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I don't mean to be cynical - I ultimately want to contribute to the conversation in a meaningful way. The original article and the surrounding comments remind me of the Tyler Durden quote from Fight club:

"I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables - slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war... Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."

What proportion of 'this' sentiment is echoed by that quote? "Tyler" seems to indicate that this is a marketing problem - expectations not aligning with reality. It's a mixture of hard work, consumption and advertising. The question I propose, what proportion of this sentiment can be attributed to falsely attributing financial success (aka 'things') to a better life? That's not to say money isn't important, it's just stripping out the consumption element. Never in our life has it been so apparent how little we have compared to others (thanks Instagram) - is it possible the crux here is that our 'internal expectations' have risen exponentially while reality moves linearly?
This was the biggest benefit for me.
Thank you for bringing this to light. That explains it well.

It certainly indicts ABB for not meeting their obligations here.
> Mandate that every API version that introduces breaking changes remains available for X years.

Then you've just crippled the ability to deliver new functionality at a rapid pace without huge associated support costs.

no?
Yes in a meritocracy. The real world and capitalism are far from a meritocracy though.
Specifically a corporation might be under meritocracal pressures in competition with other corporations some times but individual workers within a corporation definitely don't necessarily get meritoracially rewarded in proportion to their efficient efforts.
No, exactly that and reading comprehension failure on your part.
A major goal of GDPR was to streamline enforcement and reduce compliance cost. Then people thought they could use Ireland to just avoid it, and instead they now have to worry about 27 DPAs, so it utterly backfired. Same dynamic in USA: they blocked national level privacy laws for decades and now they’ll have to deal with 50 state laws instead, which is much more onerous.
Wages across the western world have been flat for about 40 years, yet productivity has grown immensely in that same time. We should be asking ourselves where all that extra wealth ended up.
This is starting to change in the UK as the proportion of customers ordering online keeps increasing, for example Tesco have started setting up "Dotcom centres": https://www.tescoplc.com/news/2013/tesco-opens-sixth-grocery...
(of course that's best of both worlds, fulfil from your existing stores until the demand justifies a dedicated centre)
Whenever I visit the US, I inevitably end up sitting in front of a TV and I'm always so surprised at how many commercials are for drugs. Its just drugs and cars every 5 minutes all day long.

I guess those groups have figured out how to advertise on HN now too.
The concept of a "wealth of the soul" is not related to the metaphysical concept of a "soul." It refers to the idea that you're born deserving the position you are given.
I propose Success = Hard Work * Opportunity^2. That is to say that hard work without opportunity equals nothing and opportunity without work equals nothing. But work and opportunity do not have a linear relationship, a bit more opportunity can greatly leverage a bit of extra work. Big opportunities practically become self-fulfilling. Just look at all the poor students who became president. Their lack of work in school couldn't hold them back from their massive opportunities.

I guarantee you are not working harder at tech than many, many minimum wage workers.
> In a fair society, with equality of opportunity, it should be equally likely for a child born in a trailer park to become high income earner as it is for Bill Gate's child.

A reasonably fair society shouldn't allow for children to be born and raised in trailer parks in the first place. State policies should be directed towards strengthening the family unit and improving the conditions for the average working class people. Once you have eliminated the precarious forms of existence in society and have established decent cultural norms for working class people by which they value education, upward social mobility will happen much more widely.
Day 3 of a salt water only fast gives me a level of focus I could cut diamonds with. No drugs necessary. I've had better long term success with ADHD with increased fat intake and decreased carbohydrate intake.
The biggest thing is avoiding database structures that will be difficult to work with later, requiring data migrations to escape the dilemna.

The book SQL Antipatterns is a good read on this subject. But realistically, I think you need to work in a few production databases and experience these problems before you deeply understand them enough to understand why they are antipatterns.
>In my experience people here are Christian

You need new experiences. Only ~70% of the US claims christianity (https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/) -- and that is "claims" because we all know there are people who do not practice what they preach.

If you have more than 10 friends and don't know a single non-christian, your anecdotal experience most certainly does not reflect the data.

Additionally, growing up in the bible belt, in my experience, the person you responded to is correct. "God will bless you" is a common refrain when talking about working hard, tithing, saving ones self for marriage, etc. And what is God's blessing in the arena of economics (hard work) except monetary reward? The prosperity gospel of mega churches is so popular for a reason, as disgusting as those of us on the outside may find it.
Your last sentence confuses me. If someone believes in the great meritocracy then they must agree that wealthier people are better people, then it seems obvious that most people in the world feel this way, whether they admit it or not, and even whether they realize it themselves or not. The princess marrying the pauper is a nice fairy tale but how often does it actually happen in reality?
Genetic or learned behavior?

The behaviors that help you successfully move between lower rungs may (spoiler: they do) hinder you at higher rungs.
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Nope. We aren't supposed to put out cans of more than a certain size, and there's a weight limit (I think 50 lbs a piece). Many folks also put out bags, next to the cans.

On Fridays, they do a "heavy" collection, which means they pick up all kinds of crap (like old furniture).

We also have a lot of raccoons, around here, and those little bastards love garbage night. The collectors will often go the extra step, and pick up some rubbish that has been savaged by the local trash pandas.
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Boox is easy to root and the remarkable is open. Not sure how well the remarkable would work with a keyboard, but my Boox included a keyboard (it's just a BLE one but it has good support). On the remarkable at least you should be able to run some tiny linux distro with a simple as you want stack. Guess in time we will get something; just not sure how to make sure it's more open.
Yeah, it's real simple, there is no stuff unless you make stuff.
Slavery was a blip compared to industrialization.

Slavery was frequent but led to minor growth in gdp (as evidenced by Columbus living at only twice the average standard of living of Jesus-times in 0 AD). Cheap labor perhaps even stalled industrialization, which lead to living standards doubling every 5-10 years during the fastest periods. Slavery was a better wealth generator for the slaveholders than nothing, but the idea that it’s some great wealth generator compared so what came after is ridiculous. Maybe 1% of the wealth of the US came from slavery, steam power is a much much larger chunk, and computing thereafter.
It's interesting the F-12B was cancelled because CONUS was deemed "safe-enough."

Can we not now envision threats moving faster than a Concorde?
> The point is that it's meaningless to make blanket statements about whole continents when the differences are so substantial within them

Apologies if I'm dense, but I still don't understand. You can have a lot of variance in Europe and the US, but if the median is 40% lower in the Europe than in the US, doesn't it still suggest that any given American moving to Europe would have a dramatically harder time keeping his American salary?

> E.g. consider the number of Eastern European developers who could significantly increase their salaries by moving to higher paid locations in Europe, but you instead stay and e.g. work for local agencies

Fair enough--I wouldn't be competing against all of Europe, but there are far fewer jobs that pay $200K in Paris than, say, Chicago and the number of developers competing for those jobs is probably pretty comparable. I suspect it would be a lot harder for me to make $200K in Paris, but I would love to be wrong.
Since this post will likely attract my people, I'm curious how folks with an ADHD diagnosis have adapted to working from home. If possible, separate the comfort of it from the productivity of it.

I find personally that it's much more comfortable working from home, and while there have been many 'blown days' due to lapses in discipline, I can have days where I crush it as well. Open plan office environments are like someone is jamming my brain with a microwave, I can't accomplish anything. High-walled cubicle environments are better but all it takes is someone with a smelly lunch or wheezy breath and I'm off track.
“False consciousness is a term used by some to describe ways in which material, ideological, and institutional processes are said to mislead members of the proletariat and other class actors within capitalist societies, concealing the exploitation intrinsic to the social relations between classes.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consciousness
It's a steady decline from 100% to just 21.7% over hundreds of years.
The cost of recycling solar panels is maybe $.01/watt, if that? It's a small fraction of the cost of installing the solar panels. This also assumes the solar panels even need to be recycled. Maybe to recover silver from front contact wires?
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What does "10x on productivity" mean? I thought ADHD would lead to lower productivity.
OP here, learning to sail is one of my dreams and a potential candidate for first thing Ill want to do this year after quitting. Do you have any tips? I have some very small experience in it.
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Yes, this is one of the many reasons why I tend to prefer rolling release, gasp, even on servers. Instability is easier for me to deal with than out of date software with security holes.

I do think long term nix/guix will be the trend setters, but till then rolling release is where its at for some of us.

I also just have to say, once you get used to running the latest of everything, the pain of a more traditional distro becomes much more noticable.

One thing, all of this really makes me want to try gentoo again for a bit.
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Looking at the data more closely, it seems this (international) survey is not representative of the average views among Americans. So there is a large propaganda gap between Americans and others in the western world.
Yes. What about it? It’s interesting isn’t it?
Agreed, some of these posts are appalling. Hard work may not pay off but not working hard is guaranteed not to pay off.
>If someone makes a piece of software available for free, even if it's just a binary, then it remains free unless or until the company revokes that status.

This is not in accordance with copyright law.

Corel granted permission to get copies from Corel. If you already have a copy from Corel, it remains free. But this isn't GPL; you don't have permission to make further copies of one of the free copies. If you get a copy from one of the third parties that still has it available for download, you're violating copyright, even if the third party themselves got their own copy for free.
Thank you, however, I stopped reading when I saw the word HODL. It is pointless to simply HODL for years and never taking ANY profit just because you was early into a cryptocurrency that pumped or rocketed during the crypto bull run at its peak mania. (Which last happened in 2017)

I always take profits and reinvest them in crashes and bear markets to grow my holdings and coins rather than HODLing and waiting for another ATH only to 'never sell'. Oh dear.

I saw no 'influencers' or 'groups' hyping crypto in 2018 or in March 2020 when they were screaming that it was a scam or another ponzi. Yet another bull run comes in 2021 and the 'experts' are back; but never in bear markets. Why is that?

This better not be another pump 'n' dump group.
It's a somewhat clumsy restatement of the just world hypothesis, which seems like it's built into much of the discourse and attitudes of American society and has almost always been dominant.
> It's hard to compensate for that

A good public education system goes a long way. At the moment in the US, rich kids benefit not just from the education their parents give them directly (which let’s face it is not necessarily that great just because they’re rich - how much has Ivanka benefited from Donald’s insights?) but also from the expensive schools that their parents can afford to send them too. Educational apartheid by wealth isn’t a necessary feature of a society. It can largely be legislated away given the social and political will to do so.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but these really aren't the same subspecies of indy devs that we're talking about here, hahaha. I'm talking about much smaller teams with a much smaller budget and audience. Like, teams of one to five people.

In my experience in interacting with them, most of these small indy dev teams use Unity or Unreal or Godot these days. Outside of graphic design, the graphics don't really cause big issues any more. Having a team of a handful enthusiasts but often slightly inexperienced programmers figure out the flaws in their own game logic is.
> "that's their problem, not mine."

It’s worth noting that this attitude makes sense for someone who themselves found school to be a degrading and unsupportive experience, and dealing with a teacher complaining about their child is just more of the same dynamic.
Isn't this just exactly what we would expect though? If I think company X is gonna crash, I will short it and tell people. That's not dishonest, its 2 different but aligned ways of expressing my opinion...

Given the size of the industry, its not like he talked it into oblivion. He might have been able to do that with a single company, but we didn't stop flying because he said so, we did it because of covid...
Do you realize that most native Americans were killed by European disease decades or centuries before a European ever showed up to their area? And since no one even understood the concept of disease or how it was spread, it was really hard to imagine the Spanish purposefully showing up in Mexico with the explicit purpose of killing people in S. America via smallpox.

And paying someone a high salary to do a job they can leave at any time, isn't causing them to sacrifice their life, it's called free trade is generally considered 'winning'.
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A diagnosis makes sense if you believe it will improve things. A key criteria is that the issue is negatively affecting your life. This can be in subtle, non-obvious ways.

There's no obligation to be on any sort of medication, but having the option never really hurts. Knowing is more than half the battle, if only to make coping skills much more effective (if you have it you are likely coping without realizing it). You are in control here.

Unless you desperately want to be a pilot, in which case getting a medical is now difficult. Though wanting to be a pilot with even a mild executive function impairment is IMO disqualifying for poor judgment anyway.

Personally, the stimulants helped quite a bit along with an improved ability to cope. YMMV.
In addition, people now tend to equal consumer services in tech to “innovation”, but if you look closely a disproportionate amount of the real innovation in energy, industry, food production, finance and “real word tech” happens in Europe - because a lot of people have the freedom to do things that matter with their lives and not spend their time being a growth hacker.
Your last point is important. If you don't earn enough, the loan is never repaid. Also, in the last 10 years or so the cost was tripled.
I have found that the philosophy of “I will have even less fun not going at all rather than going alone so I should at least go alone” works wonders.
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I believe they're referring to when rasengan originally stabbed it in the gut as the start of the slow death, at least that would be my reading.
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Because it involves causing extreme suffering, and we definitively do not need to do it to live long healthy lives.

Literally just watch Dominion. Watch it to see the suffering I’m talking about. Why do you think animals deserve this so that you can eat a meal? Is that agony they exist in for their whole life worth a hamburger, or a piece of cheese? Vegans say no.

https://youtu.be/LQRAfJyEsko
You better search it, but I believe the difference is Ritalin is an amphetamine.
I mean why bother study hard and get a job and pay taxes when you can just cash welfare checks, play video games all day, sell weed for extra money that doesn't have to be reported as income, and live in Section 8 Housing?

"People just don't want to work anymore" is the new mantra over on Reddit, like work is something that was invented by capitalists and if we had UBI doing anything meaningful with your life would be fully optional. Check out r/antiwork for ample expressions of this viewpoint.
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That's exactly the point. For example, my parents sacrificed a lot of give me and my brother the opportunity to get a good education, and now when they want to retire, they are unable to do it safely, as they could not accrue the wealth required to retire. They literally lived just to improve my chances of having a good life, which I might not have even succeeded on that.

Is this fair to them? Definitely not.
Dual booting is very easy, but still cumbersome to my workflow. I would gladly pay 50-100 bucks a year for a subscription for a modern word-perfect on Linux, even if proton based, as I've missed it ever sense I went to college (demanded MS Word, where our middle and highschool computer lab cut our teeth on WP).
In that case it makes more sense. It's still kinda confusing on its own, though. Maybe link to the presentation slides directly, or better yet—upload a video of yourself doing the presentation!
Same goes for operating a car. How many accidents are caused by distracted driving?

The good news is that medication may mitigates the symptoms so you can focus on driving or flying safely.

The bad news is the FAA says you can't use the medication while flying nor can you have an active diagnosis. So if you have ever been diagnosed with ADHD, even as a child, your only option is to go through an expensive testing process to prove you don't have ADHD anymore. Or some people just lie. Easiest and most dangerous approach is to never be diagnosed in the first place.

The FAA is rewarded for caution, not inclusivity. But they are making changes, like very recently making exceptions to allow diabetics to be pilots: https://www.diabetes.org/resources/know-your-rights/discrimi.... Just know that a diagnosis can never been deleted.
A family member told me it changed his life by enabling a consistent level of productivity that he struggled with before.

I've considered exploring this because my level of productivity varies pretty widely, and I've had experiences that partly match other people's descriptions (broken sense of confidence in prioritization, too many ideas/interests)... but I also wonder:

How do people who diagnose ADHD reject the diagnosis? Or do they? Software professionals tend to see software solutions to domain dynamics whether they're necessary or most productive; it seems to me it's possible that medical-psych professionals might tend to medicalize personal dynamics... in particular, how does one tell the difference between outlier levels of OCEAN/Big5 trait "openness" and ADHD?

Or is it simpler than this, and you find someone who treats ADHD, try the treatment, and if it changes your life, the label is the least important part of that?
Why do you think the parents didn't succeed? Starting conditions matter, if you start from nothing and realize the right change it will still be a few generations before you can fully take advantage of it. However by making a small change now the future can be better for the future generations.

If you took the vast majority of babies and had be adopt them (this is of course kid napping which I wouldn't agree to) they would grow up to be more successful than if they remain with their parents. Of course successful is in the eye of the judge, some of their parents in 40 years would be glad for my help and some would think their baby would be better off with them.

The above applies to most of the people reading this as well. (a few of you have admitted you don't want kids because you would be a bad parent, and a few more could be good parents to your own kids but bad for adopted kids - but overall these groups are a minority)
Many people live paycheck to paycheck just to barely cover food and shelter for their children. I don’t think the problem is influencers, it’s actual, old fashioned, poverty.
Personally, I found it didn’t hijack my scrolling and ran very smoothly but my phone is only 2 years old. It’s the only site of its sort that didn’t run awfully, it’s the only 100% smooth one of these I’ve see. I was impressed with the programmer. Design/Presentation wise though, I didn’t know when I was looking at abstract art and when it was a chart. The height of the sections also made it hard know where to line up your view or to know what a caption referred to

I wonder why other devices ran it slower. iOS here. From the chat, it seems like desktop is borked and they never tested on Firefox?
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