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by forensic 15y ago
In North America an engineer is either a train operator, someone with a university degree in "Engineering", or a programmer. So you can see the difference.
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by forensic 15y ago
Patio is like a modern day Phillip Greenspun. Trying to turn childish programmer nerds into responsible engineering professionals.
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by forensic 15y ago
The Rothschilds had a tradition of the majority of the family fortune going to the first born male, and the others only received, as they say in the Godfather, "a living".
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by forensic 15y ago
If you were a carpenter, you'd tell your friends you're a carpenter. If you were a janitor, you'd tell your friends you're a sanitation worker. If you were a stripper, you'd tell your friends you're an exotic dancer. Patio is saying we shou
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by forensic 15y ago
Why is it implausible that money doesn't just vanish over time? I have no idea how much money they have but I don't see why it would have declined. They have always been shrewd investors.
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by forensic 15y ago
Forbes only knows about public wealth. The Rothschilds in the mid 19th century owned half the wealth of the world, and the contemporary argument is that they have not lost money since then, rather it has grown steadily, and is hidden off th
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by forensic 15y ago
Writing a fact based analysis of the personality of a public figure is not bullying. I have a lot of respect for Aaron both personally and professionally. In fact I used the words "moral perfection" to describe him.
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by forensic 15y ago
Read closer. It's not an attack. It's an analysis. I have affection for both Aaron and Nathan. Things are not so black and white.
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by forensic 15y ago
It's not a counter argument. I strongly believe Aaron is telling the truth about the porn spamming. However I also believe it does not make the perpetrator a bad cofounder.
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by forensic 15y ago
People insulting Aaron Greenspan just don't understand him. If you want to understand him, just imagine a very sensitive precocious child raised on a rigid deontological morality by highly rigid and argumentative parents. This values system
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by forensic 15y ago
You're still equating OSS with RMS when OSS was the enemy of RMS.
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by forensic 15y ago
They think they're educated because they know ruby. They're not educated. Most of these people are the same types who think the humanities are "for girls" and "unscientific"
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by forensic 15y ago
Voltaire was wrong and I have proof. Behold: "A short saying oft contains much wisdom." -- Sophocles
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by forensic 15y ago
No one has ever asked and lived to tell the tale.
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by forensic 15y ago
I think this got buried
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by forensic 15y ago
I thought banks are only concerned with profit. Since when did they start defending the nation?
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by forensic 15y ago
By the way when I said LDAP I actually meant LRAD. But LDAP does make a bit of sense too. :)
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by forensic 15y ago
I think "Don't be evil" is a slogan of tech employees, not tech entrepreneurs. I single out Hacker News as being psychologically different from normal software engineers. The focus on Hacker News is money, and many people here see profit as
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by forensic 15y ago
I said they were similar in "mindset and outlook". Would Silicon Valley hesitate to cause humanitarian crises in the name of profit? What if those crises were very only indirectly linked to their behaviour? What if Silicon Valley discovered
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by forensic 15y ago
I tried it, FB gave me no recommendations, but maybe no one has me in their address book.
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by forensic 15y ago
Also it's worth pointing out that even low skill service sector jobs typically only have employment for rigid demographics. When that sexy young waitress turns 30 her earning potential plummets and they really don't want her back. They want
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by forensic 15y ago
The difference between now and the past is the nature of military and crowd control technology. In the industrial revolution the luddites smashed the machines and threatened the elite with guillotines and Marxism. They could do this because
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by forensic 15y ago
The anti-luddite argument is actually an argument in favor of social darwinism. When people say that the jobs will shift to other sectors, they are really saying that an elite few will control all the wealth and if you can't appeal to their
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by forensic 15y ago
This community is exactly the type of testosterone-driven money-obsessed community that would create a Goldman Sachs Commodity Index that will cause starvation, and then absolve themselves of responsibility due to some free market arms-leng
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by forensic 15y ago
Goldman and other banks profited because they were selling the financial products, not buying them. The sellers always make money. Investors who bought the Goldman products did eventually lose money, however not soon enough to stop millions
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by forensic 15y ago
When you start sending me intel reports. You know the agreement.
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by forensic 15y ago
Everyone who isn't on facebook is a CIA employee
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by forensic 15y ago
What did the comment you're replying to say? He has deleted it. But I'm curious.
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by forensic 15y ago
The entire point of the design process is to produce magic. Why would you want to destroy that? It's one thing to give insider looks like Valve does with developer commentaries. It's quite another to give up on providing and selling magic.
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by forensic 15y ago
Why? Did jobs show off his Ferrari, did he wear $10,000 bespoke suits? Did he buy anything at all that demonstrates status and wealth? Jobs was NOT a conspicuous consumer. At all. All of his purchases were justified based on utility - albei

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