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an_opabinia
·5년 전·discuss
> open source laundering

Microsoft already launders open source code by just hiring people in China and Romania to rewrite it. Copilot is their engineering culture distilled. However most big companies do this.
an_opabinia
·5년 전·discuss
> giant waste of my time and energy

Telling people not to go to school is bad life advice.

> I was [in school and thriving]

I don't, would you go into the time machine and like, not go to school, as a young person?
an_opabinia
·5년 전·discuss
Are cellphone numbers a dystopia?
an_opabinia
·5년 전·discuss
The most toxic part of the Internet today is identity. Some of the IP address space should have worked like mobile phone numbers - paid for by subscribers and representing single identities. Even better, after the invention of RSA, the government should have backed ISPs or states issuing signing identities for a protocol level identity standard - sort of like SIM cards that would “represent” you on a single, authoritative device without the possibility of delegation.
an_opabinia
·6년 전·discuss
> All of these comments make me think HN has never interacted with a 5 year old.

Everyone knows how fussy 5 year olds are, these readers aren't that stupid.

The thing people usually get wrong is how fussy 6-16 year olds are. That 16 year olds actually don't have that much emotional maturity or know that much practical stuff either, even with 10 more years of life and school.

The biggest crisis isn't parents with young children. It's people realizing how little their teenage kids know and how poorly those teenagers are adjusting.