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by ellyagg 17y ago
Sorry, where were the killings after Florida again?
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Ha. To be blunt, I don't think most folks on Hacker News are thinking about this in good faith. If some other country this community doesn't like a priori, say the US, killed a bunch of its citizens after an election, there'd be zero chance
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Sorry, did I miss something? Protesters are being shot and killed in Iran, right? American progressives haven't deluded themselves to the point where they think this is just as likely to happen in today's America as it is in Iran, have they
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Yeah, from the post title here and the opening of the article, I thought this going to be alternative housing on a budget, but instead it was more vanity guest house for the stuffwhitepeoplelike.com set.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Yeah. I fail to see how scads of global data is less ugly.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
That wasn't a middle finger, it was fear.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
"The data show a much sharper rise in Virginia than elsewhere. From 1995 to 2007, the average high school GPA of enrolled freshmen in the commonwealth rose from 3.27 to 3.56, an increase of 9.9 percent, or 0.79 percent a year. In the nation
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by ellyagg 17y ago
No, we just don't like our kids thinking about and having sex. It makes as feel as though the casual absolute control we have over them is slipping.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Personally, I find column view to be light-years ahead of Explorer, alone.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
> Firing a gun, and learning about gun safety isn't going to change my mind that an populace armed with firearms is a solution for... anything really. You mean aside from the scads of strong evidence such as the frequent mass shootings
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I compliment colleagues and friends who have CS degrees, and deprecate myself about it out loud, but I secretly don't feel the least bit inferior. In fact, I kind of enjoy the drop-out hacker makes good story.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I often think that about stand-up comics. Then I remember that they're supposed to be funny. Blog posts, on the other hand, should never try to be funny. Especially if they have to do with programming. Programming is a very serious business
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I'm interested in your claim that "the success of a business relies much more on the quality of your original idea than on anything else". Naturally this is absurd, and in comment threads not targeted at a favorite villain, no one would agr
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I never get tired of Hacker News' hatred of Jeff Atwood combined with the fact that Stack Overflow is far more successful than any project the vast majority of folks on Hacker News will ever implement. Wouldn't the truth of your beliefs abo
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Interesting. Looks like Yegge was right in falling in love with ocaml awhile back.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Assuming the developer was wise with his money, he should be fine. I don't feel too sorry for him.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Except, do you doubt its truth? Humans are rationalization engines. Communities will go to great lengths to prove that everything about their culture is good.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
He is speculating, and some of his speculation is interesting. At this point, I think you are rationalizing your intuitional dislike of the article. It seems more likely that some of his speculation just rubs you the wrong way. We're a long
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by ellyagg 17y ago
How is this controversial? Anyone who literally thought that animals had nothing analogous to morality or who didn't understand the evolutionary underpinnings of morality was not being serious. Nevertheless, the difference in intelligence (
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by ellyagg 17y ago
No, I wasn't suggesting people from today would rather live in those societies. Part of peoples' sense of well-being comes from a comparison of their quality of life relative to what they believe is possible. American Indians did not know o
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Let me put it another way: 1. Benjamin Franklin wrote that when colonial era children were taken by Indian tribes and were later found again, they usually didn't want to come back. Their lives were too easy and carefree now. 2. Egyptian soc
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by ellyagg 17y ago
And yet the rich economies of today, the ones that support, e.g., scientific research, were mostly built by people pursuing material goals.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
It's funny that the comments here are so negative, and yet, in the real world, this effect proves true over and over again. For example, I've noticed that sometimes you'll have a team of developers just collecting a paycheck, and when a new
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Yes, a lot of people share that sentiment, but a lot don't. iTunes popularized the notion of organizing your music around a central database of meta data, an approach that allowed for far more flexibility and ease of use. Of course, you alw
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by ellyagg 17y ago
It's not an absolute good to maximize economic mobility, at least as it's defined here. Here, mobility is inextricably tied to outcomes. There's no reason to believe economic outcomes should be randomly distributed in each generation. Peopl
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Creep-ee
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by ellyagg 17y ago
True. Wouldn't you have to say that Steve Jobs has all those traits? Does anyone think he's dull?
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Like you, I've put it into words many times with my family. I have my cool friends, but they're turned off and intimidated by intellectual conversations and they don't have anything useful to contribute anyway. On the other hand, my geeky f
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by ellyagg 17y ago
My friend, you sound like my clone. I haven't really figured it out. We may just be doomed.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
That wasn't a bait and switch. He suggested the engineering problem isn't as hard as is being made out, and then when you claimed otherwise, he explained that he was in a strong position to know otherwise. In the real world, this is known a

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