darigo

Hmm, On the other hand.

>Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism)[a] is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews.

I'm a fellow fan of looking into words' etymologies, but it would seem that antisemitic has not had much to do with 'semitic' for quite some time.

ha, your comment reminds of that quote from the mentor:

"We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals"

Makes me think of something totally different, which is how Urbit converts randomly generated numerical IDs into sorta memorable names.

For example, the number 5,702,400 becomes ~sorreg-namtyv. And 1,742,733,824 becomes ~master-morzod.

I enjoy the quirkiness of the names.

Oh yeah, I understand, last year I was indeed making boatloads of money.

Right now I'm focused on something other than making tons of money tbh. There's a job I covet, so I've been just focusing on maxxing relevant skills so I can join this elite club of extremely cool people working on this very cool thing.

But after that I'm gonna go back to money, for sure.

Btw I love your blog. That same essay "How to be a hacker" is the one I consulted as a teenager, which led me to switch from QBASIC (my first lang, on the recommendation of an IRC channel that was probably trolling me) to Python.

>The job market is not great right now, but sounds like you could have moved up last year.

What do you mean by moved up?

I have more work than I can even do - but I may have a different idea of what a coveted job is.

>That might be the issue, that kind of work is worth more.

ikr <3

I agree with the point you're making but I think this is a less than ideal example:

>Did an early investor in Facebook do more work than an early investor in Pets.com?

It's quite possible that an investor who does more research, spends more time networking with smart young people, etc, would have to do more work in order to invest in better things.

And even if not, meritocracy means rewarding the quality of work, not just the quantity. Making smart investments should pay better than making dumb ones, even if it's not more work.

I feel this so hard. Whenever I read HN people are like "obviously we SWE's are economic elites who will never struggle financially, unlike everyone else"

Bro I have over ten years of dev experience, dozens of significant bug bounties including well-known projects like Chromium and Github, am a great competitive coder (love leetcode and codewars type challenges), and my brother makes much more money fixing air conditioners than I do as a dev.

Appsec is my specialty but my background is in React frontend (Node and Flask backend).

If it's hard for me, it must be brutal for new grads and people just coming out of bootcamps. I'm lucky that I focused on open source instead of going to college, because when I started looking for work I already had a portfolio and real experience, plus FOSS friends.

If anyone is looking for an appsec person who can find vulnerabilities, report them in a way that clearly explains the issue to other devs, and then write patches, please do reach out. Glad to work for WAY less than $60 an hour lol.

Currently I'm a freelancer, can show projects I've worked on. I don't mind hoops at all, send me a coding challenge or CTF or whatever you want :)

With all these studies, we're going to be very well prepared to address any future mental health epidemics among mice

I mean, this cuts both ways. One of the most consistent predictors of success in public school is parental involvement.

The only school I ever went to that was good for socialization was community college. Tbh, for learning too. I basically learned all of math, from arithmetic up, as an adult at community college, to compensate for learning nothing and getting pushed through all of the grade levels at public school.

I wish they had community colleges where I live now lol.

>it is possible to have plenty of "socialization" with other kids.

I agree. Public school is not a great place for socialization, and it's not hard to create something better. Nothing socializes kids like sitting next to each other motionless in silence for several hours lol

>But if we're going to have a single commons a democratic government may be preferable to a company that at best wants to keep it advertiser friendly.

I'm also a big fan of the fediverse. However, I'm skeptical in the quality and even practical accountability of "democratic" governments, who are themselves pressured to be "advertiser-friendly" in their own way.