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Yes execution is important. But failing to discuss a problem does not improve execution, surely it is always the first step. So where would the right audience

Yes execution is important. But failing to discuss a problem does not improve execution, surely it is always the first step. So where would the right audience be? If perhaps there were some corner of the web where technologist, scientist and innovators gather (albeit mixed with plenty of crackpots). A place so influential that it is flooded by astro-turf when subjects involving large industries come up and so ugly that ordinary people are afraid of it. Maybe there. >Yeah, telling HN readers that we should spend more on science and technology is really attacking the status quo. Well I also denigrated a tech billionaire, criticized space-x, called for higher taxes and said this site was ugly. On HN that's not a gadfly as so much an invitation to be lynched.

melling 12y ago
More likely to simply be called out as an idiot or crackpot yourself. Think about it, you think the American public would fund searching for WW2 Japanese battleships? I never could understand why people pride themselves in being Armchair Generals: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Armchair+General http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Armchair+Gene...
- whybroke 12y ago
  What a strange redefinition of "armchair general". Probably the standard meaning http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/armchair_general http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/armchair_general is too offensive to conservatives. But since when did the public decide every archeology project? Did this one have any merit? Even so, they did pay for it. Just not with normal taxes but instead with the exorbitant expense of supporting an empire built on unscrupulous business practices. Some surplus was spent on whimsy now sycophantically called "philanthropy". An even more bizarre word misuse. So the web should be a place solely for advertisement, astroturf and ludicrous self-aggrandizement? No one should criticize bull when they see it? You should have told this guy http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ Then he could have had a deeply meaningful career writing apps.
  - melling 12y ago
    I didn't realize Paul Allen was advertising, etc. sounds like you're conflating as much shit as possible and hoping that it sounds like you've got some higher purpose, and you've thought all this though. Well, I've gotta say it's not really working

melling 12y ago

More likely to simply be called out as an idiot or crackpot yourself. Think about it, you think the American public would fund searching for WW2 Japanese battleships? I never could understand why people pride themselves in being Armchair Generals: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Armchair+General http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Armchair+Gene...

whybroke 12y ago
What a strange redefinition of "armchair general". Probably the standard meaning http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/armchair_general http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/armchair_general is too offensive to conservatives. But since when did the public decide every archeology project? Did this one have any merit? Even so, they did pay for it. Just not with normal taxes but instead with the exorbitant expense of supporting an empire built on unscrupulous business practices. Some surplus was spent on whimsy now sycophantically called "philanthropy". An even more bizarre word misuse. So the web should be a place solely for advertisement, astroturf and ludicrous self-aggrandizement? No one should criticize bull when they see it? You should have told this guy http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ Then he could have had a deeply meaningful career writing apps.
- melling 12y ago
  I didn't realize Paul Allen was advertising, etc. sounds like you're conflating as much shit as possible and hoping that it sounds like you've got some higher purpose, and you've thought all this though. Well, I've gotta say it's not really working