Did we find the smoker?

The correct question is “have you found a smoker who smokes on a balcony”.

No, somebody famous had to influence you for it to exist. The real progenitors are always other people.

Use the microphones

(1885)

This is neat but I could have done without the poor diction, AI voice, and inaccessible subtitles.

I'm sure that's their state license plate motto regardless of your moral objection

In Wooley v. Maynard SCOTUS held that NH could not require it's citizens to use a license plate displaying the state motto.

It's still their license plate motto and it's still not dependent on your moral objection

Do you see anyone claiming the opposite? The point is that they will not write the motto on your license plate if you object.

I get that HN attracts a certain amount of pedantry, but I can't figure out what exactly you're even trying to be pedantic about. There's not single comment here that could be reasonably interpreted as suggesting that "live free or die" isn't their motto

His pedantic point is that due to the way the original question was written, the answer is “yes” regardless if you object or not.

The question was “isn’t that the state with license plates that say ‘live free or die’?” And even if you get a license plate that doesn’t say it, NH is still the state with those plates

Yeah, because you as the shareholder are worth more to the company and society than the people at the company.

Considering he paid to be a shareholder, and the company is paying the employees to be there, that makes sense.

The goal of most companies is to maximize returns to shareholders, not society or employees. If it wasn't that I wouldn't have invested.

It's part of the social contract. Corps and limited liability don't have to exist - they aren't some natural thing, they are something we made up because its useful to society.

Once it stops being useful we can axe them.

Yeah, it's hardly worth reading anymore

Have you never made anything without trying to make a dollar on it?

No, I think the operative question is -

Have you never felt so exhausted from working your day job that you don’t feel like building anything during your free time?

FWIW (I'm the author) my creative output was ~0 while I was working a 'normal' job. I worked really hard and didn't have much energy for tech stuff outside of work (especially since I wanted to live a life that included non-tech things!)

I think it's totally fine to not make stuff outside of work, and it's so impressive to me that some of my friends manage to make creative stuff in their free time while working a day job.

I don’t think it is. I think it’s normal to feel that way sometimes in our line of work, but it’s not normal to always feel that way.

I think it's normal to always feel that way if you want to build things on the side but also don't aspire to be on the computer all day.

> it’s not normal to always feel that way.

Welcome to the world of living for the paycheck.

Yeah but once I've been on break for a couple weeks my marshmallow unsquishes and I start making free stuff again

Sometimes, but not always.

Please keep your paws out of my clipboard