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Actually you must have started writing that right after I deleted that part about "communist-aligned socio-economic elites".

I deleted it because it was imprecise--

The dialectic switches between communism and capitalism depending on A/B testing of political revolution messaging. They're both.

The Hegelian dialectic inherent in both.

A dialectic method of historical and philosophical progress that postulates (1) a beginning proposition called a thesis, (2) a negation of that thesis called the antithesis, and (3) a synthesis whereby the two conflicting ideas are reconciled to form a new proposition.

Re:“FudCo” Spam Empire Tied to Pakistani Software Firm on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @03:34PM (#28448876)
Krebs blogs... always frikkin amusing and amazing.

Thanks Krebs

Re:A generation of American men give up on college on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:48AM (#28445541)
Exactly. Universities have become a sink of misandrist neomarxist thought.

It has led to an atmosphere of intellectual immaturity and victim-mentality-agrandizement. Universities now feel more like a coddled highschool experience than adulthood.

Don't expect intelligent, strong-minded, strong-willed men to accept such silly, degenerate distractions from the supposed goal of these universities (to provide "education", skills, network, etc.).

Re:A generation of American men give up on college on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:46AM (#28445508)
Not so fast.

First review the blatant, widespread corruption in Chinese academia, before you consider fully accepting the value of education in China

"In 2015, for instance, Britain-based publisher BioMed Central retracted 43 articles, including 41 from China. Later in the same year, Germany’s Springer retracted 64 papers, nearly all from Chinese scholars, while the Dutch publishing company Elsevier retracted nine medical science articles written by Chinese researchers.

"In what is said to be the largest single-incident retraction of journal publications in history, Springer Nature in 2017 retracted 107 articles in Tumor Biology published between 2012 and 2016, all of them authored by Chinese scholars from universities in Shanghai."

https://wenr.wes.org/2018/04/the-economy-of-fraud-in-academi...

Re:A generation of American men give up on college on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:42AM (#28445461)
That's what I immediately thought, "How convenient, a photo that suits article's the narrative: that all young men are NEETs (not in employment, education, or training). I suppose they couldn't have shown a productive young man as it would be antithetical to the author's thesis.",
Re:Ask HN: Dear Non-tech founders, how do you build MVPs? on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:31AM (#28445344)
stop trying to control other peoples' actions such that they are in alignment with your political beliefs.
Nice, I'm checkin it out now. Lofi sounds great.

For productivity/focus typically I go with a mynoise.net channel such as: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/japaneseSuikinkutsuSoundsc...

Re:IRS Poses as Bitcoin Trader ‘Mr Coins’ in $180k Sting on Monday September 06, 2021 @01:38PM (#28436072)
hyperbole much?

recommendation: bring some data and citations to your argument.

currently your perspective sounds like the ramblings of a crazy person.

Re:Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best on Monday September 06, 2021 @01:31PM (#28435987)
Duuuuuuuudeeeee

thank you

How does someone become a billionaire while actually maintaining the principle of equitism?

Billionaire equitism-- an oxymoron, no?

I don't know exactly what is meant by equitism, but Urban Dictionary suggests this: "A desperately needed socioeconomic system in which the workforce environment distributes gains within reason between the employees' wages and management's compensation."

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Equitism

Re:How you can track your personal finances using Python on Saturday September 04, 2021 @07:31PM (#28420369)
a REST API such as: https://plaid.com/
Some even consider the financial rape of divorce.

And quantitatively speaking, surely there is some amount of money, which when lost in divorce, is tantamount to the original definition of rape.

(That is, a thought experiment whereby a person might decide a certain amount of money is worth the allowance/aversion of rape of the said bargainer-- such a threshold is different for each person but arguably represents an approximation of a financial quantification of rape-- which, perhaps that amount of money, when lost in divorce, can thereby arguably be considered financial rape)

Especially given that in public health administration, life and health is quantified in monetary terms.

Re:Ask HN: Dear Non-tech founders, how do you build MVPs? on Saturday September 04, 2021 @01:04PM (#28416816)
I had the same question.

So I learned to develop web apps. Now I realize I wouldn't want a non-tech co-founder unless they have significant business experience.

So...

The SJW Technofascists & Qui say:

- We can force you to make a wedding cake for gay people even though you religiously disagree with it

- We can also take your website offline because we disagree with.

I think you mean

- "the more open minded ... as long as it's open to what I like and closed to what I don't"

- "do as you like as long as I approve"

And I'm not speaking to you-- But rather extrapolating these as they represent the fake tolerance of the anti-traditional neomarxists-- SJWs who typically exhibit substantial fascist traits

* --> See those downvotes? Point proven :) The hypocrisy of those who claim tolerance of different perspectives *

Re:Just over 100 days of Libera Chat on Sunday August 29, 2021 @08:22PM (#28351746)
it was a good refresh
I like the product, there's a large market for it.

I see it as another case of developed -> developing country labor arbitrage:

I imagine the work can be outsourced to IT people in India (or possibly another country), and accomplished using a variety of code & low-code tools such as using Zapier, MuleSoft, etc., right. And then the end product & process just needs to be managed & delivered by an American IT people.

Re:Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout on Friday August 27, 2021 @10:52AM (#28328599)
Excellent explanation. Thanks for voicing it!
Re:The Clickbaitification of Netflix on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:46AM (#28316420)
Excellent. There is a silver lining:

It will lead to the end of Facebook and hopefully these practices you’ve described... once the lesson is learned.

The end of Facebook, Snap, and other scientifically-designed-to-be-attention-exploiting apps/sites would be very positive.

Re:Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:35PM (#28304375)
I use these simply to spite Adobe.

Sick of Adobe's greed-driven lack of respect for customers.

Also, after interviewing with Adobe (granted this was 3-4 years ago), I was not impressed. I was asked who I voted for in the 2016 elections.

Re:Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:14PM (#28304143)
Excellent and useful content. Thanks to the authors for this and their site's other content on psychology of design. Valuable knowledge.
Re:A $1.5M 'women-led' NFT project was run by dudes on Sunday August 15, 2021 @01:56PM (#28190765)
It's bound to happen. Those who are easily manipulated by propaganda are easily manipulated by other people.
Re:For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm on Thursday August 12, 2021 @10:52AM (#28157052)
If i's so easy, why aren't you one?

"On his first day in Japan, Cook met with the 84-year-old Masako Wakamiya, the world's oldest app developer who released her first iPhone app in 2017, and 13-year-old Jun Takano, who's believed to be the youngest in her profession."

https://observer.com/2019/12/apple-ceo-tim-cook-visit-japan-...

You cannot equate being a tradesman to a software engineer:

Being a software engineer requires highly intense focus for hours on end, unpacking and repacking equations in different languages, which you must continuously teach yourself while using them to build things.

Also, here's no reason you cannot become one.

Unless of course, you're not willing to do what it takes. And guess what amigo: It takes time, effort, and the ability to simply sit and focus at a desk for 4-8 hours per day and teach yourself several related languages, and client (browser) & server (such as 100% free, open source, Linux) configuration methodologies.

Can you do that?

So don't blame anyone but yourself for your choice not to go to google right now and search for "Roadmap to becoming Full Stack Web App Developer" or "Roadmap to becoming a Mobile App Developer".

Nice, thanks! I’ve been using SizeUp for a few years but it has an annoying nagware pop up. I’ll definitely look into rectangle
Unity is not profitable. And they underpay employees relative to market rate.

Weird to see Unity spend money externally rather than fix itself internally.

I worked there. Too many chiefs, not enough Indians. (It’s Management heavy, a big reason I left— too many managers)

Re:VCs are financing an economy of servants on Monday August 09, 2021 @05:15PM (#28122399)
And thank the neomarxists and communists for that.

Capitalist society -> Slowly institute communism -> Slowly destroy economy to reduce purchase price of assets (real estate, infrastructure, industrial businesses) -> Elites with cash stockpiles buy those assets at low cost -> Power & wealth further centralized -> Just before moving economy/society towards Capitalism, sell off public property (such as natural resources) to your cronies -> Reimplement capitalism, now with more power than before.

Wash, rinse, and repeat, until you reach your desired level of wealth centralization in the hands of the "Qui?"'s

Re:Apple’s Mistake on Monday August 09, 2021 @04:47PM (#28122162)
It's... code for a meme which is... representative of a tight knit group... speaking any criticism against whom outlawed in many countries. Hence I can't even say.

youtube search this: france qui interview

Re:Apple’s Mistake on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:40PM (#28119809)
Sooo... once child predators switch from iphone to a regular camera ... then what, Apple? Fuck everyone's privacy though?
Terrible headline.

to create a business, perhaps.

to create an "app", you literally just need a developer

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