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crate_barre
·4 yıl önce·discuss
Eh, this person hasn’t really HNed imho. If the tone and tenor of the comments get you, then whatever, it’s toxic for your appetite, move on.

There’s really a deeper darker underbelly of HN where certain opinions get down voted without explanation. It’s the quiet silencing or shunning. In fact, the person that wrote this article is kind of the person that would quietly down vote, not partake in the discussion, and then one day write a blanket ‘you are all toxic post’, like a serial killer that confesses.
crate_barre
·5 yıl önce·discuss
Why is Venezuela using the dollar? Why’s it trying to use Bitcoin now? I don’t think they have a clue what to do, might be the simplest explanation.
crate_barre
·5 yıl önce·discuss
You could look to short as Turkish ETF ($TUR) in the interim.
crate_barre
·5 yıl önce·discuss
So, is Turkey and Venezuela the two major countries that are actively going through a currency crisis?

What are they doing that’s so different from everyone else? Drop interest rates, print more money.

I don’t know what Erdogan’s plan is, but unless they find strong export partners, devaluing the currency isn’t going to work out. We expect everything coming out of Turkey to be cheaper now, but who’s buying (importing)?.
crate_barre
·5 yıl önce·discuss
But do they really care? Some of us work in processes and workflows that would alarm others. Imagine you say ‘I care about my son’s education’, yet everyday you watch this child have to sharpen their pencil with a razor, and walk blocks to a Starbucks to get free internet for research. You can solve it or look into, but you don’t. You could even say ‘I get how hard this is for you’, but instead you call the person lazy. We grow fatigued.

That’s many of our shitty codebases and Agile workflows that besiege one’s cognitive capacity. Couple that with a constant ‘what have you done for me lately’ expectation, and you have a recipe for apathy.

Subconsciously, the kid will internalize that and it’ll show. Your failure as this analogous business father is that at the every end, you blame the kid for not doing enough.
crate_barre
·5 yıl önce·discuss
I’d also add that it’s something many of us no longer need to prove to ourselves. When you are new, you have to at least prove to yourself once that you can be this ‘machine’. Once you’ve proven it, how is that a goal anymore? I’m not interested in that anymore either.

There are more optimal ways to being this machine than just slamming one’s head against a keyboard, the proverbial work smarter, not harder.
crate_barre
·5 yıl önce·discuss
I’m fascinated by who is downvoting you without an explanation.
crate_barre
·5 yıl önce·discuss
No one argued against that. We argue that the value proposition is dependent on defeating the other. I prefer not to because, how many others will I race against in life? The indefinite race is unfulfilling. More commonly, we call this the rat race.

I’ve beaten people in the race, and have been beaten myself. My career as a perpetual online matchmaking ranked game is … in so many words, not what I want.

To be forever racing, in age, under duress, or worse, needlessly, villages are not built this way.

Agile pits people against each other in an ultimate form of relativism. The constant question is ‘what did you do yesterday’, every single day. Hey, I did what I could, with the constant retort being ‘oh, but the other did this’, it’s gladiators. Forever stuck in the coliseum. And there will always be the other.

They use the simplest shittiest psychological tactic.
crate_barre
·5 yıl önce·discuss
At the moment for your typical developer in Agile Disney World, productivity is move a ticket from in-progress to done.

Identifying what is high impact, or what’s it’s important to focus on continuously is a form of autonomy that is oddly not offered too much to most of us.