> earning money off of your looks
I'm assuming your taking about the sex workers of OnlyFans. I find your attitudes a bit dismissive and offensive. These are real humans with real feelings that you're talking about with such little regard.
Plus, I earn money off of my natural intelligence. I didn't do anything to gain it in the first place, I just happened to have intelligent parents.
> doesn't qualify as hard-working job
Two questions:
1. Why doesn't it qualify as a job if they are earning income?
2. Why should someone have to "work hard" to earn a living? If have a high-value easy-to-sell product, then why work harder than you need to?
Revenue == Usefulness (to the recipient of the revenue)
Analogy to non-software biz:
1. CandyCo buys ChocolateCo
2. CandyCo changes ChocolateCo recipe to use less expensive ingredients, generating new revenue for CandyCo, but less tasty chocolates for ChocolateCo's long time customers.
3. The new revenue has disparate usefulness for the two interested parties.
Strange thing, I tried it on my FireTV to block youtube ads, but it didn't work. I wouldn't be surprised if the FireTV monkies around with user settings. The other explanation could be that youtube uses the same hostname for videos and ads, so the DNS blocking can't distinguish.
Have you heard of Twiddler? It's a one-handed chorded keyboard which people have managed to get up ~60wpm (IIRC) typing speeds.[1] It might be potentially useful when computing in VR.
There's also someone I met recently who is working on a VR keyboard (though it's not chorded).[2] Seems like an elegant design.
Earlier, I also made an apron keyboard specifically for VR usage.[3] It's cool but arguably more invasive than these other designs.
It's about rejecting the default career path which our society considers normal and desirable. The default path is the one where you go to school, enter a career, work the career until you retire ... etc.
I have been a lot of trouble lately figuring out why I'm so unhappy with my career. I knew I was on the wrong path, but I couldn't see the next step on my trail in life. This book made me see that there are plenty of people living happily off the default path. The books made me more determined to seek the pathless path.
I suggest reading it for anyone who is feeling listless in their career and needs a fresh new perspective.
I like the idea, I'll fill out your form later today.
Feedback on the website:
On the graphic at the bottom where you overlay different models of phone:
1. I think the red/green/blue borders would benefit from more contrast. It's hard for my eyes to distinguish.
2. I think you should add a deck of cards to the graphic. It would provide a frame of reference for scale.
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P.S.
I just noticed the "Extrapolating from past models, the Pixel 10 will be roughly the size of California" below the graphic. If the purpose of the graphic was purely to accompany that joke, then I guess ignore my suggestions.
Although, a deck of cards may contribute to the joke. Hmmm
I have this speculative theory that Elon Musk's public behavior is a complex long term ruse. I suspect his odd behavior is intentionally designed to get other to underestimate him. Consider it a mental form of the drunken fist martial arts style [1], where a fighter will use unpredictable body movements to confuse the opponent.
I use the word "theory" intentionally. I have explainable reasons for how I formed this theory. But now is not the place for that.
I could never have read Atlas Shrugged if not for the audio book. I've always struggled with staying focused while reading a book. I'm too easily distracted.
If you are actually interested in learning more about the ideas presented in the book, I suggest you get a copy of the audio book. You might be able to find it at your local library ... thought I can't imagine how many CDs that would be. It's on Audible too, and other less official online sources.
For me, it's was sort of eye opening to read the book. It smoothed out some chips on my shoulder that drove my cynical view in life. Even though it was fiction, I still empathized with the character's struggles. I could connect it to real world events and human behavior that I had observed.
There are some books that help you see the world through different eyes. For me, Atlas Shrugged was an effective one.
The Fountainhead was similar. I connected with the frustration of young Wynand's attempts at grade school, only to find himself surrounded by dumb children and incompetent adults.
I'm re-reading Atlas Shrugged now for the second time (first time was 10 years ago), I enjoy it even more now, there are many things I found boring the first time around in the first few 100 pages, but now that I know where it is going I'm picking up a lot of subtle things that make the whole experience more interesting.
I don't understand why HNers sometimes are so anti Ayn Rand, it seems to me that Dagny and Hank are true entrepreneurs. And if you ask me, very ethical because they absolutely abhor influencing the government to get what they want and they are ruthlessly honest with very transparent intentions. Very refreshing. I really would have liked to learn Ayn's opinion on modern surveillance capitalism, I bet it would match the prevailing opinions here.
Moreover, her take on female sexuality must have been revolutionaire at the time, I mean in the 60s Kirk was considered progressive while looking a female medical dokter up and down and remarking that he could not get used to women on the bridge. And here is Ayn presenting Dagny Taggart, with modern (well almost, don’t quote out of context) views on female sexuality even in 2022.
> I'm picking up a lot of subtle things that make the whole experience more interesting.
That's a common experience. It's like some people are reading the books in low resolution. That's why they think the characters are simplistic. If you re-read, you start realizing that all the little details matter and are part of the story.
> Moreover, her take on female sexuality must have been revolutionaire at the time
It was. What other work of art published in the 1950s or earlier has a female protagonist, a businesswoman, with multiple lovers?
Trains derailing regularly is consider acceptable and to be expected, infrastructure being tasked with jobs for which it was not designed, calls for more resources ignored, policy makers prioritizing profit over safe and efficient transportation of goods.
This sounds like something from a fictional dystopian novel.
Plus, I earn money off of my natural intelligence. I didn't do anything to gain it in the first place, I just happened to have intelligent parents.
> doesn't qualify as hard-working job
Two questions:
1. Why doesn't it qualify as a job if they are earning income?
2. Why should someone have to "work hard" to earn a living? If have a high-value easy-to-sell product, then why work harder than you need to?