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> I see a workplace that has become shockingly inhumane.

A thousand times this. Very few of the lessons my parents taught me apply in the corporate world. Be honest and straight with people, assume good intent, take responsibility, etc.

All that behavior will do is paint you as naive. Sure there's room for honesty and responsibility, but only when used appropriately (strategically). Strikes me as acutely inhumane every time my career is rewarded for suppressing those behaviors.

I am not even allowed to tell a candidate (another human being that probably NEEDS a paycheck) why I didn't hire them and what they can do to improve their viability.

Just because the company has discarded this person it also means I must discard them as well? It kills me every time, but I NEED my paycheck more than I prefer to help my fellow human.

But what about the iterated version of this game?

Ideally you pick all your issues and find at least one candidate on your side. Unless it's the same candidate (lucky you), you'll need to prioritize your issues.

We quickly arrive at the status quo: wedge issues drown out everything.

The answer isn't to just VOTE, the answer is electoral reform. More speficially, prioritize electoral reform as the top wedge issue.

It's like this country has been in a 200 year sprint and refuses to have a retro.

Ahh I misunderstood what you said. I see what you mean now, but sadly I'm still salty that solution (despite being a sound one) boils down to money.

> work to flip the House back

A well written response, but I choke on salt when I read this sort of call to action.

The house has been slowly and surely gerrymandering the country into hereditary fiefdoms for their parties.

And if the solution is to relocate to "to the nearest plausibly flippable R district" then we're really saying that money is the real power.

Today's decision is a black eye for the concept of self-governance.

You are of course entitled to your opinion, but to me it's astonishingly bleak. I can only imagine that whoever wrote the 4th amendment is rolling in their grave now.

This wikipedia page[1] is a good start. In particular the last section about dead peasants insurance is the first story I encountered about Walmart's harmful practices.

> Critics, as well as the United States Internal Revenue Service, charge that the company was trying to profit from the deaths of its employees, and take advantage of the tax law which allowed it to deduct the premiums.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Walmart

I'm not GP, but I recently sank time into trying to change Finder searches to default to the current directory instead of my entire machine. It mildly infuriates me that I can't change this; I gave up after I saw com.apple.finder.plist is not plaintext.

Depending on how experimental you like your science fiction, Moorcock-era (1964+) New Worlds magazine.

* one I found that I'll read: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_171v50_1967-03

There's something about this era that I've always liked. Maybe because these old pulps were my first lesson that scifi =/= space opera.

I don't know about the entitlement you describe, but isn't getting in on a startup more about 10x payouts instead of incremental "interest" payouts? I can only imagine a VC is not interested in a concrete demo of marginal profitability, and would prefer a pitch for some disruption that has some worthwhile chance of success.

Different types of investors attract different types of entrepreneurs would be my guess to explain the difference you see.

This excites me. I'm probably naive, but I always imagine that one day I'll retire and spend my days trying to work on an open source mesh network (or something similar). I want future generations to live in a world where 'the internet' isn't a thing that authorities can grant/deny. A headless social network is a promising omen of a headless internet.

This is amazing.

I once started trying to make something similar, but would also try to rank how "diluted" you are in the democracy by ranking your representative by a historical monarch that ruled over a similar sized constituency.

I approached it by trying to work from the census data but found it too difficult to work with. What data sources are you working with? Do you offer an API?

Truly impressive. I've been putting in pictures of my daughter from my phone and I think Keegan really shines at evaluating the pictures I take of my life. Sorta like a writing coach for a diary.

Keegan seems to be judging the mechanics of photographic skill and not the artistry derived from it.

The humor is from imagining a robot pan great works because of implementation flaws. "Mona Lisa. Muddy and drab. 2/10"

Nothing really to do with me trying to classify what is/isn't art.

I am chuckling at the idea of an art critic version of this and feeding it famous works.

I think there's an additional nuance, that of Google knowing everything about us. If I hacked together my own home automation AI system it would need to know everything about me too and that worries me far less.

Came here to add "Stop Writing Classes", a fantastic talk to show how to refactor away from dogmatic OOP.

This gives me such mixed feelings. Using technology to increase productivity? Good

Committing resources to quality of life improvements? Good

75% of enforcement done in neighborhoods of "color"? Yikes

CIA-backed data analysis firm Palantir Technologies? Dear god

Wow, a Moorcock book showing up on HN? These comments are gonna be great. Breakfast in the Ruins is a strange choice, but whatever.

Nope, just a great article on nybooks.com that happens to share the same title of one of his books.

> self-congratulatory I-quit-my-job-to-travel-the-world posts

Hit the nail on the head. It's all quite amazing and awe-inspiring as well; I don't want to take away their achievement. However I can't deny how self-congratulatory it feels.

That's what I try to be mindful of regarding Roth. How strong is the promise that it won't be taxed? Or maybe it isn't taxed, but new fees are introduced as a roundabout tax.

Like a lot of retirement thinking, it's unsettling to think about the negative scenarios.

Reminds of this experiment in a subway station where they put a world class violinist with a stradivarius to play some of the most highly regarded violin music. The only person that stopped for this high art performance was one that recognized the musician.

The point being that high art can be right in front of us and we may miss it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/pearls-bef...

> The civility here is often arrived at by burying comments that challenge this self-serving slant.

This is where I have to disagree. I feel the civility comes from swift and brutal downvotes of low effort contributions.

If there's a pattern that I see amongst grey/flagged/dead comments is that they are most often off-topic and/or low effort.

Not to say that groupthink doesn't exist or come into play, just that it's not the prevailing cause for burying comments.

Well to me at least. After all, I'm just a single user that reads arbitrary threads, I have no data to reinforce my opinion.

I would like for there to be a greater discourse on "true representation". When I look at citizens per representative I absolutely don't believe it's representative.

I think for congress it's near 600,000 or something now. In LA we have the county board of supervisors, and that's a group of 5 people running a city of 10,000,000

I find these numbers mind-blowingly unrepresentative, nowhere near "true representation".

I would prefer if any group of of people could exit from a parent government, without any preexisting precedent of autonomy.

Maybe the right level of governance is the one people choose from themselves instead of the one into which they were born.

> Mincome was not unlike the un-stigmatizing benefits that can come at tax time

Why is it purposefully difficult to read.

This is the mental effort that I have to go through.

1. Ok so not and unlike, let's say the cancel each other out. Not dissimilar can become similar.

2. un-stigmatizing, does this mean that it's just not stigmatizing or that it is removing a stigma?

2a. "mincome is lacking stigma, similar to tax time benefits"

2b. "mincome removes a stigma, similar to tax time benefits"

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Yes, Escape From Butcher Bay. A gem of game from the first-gen xbox era. Not sure if it holds up, but at the time it was a very high quality release.

Honestly, I'm thinking long term freemium-style addiction can hope to recover those costs.

I was surprised that they didn't monetize some of the analytics (or whatever utility player scripts were providing) that the big winners were using after banning them from using their own scripts.

But then again, a lot of the decisions described in the article were surprising.

First thing I did is google that word, it's rather poetic.

"persphinctery", one word to capture the brokenness of waiting for updates the provider has no incentive to create.

I laughed because it's a very erudite sounding word with a very vulgar interpretation: "persphinctery" == "as they are shat out".

I don't disagree, but maybe part of what's trying to be communicated here is that systematic study of the world is not what's happening at times.

When I say this I think of the anecdote in the article about how "intellectuals" prescribe more education as a panacea for social reform instead of the ideas offered by the author. This as a possible case of their own biases precluding a systematic approach.

As I write this, the "frankly crap" part comes to mind again. There's not much substantive here, just a bunch of opinions.

I didn't know it until now, but this is the disruption I've been waiting for.