Here's a post about an amazing piece of technology that is being created for helping people in dire conditions and the only thing being discussed in here is how much of a bad person is the owner of the company researching said technology.
Now, I'm not a US citizen so I have way less stakes in that kind of discussion but I have to say, I find it disgusting how one of my favorite online forum have become a den for political activists.
It's hard to separate politics from topics like these, as the current politics have very far reaching impact on almost aspects of life.
For example, this article discusses medical implants. Safety of those is very important. When the owner of the company is actively dismantling oversight that ensures safety, this directly impacts whether we can trust this product.
I agree that HN should be mostly politically neutral, and for the most part it is. For topics involving Musk, however, one simply cannot ignore their problematic attitude towards anything that might inconvenience them.
I'm not seeing discussion on how much of a bad person that guy is but in how he's demonstrated recklessness and a disrespect for oversight, which are alarming when discussing medical devices - especially such as this specific one.
This is a piece of marketing from a private company. It is a good thing that people raise criticism missing from it.
Yeah, reddit is heavily leaking in this thread. The Internet as a whole has become slowly more political over the past decade, and that's to be expected. But this last cycle has been utterly unbearable for non americans. The identity politics and the obsession of every person having to be either a super-hero or a villain is tiring. Why can't people just discuss the tech?
I usually like to answer this question(?) with a quote from Jordan Peterson (paraphrased), “lift people from poverty and they and their future kids will have more time to worry about a solution”.
Personally speaking, to me “controlled childbirth” (unless you are instead suggesting we kill off some people) seems a contingent for the usage of humans as livestock.
Reducing the birth rate below 2.2 kids per family on average results in negative population growth. We’re already seeing it in many places world wide as a result of equality and education. Simply creating awareness of the global benefits is enough. We are already facing a catastrophic global population decline mid century which is going to shock the hell out of our forever-growth economic systems. The only question is whether we’ll see a decline soon enough. Humans as livestock? Killing people? Relax dude.
I think I’m in the majority when I say that I prefer WFH but honestly, working ONLY from home is not something I like. I can work for a week or two in remote but then gotta spend a day or two in office. Naturally, it depends on a number of variables, like personal character and the relationship with the other employees but in general I think most people fall in my category. Having the option for both is the best possible solution.
Maybe. For me personally, I'm glad I had the experience of what it was like to work in the office for two weeks when I was in between projects recently, because it helped reconfirm that yeah, I hate going to the office.
It was good to see people in person, but everything else was a pain in the ass, and the office is such a sterile and boring place (pretending it's not, with an arcade machine, shuffleboard, a small stack of board games, and a ping pong table -- none of which anyone ever uses), with lighting that seemed to suck the energy out of me.
I'm going to the quarterly party in two weeks (for the first time since I started working a couple of years ago), but I feel like I'm really forcing myself. It's just so inconvenient to head downtown from the far suburbs.
I know the grass seems always greener on the other side and this culture has its own set of problems but I still think I would prefer this over what the west has to offer in the dating market.
I absolutely hate the ambiguity of the relationship in the west, “Dating? I’m not sure, we have only started sleeping together a month ago. They might still be seeing other people.” And yes, not everywhere is like this but around my parts, seeking a serious relationship is a recipe for disaster and not something worth spending any sort of asset for.
The grass looks greener because the article depicts a reality that follows TV plots and comics.
In practice teenagers are horny and will fuck around if they can, and their relationship can be as blurry. Same for adults going to bars and having one night stands, or ducking it out while drunk after a party and being in limbo trying to to sort it out for weeks afterwards.
Same for online dating of course, wanting to be sure the alchemy is there before mentally commiting isn't some culture's exclusive trait.
The only ambiguity is what you put there - my past two serious relationships have started with hookups, progresses to hangouts, and eventually reached the point where I’ve said, “hey, do you want to be my boyfriend?” Followed by a discussion about what that means re: exclusivity etc.
If you haven’t had that, it’s because you’ve chosen not to partake.
It doesn't have to be ambiguous. If you want to be exclusive with someone, just say so. If they don't want to be exclusive with you after a month of dating, you're probably never going to get there and you're better off cutting your losses.
