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the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
School, and the socialization that occurs there, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Work is generally just work, it's not like your personal development suffers if you skip it.
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
This dude's stuff is incredible and I never heard of him before today. He should be famous!
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
I find that boredom is death for creativity, but tedium is a goldmine. If I'm not doing anything, I don't think of anything. If I have a tedious but active chore, I need to bring a notepad along with me to capture all the ideas.
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
Your analogy only holds if the customers to that pub were also supplying the drinks, the food, and handling the orders.
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
I believe the answers are CC-SA.

But the parent to your response has a point - knowing that the answers are CC licensed and knowing that the owners might have a ten-figure exit are different things. If the community were more aware of the latter, they might have been more canny about donating their efforts.
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
Not the person you originally asked, but an HOA is an additional layer for a start. Moreover it tends to have more restrictions, of a kind that would seem ridiculous at the level of local government (e.g. what color your curtains can be, in the case of the condo I'm currently renting.)
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
This was the same author that wrote about the Uber iOS YOLO recently [0], without cursing Travis Kalanick.

I somehow missed the second half of the title (with the word "quit") and I was worried he was again getting into a situation where he was doing a lot of heavy lifting for a company that was ultimately taking advantage of its contributors.

Glad to see he dumped Plato.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27267368
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, this is my experience as well. It's to the point where if it doesn't ship from Amazon, I don't buy it.

The last thing I accidentally bought from a non-Amazon shipper arrived in a semi-destroyed box, inside a too-small bubble-wrap envelope, apparently shipped from someone's condominium (I guess they bought in bulk and repackaged?)
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
People back then knew that "hanging out" in a public place was worthwhile.

I wish there was a model of public place where you and your pals could buy breakfast+lunch, or lunch+dinner, and occupy the table for the whole time in-between.

Bars let you stay for long periods, but after three or four hours everyone ends up hammered, which is a different thing.
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
I should have said potentially intrusive. Giving any extension permission to "Access your data for all websites" would give me pause.
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
I'm surprised anyone ever installs browser extensions, given how many malicious extensions exist, and how intrusive they are whether malicious or not.
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
Holy shit. I've never used Venmo, but thanks for the warning.
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
Because our happiness often cannot be contained.
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
> Not a good take. These individuals have the choice of where to go. What should we say? You can’t come?

The US does say "you can't come" to most people who aren't highly skilled, so this choice of where to go comes out of the aligned interests of the US and the migrant, not a general principle.
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
What's the point of Bitcoin if it has to play by the same rules as other asset classes? It's supposed to be resilient against attempts to control it.
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
Instagram should allow users to simply set the number of likes to whatever they want to have displayed, and let it increment from there.

If Instagram is letting people turn the feature off, then it's likely that they don't actually need "likes" for their data-collection purposes.
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
I'd prefer blatant product placement, e.g. Kermit the Frog emerges from Greedo's corpse in the "Han Shoots First" version of "Star Wars", looks directly at the camera, and tries to sell the audience cigarettes.
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
I'm surprised that "moral hazard" is rarely mentioned in these types of stories. By making their overtime effort available to the CEO as insurance against bad decisions, the engineers are in a way encouraging more bad decisions, since it's the engineers bearing the costs.
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
> Many cultures chastise sleepers as lazy, but every time you sleep, it's like a big reconstruction process in your body.

The morning alarm is society telling you "stop reconstructing yourself, start working on our problems."
the_local_host
·5 years ago·discuss
Isn't proof-of-work intrinsically wasteful though, as a proxy for costing money (e.g. instead of paying money directly for the right to mine BTC, you buy electricity and burn it)? In any context other than cryptocurrencies it seems like microtransactions would be a better choice.