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sonicshadowon Medicine containers used in the golden age of piracy

The west doesn’t believe in herbal remedies because they aren’t patentable by the pharma industrial complex to make $$$

sonicshadowon A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place

I would be willing to bet a lot of money that OpenAi will change the world 10 fold more than Stripe, Airbnb, and all other YC companies combined in the next 10 years

sonicshadowon Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

Ok you win, idc that much

sonicshadowon ‘Hell on Earth’: Phoenix’s extreme heatwave tests the limits of survival

downvoted because he’s

sonicshadowon A Rivian owner was in a fender bender. The repair bill was $42,000

These cars are built for elites, it doesnt matter if the mids can afford them.

sonicshadowon ‘Hell on Earth’: Phoenix’s extreme heatwave tests the limits of survival

How can a tech startup solve this problem?

sonicshadowon Binance lays off over 1k Employees

Pretty much the definition of arrogance, being inexperienced and still thinking they can do the work of a hundred people

sonicshadowon Binance lays off over 1k Employees

True sign of the arrogant software engineer, believing they can single-handedly recreate an entire company just because they went to school in one subject for 4 years.

sonicshadowon Founders and Customers: Love and Service

"Love" is a word that I reserve for a very few people, and animals in my life. If you "love" your customer (creepy af btw), then what word do you use to describe your emotions towards people in your life?

If I start a business I want a big fat paycheck. Fuck a customer

sonicshadowon Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language

I'm just grabbing the popcorn

sonicshadowon A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place

Economists do ecomomic research. The founders of Stripe, Airbnb, etc are not researchers, just unrepentant opportunists.

sonicshadowon Commercial interests petition FCC for high power allocation on shortwave

Can you imagine explaining something like that to an alien civilization

sonicshadowon Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

idk man u made me cite my sources, why dont you contribute and provide some relevant data

sonicshadowon A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place

That really doesn’t sound hard, try taking the initial pitch for Reddit and explain why anyone should care about some internet link aggregator.

sonicshadowon Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly

You using incorrect grammar and not capitalizing the first word of each sentence is about as dangerous.

sonicshadowon A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place

I'm not in the startup world and live in a city that Silicon Valley considers "tech-adjacent". I excitedly attended a start-up event a few months ago where people pitched ideas, and I was massively disappointed by how unoriginal every single idea was. Everyone proposed creating an app that does xyz pointless service that they think will make money. I also hated how many people showed up thinking they could con some hyper-intelligent but obviously socially retarded dev to "bust out an app" for them over the weekend, presumably for free.

sonicshadowon A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place

I almost fell for the trap a few years ago, someone was trying to convince me that making 200k in the Bay Area for 5 years and then "retiring" back to my mid-size city was far more profitable than just staying put near my family and friends and making a "measly" half of that, in a place where houses costs a third as much and the lifestyle is healthier.

sonicshadowon Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

https://archive.ph/GhaL2

https://archive.ph/A9OTx

sonicshadowon A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place

Until I joined HN I wasn't aware that all these tech companies deserve the same rareified air as core scientific research. The real world barely thinks about Airbnb and how it's "revolutionized the world for a narrow slice of remote tech workers that want to rent a house in Mexico for a month".

sonicshadowon Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

Is inflation a myth to you? The lowest-paid people have seen the highest wage increases in the past several years, do you think the grocery store and Starbucks didn't adjust accordingly to raise prices?

sonicshadowon A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place

Naw I'm not trying to get VC funding so I don't feel like brown-nosing them too.

sonicshadowon A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place

DoorDash was the laser that cut the razor-thin margins of the small mom-and-pop restaurant to nothing, and Stripe "transitioned" the banking industry to a world where...they just do the same thing but a little better.

sonicshadowon Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud

I wrong

sonicshadowon Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud

> Hopefully next time around we can be more discerning, more usefully critical.

Like after the destruction of democracy by social media? Or the implosion of the dot com bubble? How many more times does the tech industry get to just say "Hopefully next time!"

sonicshadowon A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place

> If Bell Labs’ scientists invented the transistor, the laser, Unix, information theory, etc, then YC’s “economic research scientists” invented OpenAI, Stripe, AirBnB, Instacart, Doordash, Dropbox, Reddit, and many more.

Interesting, comparing core scientific research and output by Bell Labs to just techi-ifying existing industries and not really adding much new value (other than OpenAI).

sonicshadowon Elizabeth Holmes’ 11-year prison sentence shortened by two years

Please never work in an industry where human (or other) lives are at stake. It pays less than whatever ad-tech world you live in, and second you'll feel horribly out of place talking to people with stupid things like "ethics".

Attending Berkeley doesn't mean that you understand everything about how the world works. I went to the sister/better school down south, and it was also full of book-smart dumb-dumbs. Get over yourself.

sonicshadowon Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly

Well to him all black musicians are hip-hop artists

sonicshadowon Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly

sonicshadowon Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal

Lol this even fits with how they do PR reviews and code critiques. When I submit a long PR for review, I know that none of the comments will be substantive or useful. They'll just be meta-critiques about how the headers aren't alphabetized or private members need to come after public. Not about the actual content.

sonicshadowon Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly

Well this is HN, where every white dude with green hair behind a keyboard who has a shiny tech job thinks that the entire world should know all the things they know, regardless of profession, background, or interest.