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Is it really a waste if you made enough money to retire?


Right, OP writes up crypto as being this terrible disease with no meaning. But outside of crypto there aren't many jobs that have real meaning either. I worked for the UN at one point, and that was actually one of the worse.

At the end of the day you are always just working to make someone else rich or to give them the promotion they want. If you get rich yourself along the way, take that as a win.


I respectfully disagree. Even if you told me that you felt like working at the UN was a waste of time, I’d still tell you that at least you contributed to a historically unique global institution which at least strives to bring people across the world together.

Bitcoin was just a waste of talent and resources.


Half the people here work for random SaaS and socially corrosive companies like Meta that have literally helped install dictators into power

You could do worse than building crappy blockchains


Not a lot of people here work for Meta, which is why you had to lump in "Random SaaS" like that's remotely comparable. I doubt most people here are working on anything harmful, let alone a fraction of what Meta does.

Unless you think Todo list apps cause Ethnic Cleansing.


> Bitcoin was just a waste of talent and resources.

What happens when a country's banking system fails.


> What happens when a country's banking system fails.

The people who looted it transport their ill-gotten gains away via Bitcoin, often enough.


What should the average citizen of that country do in that case?


Cooperate with their fellow citizens and fix their banking system, rather than trying to grab as much as possible for themselves?


>Cooperate with their fellow citizens and fix their banking system

That's exactly what Bitcoin was for.

I don't know where you live, but most places it's the banking system which fixes the citizens, not the other way around.

Only way I imagine being able to fix a bank is with a brick through the window. It's why one level up from where I'm at banks are closing their physical locations, keep no cash, and only have people for 1-2 hours in the morning when only the most obedient are awake and not occupied.


Make your own startup. I also hate working for people whom I consider less smart and/or capable or experienced than I am.


Another (easier imo) way is to just install Emacs in the standard termux installation and run an X11 server, see https://hadi.timachi.com/posts/emacs_GUI_on_android/emacs_GU...


SpaceX doesn't do scale model testing?


That's sounds like some legacy way of developing new stuff. Here in SpaceX we will build a final product and then scratch our heads why it does not work /s

It worked for them for a long time, until it didn't with Starship.


I'm pretty sure it's model predictive control


Great concept! However like many zettelkasten implementations it gives the user too much freedom imo. To me zettelkasten are most useful because of their limitations, like restricting the size of each note, limiting how many notes you can see at a time, or limiting how fast you can traverse through notes. I think it's more important to be able to hold the overall structure of notes in your mind, which zettelkasten facilitates by intentionally making everything harder to do.




I guess you're not a big fan of rubber duck debugging then? Whenever I get stuck I like to ask myself a bunch of questions and thought experiments to get a better understanding of the problem/project, and with LLMs I'm forced to spell out each one of these questions/experiments coherently, which ends up being great documentation later on. I think LLMs are great if you're actually interested in the fundamentals of your problem/project, otherwise it just turns into a sinkhole that sucks you in.


Sure, but I just use OneNote, the company wiki, or like physical sticky notes for that. I'm not seeing the value of having the LLM give feedback aside from entertainment


Just from the schematic, it took me longer than necessary to figure out the leftmost symbol was for USB-C


Slight bug: there's no road past about 280m, all cars fall into an endless pit


The Great Filter


Time comes for us all


Just wait a little longer for the flying cars.


Anyone using icescrum? I like how it can be self-hosted


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