Sagat

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by Sagat 13y ago
Criticizing Elon Musk on HN? Not a smart move, bro.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Am I a commie if I think Goldman Sachs is a bit creepy in itself?
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by Sagat 13y ago
Wise advice, but at the end of the day no one is really happy to make ant steps when a select few are capable of bending the world to their will like a cheap straw, for better or for worse.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Wow, this Lu guy is going to be the world's first trillionaire, at only 21 years old. Kudos to him for inventing the Internet.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Brit spelling is not the world's spelling. Do you think people learn English because of England's influence? Guess again.
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by Sagat 13y ago
'Murica has some good points but it's a pretty destructive and unsustainable culture. I'm also worried about the fact that they have no qualms about blowing up people with drones or sending people to shady prisons without tri
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by Sagat 13y ago
I took a look at the comments and people still seem to be blaming Europeans for the entirety of slavery, which is ironic considering that they were the first ones to abolish it.
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by Sagat 13y ago
I wish I had enough money to be able to have a measurable impact on the world.
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by Sagat 13y ago
It's going to take a long, long while.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Trying to remove tracks is precisely the wrong thing to do. You have to keep a trackable presence of some sort or you will look suspicious and receive extra scrutiny.
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by Sagat 13y ago
That's the point they are trying to make. No normal person can hope to lead a normal life whilst escaping tracking.
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by Sagat 13y ago
You are forgetting that morality is not absolute. It fluctuates over time. It's possible that in the future, homophobia may become the norm again in developed countries. People in that era will look down on us as permissive degenerates
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by Sagat 13y ago
If you are that smart you don't need college. Just go at it on your own.
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by Sagat 13y ago
How can there be this much hubris in a single post? Do you really think our generation is better than the 25,000 before it? Do you really think you are making the world a better place? We don't even know what the future will be like s
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by Sagat 13y ago
I find such "artistic" projects to be contemptible. If you want to change society, you have to go through political, legal or commercial challenge, otherwise you will be ignored. There are already too many smug artist types who ta
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by Sagat 13y ago
I wonder when we will have the first dollar trillionaire. (Rockefeller doesn't count) It's likely that some people will own entire planets in the future.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Do I really need to? I think you can come to this conclusion on your own. When you are born, there are already a ton a factors which will stay with you (well, mostly) till you die. Your health and innate intelligence will have a huge effect
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by Sagat 13y ago
"I fear that people will take this article to heart without realizing that it wasn't Bill Gates background that allowed him to succeed, but it was his instinct and drive." False. Both of things things enormously contributed t
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by Sagat 13y ago
Ads make for some interesting doublethink. One one hand, I hate the consumer oriented society that wastes resources on a ton of useless products; I despise the scummy advertisers who manipulate people into pursuing the wrong goals. On the o
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by Sagat 13y ago
I'm not dismissing Eastern thought. On the contrary, I am dismissing a course which apparently makes a pleasant sounding mishmash of the entire output of an advanced civilization.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Wake up, sheeple!
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by Sagat 13y ago
Many people, but precisely not "competent, intelligent human beings with discretion". The very people who would make the TSA (or any other place) a better organization have the ability to navigate away from thankless, low paid occ
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by Sagat 13y ago
Why would a "competent, intelligent human being with discretion" choose such a crappy job in the first place?
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by Sagat 13y ago
That's not a feel-good aphorism. That's a principle that is at the core of religions and philosophies practiced by billions. It's not universally applied, but people are actively trying to teach it.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Why blame the people you know when you can blame a piece of software that can't fight back?
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by Sagat 13y ago
I doubt all (or even most) founders are passionate visionaries. If the product in question was a life changing invention, then yes, I am sure the founders would be more than happy to have their whole existence and sense of identity revolve
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by Sagat 13y ago
thanks for the lel
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by Sagat 13y ago
Could you explain what the importance of emptiness is? It sounds mysterious and interesting.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Be honest. Are you actually going to use those diluted feel-good aphorisms to shape your life?
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by Sagat 13y ago
Wow, what's up with the ad hominem, bro?

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