Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most?

Re:Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most? by scaramanga on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:59PM (#33677692)

Which is to say that even very intelligent people can be very vulnerable to believing in things which are patently false provided that the end result is the ability to continue to live in a state of complete denial, and a world of pure imagination, where no action is required on one's own part and you can just continue to hope that all of this is a temporary aberration that will get better on its own :)

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Re:Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most? by nibbleshifter on Sunday November 20, 2022 @08:46AM (#33680821)

Yep. Even clever engineers can be delusional fuckwits.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most? by ethbr0 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @10:19PM (#33688306)

There's also a time component.

It's entirely possible that in the post-IBM microcomputer, pre-Google AdWords span, they were correct.

However, it's pretty obvious that current era, power has slid back from labor towards extremely-large corporations.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most? by Wyoming23 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @11:19PM (#33688709)

Obviously. Why else would people on hacker news advocate for all the socialist economic policies that humanity just spent the entire 20th century proving don't work?

Sadly history repeats so we'll probably just have another "cultural revolution" and "great leap forward" in the 21st century.

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