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by rquantz 11y ago
Van Gogh took up painting at 27, and people live longer now. Go do something else. The world will be better off with one fewer person working to eliminate inefficiencies.
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by rquantz 11y ago
Fascinating to see HN's best brightest and their view of the rule of law. How is it good for democracy if a well-funded corporation can flout the law by its very existence? People make the excuse that taxi regulations are unjust. But i
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by rquantz 11y ago
Yes, a company with an illegal business model stayed under the radar until they got big enough that they could combat the legal challenges to their illegal business model. Always a pleasure to watch.
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by rquantz 11y ago
Yes, or as I like to say, "MB SNBU by P ww2b TS"
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by rquantz 11y ago
In fact, winning can make it worse. When you're successful and depressed, the dissonance between your outward success and your inner self loathing/misery can be very painful. You think, all these great things are happening and I
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by rquantz 11y ago
And yet the federal government is the only entity so far that seems to have any effect on police brutality. States have a history of ignoring or actively disparaging civil rights. Occasionally federalism is a harmless relic, but a lot of ti
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by rquantz 11y ago
And yet your solution would produce the same ridiculous, hysterical response from the police. They would treat your robust independent review boards as Armageddon. Because of pride.
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by rquantz 11y ago
Specifically, investigation of police should the purview of the Federal Justice Department.
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by rquantz 11y ago
If "pride" means doing childish things like the slowdown in New York last year, or apparently not investigating drive by shootings in Baltimore because the protesters hurt their feelings, then that pride needs to be ruthlessly roo
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by rquantz 11y ago
That is only true if the purpose of asking those questions is to find a single definitive answer.
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by rquantz 11y ago
Thank you. I'd also like to add that philosophy has a long history of pretty dramatic accomplishments in the real world. You can thank philosophy for science and the various modes of scientific inquiry, and the concept of natural right
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by rquantz 11y ago
You misunderstand racism if you think Asians in tech are not subject to it.
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by rquantz 11y ago
So what's a language that has much better tooling than ruby, but still has a web stack as good as Rails? Does one exist?
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by rquantz 11y ago
Yes, I thought about adding that caveat, but it didn't seem worth it for an off topic comment. If they already knew they could safely ignore it. But it got a single up vote, so I kind of assumed it was news to them.
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by rquantz 11y ago
I'm a violist, and I used to teach violin and piano. With stringed instruments, as you say, just making a sound and holding the instrument right are so difficult for beginners, reading music pales in comparison. Piano is unique-ish as
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by rquantz 11y ago
Heh, go google the difference between ascetic and aesthetic. I think you'll find it interesting.
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by rquantz 11y ago
Look, I'm an atheist, and I think religion is mostly a bad thing for humanity. But you are off-base here. The parent was in no way proselytizing. It was apropos to the current discussion. Are you so sensitive that you can't handle
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by rquantz 11y ago
Same day as Ornette Coleman. Amazing.
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by rquantz 11y ago
You forgot to add their extreme luck. Also, don't forget Gates was born a millionaire. That makes it a lot easier to drop out of college.
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by rquantz 11y ago
You're taking a pretty shallow side in a battle that has been raging in art for centuries. Particularly in the Twentieth Century, a lot of artists forged styles that were specifically and intentionally devoid of content – see abstract
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by rquantz 11y ago
This is silly, there's plenty of art that takes a subject and renders it in an incongruous medium. It is usually not productive to criticize art for not achieving something it is not trying to achieve. I'm not taking a side on the
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by rquantz 11y ago
I have never heard someone talk about Maine as bleak. Seems like most people who live there or are from there love it. Are you really saying poverty in Maine eclipses the Deep South?
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Ask HN: How do you handle estimates when there is no spec?
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by rquantz 11y ago
This is why punishment for corporate law breaking needs to include revocation of the corporate charter after a point.
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by rquantz 11y ago
Interesting, I'm not sure it's worse than your experience. I was pretty well equipped to discount the advice of a therapist pushing prayer and weird conspiracy theories. On the other hand, your therapist was an authority on mental
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by rquantz 11y ago
Yeah, I hadn't heard of it either. He started talking about it and I said, "that sounds like a conspiracy theory," and then ended up looking it up in the session because he wouldn't let it go.
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by rquantz 11y ago
It was a little more than that - he was talking about the HAARP conspiracy theory as well. It just became clear he didn't approach the world rationally. I'm sure for some people he would be a great therapist, but not a good match
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by rquantz 11y ago
As someone who has suffered from moderate but not debilitating depression for much of my adulthood, one thing that has always stood in the way of getting treatment has been finding a damn therapist. Back when I was a broke, insurance-less m
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by rquantz 11y ago
I suppose it should have been accompanied by a hail of emojis :) Oh well, I'm sorry too. I've been commenting here for more than four years, and as far as I know that's my first flag, so I'll take it as a new experience.
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by rquantz 11y ago
I'm trying to figure out what you think I believe, and the nearest I can come is that you seem to think I'm judging women for behavior that I find distasteful because I just can't comprehend what life is like in the "dar

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