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This is the United States of America in 2010. It's not ancient Egypt. It's not feudal England. It's not even the U.S. in 1950. You can do whatever you want to d

by Towle_ 16y ago

This is the United States of America in 2010. It's not ancient Egypt. It's not feudal England. It's not even the U.S. in 1950. You can do whatever you want to do and be whoever you want to be. Nobody is stopping you but yourself. Might your climb to the top be steeper than mine? Sure. But realize that nobody who's ever made it to the top of their mountain complained about how steep it was. They just climbed. If you want to be the best, whatever that means to you, you have to go Jackie Robinson that shit. No matter what the douchebags throw at you along the way, you have to just smile back and hit home runs.

philwelch 16y ago
You should find some new material: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1643294 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1643294
- Towle_ 16y ago
  If it can be used again, I'll use it again. No sense it paraphrasing just for the hell of it. You can't plagiarize yourself.
  - _delirium 16y ago
    Imo, a good rule of thumb for when you're copy/pasting the same comment you've made before is to mark it somehow, e.g. "as I said the last time this same issue came up (perhaps link to comment here): [paste]". A bigger question might be why you're saying the same thing over and over to begin with, paraphrasing or not. Is your one-paragraph comment filled with self-help-type platitudes really interesting enough to spam in every relevant discussion?
    - Towle_ 16y ago
      You're right, I'll do that next time. I didn't get the kind of discussion I was interested in last time, so I thought I'd try a second time. Not "over and over." A second time.
LaGrange 16y ago
That's good advice for someone who is on the receiving end of discrimination. Yeah, work harder, don't count on douchebags to stop being douchebags, because in predictable future they will not. Maybe they will become less douchebaggy. Maybe even thanks to you. But that doesn't mean that douchebags are okay, or that people should tolerate them, or not try to stop being douchebags. Or that we should not try to make douchebags feel like douchebags.

by Towle_ 16y ago

philwelch 16y ago

You should find some new material: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1643294 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1643294

Towle_ 16y ago
If it can be used again, I'll use it again. No sense it paraphrasing just for the hell of it. You can't plagiarize yourself.
- _delirium 16y ago
  Imo, a good rule of thumb for when you're copy/pasting the same comment you've made before is to mark it somehow, e.g. "as I said the last time this same issue came up (perhaps link to comment here): [paste]". A bigger question might be why you're saying the same thing over and over to begin with, paraphrasing or not. Is your one-paragraph comment filled with self-help-type platitudes really interesting enough to spam in every relevant discussion?
  - Towle_ 16y ago
    You're right, I'll do that next time. I didn't get the kind of discussion I was interested in last time, so I thought I'd try a second time. Not "over and over." A second time.

LaGrange 16y ago

That's good advice for someone who is on the receiving end of discrimination. Yeah, work harder, don't count on douchebags to stop being douchebags, because in predictable future they will not. Maybe they will become less douchebaggy. Maybe even thanks to you. But that doesn't mean that douchebags are okay, or that people should tolerate them, or not try to stop being douchebags. Or that we should not try to make douchebags feel like douchebags.