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Solitude and Leadership (2010)
- dang 7y agoA bunch of small threads: 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17385586 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17385586 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10073663 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10073663 2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4453300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4453300 2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2568945 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2568945 2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110779 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110779 2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1195641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1195641 and one larger one: 2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476425 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476425
- melling 7y agoHow long would it take you to automate this process and pin it to the top or side? Date/#comments
- dang 7y agoProbably until we get AGI, since I looked at the threads and decided which ones were interesting. It's often the case that several searches are involved, too; not just matching identical URLs. Software could certainly help, though.
- emmelaich 7y agoAGI?
- melling 7y agoThat’s the part where we crowdsource and vote.
- simonebrunozzi 7y agoOr, Mturk the s*%t out of it. You can do it for the top 10-15 stories of the day, for probably 2-3$ each.
- SkyMarshal 7y agoYou could probably just have a dumb bot post all prior links to the submitted URL with # of upvotes and comments for each one, then leave it to the readers to sort through which are interesting. I’m sure you’d get at least some folks digging through and reposing interesting/informative comments from previous discussions, helping stimulate the current discussion. Not perfect but good enough and relatively simple.
- dang 7y agoTotally agree! but then the question becomes how to fit that in the UI in a way that doesn't break HN's minimalism.
- SkyMarshal 7y agoJust have the bot post it as a comment in the new post’s thread? Optionally sticky that comment, but probably not necessary, it will probably be voted near the top.
- ryacko 7y agoClick on past next to the main link. Will take you to a search page of all past results for this single link.
- hammock 7y agoKind of nukes any new discussion around this though... I don't see any other comments here with 40+ upvotes on the article.
- scottlocklin 7y ago>perhaps the finest soldier of his generation, General David Petraeus... I thought this article was working its way up to some profound statement, then I read this. Petraeus represents everything wrong with the modern leadership caste of America. He was a brown nosing, social climbing, rat-faced paper pushing apparatchik who never served in combat, screwed up Mosul, screwed up the rest of Iraq, then took credit for our massive "success" there, and proceeded to "lead" the CENTCOM by issuing press releases his lizard overlords told him to. Then he proceeded to "win" in Afghanistan (note sarcasm since we're still bloody there), take over the CIA (overseeing one of the greatest intelligence disasters of a recent US history littered with them: Benghazi), and get caught with his dong in his nitwit hagiographer, exposing classified information while he was at it to boot. He never showed any character or depth of thought, but he was a genius at handling the media, which is pretty much exactly the primary "leadership" characteristic of the modern era. Bleauch. Patton was an American leader. Petraeus will be forgotten as thoroughly as Gideon Pillow, excepting as a cautionary tale of who not to hire to pacify foreign polities when your empire is in the late Brezhnev stage of decomposition. Anyway, yes, I am pretty sure Napoleon and Alexander the Great took long walks, and thought about things deeply. I'm not sure I want such people around, but I sure as shit don't want to hear about ding dongs like Petraeus being worthy of emulation because the dude might have read a book once.
- turk73 7y agoWell, you said it all. I guess all I can say is that I am against these kinds of people. The Yale kind. I don't know if I want my kids going in that direction. This country has a enough psychos in leadership positions to last another 1,000 years already. And having a kid in High School right now, I can say for a fact that any kid who had "10 to 12 extra-curriculars" was not focused on any of them. That's just being spread too thin. There never should have been either Iraq war. It was all just big money players doing big money player evil things who caused all that. My big concern currently is that there is a battle going on between the few remaining bright factions of government (e.g. people who still have a conscience) and the deep-state lizards as you called them. Right now, I think the lizards are winning. People like me are going to be either killed outright or will live in hiding as "gray men" pretty soon. I can't go along with this "new system" we're forming, it looks brutal and unjust but leftists will eat it up.