that’s like saying a car is just one method of transportation. so if you get banned from using cars you have no right to complain. but i can tell from your spastic angry (not to mention logically incoherent) post you are a twitter user who’s afraid of their echo chamber changing
no one knows who you are. already you can tell this was not written by an intelligent person
“Yet most empirical studies fail to find any connection between extraversion and career success.“
right off the bat, obviously the most “successful” people don’t have careers at software companies. this sounds like those conversations people have like “are we living in a simulation” that would only make sense if you were unfamiliar with the subject matter. obviously the most powerful people in the world are the types of people who can form relationships with other powerful people. it seems like the premise of this article was to make nerds who make six figures feel better about themselves compared to the popular kids they went to high school with.
> already you can tell this was not written by an intelligent person
I didn’t read the article so you could be right, but I think it’s good to keep in mind that the authors of these articles often read the HN comments. Would you say something like that to them if you were face to face? It may even be true, but it wasn’t kind, nor was it important that it be said. So why say it?
If you had to get this sentiment out, you could have said something like “this article doesn’t give the impression of being written by an intelligent person”, to add a layer of indirection and make it less personal.
That's kind of both the upside and the downside to capitalism, I guess.
If you wanted to pay old Blockbuster prices (adjusted for inflation) for x5 good, and personalised, Netflix recommendations a month, I'm sure what you have left after the subscription itself would find a bunch of movie buffs online happy to earn $20-50/month (I'm too lazy to figure out what a typical old monthly cost was, or would be after inflation) by learning what you've liked in the past and thinking of recommendations based on whichever platform you're subscribed to.
And equally, some shops still exist selling films physically, though relatively few because most people don't want to pay more.
Hey, maybe there's a startup idea there - connecting subscribers with paid individual recommenders. But I'll stick to not paying extra for members of staff I never asked recommendations of, personally.
yes it is. last week i saw a homeless man follow a woman onto a packed train, scream in her face and throw her across the train, and nobody did anything. i’ll let you guess the races of the victim and the attacker. this was on the L in union square. no one cares. this country has been dying for decades and it’s almost completely dead
it’s interesting that no one in the comments suggets maybe we as a society should try to find a place where we could plan how to implement ubi. considering TLAs are always going to infiltrate such a group of people to stop that from happening (on twitter or elsewhere) it would be reasonable for people to discuss the massive fundamental problems with our society and how situations like the one this poster finds himself in number in the hundreds of thousands if not millions. and most of them just kill themselves. maybe some people here might be able to make the mental connection that this is going to affect their own loves at some point even if you have a cushy software job at the moment
