ryguytilidie

Well, this takes the cake as the most toxic comments section I've ever seen on HN.

The degree of "I'm tired of the left being outraged at the right tearing our country apart but i also couldnt care about the right tearing our country apart, oh also let me normalize hating women" makes me very sad for our future.

I've found that restaurants are getting better at fixing this. We've seen a shortage of flour and eggs at our local market, but we got takeout from a local restaurant the other night and they offered us eggs, flour and milk at a completely reasonable price for a win for all.

Obviously not everyone can do this, but it seems like people are adapting at least!

Yeah, I get that people are kinda bored right now, but at that point, just go lay in the grass, look at the clouds and be happy.

Sitting here raging at minor errors has always been so weird to me.

I understand a lot of the repatriation flights, but I'm still seeing multiple OAK-LAS/SFO-LAS per day. Who is flying between these cities right now...?

You guys are still doing this..?

Yeah, the post you're responding to feels like a huge internet trend where people are absolutely desperate to grasp at straws to make complete strangers look like stupid hypocrites and rely on projections to do so.

I'm not sure if people are more filled with angst because they're cooped up at home, but it seems to border on a mental disorder if you're sitting behind your keyboard all day screaming at people who are "hypocrites" because they both don't like oil being drilled, and also live in a society where they use some oil.

I saw a video a few months ago mocking "anti police protesters asking for the police to help them when they were being attacked". And the premise seemed to be "haha, if you hate police so much (they don't), isnt it ironic that you need their help?" No, not really. They pay the police's salary though taxes. Its not like them protesting takes that funding away. Apparently its hypocritical to not mindlessly agree with everything police do if you will ever need the police to help you. Same shit here, just endless angst and hate for stranger based on made up projections. Why? What is the use for this?

Why do people find it necessary to argue like this? As if we can't solve ANY problems until every single problem is solved.

Maybe we shouldn't be encouraging more corruption than we already have...?

Or just don't whine about feminists when people are talking about serious women's issues?

You posted four examples of sexism against men to prove that the overwhelming majority of sexism happens towards men? Do you believe that there are less than 4 instances of sexism happening towards women in Silicon Valley...?

I got really lucky. Bought my car 4 years ago. They said it included a 3 month sirius subscription. It still works to this day. My wife bought a car a couple years ago with a 3 month subscription and it ended on day 90 :(

Almost every single answer there now is some sort of /r/thathappened story of someone telling about how they were either:

A) Smarter than someone else B) More Generous than others

It really just feels like people awkwardly trying to humblebrag but without the humble.

Also pretty much every pilot uses an iPad of some sort to do their real, and extremely critical work. I don't get these, "heres why a thing failed: because i decided i didn't like it and then manufactured some reasons why" articles.

I do consulting and have worked with clients ranging from 3 person seed stage startups to Intel and Nike, so pretty much the whole spectrum.

Really the only difference to me is that startup executives treat your time like it doesn't matter, 100% of the time. At bigger companies, we will schedule a meeting and talk about something. Many of my small inexperienced clients just send Slack messages one after the other at 6PM on a Friday that make no sense and clearly have no thought behind them beyond "this worked for my friends startup, lets try the same thing!!"

It just feels like 95% of startup founders I meet nowadays are so scatterbrained they can't communicate and will certainly never prepare for anything, all while expecting their employees to always be 100% prepared.

As the person below said, a lot of these people have answers for pretty much everything. I'm the person you're responding to and it pretty much always goes like this:

"Arent there other companies working on fraud on the blockchain? How are you different?"

"Our team is amazing and is made up of myself and my founder who have 3-4 years of experience and need to fill it with 8+ year experienced engineers because before then no one is really useful here."

Me: "..."

OR

"Do we really need another machine learning solution to classify documents? What is different from you and your competitors?"

"Well, we think everyone else is doing it wrong and that we've found the perfect solution."

"What is that?"

"Myself and my cofounder are far smarter than any of our competitors".

OR

"How do you talk to candidates about salary?"

"Well, we don't give any actual numbers, but we share our compensation philosophy doc, which ive linked here".

"Right, but can you afford these people? why do you expect them to take a huge pay cut to make you a millionaire?"

"The right person will have faith"

There's always an answer that feels like it was fed to them by a VC who knows it won't really work, but is just hoping and praying.

You're mocking the idea that the founder of a company would understand their market...?

I do recruiting consulting and it blows my mind how every time I ask a startup how they differentiate from other startups and what specific advantages they want me to discuss, they give me a bunch of meaningless phrases. Its like founders are being taught a different language that they think provides value but makes no fucking sense.

typo.

I'm a huge aviation enthusiast and while I understand your point, I disagree.

I think the captain of this flight should be in major trouble. If you listen to the ATC recordings, they ask the captain multiple times if he needs to dump fuel and offer him vectors to do so.

Instead of taking those vectors, the captain says they won't need to dump fuel and then turns over downtown SF and dumps fuel all over a bunch of people, necessitating medical help.

Calling this a "media frenzy" is probably the most disingenuous thing I've heard this week.

You know that crucifixion is something worse than someone saying "i need a better counterargument" on a discussion forum, right?

"How could you possibly imply that us engineers blame MBAs for everything? Here is me following this question by saying that MBAs ALWAYS choose profit over doing the right thing and that all other teams do not so therefore we should criticize MBAs and engineers are above criticism.

Do you think you'd understand my point if you had self awareness?

"boy, people who aren't me sure are stupid!"

Finally someone on the internet comes through!

Are you under the impression that management contains 0 engineers and that engineers had nothing to do with the decisions made...?

"how could you say we're really tribalistic and blame mbas for everything? Are you implying they werent 100% responsible and that engineers MIGHT have shared in the blame slightly? hahaha."

Well this, if nothing else, certainly proved my original point?

I like this thing people are doing where they're like, "huh, my post on Hacker News was downvoted? must not be for content, must be because, um...its DEFINITELY because airlines arent going to publish negative things about them, theres definitely a logical connection there!

...?

I'm genuinely baffled at how you're going back and forth between authoritatively talking about how ETOPS is definitely scary, unsafe and new, but you also clearly know nothing about it.

Why not research a thing BEFORE deciding you have a strong opinion about it?

Its crazy how tribalistic HN has become. The whole Boeing fiasco has produced SO MANY "gosh, all those MBAs are at fault. I assign 0 fault to the engineers!" and every. single. time. There is a problem relating to a management/engineering decision, blame from HN ALWAYS goes to "the MBA types" and very literally never to engineering.

I guess I just don't understand what the point of this type of tribalism is? Feeling better about your team while lamenting how everyone else is stupid seems pretty unhealthy.

>Yeah, alright, because marketing and the higher-ups will be totally a-ok with all of those missed opportunities...not?

I've definitely just aborted out of a purchase flow for pretty much all of these things. You're supposed to be making profits, not happiness for your marketing team.

I think it's pretty disingenuous to equate how political paintings are to how political technology is.

Just to recap:

-One person lamented discourse relating to abortion "going downhill".

-Someone pointed out that its hard to say its going downhill when its been happening since the 70s.

Your takeaway:

"SO YOU THINK ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE PRO LIFE DO THIS?"

Its simply impossible to have those inputs and create this output without having a massive, obvious agenda. Maybe take that elsewhere?