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Spoken like someone who hasn’t met people like that.

They’re significantly more one dimensional than the wage slave tbh. At least the wage slave has the character of resentment.

You really think the world is better off with every halfwit creating due art?

If that were the case Beverley Hills would be a bastion of culture and progress.

Instead what is it? Oh yeah, a hedonistic playpen.

To be honest, most executives wish they could fire 10% of their staff. Once you get to even 30-40 people, 10% of your staff are almost inevitably dead weight. Unfortunately you can't mass cull without causing morale issues.

This period is just giving us a chance to shed those people without cultural ramifications.

…what? All the executives would leave. What are you talking about

Judging by their English they’re almost certainly from the Baltic so I don’t think his tone was intended as disrespectful

The problem is you could have said the same in the 90s for veggie burgers. Existing and slowly expanding doesn't mean it hasn't been a flop - especially considering the monumental amount of capital & hype that was put behind plant based meat

From that perspective, it's definitely been a flop (so far). Jury is still out on long-term lab grown meat.

Where there is progress there are yuppity losers sueing it into oblivion

These are the same people who then blame capitalism for their mental health issues

If $135m in 2 years is a dying breath then Jesus take the wheel

Right, you'll have a lineup of talented people wanting the job for $0

Miserable HN devs strike again

And yet those 40% are living so maybe “living wage” doesn’t make any sense.

Except gold has value. Crypto does not.

Well yes - but the assumption is that demand will drop as more people realize crypto has no long term viability as real financial infrastructure.

He didn't say it's the only measure.

I don't know how you equate "speculative value" with "valid projects". Bitcoin has value because people are long on crypto. "Long" has an end date - just because it's 50 years instead of 10 years doesn't mean it's not coming.

With most technologies, I find the heuristic of "how will this technology help improve your average suburban consumer's life, or those serving them" helpful. Internet? Great. Smartphones? Yep. Electric Vehicles? Kind of.

Crypto has never had a real answer to that question. The opportunities of crypto are things like you owning your money instead of the bank, fast transaction speeds and anonymity - nobody but a tiny percentage of people give a crap about any of this. Certainly not enough to supplant the most prevalent piece of infrastructure in modern society, the fiat.

Why would Harvard want to emulate European schools

Says Ripptoe, who believes nothing is more important than low volume squats.

Strength training is good. Cardio is good. Do both and focus on doing it properly.

Nonsense. The "art" you're creating is derivative of art other people made which you saw and learned from/incorporated into your own work.

More to the point, much of modern art is derivative nonsense that lacks soul - which is why it's modern artists who are scared of AI. Their work is easy to mimic.

AI isn't going to replace a Van Gogh anytime soon.

I don't disagree. But I also don't thing predictable tyranny is inherently better than unpredictable tyranny.

I’m not going to continue a conversation with someone being intentionally dense.

That's what it always was. Just instead of what's bothering Musk, it was what's bothering Yoel, Vijaya and San Francisco Liberals

This is the problem of having core global communications infrastructure be centralized

Um, they did - China was the global superpower for most of human history. Western (read: caucasian) dominance is a relatively recent phenomenon.

And even that dominance is thanks almost entirely to the Islamic golden age that preceded it.

And just like the ignorant muslim empires in 1200 who assumed they would rule the world forever, Westerners haven't realized the rest of the world has caught up to them and the European age is over.

I mean - you’re wrong.

20 years ago America and Europe dominated the world - today the US is growing increasingly perilous politically and Europe is little more than a museum, irrelevant by the day.

The collective economies of Canada, Europe and Australia haven’t grown since 2008. 15 years. The US is the only “western” economy which has actually shown real GDP growth.

A staggering number of academics and researchers are now opting to either stay or return home - because home is a better place to live than the West, unlike 20 years ago.

By the year 2040, there is only going to be a single “western” country among the worlds 10 largest economies.

It’s basic math. China is just the start - there are 4-5 new chinas emerging over the next 2-3 decades

What you are saying is respectfully a highly incorrect and somewhat sheltered perspective.

This is why the West is stagnating and the power center of the world has shifted East once more after half a millennia.

Americans have really run out of problems I see

Lesser of two evils but I haven’t used google maps in years. Apple maps has done everything I need and is far better from a privacy perspective

High taxes and laziness. This is why Europe is a museum and China/India will dominate the future.

People need to stop taking those happiness surveys seriously. They’re complete and utter nonsense.

And if not, surely a political body with armed forces backing said bank could negotiate for leverage or support from other governments