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yeeetz commented on Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work joincolossus.com/article/... · Posted by u/latentnumber

blendo · 2 months ago

He's quite religious:

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2011/07/geektheologian/

yeeetz · 2 months ago

Many successful American tech founders and entrepreneurs have strong religious or spiritual beliefs — I believe it's part of the unique competitive advantage and edge in this industry

yeeetz commented on Jane Street's Figgie card game figgie.com/... · Posted by u/eamag

colesantiago · 7 months ago

> Upvote to comments ratio: nobody knows how to play, hadn't even heard before, but it has "nerdy corpo" attached to it, so must be good.

Correct, it’s the first trap us nerds make when corpos make “puzzles” to rope in future engineers to make lose their soul in immoral challenges like finance.

When the FAANG jobs boom fizzles over due to the shift to AI, we will see more engineers compromise to finance as a way to make FAANG level salaries.

We just don’t like to admit it, instead we like nerd games like this.

This is the finance recruitment marketing machine to entice future engineers to lose their soul to make obscene amounts of money doing the most morally bankrupt actions against humanity.

yeeetz · 7 months ago

hows quantitative finance more morally bankrupt than being an engineer in oil/gas, defense industry, etc.

yeeetz commented on Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died by Suicide, Order Autopsy sfist.com/2024/12/26/pare... · Posted by u/miles

whimsicalism · 8 months ago

i'm skeptical that any corporation worth more than a billion has assassinated someone in the US in the last 50 years.

yeeetz · 8 months ago

I'd be more surprised if they haven't.

yeeetz commented on Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/voisin

vsuperpower2021 · a year ago

Most colleges and university are majority women. The one I went to had 2 women for 1 man. This was unambiguously a mistake.

yeeetz · a year ago

at least it makes dating easier for guys at schools like caltech now which is a non-trivial plus

yeeetz commented on At Japan’s first winery, the country’s oldest grape lives on japantimes.co.jp/life/202... · Posted by u/karaokeyoga

MattGaiser · 2 years ago

I’m curious if handcrafting artisans like this exist in North America/Europe at anywhere near the same scale (and we only see stories from Japan as we view it as something their culture does) or whether this is a uniquely Japanese thing to do.

Perhaps we just value it less here in North America.

All stories of extremely small batch but precisely crafted products seem to come out of Japan.

yeeetz · 2 years ago

NA and EU have plenty of local artisanal products. It just doesn't have the some appeal as Japan, which tends to occupy a hallowed spot in the minds of educated/nerdy guys on the internet.

yeeetz commented on How the new Threads app is made emergetools.com/deep-dive... · Posted by u/maxptop

0xDEF · 2 years ago

>Twitter has gotten super weird and toxic

This is correct but it's helpful to specify how much more toxic twitter has become than other platforms.

For example anti-LGBT sentiments are common on other platforms just like they are common in society. But on twitter people like Jake Shields literally call for the murder of therapists, doctors, and teachers who are supportive of LGBT teens. How did twitter respond? First they let the tweets get thousands of engagements. Then they removed the tweets without banning Shields. Finally they removed other people's tweets, archive links, and screenshots documenting Shields' hate speech. Jake Shields is still on twitter pushing toxic lies and disinfo.

TL;DR: Elon Musk's twitter protects people who want to murder doctors and teachers.

yeeetz · 2 years ago

Yeah, IMO Musk seriously overestimated the average person's tolerance for toxic and hateful political content.

yeeetz commented on How the new Threads app is made emergetools.com/deep-dive... · Posted by u/maxptop

Karrot_Kream · 2 years ago

Threads is polished in a way that Mastodon isn't. I'm part of a few Japanese subcultures and most of them couldn't make heads or tails of the Fediverse despite the existence of Misskey. Threads though? They signed up through Instagram and were posting in minutes. I really want Meta to commit to federation, even if existing Mastodon communities defederate so that techie weirdos like us can live their dreams of running custom clients and interfacing with regular folks (like XMPP federation with GChat back in the day.)

yeeetz · 2 years ago

Yeah, Twitter is super big in Japan for mainstream teen and young adult users in the 18-25 city student/young professional demographic. Same with Instagram. Mastodon adjacent stuff like Misskey, Pawoo, and Mstdn got the reputation for being for hosting weird, niche, or pretty much illegal content, and nobody really understands the point of Fediverse.

yeeetz commented on How the new Threads app is made emergetools.com/deep-dive... · Posted by u/maxptop

ryandrake · 2 years ago

I'm kind of amazed at how saturated the news is with stories about Threads. And not just tech news, but also every mainstream news site has at least one or more "submarine" marketing articles promoting Threads. Meta Marketing Team: You're not fooling anyone into thinking these are grassroots and viral, but honestly, well done with the media saturation. Meta's clearly got all the right channels on full-blast. It's really impressive.

yeeetz · 2 years ago

Honestly I don't fuck with social media that much besides my private Instagram, but there's more to it than just viral marketing. It's a pretty smooth app that appeals to people like my 18-25-ish age that feels like Twitter has gotten super weird and toxic. The honeymoon effect won't last forever, but it has something that a lot of social media users are looking for.

yeeetz commented on How the new Threads app is made emergetools.com/deep-dive... · Posted by u/maxptop

wouldbecouldbe · 2 years ago

Honestly threads is so minimum. A solo dev can pull this off in half a year. Only thing complicated is scale. But meta has that in place. Threads team is a corporate cushion team.

yeeetz · 2 years ago

This is the most Hacker News comment I've read today.

yeeetz commented on Meta could become even more dominant in social media with Threads cnn.com/2023/07/07/tech/m... · Posted by u/rntn

treeman79 · 2 years ago

https://notthebee.com/article/metas-twitter-clone-launches-i...

Tons of censoring.

Not even allowed to talk about the cocaine found at the White House.

yeeetz · 2 years ago

I gotta say removing political/controversial topics isn't necessarily a bad thing. Just depends on your use case and stuff. Not every platform needs to be a free speech zone—right now it feels like a pretty chill space to share food pics and talk about inconsequential topics with friends.

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