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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Also disturbing that OP's chosen handle—Screwtape—is that of a fictional demon, Senior tempter. A bit à-propos.
I'd assume that is very intentional, nominative determinism is one of those things a lot of LW style people like. (Scott Alexander being a big one, which has some really iffy implications (which I fully think is a coincidence btw)).
are we really clutching our pearls because someone named themselves after a demon
I wouldn't say pearl-clutching as much as eye-rolling. Though we do dip into full BEC mode sometimes and the stubsack in particular can swing wildly between moral condemnation, intellectual critique, and calling out straight-up cringe.
...the fuck's a BEC
"Bitch Eating Crackers" as in "God I hate her, look at that bitch over there eating crackers."When you get sufficiently pissed off at someone that literally anything they do makes you mad.
See also how we sometimes swing pretty wildly between moral condemnation of actions and patterns that objectively make the world a strictly worse place and aesthetic critique of shit that, at the end of the day, is still probably less cringe than I was in high school.
Bose–Einstein condensate
You know, I realise I have no idea what a Bose–Einstein condensate is and I can't help but picturing it as a cup of blue espresso.