Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    Some rich investor/math nerd croaks (from old age), HN’s resident mod team declines to add a black bar to the site, leading fans of licking rich boots to wonder if “the community” should decide which dead rich guys get commemorated:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327812

    Bonus for the dude still salty Terry Davis didn’t get one.

    • carlitoscohones@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      Their comments section just never fails to deliver … something.

      Online communities with reasonable debate are under attack by state actors, HN is no exception. In this context, no matter how well meaning the proposal is, opening an avenue for acrimony here is not something we can afford.

      At least this dead hedge fund guy has a wikipedia “controversies” section as a legacy. I wonder if a genius mathematician could figure out a way to enrich his friends and family while the markets took a dump.

      According to The Wall Street Journal in May 2009, Simons was questioned by investors on the dramatic performance gap of Renaissance Technologies’ portfolios. The Medallion Fund, which has been available exclusively to current and past employees and their families, surged 80% in 2008 in spite of hefty fees; the Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund (RIEF), owned by outsiders, lost money in both 2008 and 2009; RIEF declined 16% in 2008.