bravohippo

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by bravohippo 14y ago
Wow, I DO NOT envy that Sisyphean task you have undertaken! Still, bravo!
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by bravohippo 14y ago
Sorry for the fawning adoration. But you see I've been reading HN since the beginning and the endless neoliberal bullshit has made me despair for hacker culture--to the point where I'm now embarrassed to tell educated people that I work in
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by bravohippo 14y ago
Putting people that harm society in jail is one of the few ways to actually deal with these kinds of social issues. Your kind of gutlessness is pretty much exactly why the world has been gifted to neoliberal extremists. Normal liberals lack
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by bravohippo 14y ago
You're my favorite HN poster and I've read all your comments going back tens of pages. Marry me?
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by bravohippo 14y ago
It's called the class war. The ownership class has class consciousness, but the laboring class does not. The ownership class knows when to wink and nudge and how to run a subtle cartel, because they have class consciousness. But the laborin
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by bravohippo 14y ago
In the old days of Unions, people willing to work for no money would get beat up, because fools like that ruin life for everyone else. The types of people willing to destroy their health and have no family, no significant others, no interes
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by bravohippo 14y ago
Oh, eli, you never disappoint. This guy has Protestant work ethic brain damage. He enjoys the aesthetic of self-flagellation, the pain and suffering. He's sado-masochistic and loves pain, both his own pain and the pain of others. People who
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by bravohippo 14y ago
Like you said, it's just complete bullshit. Rapidly assembling CRUD apps to discover a market is somehow gaining technical skills? If you want to develop technical skills, the way to do it is by reading and then trying to solve the challeng
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by bravohippo 14y ago
>Since I own the business I work at, does that automatically qualify me to be a sociopath? No. The sociopaths are the ones who control the economic system and the bulk of the capital, who, if your company becomes worth anything, will ma
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by bravohippo 14y ago
That's despicable. The way we look at the inventors of mustard gas, lobotomies, and torture wheels is the way history will look at you. You must be a terrible person to be willing to directly further evil in the name of money and "fun".
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by bravohippo 14y ago
The "masses" also have bigger problems than being spied on. Namely, having shitty lives because they are poor, diseased, and overworked. Meanwhile, the intelligentsia waits for the masses to fix the problems over which the masses have littl