"Every single person you know today was at one point of stranger. Even your mother."
There's a lot of cynicism in here and it sucks. COVID has made talking to strangers a little harder, me included, and while every single stranger I talk might not want to talk back, more often than not, I leave a random interaction happy because I went into the conversation curious and left with a new perspective.
The world is full of joyous people, but it's up to you to open your eyes and see it.
What's with hacker news and having negative reactions to 100% of everything Meta does?
I don't agree with a lot of Meta's practices, but it's not like every single thing they do is purely evil... Every once in a while, something they do is cool and I think people are being dishonest if people don't recognize that.
"The GPL is a free software license, and therefore it permits people to use and even redistribute the software without being required to pay anyone a fee for doing so."
> Instead, they will be offered information on available health and social services
I can't emphasize this enough. If you hate drugs and think they're strictly horrible for society, what's worse is us ignoring the underlying reasons for using drugs to extreme levels.
If anyone hasn't heard of Rat Park, please do yourself and everyone a favor and watch this video / read on it
"How the flawed Rat Park experiment launched the drug war"
For you Elden Ring fans I created a little rune calculator app for me and my friend.
I thought to throw it on reddit, and several thousand users later I'm happy I did!
I've spent <10 hours on it and did it to learn some next.js & preact, and as a bonus, people have been using it.
Yes, in fact, I'm switching off W2 as of April and am planning a 2 month sabbatical EOY. I'm thinking small contracts, otherwise strict 4 day weeks, but gone are the days of making 100k+ only to just suffer every Friday and not really work...
Here's an example from yesterday. I'm visiting a new country. I knew I wanted to go on a tour, not sure which one. I went to Airbnb to check my messages, and was ADVERTISED an "Architecture tour of the city".
We booked it and had an amazing time.
Advertising isn't strictly immoral and artificial, but a lot can be.
Spreading dogmatism based on emotion is _generally_ (see what I did there?) not a viable way to spread information.
Asking a tangential question, is a data store like Oracle DB, Postgres, or MongoDB inherently bad?
If you answered yes to one and NOT the other, please rethink about how you view blockchain or any data store. Because perhaps your intention was to be extremely polarizing, which is fair, but I also think your wording is dishonest.
> the entire scope of these technologies is promoting fraud, scams, and Greater Fool schemes
I agree there are endless frauds, scams, and Greater Fool schemes every single day, but these types of generalizations are almost always strictly false, especially when talking about a global multi-trillion dollar industry.
Do people get scammed in the stock market? every day.
For millions of dollars? definitely.
Is there a lot of GOOD regulation to help with that? 100%
And guess what - that GOOD regulation that exists to help control scams doesn't exist in crypto, so it's like we're back in the 1700s where the stock market is brand new and people are figuring out what you can and can't do.
But don't blame the technology, you're being completely dishonest with yourself by doing so and dishonest to those who read this.
There's a lot of cynicism in here and it sucks. COVID has made talking to strangers a little harder, me included, and while every single stranger I talk might not want to talk back, more often than not, I leave a random interaction happy because I went into the conversation curious and left with a new perspective.
The world is full of joyous people, but it's up to you to open your eyes and see it.