greyhound's comments

Do Ukrainian volunteers who help the army count?

Is there any evidence to back this up?

Seems like hackernews will upvote anything Rust. I have to say, I've never tried the language, but I'm completely sold.

Also, the "utterly intoxicating" sound is often forced onto others without their consent. Like playing your music through a loudspeaker in a public place.

So yeah, go electric!

This comment is both dogmatic and doesn't have to do anything with the question.

Are you a StackOverflow frequent?

— "How do I do Foo?"

— "You don't need Foo. Do Bar and Baz."

I don't disagree with your point, but this behavior is just annoying.

This is a textbook example of a straw man.

I didn't even realize that there was a myth like that.

Such a privilege to have no idea how the Government can execute millions of its citizens having no doubt that they are paving the way to a Better Tomorrow.

Wow, that's one axiomatic comment.

Could you please elaborate on what kind of worldview he's attempting to "prosthelytize" that is inherently nefarious, without making a straw man?

This is an amazing quote, thank you. Though, the more I read into it the less I see it applicable to the PGs quote, mostly because I disagree with this statement:

>Silicon Valley money wants to remake people in their images, they have a Protestant zealotry associated with their money that makes any oligarch look straight up sympathetic in comparison

Tech became a global catalyst for many people to get out of poverty. A lot of people in countries like India, Nigeria or Ukraine would never had a chance to get out of poverty otherwise. I do not observe any increase in the sentiment in them remaking people in their own images. Half a century ago Ayn Rand was getting enough followers well before tech was even a thing.

The quote that you have provided reminds me of the zealotry of communist regime that my country went through. As well as the arguments of the woke marxists that are sadly getting more frequent today.

Anyway, thank you for an interesting take on the problem.

>You want to reward smart, clever, inventive individuals. But you do also want to make sure they don't automatically get privileged legal or ethical treatment which encourages destructive narcissistic and authoritarian behaviours in the culture as a whole.

How would you address this? It seems that you're making a point that if a person became rich AND they didn't have a safety net — they are most probably toxic individuals. If I understood you correctly, it feels that such rhetoric penalizes the "smart, clever, inventive individuals" that come from poor background. As someone coming from poverty I find these statements unfair and paternalistic.

This. I come from a coal mining village in the eastern Ukraine, where people didn't get salaries for 4-5 months and would live off the food that they grew in the back yard. My home village is controlled by the DPR separatists, my parents became refugees in their 50s. I made it to the top ~5% in Germany. Of course there are many factors to it: my parents saved up to buy me a computer, I was fond of western culture to an extent of self-learning English and of course I was just very lucky. Now, here in Germany, all of a sudden I get treated as if I had a head start over the other 95%, especially given my skin color and gender. I'm definitely not a fan of Ayn Rand, but some tirades about people who are not poor get more and more resemblance with the monologues of her grotesque looter characters.