Comment by neweggrma

>Evidently, I am not a good judge of character, and I need to stop believing in people without really knowing them.

I seriously hope this sticks with you. I've let a lot of my frustration with HN and other social media go when I've realized that people are not good judges of characters of others.

God damn people fall for scams, charlatans and more all the time. I spent much of high school frustrated because one of my closer friends was just a constant grifter and no one could ever see through it despite my innards constantly screaming ALERT ALERT ALERT.

STOP GOING TO BAT FOR STRANGERS, FOLKS.

And when people tell you and show you who they are fucking believe them.

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oh man this is the kind of stuff that eats at me. I have a better sense of tech than most (adopted Rust, K8s and crypto 3+ years before they were on anyone's radar), but I also don't fall for this shit. Do you not realize how cringe it is to watch you fall over yourself for yet another egostistic SV megalomaniac.

nothing about replit is that unique either, to hear the way y'all jerk off about is... well holy shit no one there's a contingency of us still refusing to go back to the industry. I'd rather shoot myself.

Nothing about replit is unique. I don't know how to stress that more. Give me $50K and Theia and I could make a MVP that apparently stupid VCs would be dying to fund.