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I would like to add that "free market" is a bad description of the state of markets with the United States in general. The government has directly affected the price and legality of many goods including cheese, magnets, corn, houses, education, and more. That's all before we can even start to discuss the systematic effects of fiat money. The idea that we are collectively operating in a free market is a fairly tale.

You are making many moral claims. Your standard for what is moral are all over the place but you just made one:

> "...our societal precedent for freedom overrides whatever personal harm it might cause"

You've just appealed to a relativistic moral standard. Essentially, because we have a precedent for "freedom" in regards to possession of certain substances or items we as a society are justified in ignoring the detrimental effects of the mentioned items.

By that same train of logic, societal reform of any kind is actually a bad thing because you are overturning the existing precedent 0f that society. Its absurd.

Its absurd to take someone's opinion on an a completely unrelated issue and then apply it as a blanket denunciation of all their opinions or speech. Having an unorthodox opinion, even being a flat earther, says next to nothing about your expertise or knowledge in other areas. Bobby Fischer held many opinions that many would denounce: but if he was recorded speaking about the best chess openers then there is no reason to factor in his opinions on Semitic people groups. The two topics simply aren't related and it's unlikely that one is affected by the other. Likewise it's unlikely that this opinion piece on "sugar babies" is affected by the author's opinions regarding the legitimacy of the 2020 US presidential election. You cannot simply hop from one conclusion to another with no explanation and expect others to agree that you are making a cogent argument.

Further, claiming there may have been issues with or that you personally take issue with the logistics of the last United States presidential election is hardly akin to being a flat earther. The former represents a broad range of perspectives some of which are contrary to the facts and some of which are of a more philosophical or pragmatic nature and are worthy of discussion. The latter is a school of thought which hasn't held any real ground for hundreds or perhaps thousands of years. This kind of tattletale rhetoric is contrary to the spirit of serious discussion and debate which HN is known for. If it had not become so common, I would simply write it off as trolling or perhaps your confusion as to the purpose of this site. At this point, however, I think I speak for many when I say that you ought to save that kind of foolishness for either Reddit or Twitter where it will be applauded.

What has that got to do with this thread?

You are equating the happiness of the individuals involved as the basis for determining whether or not the action is moral. Its inherently a hedonistic perspective. Of course you can't make a moral claim that prostitution is wrong if you consider the "happiness" of the pimp, prostitute, and john as the highest good involved. Frankly, I'm not sure how you could make many moral claims considered reasonable based on that kind of criteria. Using the same measure you could justify all sorts of abusive situations so long as the exploited is "happy" with their circumstances.

Jlawson is responding to the argument being made about whether or not patch notes are an appropriate place for political, philosophical, or moral perspectives NOT whether or not the ToS was violated.

If life is ultimately meaningless then why not? The world you are talking about where people work to better the future for themselves and their progeny is reliant on life having some kind of purpose or meaning. If the universe is the result of random chance and life itself is the result of accidental chemical processes then life doesn't have inherent meaning.

Why SHOULD someone who believes the things I've mentioned do anything except attempt to maximize personal pleasure?

Recharge Payments (software engineer)

Very practical interviews all the way through. No one even mentioned linked lists/binary trees.

Has anyone ever told you that your attitude toward other states comes across as arrogance?

No. You're not the weird one. Most people do not have nudes floating around the internet.

It's incredible that tax dollars go to funding the publication of this kind of material with a government seal of approval on it! Certainly much of history is a matter of interpretation, certain historical works are more trustworthy than others, and of course there are disagreements. But what I take as the thesis is essentially that truth about the past is not really something we can know.

Take this statement from the article:

"The results have been profound. Historians now take it for granted that it’s impossible to understand any part of the past without taking into account the realities of all, and all kinds of, people."

No source cited, no names listed. A "fact" floating freely in midair. Pure propaganda.

If you bought gold at spot before the COVID debacle you're still ahead. I'd call that protection from inflation.

All good reasons to stay away from software. Would be lovely to learn one "stack" and stick to it.

> It's hard to describe on a resume or give measurable achievements

You absolutely must give measurable achievements. Team size, number of documents authored, anything! Prove that you worked somewhere and didn't just take a paycheck for breathing.

> my resume (it's three pages)

Cut that down to one page.

> But most jobs have either not replied to my application or I've been rejected a week or so after submitting my resume.

You are still in the phase of your career where you are applying for jobs so rejection will be common. Apply for at least 3 jobs/day if you can find openings. Expect to put in hundreds of applications.

What a load of poppycock.

> Students hear about software grads getting tremendous starting salaries. Why should they choose hardware engineering?

I didn't. They shouldn't either. It's a harder job, with less perks, for less money. The real question is why do the existing hardware engineers keep doing what they are doing when they could be making double just by picking up the phone and talking to a recruiter?

This is clickbait

Holy guacamole some of y'all live in fantasy land. Facism is a real thing and it's actually dangerous. Like millions upon millions in death camps dangerous. Tug-of-war on Constitutional interpretation should be expected. All that has happened w/Roe v. Wade is that States now get to decide whether or not to allow abortion, and under what circumstances, in their own territory. That was the case for most of the nations history.

You are giving cover to REAL fascists by muddying the term.

Your hysteria about Republicans isn't helping your case one bit. A full facist takeover? Most Republicans are barely competent. They couldn't takeover an unarmed city state if they tried.

Google Cloud Architect

I live in the suburbs and I have a similar view. Kids play in the street unsupervised, well-behaved dogs are free to roam, bikes are left in driveways without chains, and cars are left unlocked. I can't stand being in big cities for more than a few hours, it feels inhuman.

You are right to be dubious.

I wouldn't.

SSO/2FA should be required. It's less burdensome on the end users than expecting training to fix their bad behavior.

I worship God, have put my faith in Jesus, and I trust in his divine providence.

If your hope relies on humanity figuring it out and working together, your anxieties are only going to get worse over time.

If someone has remote access to your machine, you're already owned.

Yes, death by crucifixion predates Jesus. The Ancient Romans used it often.

If you need them then pay them.

> Evidence is collected and evaluated in an unbiased, objective manner, and those methods have to be available to other scientists for replication.

This is the ideal but its not common.

> Experts have advanced degrees, published research, and years of experience in their sub-field

Appeal to authority. Replication crisis. It's fairly clear at this point that getting published in scientific journals has little to do with expertise.

> Thinking one can “do their research” on scientific topics, such as climate change or mRNA vaccines, is to fool oneself.

Clear agenda.

> Their findings have to pass peer review, where other experts evaluate their work before it can be published.

Again, there is a known replication crisis.

> Most people seem to understand that science is trustworthy.

Science is not trustworthy, its not a monolith. Theories that have been tested and replicated are useful to better our understanding of the natural world.

> Unfortunately, the dangerous mixture of confirmation bias, misplaced trust, limited knowledge, and overconfidence is the perfect storm for being misled, and for many scientific issues the price of being wrong is just too high.

Completely glosses over the fact that so called scientists have been abusing their authority for monetary and political gain for decades.

Seems like they pull a stunt like this every year.