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Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by RobGR on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:08AM (#50427466)
It also links to this pdf version, which has the pictures https://ethereum.foundation/ef-mandate.pdf
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by andai on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:16AM (#50427585)
Wow, this is actually amazing. A lot of art in here.
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by pavel_lishin on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:16AM (#50427600)
It looks like a pretty decent layout for an RPG manual, but not for a serious document I'd expect to see at work.
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by kirth_gersen on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:39AM (#50427971)
Yeah, they missed their calling. Should have gone into ttrpg design instead.
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by ossicones on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:49PM (#50428884)
IMO, this means we should change what we should expect to see in work environments. I'd love to see bold vision and art become the norm.
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by ks2048 on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:43PM (#50432670)
I guess art is subjective and people are into different styles, but to me, this just looks juvenile.
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by ossicones on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:24PM (#50443360)
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by rcxdude on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:07AM (#50438635)
I think it would be much less of a problem if there was an explicit, clear delineation between the legal text and the art. The HTML version is much worse in this regard as well: the license in question reads like part of the text of the document (though any meaning it has is quite ambiguous).
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by RobotToaster on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:38PM (#50429631)
I'd love to see more work documents like this, or that at least aren't boring.

That said, a lawyer really should've reviewed it and told them a contract isn't the place for jokes.

Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by pavel_lishin on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:25AM (#50442582)
I kind of want my work documents to have a single shared style, so that it's easy to parse when I'm looking for something specific.

Maybe it's just because I'm in my 40s, but I want my job to be boring.

Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by Catloafdev on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:19AM (#50427646)
It definitely gives 'cult manifesto' vibes
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by cobertos on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:25AM (#50427750)
Is this document sincere or just AI generated and dressed up in something that people are meant to relate to...?
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by kingleopold on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:53PM (#50428932)
wtf is that, cant be real
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by giancarlostoro on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:57PM (#50429006)
This reminds me of anyone who went from normal life with normal funds to extreme wealth at a young age, not surprising, this is just the nerd version of rappers / ball players / young actors etc going through their own rendition of this.
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by antonvs on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:25AM (#50436776)
It’s a cult, or at least, the leadership is trying to turn it into one. Cults have done weirder stuff, up to and including actual suicide.

39 members of Heaven’s Gate drank phenobarbital and died, believing this would allow them to escape Earth on the Hale-Bopp comet.

900 members of the People’s Temple (Jim Jones) drank cyanide-laced koolaid (actually FlavorAid) and died. That’s where the phrase “drink the koolaid” came from.

Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by abecedarius on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:34PM (#50430600)
OK, but there's a lot of artwork in here: the opening-page image has lines like WE ARE ALL ONE IN LOVE -- is anyone taking this text too for a legal commitment?
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge by david_shi on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:21AM (#50436746)
milady on hackernews lmao