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by curi 19y ago
What did I do wrong, specifically? What should I change, specifically? Are you saying maybe he took away voting because I wrote annoying comments?
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by curi 19y ago
I don't think he'd enjoy that email, so I haven't sent it. He chose not to contact me about this, presumably for a reason. This, on the other hand, is a public thread where it's relevant to the topic in the parent comments. I haven't asked
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by curi 19y ago
It's not a matter of different standards, it's a matter of: if you can't lead active yc users, why would you be able to lead an influx of new reddit (or techcrunch or whatever) users? rms for example is apologetic and offered to do what you
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by curi 19y ago
Why do you say that? I think failing to get along peacefully with leaderboard users is a bad sign.
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by curi 19y ago
why do you figure pg is amazingly good at this? he already banned me and rms from voting. that doesn't seem to suggest great leadership skills.
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by curi 19y ago
It's good of you to warn me. But even if you never reply (or even read it) I'll be glad to have thought about something interesting to me, and (hopefully) to have written something good. If it turns out well enough, I can even reuse it else
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by curi 19y ago
IMO revolutionaries are worse than conservatives. They are more destructive. And there's more ways to be wrong than right. It's a bit like doing rewrites of major production systems. Not a good idea. But of course it's much worse because hu
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by curi 19y ago
We can't avoid all problems, so the general strategy we need is to get more knowledge so we can be better at solving unforeseen problems. And it's not reasonable to fear the unknown on principle. Being "conservative" by avoiding an advance
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by curi 19y ago
Do you count chess as a game?
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by curi 19y ago
Look at amazon, ebay, and walmart -- very useful things to have. Selling lots of 'first-order' goods, cheaply, helps a lot of people tremendously. It's not clear to me how to judge which is better, but it is clear to me that both are awesom
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by curi 19y ago
How about a web 2.0 site for parents (large potential audience) with social features that tells them that their ideas about parenting are deeply mistaken. That's bound to be a big hit.
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by curi 19y ago
I want a billionaire friend >_> Let's team up. How about you become a billionaire and I'll keep working on befriending you.
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by curi 19y ago
the way to accumulate money is: you create wealth. you give it to other people in exchange for money -- for promises to pay you back in wealth later. then accumulating money means you don't call in those promises, you just hold on to them
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by curi 19y ago
Parents are sometimes mistaken, so strategies that rely on the parent being right in all disputes result in some avoidable mistakes. I want policies for how to live that function reasonably well even for people who have flaws and sometime
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by curi 19y ago
yes, we are here discussing . there's no call for fighting . silly or dumb opinions are inconsequential on the scale of things that matter before you'd want to consider violence.
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by curi 19y ago
don't worry, rather than assume the worst i just guessed you were busy and might reply next weekend (if not today). i'll try gtalk then. good luck with snow thawing.
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by curi 19y ago
some guy has a misconceived opinion about steve jobs' arrogance? so what? that isn't going to hurt anyone, or mess up anything important.
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by curi 19y ago
FYI the 7 or 8 downmods i got in this thread came in the space of a few seconds. Likely downmodding without reading.
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by curi 19y ago
no
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by curi 19y ago
what's awesome about glorifying fighting? with any random person who says something inconsequential?
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by curi 19y ago
some of his comments seem serious, imo
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by curi 19y ago
See, I told you we disagree. I'm going to drop it now since you aren't interested in my ideas.
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by curi 19y ago
safari ftw (I'd just vote but I can't.)
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by curi 19y ago
Most of my practical advice is nothing too special. You could get video previews for some shows, or get descriptions or read reviews and explain what it's about to child and see if he likes the sound of it. You can offer to get more of the
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by curi 19y ago
I kinda think it's part of a parents job to decide what young children see and hear. Yeah, that is the thing I've been disagreeing about. I don't think "stuff the parent thinks is good/bad" is a reasonable criterion for what a child gets
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by curi 19y ago
voting up someone's comment history.
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by curi 19y ago
Core beliefs about religion might be similar, but not about attitudes to parenting. I've only expressed a small part of my disagreement.
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by curi 19y ago
We aren't disagreeing about the merit of that show. We are disagreeing about the merit of the parent making all the decisions about what the kid is allowed to watch.
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by curi 19y ago
that's an odd choice of metaphor. war and verbal disputes are very different things.
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by curi 19y ago
/upvote for giving a reason (I'm assuming it was killed automatically so humans don't have to take the time to moderate all his comments.)

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