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by rinich 17y ago
...but I was working there. Here's the answer to your problem. Do things. Be active. You can find extracurriculars — dancing and yoga are wonderful activities, as are any sorts of gatherings that involve intellectual conversation of any
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That's great if you're fine with not reading anything written while we were alive.
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With the flag button that already exists? The instant you let somebody's comment be worth less than neutral value, you've built a mechanized system that makes people feel excluded. That means anybody who wants to can make anybody else feel
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When your entire site is a technological solution, that doesn't work. It's not natural to divide conversations and rank them based on merits of "good" and "bad". This is why flat conversations don't succumb to groupthink as quickly or as ba
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Designing a better WalMart receipt(metafilter.com)
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by rinich 17y ago
I approve of all the people I've been grouped with, except that bizarre swombat fellow.
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by rinich 17y ago
As am I. But I'm also pleased that Flash developers don't have to learn a wholly new language to port their app. Flash is a standard for indie game developers, and there's a lot of talent to be found there.
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by rinich 17y ago
I didn't call them any of those things. Projecting much? You don't have to be a fascist to think fascist thoughts. I was saying Rand espoused a fascist philosophy. People endorsing Objectivism are endorsing a line of thought that's fascist
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Perhaps if that scene hadn't been mirrored elsewhere in the book, you'd have an argument; however, as somebody else said in this thread, Rand doesn't leave her writing up to interpretation. She clearly states multiple times that she doesn't
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http://michaelprescott.net/hickman.htm is a fairly detailed article about it. One of Hickman's crimes: At the rendezvous, Mr. Parker handed over the money to a young man who was waiting for him in a parked car. When Mr. Parker paid the r
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by rinich 17y ago
What does this say about TechStars that we have not seen repeated here a dozen times a month for years?
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The CIA absolutely cares about the three pages of fiction you write every day, and there is certainly a way they could take that and use it to make the world worse. I like this service. I don't like writing in journals, regardless of the br
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by rinich 17y ago
You may be right. Her storytelling is free of the sort of opaque language that lets people interpret it any way they like... such language is sometimes poetic and inspiring, but would not be a good fit for Rand's novel. Thus it is not a we
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All of Rand's nonfiction tends to treat Atlas Shrugged as a fiction piece that carries out as real life ought to . I don't at all doubt that Rand thought catastrophes were the responsibility of the leeches of society. She wasn't entirely
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by rinich 17y ago
It's not. It's a slightly more complex setup than I wrote, but the end message is the same. The passage in question opens with this: It is said that catastrophes are a matter of pure chance, and there were those who would have said that th
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by rinich 17y ago
..which is shown to the reader as a scene with people sitting in a train, riding to their deaths, with a lengthy exposition explaining they deserve it.
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And it sheds that light by portraying a scene where a bunch of people critical of aspects of capitalism are sent by train into a tunnel and killed.
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by rinich 17y ago
Fair enough! I'm interested in seeing what you do next.
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Yes. I took a class in formula script-writing this last semester.
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That's not how I think personally. I'm curious to see how this plays out myself. That said, I remember how vicious Hacker News got back when Valleywag was allowed on this site. Hell, look at how they get about TechCrunch's style of journali
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The phrase "technically right" implies you think I'm wrong in some other way. Yet here you've said specifically that your goal is to manipulate people and then reveal how they're being manipulated. So, you're socially engineering people. Th
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You´ve not been social engineered - you´ve received a post that was personalised for you. It was personalized for us? So you're saying: In the process of creating the post, you designed it in ways that would appeal to the sorts of individ
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by rinich 17y ago
I don't know who downvoted you. You're right. Perhaps mine is a niche view here — certainly it is — but if your goal is simply to get eyes then writing blog posts is the wrong way to go about it. People react to programs, photographs, and m
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by rinich 17y ago
Actually, the linked discussion mentions that also. When discussing such an inherently flawed philosophy, it's important to really think about the origins of Rand's thoughts. Why did she think the way she did? Who inspired her? Objectivism
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by rinich 17y ago
Two memorable discussions here in which I played a seminal part: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=359551 The link died, but it was a comparison between Rand and Gladwell, and provoked a lot of interesting conversation/drama. That's pre
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by rinich 17y ago
It's the reaction everybody has with Rand. To be completely fair to her, she introduces a lot of people to ideas they haven't grappled with before. I'm still glad I read her, even if, three years after, I disagree with all but a strand of h
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by rinich 17y ago
Gotcha. But what if those "people with a hobby" are capable of doing incredible things with music? They'd benefit from being in a field of music that's not neglected for being thought of as centuries-old.
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Actually, my point was that if we look at classical music and say "So what?" we're losing a vast treasure.
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Unexpected not perhaps for a vast audience, but for me. What you didn't mention was perhaps the core of the post: Classical music isn't dead, it's living and breathing and subject to interpretation. Then the points you mentioned carry with
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by rinich 17y ago
> unalone accepts Pulitzer for blog That was really nice of you. I was going to say: So in 2019, the Pulitzer's continued its devaluation? Also: A chuckle for "Mark Zuckerman".

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