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>Every civilization must die at some point. What's wrong with hoping for something that is even better? the wording on your blog doesn't describe the hope that
by serf 3y ago
>Every civilization must die at some point. What's wrong with hoping for something that is even better?
the wording on your blog doesn't describe the hope that the replacement is better, it describes the hope that the country fails 'because it is full of sin' -- it is dishonest to come to HN and pretend that the way it is worded is altruistic, it's not -- it's vengeful; you even provide motive for your wishes of national defeat : 'abortion is evil, so..'.
Calling yourself a patriot first doesn't somehow change the premise; you're wishing for the failure of a nation because you disagree with their policies.
>By the way, I did not provide my blog to the application, so it should have had no bearing on it.
one could argue that the things that are NOT provided are likely more important for professionals to use to gauge 'mental hygiene'.
You know, all that said -- I agree with a lot of your technical beliefs. I think the Rust foundation has their head up their ass too, for example.
It's my personal wish that I could read a blog that had your technical stuff in it without also having to expose myself to the rest of your personality.
An idea from an outsider : separate websites?
- gavinhoward 3y agoI don't want the US to be defeated. I do not want to go through the period of war of natural disaster that would require. I would be a masochist if I was truly wishing for that to happen. What I'm saying there is that it will happen unless we get our act together. But we won't. My wording has always defaulted to too strong. My wife has spent years making me more diplomatic, and that post was written two years ago. I'm much better now. If you want to read just the technical portion of my blog without my personal stuff, there's actually a way to do it. Go to https://gavinhoward.com/categories/ https://gavinhoward.com/categories/ , and you'll see that each category has its own Atom feed. Just subscribe to only the tech ones.