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> since you've had many HN accounts in the past

well aren't you the one now making big insinuations? I feel you are invading my privacy and making me feel unsafe so I guess I will use a VPN next time, thanks for making me aware.

I don't think I'm alone with my assessment. I've seen threads where comments were downvoted and flagged when they were critical of certain YC companies, and I can't recall 100% is why I suggested the likelihood of the same pattern. I didn't say YOU removed it but the people in that thread for whatever reason felt justified to censor those comments.

> we flagged zero comments in this thread and unkilled a bunch of comments that users had flagged.

Incorrect, you've removed my original comment which you completely took out of context and just assumed malice. This is a pretty aggressive stance, and it just reinforces what I've pointed out.

"hey i think theres censorship"

flagged and removed

to the outsider doesn't it seem pretty clear? you should at least allow some discussion around this, maybe I was wrong, maybe I'm not but claiming you removed zero comments is incorrect here. It only adds fuel to the suspicion.

I don't think its particularly healthy to be purring, you are most likely causing damage to your vocal chords. The way cats do it are completely different and it causes their whole body to vibrate. You are better off humming to your cats.

Why does people having different opinion upset you? People claim dogs are also unfavourable. I personally do not like cats but the personality effect is more pronounced among cats because they do not express themselves as much as dogs.

In general I do not like pets or children. If you think they are amazing, great! but know others may not share your opinions.

Does Caddy have the same issue with configuration spaghetti problem with Traefik? How does it differ from Traefik's model?

The other day I was reading a thread about how certain ethnic group ages far slower and make great wives. Then the person mentioned he lived around the US base in Japan. Yet the population of mixed race children who will never see their Western dad in Japan is exploding.

Well if we are gonna travel that far back in time we should also be discussing the numerous cults that formed out of Europe and rosicrucianism still going strong

Think I remember lot of comments here criticizing Boom being downvoted and flagged. Is Boom part of YC by any chance?

Think you are tad exaggerating things for sensationalism here, there is nowhere near the level of cult behaviour you describe. Aum Shinrikyo was a small group. There are other religious groups but they aren't extremists. I would argue that there are far more Christian sect groups in the States who are armed.

Thanks, this is the take I was looking for. It would be great if Unreal Engine could be ported to Zig and then I would be happy to get into it again.

hmmm but how much of a performance gain is there from say CPython or even Go?

The syntax of Zig appears to be quite user friendly but not sure if there are hidden pitfalls.

I am excited for Zig but careful in adopting new languages but if this takes off, what sort of changes might we see? Cheaper C/C++ programmers?

Any dates on supporting range of ports to my running sqlite/db instance on? ex) 5999-8999

edit: not sure why this is being downvoted? not being able to define a range of port seems like a huge oversight. the forums there are not very active so I am asking here.

why should I use Zig coming from Python/Go ?

Taking this further why aren't there more communities like HN? What makes this place so special and obnoxious at the same time?

Makes sense, buy wholesale, arbitrage, and deflect blame by creating scapegoats through mass media.

Still waiting for Vancouver real estate to follow suit but feels weird that in Vancouver its' socially acceptable for people without homes single out a certain ethnic group every cycle. Used to Japanese in the 1980s, Hong Kongers in 90s, Taiwanese in 00s and Chinese in 10s. This type of scapegoating doesn't seem prevalent in other real estate markets like California, their money is correct on high wage disparity between tech workers and those with stagnating wages. In both markets there is surprising silence on REITs and corporations buying up residential living spaces and flipping it. Wouldn't be surprised if those special interest groups also own/influence local media as well.

We burn dinosaur juice to make engines that burn distilled dinosaur juice to push an object 1/20th of the engine fast enough to escape gravity. To deliver an oxygen making device that weighs roughly a quarter of the engine that has the output of 1 tree to Mars will take a dozen launches.

There's no way this is scalable. Whatever innovation we produce here, has to be super light and super small enough to be economical.

We absolutely need a world changing type of locomotion one that isn't medieval like the one we use and pride in.

If there's an alien race that has discovered locomotion via warping the space around it (sort of like a bubble formed around an object under water allowing friction free movement) then our solution would be funny to them.

"So you dig up this dinosaur juice, you then, chuckles, light it on fire to push a tiny payload on top of it to put stuff in space?"

"Then your hope is to weaponize it so you can fight better wars and colonize other planets to dig rocks and ship it back home?"

All of this must be amusing and depressing to an alien race that has mastered space travel and then some.

IPFS is just too slow for it to be usable on a mass scale. It's a neat idea but unfortunately, p2p file storage is tough, you absolutely need a central model to scale up. Offering coins to cash out at casinos where the other side of the order book are people with unlimited supply of it. Doesn't work.

It's weird seeing ppl downplay this exact scenario. They raised $100M, can they hit sales in a recession? Rates are rising for VCs, they need to generate a winner quickly more than ever. Just in time before the expected 75bps rate increase

The only conflict of interest here is the VC looking for a quick exit as rates are rising and your comment shooting down what appears to be a bootstrapped alternative/competition.

Althought I wonder how much it will take for this padloc fellow to turn around and announce that he decided to accept VC or even worse, issuing tokens on Ethereum.

We are almost at the Minsky moment and lot of founders are going to realize they no longer own the companies built.

wow i changed the "baby's expression is happy" and it refused to dream because its NSFW?

so I changed it to man and it generated something totally random and unrelated.

I'm not sure that this stable diffusion tool can replace illustrators in this current state but more of a tool they can utilize or not.

Basically we are at the Ponzi finance stage and approaching a Minsky moment. By participating in this destructive greed driven financial system, nothing new is created, the world isn't any better.

It will take some time but there's a side of this coin that nobody with money likes to talk about, its the slow realization that your material attainment creates a cycle of apathy and that you have an impact on the world that you've squandered ultimately in the vain chase of exuberance. You try to get over this feeling of emptiness by doing a variety of things but because you are so comfortable you can't find a way to undo it. Many fall into addictions, sex, drugs, purchases but its fleeting and you hit a wall. With all the money and comforts in the world an outsider would be puzzled but this is the burden of haves. While it isn't quite the same as have nots, its of the same pedigree.

Everybody chases what everybody else is chasing without realizing what it is they are chasing. This is the type of conversations we avoid. We don't stop, pause, and collective question what we do is correct. No there's no trickle down effect either. It's the other way around and I've seen many successful people destroy their lives once they let wealth get to their heads.

Came here to point this out. I've seen many cash flow positive strong businesses end up in the hands of VCs by raising money. Remember that when you raise money and you don't hit "KPI" or any goalpost that can be manipulated and moved, you are gambling.

In the age of cheap capital, this might have been an attainable goal: Raise money, pump valuation and dump on retail. If not, get acquired by another startup unicorn. That is no longer the case. Many startups are going to run out of capital and not only is IPO out of the picture in 2023 and beyond, the "failacquired" is just going to be straight up "shut down" when they can't find buyers.

I saw this happening heading towards 2018 briefly and I am seeing even more number of desperate startup founders who turned their cash positive business into a cash negative by raising money.

It always puzzled me why startups were being told to lose money to grow quickly and its made me uneasy knowing that when the tide goes out, it does so rapidly.

I don't think the impact is as great as they say. Pharma firms collude to create very strong lobby and special interest groups that keeps people elected. Cannabis legalization created a lot more fragmented cannabilizing groups.

Just take a look at Canadian legal market. The grey market always outperforms it and many have begun shunning the expensive legal weed.

Lot's of weird actors in this space, especially these psychedellic therapy groups who are self-licensed and have history of misconduct.

I find these one off studies to be highly sensational and idealizing a very tough market to break into. The impact of marijuana is still not known 100%.

There is reason why some countries like Singapore have been extra careful to adopt these western libertarian ideas. While probably an overreaction, the impact of marijuana needs to be observed over a very long period of time and this is where pharmaceuticals shine.

That is way too short! Should be at least a year or two imho but I can see why more and more companies are covertly avoiding hiring women and why professional women avoid pregnancy. In some places, taking such leave could affect your career, so much that when women get married they opt to not have children or give up their careers altogether, leading to decline in birth rates (ex. Korea, Japan)

There should be more subsidies and tax incentives for companies to provide longer mat/pat leave.