Funny you say that about HN, for a lot of us veterans on HN, we argue the exact same thing happened to HN.
HN today has deteriorated, what used to be a liberal and open minded place to explore new ideas, it has become a self promoting (especially if you are YC fam) to a large degree, and heavy policing.
With the rise of cryptocurrency I saw a lot more shill accounts manipulating comments and such.
So many of us have left HN, maybe there's something like HN out there?
edit: care to explain the downvotes? why is it anything I post on HN are automatically downvoted and flagged? It's so weird, right after I commented on that Israeli-spy thread too.
I tried freelancing for a while but it really didn't make economic sense.
there are so many other ways to make money that unless you absolutely enjoy getting reamed by scope creeps and coding, freelancing is definitely not it.
2) give it away, building market share and awareness
3) shake down corporations making money from your open source product in the form of "licensing & maintenance agreement*
4) Trickle down effect on non corporate users who in turn feed back into the loop by performing QA and community support.
I personally believe this is the future of software, at least someone who is competing against VC funded proprietary entities looking to IPO and not really give a shit about the product that brought them in a position to raise money.
What do you guys think? This is just my opinion of course downsides to this model.
One major downside of openin the doors to everybody is you get a ton of noises. People who shouldn't be using it complaining and it's always tricky to manage, especially when people feel entitled to it as it is free.
An argument to this noise is that any noise is better than no noise, meaning any type of engagement good or bad is considered a plus for the app, to discover new shit
This. It's all about supply and demand, stuffing keywords to game the SERP is a short term tactic.
If you have content that people dig, Google will automatically send you more traffic.
If you have mediocre run of the mill startup content blog, you are shit out of luck because you are doing the same thing everyone else who failed is doing
I wouldn't say there's anti-Chinese sentiments that is unwarranted.
China is actively stealing from advanced technology holding countries. Whataboutism is a common way to justify the behavior, which further inflmmates and even conjures up the good old sinophobia.
I think that much of what you read as anti-Chinese content is simply anything that describes a future without China as a hegemony.
China faces a huge risk of fragmenting like the USSR did, from which it would never fully recover.
but given the iron grip of the government and the military it is far more likely we will see China slip into a authoritarian state much like Putin's Russia or North Korea.
I think instead a far more likely candidate that could possibly challenge the US hegemony is a sort of EURO-ASIA partnership, where European countries would compete for highly educated workforces. Culture might be a barrier, but I feel that Japanese and Koreans work well with Europeans.
So it would be a China exclusive economic coalition that would pose a challenge to the US, if they do not move away from their current trajectory.
Russia will 100% fragment in the next 5 years, as they are literally on their last reserves and China is also not far off because their debt is staggering, not unlike the Japanese real estate bubble crisis.
Again my prediction is the US hegemony is unlikely to be challenged by a sole country superpower, but rather economically and technological coalition of outside countries that can pose a challenge (basically US vs the rest of the world which is even unlikely....as the US has port calls all over the world).
If China is to replace US, it needs to start building those nuclear carriers fast and well, something which is an impossibility at this current rate.
> So something is dangerous and people are going to do it anyway so they legalize it and try to make it safer instead of criminalizing it. The US could learn from China on this one.
No there's nothing to be learned here because the US is a very different system. It consists of strong independent state level enforcement entities, it's a collection of individual states, each with an economy of the top 50 economies of the world.
While China has certainly grown like crazy, there, they have a very different system. Everything is centralized so all of the quotas, and inspections are accepted at the central state level. One which also faces challenge of obfusticating as much as possible actual numbers for various reasons: loss of face and the inability to get an accurate gauge within your own country.
So anytime you read a piece of a news out of China, realize what I mentioned above, there are no independent investigative bodies that are able to challenge each other, much like you have individual states, in China the government has final say and the entire judicial system is built to jail, execute anyone the system deems a threat.
It wouldn't be surprising to read about articles in the future about more health complications from eating these farmed pufferfish-as the world recalls, China doesn't exactly instill confidence in their healthcare system when they poison their own citizen's children with HIV.
Not saying everything about China is bad but most of it is quite below the standard of what UN defines as adequate for human rights to exist.
So there's no lesson here imho, and these type of China #1 threads from throwaway accounts we are seeing more and more recently annoys me.
Well I'm east Asian so I wont stick out like a white person. But no, you wont have any hard time. Whether you will be accepted as Japanese is another story.