young_unixer

Recently, I've been thinking about creating an Instagram account. I've never used it before, and I dislike it in general, but because of recent circumstances in my life (a breakup that almost gave me depression, and some other things), I need to go out more and meet new people IRL, and Instagram is the de facto way to meet people in my country, at least for those of us under 30, to the point that you're seen as weird if you don't have one.

But I know that once I create an account, I'll get hooked to the feed, to uploading pictures, etc. because I know myself.

I don't know if the positive social aspect (meeting people, or creating a lasting connection with people that I meet once IRL) is going to offset that addiction and the general anxiety that comes with having an account.

Apple, and west coast US companies in general, are the biggest promoters of political over-correctness, "inclusion", "diversity", etc. (to put it in non-offensive terms).

It would be extremely hypocritical for them to simply dismiss the feelings of people. So, even if it doesn't make sense, they're obligated to apologize to be consistent with their own discourse.

> and the reason is that they are being actively investigated or banned almost everywhere.

That's not an indication of anything wrong with Binance. A more plausible explanation is that the laws are too oppressive "almost everywhere".

Probably because intersexuality is so rare that there's not enough data.

Even if some of the things he says are dumb or exaggerated, he still makes more sense than the "progressive" delusion that we've been bombarded with for the last 5 years.

And he's also pretty funny, so I consider him and his message as an overall upgrade from the current state of affairs in social media.

Please, HN, tell me again how cryptocurrencies are useless.

The very act of mentioning "western gender stereotypes" starts from a biased position.

Why couldn't they be "northern gender stereotypes"? Is the world best explained as a division of west/east instead of north/south? The northern hemisphere has much more population than the south, and almost all rich countries are in the northern hemisphere. And precisely it's these rich countries pushing the concept of gender stereotypes. In poor countries, nobody cares about these "gender stereotypes".

Actually, the lines dividing the earth into north and south, east and west hemispheres are arbitrary, so maybe they shouldn't mention the word "western" to avoid the propagation of stereotypes about earth regions.

Or why couldn't they be western age stereotypes? Why are there no kids or very old people depicted as nurses?

Why couldn't they be western body shape stereotypes? Why are there so few obese people in the images? Why are there no obese people depicted as athletes?

Are all of these really stereotypes or just natural consequences of natural differences?

> The US has a lot of legal policy that is based on spirit of the law

Yes, but that's a wrong and unfair way to define and apply laws.

> humans are imperfect

Smart contracts and "code is the law" mantra don't contradict this. You're imperfect and you commit a mistake, you lose. You find a mistake in someone else's code, you win.

This is much better than the current legal system where we are all collectively forced to adapt to, or even pay for, someone else's mistakes.

Funny. I'm on a personal journey to reduce self-doubt.

Maybe there's a time and place for self-doubt, and some people certainly lack it severely, but my extreme levels of self-doubt have always stopped me from trying things and now I realize how much it has cost me.

Maybe instead of "self doubt vs no self doubt" the questions should be:

- Is my project in the 95th percentile, or higher, compared to all projects in this given context?

- Is my project in the 70th percentile or higher, compared to all successful projects in this given context?

- Am I in the 95th percentile or higher, compared to all people in this given context?

For me, it's much easier to answer "Yes" to these questions (and the answer is usually "Yes") than to answer "Yes" to an ambiguous "Is the project going to succeed?" or "Am I going to succeed?"

Some may find this contradictory: If you think that you're above the 95th percentile, then how do you have self-doubt at the same time?

Self-doubt is not always logical. For me, self-doubt is more psychological than rational. I think I'll do a better job than most people, but I still think I'm going to fail, even when I see less capable people succeed.

Coincidentally, "mimir" is a funny, baby-like way of saying "dormir" (to sleep) in Spanish.

On one hand, I don't want to be anywhere near protestware when it comes to my work or the tools I use.

On the other hand, Javascript developers have a whole different culture than the developer circles I like to frequent. In npm-land, the societal expectations of quality and solemnity (for lack of a better word) are lower, and this kind of behaviour is even celebrated if it favors the "right cause".

The last two cases we've seen (faker/colors, node-ipc) just took it one step further, but we've seen a lack of seriosness from both the npm organization and the community during the last... what? 6 years?. At this point, if you stay in the whole npm ecosystem, it's understood that you do so at your own risk.

They don't, so they shouldn't use it.

Yes.