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by oska 4y ago
Your 'yelling into the void' here is every yell being recorded and kept, every person who has a link to a recording being able to hear it, every person who follows a chronological playback of your yells being able to hear them all
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by oska 4y ago
> somebody who takes over the company and accrues so much social debt so quickly What is 'social debt' and how is it (objectively) measured?
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by oska 4y ago
I'm surprised by this comment. As an outsider (from Australia) but someone who follows European politics pretty closely, the quality of European politicians is noticeably low. Not that I would say Australian politicians are better, but
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by oska 4y ago
Only if you can start a company that's cashflow positive from essentially day one. Burn rate provided by suppressed interest rates and cashed up venture capitalists is quickly becoming a disappearing concept.
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by oska 4y ago
The feedback given was what a therapist might give, or even just what a self-help book might tell you. I don't see it as judging, I see it as stripping away rationalisations.
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by oska 4y ago
More than ridiculous, it's often outright bigotry (the original comment here being firmly in that category).
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by oska 4y ago
> Vast quantities of language is built on analogy. Streaming, the internet, the World Wide Web, Starship. These are metaphors, not analogies. [1] The GP is cautioning against argument by analogy, not the use of metaphorical language. C
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by oska 4y ago
Yes, context matters. Actors on a stage or in a film are clearly 'playing a role'. But when they play the role of a real person there is usually (always?) a disclaimer on the film. Quoting from an interesting article on the origin
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by oska 4y ago
Doesn't mean that to me. To me, free speech means anyone can say anything they like. Not anyone can pretend to be anyone they like.
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by oska 4y ago
> Getting a divorce doesn't give you the right to control how other people talk about your divorce. Obviously the discussion here is in terms of civility and respecting people's privacy, not 'control'.
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by oska 4y ago
> Elon regularly punches down, not up. Elon recently 'punched up' against Hillary Clinton (only using the word 'punch' because of context here; actually it was a gentle questioning of a propagandistic line she was try
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by oska 4y ago
I agree with your argument about repeated business success, and am happy to credit Jobs with repeated business success (like Musk). But I'm not seeing the repeated business success you credit to Gates. Gates was half lucky, half nastil
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by oska 4y ago
> Forgive me for this analogy but it's in the news: Imagine if NATO just said one day No, I definitely won't forgive you your 'analogy', because it's sneaking in a highly irresponsible argument for military escal
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by oska 4y ago
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Edit out swipes. > Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic t
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by oska 4y ago
Where does Stephen King go if he's not on twitter ? (Genuine question, not rhetorical)
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by oska 4y ago
I've seen this [flagged] and then come back twice now. I'm glad people are vouching to bring it back because I think it's a well written and compassionate piece.
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by oska 4y ago
Why are you assuming I am an Elon Musk supporter, or that I even like him? And it's fine if you don't like him; it's fine for anyone to not like him. What I am commenting on is the reactionary attacks frequently made in this
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by oska 4y ago
Very broadly speaking, HN is the forum of choice for the 'Web 2.0' and VC backed startup culture that went along with it, i.e. what is commonly perceived now as Silicon Valley culture. This culture is becoming increasingly reactio
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The Year of the Femcel(unherd.com)
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by oska 4y ago
I didn't say anything about your so-called 'LGBT movement'. I talked about 'the struggles that same sex attracted people have faced', struggles that span millennia and cultures. Your so-called 'LGBT movement&
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by oska 4y ago
You're using intersex ppl and the very real issues they have faced to then push gender ideology (your transition at the end to "A group whose bodies are functionally male but who feel a deep revulsion at being a man"). That&#
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by oska 4y ago
Once is fine but I hope you're not planning on spamming that link throughout this thread (this is now the 2nd time I see you've linked it)
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by oska 4y ago
Without meaning to undermine your point, I think a greater proportion of married couples did sleep in separate beds back then. My grandparents had separate beds.
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by oska 4y ago
> and it isn't governed by its contributors I don't see that as 'playing the governance card'; I see that as him rejecting the attempt by others.
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by oska 4y ago
On your point about talking about Free Software projects as 'dictatorships', the analogy looks especially silly if you bring it back the other way, which would mean that anyone living in a real world dictatorship could simply &#x2
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by oska 4y ago
No surprise that the etherium developer (yes, I've looked at yr linked bio) throws in the 'governance' canard, i.e. control software projects through power games, rather than by free association (support a project or fork it)
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by oska 4y ago
I'm yet to see RMS out of his depth in any technical discussion of computer science related matters and I think it's a very big call for anyone to make without backing the assertion up (as you very noticeably failed to do). RMS ha
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by oska 4y ago
I agree with your point about history being a great instructor but the fiction examples you gave were pop fiction, that are deliberate fantasy (and thus disastrous to think they can teach you life lessons, a point that has been repeatedly m
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by oska 4y ago
I'm not sure why we're linking to, let alone deferring to, an entertainer like Tom Scott on HN. (Tom Scott's fine, but I would never look to him for technical advice or direction.)
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by oska 4y ago
> and therefore is fully aligned with mainstream thought It's obviously not fully aligned with 'mainstream thought', when the expression of many widely help positions will get individuals and whole subreddits banned

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