I should have said "(nearly) everyone reading on Hacker News wants..."
He's complaining to the choir (of sorts) while disparaging the very real progress we are making because it isn't as good as it could have possibly been if reality were different.
Yeah my comment isn't about the substance of the article (I read it and don't have any complaints) it's just a general complaint about the concepts mentioned in the title.
And yes, I know this is a classic hacker news trope, I just couldn't help myself
I love hacker news, complaining about semantics when someone says most people are having their lives ruined with the clap back that it's only 40% is the best possible reply!
> He has scratched the iceberg of skepticism and now thinks he's enough of an expert to tell the rest of us that we're Doing It Wrong.
This sort of gratuitous negativity isn't appropriate in a Hacker News comment. It is unnecessary to make your point and pollutes the atmosphere for all of us. Please don't do that.
> There is a lot of technology work [...] that improves peoples' lives in immensely meaningful ways. The problem is that you never hear about it on Hacker News.
Why don't you post some articles about it, then? I believe this community would love nothing better than to learn about immensely meaningful technical work that they've never heard about. I know I would.
He's complaining to the choir (of sorts) while disparaging the very real progress we are making because it isn't as good as it could have possibly been if reality were different.
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