coffeesque

> But even our human desires are mostly good. When we see evil in our midst, that is mostly not a failure of our own moral perception, nor of an unjust world, but just another problem that we have yet to solve. We are young in our reign and despite our occasional lapses into evil and failure we have been rewarded richly thus far for pursuing our best visions of flourishing futures and charitable goodwill. There is no reason to lose faith that this providential bounty will continue.

kudos to the author for this high quality unintentional satire

I find the following useful for my own sanity, some might say it's a little overkill, but whatever ig

news.ycombinator.com##td.title:nth-of-type(3):has-text("AI")

> There's constant postings on Reddit about it

I don't think reddit is a reliable source for pretty much anything, especially making country-wide generalizations

> The American Way

Is this an American thing, or a northern European thing?

It's a win for them because they're better off not being users in the first place

> That’s a very self-serving interpretation and I don’t understand why people don’t question it more.

People say "don't talk to police" because they can fuck you over, legally speaking. Regardless of whether you're innocent or guilty, you stfu when police are around

Psychologists can also fuck people over legally speaking (and likely will be able to even more so in the future), but the same standard doesn't exist for some reason, instead it's a bunch of people willingly talking. And there's also no due process either, the entire system goes around it

> As a porn performer, these were far and away the most stressful years of my career. People doxxed me. I had to migrate from one platform to another as company after company banned porn stars. Some of my friends lost control of their bank accounts — all of this as we followed every law on the books.

> After years of pushing Bickle’s beliefs about the porn industry, editors and reporters need to reflect on their reporting of the past half-decade, which has harmed numerous lives throughout the porn industry. Next time they push an anti-porn story, they need to ask themselves tough questions about their sources. Porn stars’ lives are at stake.

I don't really get why rolling stone is putting themselves into this pro-porn camp. Anti-porn feminism is a thing. There are genuine arguments to me made in opposition to porn, such as its affect on gender relations and the objectification of women

More nuance is definitely needed here from the author and publication itself

> People who own houses in expensive coastal markets can't easily be dislodged.

They also have an incentive to drive up their own property values via NIMBYism.

Maybe prop 13 should be repealed so that all of these greedy people can pay their fair share of property taxes on their inflated property values

> People leaving the state

> More homeless

> Long term: lower the birth rate

Looks like we're already there so I might as well wait this one out :)

> The first type, my favourite commenters, whose grim-faced no-nonsense corporate visages grace standups across the world.

I'd have to put myself in this camp, how dare this guy prioritize making things not shit. Hasn't he gotten the message yet? I don't think the author is as smart as he thinks, he should definitely seek counseling

> plunking down $9k for a 20-week course.

I find this attitude kind of depressing. When I was in CS undergrad I thought about going into security because it seemed like this thing where you needed a bunch of systems background. To understand some exploits e.g. [0] you'd need hardware-related knowledge like branch prediction and memory hierarchy. Or something like stack smashing you'd need to know the process memory model and maybe some assembly

It seems to me like security is split into two camps: the people who are out there in the wild who find exploits and the "bootcamp" crowd

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit...

> I’ve been feeling this very acutely as well, but most people I spoke to say nothing has changed. Good to know it’s not just me, although it’s unfortunate things are changing this way.

Things have changed, we've all gotten older. People have gotten stupider, nastier, and more demanding. The media has gotten more adversarial. After a certain point, engaging with it is too much to ask

I realize something: people don't hide themselves online nearly as much as they should. It's too much. It's like someone oversharing irl but on steroids. Too much to handle emotionally speaking. Reddit is the epitome of this. No, I don't want to hear your "unpopular opinions" or "hot takes" if you don't have the balls to say them in front of me irl. And I guess this entire comment is just self-conscious hypocrisy, but it's here and I'm leaving it like shit on a bathroom stall

I also started running again relatively recently - about one month ago - definitely not to the same extent parent is doing it, but it managed to reduce the upper back pain I was getting from dev work

Also the mental health benefits cannot be understated, very glad I built it into my routine

> because this allows the slave to be less financially dependent on the master

Just a little back of the envelope economics: if everyone thinks the way you do -> labor supply doubles -> wages go down -> working two jobs is now the expectation

Similar economic side effects to having both genders in the workforce. This lifestyle only "works out" so long as most people are unwilling to do what you're doing