patryn20
Language’s roots are in trade and survival. Therefore manipulation of others for the speakers benefit has ALWAYS been the primary purpose.
I’ve watched it become just yet another Ivy League and big tech echo chamber as YC has pursued its existing investments over its stated goals and creative ideals.
Money ruins everything. And I’m tired of it.
Now I’m poorly paid compared to the people I “mentor” at $160k + bonuses with no RSU. But at least I’m working on stuff I care about.
I hear these fresh college grads getting $300k offer that have the right university on their meaningless tech degree they drank 24/7 to achieve, and I just want to scream. In three years I’ll be rejecting them for positions writing the software that makes their current employer run.
I’ve nixed so many Amazon and Facebook employees in the interview process that couldn’t answer anything about basic programming skills. Their answers were just “I’d use this off the shelf solution”. Well sorry, but we create that off the shelf solution or an alternative. So you actually have to know how to use binary arithmetic. Bye bye brat.
I was legacy. At several prestigious universities. But I refused to go to those. Most people look for the easiest way out. And that includes riding on family connections and plain old lying.
I grew up surrounded by billionaires. While living surrounded by drug houses as my dad worked his bones down at a refinery.
Those billionaires children are still billionaires (or dead by drug overdoses, whoops) despite doing nothing but partying and making bare minimum passing grades. Yet they still got into the same universities I had to work my ass off to be accepted to. Which is why I didn’t go to those. MIT and Stanford included. Harvard, Baylor and several others accepted me due to my family history and relatives donations.
I went to UT Dallas. On a merit scholarship. Yet I built a lot of shit you lazy Ivy League assholes take for granted.
When tech was based on contributions it meant something. Now it’s just another good old boys club like every other business leadership elite.
Tech hasn’t been a meritocracy since the mid 2010s. At the latest.
Edit: and frankly YC readership and tech in general has just become people pursuing programming because it pays well and not because they actually like it or are good at it.
Mother has stage 4 intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.
There’s a reason most people aren’t wealthy: they care about people and honesty and integrity.
You must be dishonest and sociopathic to be successful. Thats human nature.
The world will be better once we’re finished destroying ourselves.
Edit: the truth hurts. People are the cause of all the world’s problems.
But once you start going to many of the smaller cities you have to start taking longer routes to get to chargers and make weird detours and backtrack from chargers to get to your route.
Same with many tourist destinations outside the major cities.
Friends that tried to go pure EV and didn’t live their lives entirely in one city have inevitably had to buy a second gas car or truck. Because those “occasional” issues show up a lot in Texas.
My personal main concern is the emergency situations where the grid is down or there are mass evacuations. After hurricanes entire highly populated of the state can be without power for weeks. The area I live in now to be near my ailing parents regularly has power issues. I can bring in gas from outside the area to last a while but I can’t bring in a high voltage source.
Also hurricane evacuation with mass electric adoption is going to be an interesting situation to observe. It may be better than with an ICE. We’ll see.
These electric cars are going for full gimmickry and just look like a giant long term ownership nightmare. Built to be disposable status symbols for your average American trying to appear wealthier than they are instead of practical vehicles for the mass market.
I had to rearchitect an entire file synchronization and uplink system for resilience while sitting in a hotel room in the middle of a blizzard during the shortest days of the year so I could deploy software for clients up there.
Both of my parents are simultaneously dying from different forms of cancer. My father the same as yours (it started in his upper gum line). My mother a rare form of bile duct cancer. They’re not the sort to engage in psychedelics, but I suppose in some way their deep religious beliefs and experiences served the same purpose.
Your story and others I’ve read have really helped me understand the turmoil they’re facing internally and externally, and to analyze what I’ve been feeling to this point.
Perhaps a brief trip into the unknown is in my future.
It also brings to mind that Simpsons scene: "Stop stop! He's already dead!"
His writing is super entertaining and he has made a great product.
It’s just that these projects always get talked up as huge successful life changing products (like Bingo Card Creator and appointment reminders etc) and then have really small revenue numbers attached to them.
Don’t get me wrong, kudos to the developers for building something people love and that give them the lifestyle they want.
I just think these projects are often overhyped to seem more than what they actually are: lifestyle projects.
At the same time, I am once again amazed at how little revenue a publicly touted successful project makes.
It's the same sort of things that keeps happening with maps programs, smartphones, and basically any modern tech with software updates. No one can leave well enough alone. They have to put their fingerprints on it in order to advance their careers, so everyone mucks around and breaks things and calls it an improvement.
Frankly I'm just tired of expensive devices getting worse with every single software update.
Combined with truly awe inspiring lifespans (how many coders truly have systems running mostly unmodified thirty years later?) this means that many many defects and vulnerabilities will be discovered over the lifespan of an aircraft.
Add in avionics and flight control upgrades designed to interface with legacy controls, and I consider it a miracle these amazing machines are as secure as they are.
It’s a testament to the engineering that goes into these machines that more stuff isn’t found or (god forbid) actively exploited.
I don't think YouTube is purposefully demonitizing videos on conservative fiscal theories.
I'm super excited about the crypto currency space but I firmly believe we're in the "Diamond Rio" phase of a new technology and not yet to the "iPhone" and "Android" phases.
I think bitcoin is a flawed first mover. The winner (and future stable cryptocurrency) likely hasn't been invented yet.
But I imagine it's mathematic properties will allows for a sustainable transaction rate (i.e.: thousands per second), short (as in sub 2-3 second) final confirmation times, and the ability to execute Ethereum like smart contracts without major security flaws and naive language implementation choices.
Cherry picking is fun.
Did you transfer money last week? If it had been bitcoin and had been at the wrong time, you would have received less than you asked for.
Bitcoin is a speculative security like product, not currency.
The power of the bank transfer is that you can predict what you will receive.
I'm very excited for the space. Just not for the current currencies.
BTC is in practice a speculative security. Not a currency.
I think the problem with a widespread, highly studied virus like HIV is that a "good enough" treatment isn't "good enough." Any treatment will be deployed in a limited manner to test the efficacy, which will in turn give it a chance to develop a resistance and spread.
That having been said, if the treatment CAN treat 99% of current infections, it will be a boon for at least a couple generations of gay and minority communities in the developed world.