paranoiacblack

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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
They like, read our emails, man.
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
Please stop talking about counter cultures like it's some new idea you came up with. You don't even realize why it's so easy to make fun of y'all, goddamn.
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
> of whom there are more than a few, it's quite a thing now lol
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
To summarize this for you OP: no, fuck you, do it yourself. #HN
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
TIL: Children can be Nihlists too? Does it really take a gifted child to see the futility in the majority of life or to understand our insignificance? This is something that should be fairly obvious to anyone without privilege, not only chi
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
Fuck it, I'm going to start writing my programs on punchcards and mailing it to Github HQ to test the results of it. Then I'll handwrite letters to my coworkers to finally switch away from the evils of email. For blogging, I'
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
First of all, you're talking about "workaholism." I'm not. I'm saying that there's nothing wrong with working extremely hard and that it doesn't imply inefficiency of less 'smart' work. Realize t
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
I don't know what you're talking about. Although raising a family might be your personal life, it is seriously HARD WORK. Just because you love your family, doesn't mean you don't work hard to provide for them. My parent
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
Huh? How do you figure that people proud of their work aren't finishing it fast enough. It turns out that when you finish your work, you can work on something else. You don't have to end your work week right then and there.
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
Uh Steve Jobs and Bill Gates weren't high school dropouts nor did they get kicked out of college, they consciously moved past it. And when they did, you bet they worked more than 35 hours a week to make it.
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
ITT, don't tweet about things you are proud of. It makes us regular people feel bad. ;(
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
No, you stop glorifying "smart" work and shorter hours. Could it possibly be that people work at different paces, have different work ethic, and have different aspirations, but that they can't be compared at face value purely
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
No, stop trivializing cryptography software.
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
Interesting idea, but I wonder if "niceness" is really that important when sharing ideas that may or may not be controversial. Being professional and constructive might be a good goal, but these don't necessarily entail &quot
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
"A picture is worth a thousand words." Also, you just assume this person is setting up a professional photography shoot while ignoring everyone. Is it possible they took a photo of the situation AND helped the people around them?
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
Please get off of your high horse and have decency or respect for human lives. Also, there are always stories of prominent hackers dying on HN and we give our condolences as well as discuss the innovations of that hacker. But because it&#x2
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
On the contrary, you're extrapolating too much from the OP. It was never presented as a universal impression, and I really doubt anyone took it that way. However, the anecdote is useful because it shows that there are people who absolu
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
> For some marginal utility? Yes, this is the point of extensions. Extensions are help you and others do things with the browser that the vendor shouldn't really spend time on. Approaching them with the idea that they're usele
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
You're getting pretty uppity about testimonials here. Regardless of them being effective persuasive techniques, they're still just persuasive techniques and I imagine a lot of people dislike persuasion getting in the way of conten
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
Not really? If I know someone that you don't and introduce them to you, at that moment they are a stranger to you, but definitely not random.
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
Or because they had good alternatives to Google Reader that would be updated and voted on by a good user-base? No, nevermind, can't be that.
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
Honestly, I would be surprised if this wasn't definitely considered by Google before closing Reader. The thing is, when the tool is so closely tied in to Google's internal infrastructure, it would take a large effort to open-sourc
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
You're misreading what you quoted. I'm telling you that the company that sells you milk doesn't want you to drink anyone else's milk because that's how businesses work. They might sell some cheese too, but they also
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
Is it possible there is a world where Google does share our values but also knows when to kill off products they don't care about?
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
The GP complains about the entitlement directed towards the shutdown of Reader. The OP complains about the word entitlement being used at all and I agree with him, except that the GP is right that no one is entitled to Reader. I then go on
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
Ok, so it's just if Google does it then, because they are the only ones with "great power?" Although "with great power comes great responsibility" is a cool catch line, it's extremely nebulous, especially as pr
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
> fighting Let's not get too carried away here. It's about doing the same thing we've been doing for the history of the web. Hackers will continue to hack on stuff and find holes, etc, etc. Content curators will get use to
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
> if you come out with a free service and end up displacing everyone else in the market, then you have an ethical responsibility to at least try to continue the service in some shape or form This is exactly the kind of entitlement the OP
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
You're right. But you're not entitled to Google Reader. So stop complaining about it and upvoting posts that complain about it.
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by paranoiacblack 13y ago
What you're saying is that a company wants you to use their product and no one else's. Sure, that's how companies work. They aren't compelled to allow anyone from the outside to contribute. This is not closing us in. Unl

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