of laypeople have made more money investing in Elon's industries stock than the governement will ever do for them)

mam4··on Ways people speak to each other: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk
There was someone speaking about not catchin up social skills fast enough so I thought that was interesting.
mam4··on Ask HN: Why is machine learning easier to learn than basic social skills?
Because it only involves 1 part of your being: the thinking mind.

Social skills involves the other parts such as connecting to people, doing / acting on some stuff, speaking, sometimes lying or pushing people away.

As an anecdata I was a total nerd before with 0 social skills and no one wanted to talk to me, but by studying a bit of personal development you can get the basics and understand the subtext of most interactions, which is actually the most important: "what do other people want from the interaction ?".

Now I can know go talk to a lot of people. I can travel alone, go to clubs / bars alone and talk to people and (before i had a gf) pick up chicks by myself, which 90% people wouldn't. It's still draining but because I learnt to have fun with these settings (I found my vibe), the cost of not going is higher than going.

It's possible to improve a lot if you will you can read stuff. I recommend:

- https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/11/the-gervais-principle-... to know the various ways people speak.

- 48 laws of power (a must)

- The Game by neil strauss (it's more seduction-oriented but it's mostly about someone who was a nerd journalist and became one of the most famous womanizer ever. Super fun to read if you don't wanna take it at 1rst debree)

There are many other if you guys are interested

mam4··on The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!
yes, and the art market is also equally known for money laundering
mam4··on If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?
Because the current definition of "smart" is very static and theoretical and is in no way correlated to the ability to deliver somethin meaningful in the real world.
mam4··on Former US President Teddy Roosevelt’s Drunken Rampage in Nairobi
This is awesome
mam4··on TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's from Ethereum and Solana)
> people here buy movies

Where on netflix ? People pay for easy access to a wide range of stuff which are in HD (personally i use primewire but eh... not HD).

> Or software they can get identical versions of on the other bay.

Maybe because they are in a compagny which doesn't wanna be liable for lawsuit. Once again personally as a individual i don't pay for software.

> why they go to a live concert with the band playing instead of a venue with an identical recording of it

Precisely because the energy of a real concert is better. Actually there's a bunch of bands which are supper popular not because they have better songs but because they give better show.

None of these reasons are applicable to NFT.

mam4··on Feds sentence Bay Area man for orchestrating $1B Ponzi scheme
This is so impressive i still wonder how people like that just don't leave the country after like 10M
mam4··on Ask HN: How do you find funds to invest in?
Downside is never realistically 100%
mam4··on Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)
Yes it's called being adversarial and it's the best way to improve something.. by actively looking how to break it
mam4··on Ask HN: How do you find funds to invest in?
Crypto is the best bet if you are willing to take a large risk. Downside is 50% at most. Upside pretty infinite
mam4··on Robinhood announces data security incident
and then, the deepfakes
mam4··on Google Employees Oppose Company's Cooperation with Israel
I guess my friends living in Israel lied to me then.

Edit: for precision they said it was like that for many small business who look for seasonal guys like waiters ..

mam4··on Launch HN: Terra (YC W21) – API to easily connect wearables to apps
Not bothered its a leading cryptocurrency name ?
mam4··on Google Employees Oppose Company's Cooperation with Israel
Half of the businesses there require "military service" for a job, which is conveniently 99% done by jews only.

Its known as the covert way to discriminate against arabs..

mam4··on I was terrified of an eyeball injection
Try watching a cataract operation on YT without being OMGOMGOMG
mam4··on Why is it Wrong to Sell Your Body? Understanding Liberals’ vs. Conservatives’
Something Soemthing i have never seen a rich person do it.
mam4··on What is the inverse of a vector?
German and french engineering school are pretty rough on math theory, for the better or the worse. Mostly because a lot of theory was born in these two countries.
mam4··on Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s most innovative drug lord
Despite the insane propaganda these days i'm not sure weed is "not harmful" when i look at my friends who turned to it in times of sadness. It's wayy worse than alchool in terms of damage.

And i do all kind of hard drugs

mam4··on Bitcoin Is a Ponzi Scheme
You think Bitcoin doesnt not provide some form of entertainement to the milions od crypto enthusiasts ?

Personally i think 50% of the interest of peopne invested in cypto, especially early investoes' is because they are nerds who love the appeal of the techbology.

For them, crypto is as close as art as van gogh.

P.s. thz 50% other is speculation.

mam4··on Revisiting “The 4-Hour Workweek”
You are super harsh and low key condescending to the people who like the book.

There are a lot of good things in the book. One food example is when he tells you to write done what would be your ideal life and how much it would cost to get there and what step you could take. Its a really good exercise that helps you project yourself and write down / organise random thoughts you've had along the years. It helped me so much have a macro vision of what i want in my life

The has the value you make of it. If you feel its not good for you then too bad but its not the case for everyone.

mam4··on A man who takes 6 months of paternity is a loser – Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale
Well he probably thinks the same of "mere employees" who could do better with this time, such as founding a compagny as his
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