xlnt

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by xlnt 19y ago
Why do you think personality determines one's philosophy instead of vice versa?
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by xlnt 19y ago
They give an example of filtering out lowercase text. Lowercase and stupid are very different. I sometimes write whole essays in lowercase.
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by xlnt 19y ago
25 karma is really not very much, even for someone who's consistently in the minority, I think the point is not to let totally new accounts use downvote.
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by xlnt 19y ago
Yay. You need more karma to be able to vote down. 20 or 25 or so. The reason I'd say those aren't basic things is they (and many others) are, apparently, too hard for most people. The world could be greatly improved by people doing them bet
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by xlnt 19y ago
Right, I see. But I think there are actually a lot of universal truths. For example, lifestyles that are open to criticism are more successful because they correct more of their errors. Lifestyles with appropriate attention to detail are mo
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by xlnt 19y ago
Heh. Well if it's good enough then word will get around. One day all his friends will have read it, loved it, and told him to read it. Plus it would be all over TV and radio and culture in general, so it'd be hard to have a normal conversat
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by xlnt 19y ago
Hold on there, I didn't say anything about people should work for themselves. We can do better than "don't hit yourself with a hammer", but nothing like "everyone should work for themselves" (that'd be a bit hard with no possibility of hiri
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by xlnt 19y ago
There are exist some truths about what lifestyles are nice for everyone. If they violate some of those, then changing would benefit them. As far as we know, the truth about eating is a lot more like "eat foods you like" than "eat foods X, Y
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by xlnt 19y ago
You are using the word "impossible" to mean "very hard", and I am not.
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by xlnt 19y ago
Their ideas don't really contradict. But they think they do because, apparently, both sides have the mistaken view that a product has to be better for exactly one reason.
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by xlnt 19y ago
That's true about specialization. One could get private tutors, but that's expensive. One could also find helpful people on the internet (like you can definitely get free programming help of higher quality than a school would offer). Anyway
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by xlnt 19y ago
I forgot about the fights with his brother. FWIW I upmodded you (a while ago, before reading this).
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by xlnt 19y ago
D) Home School
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by xlnt 19y ago
That's different: Ender won his fights.
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by xlnt 19y ago
So when Billy says, "Mom, I don't want to go to school today. I fear I'll be badly hurt," his parents make him go anyway? Awful story :(
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by xlnt 19y ago
Pleasing two groups that start with contradictory opinions requires persuading at least one group to change it's mind. That's definitely possible because if they contradict then at least one of them is mistaken and would benefit from changi
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by xlnt 19y ago
They might not want the truth now, but they could be shown why it's good to want it, and shown how much nicer that lifestyle is, and helped to change. Hard but certainly possible.
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by xlnt 19y ago
My premise is more that there is a truth of the matter. Even if people start with opposite view points, that won't last when sufficiently good/true things are said (plus enough help seeing why this new view is better, and how to change, and
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by xlnt 19y ago
I am serious. What do you think could possibly prevent this from working (other than insufficient skill to say good enough things)? You say it's a strategy for obtaining misery and contempt. But it's not a strategy. It's just a fact. The st
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by xlnt 19y ago
A pretty good test is to ask each side to summarize the other side's position in a way the other side would endorse. If one side succeeds, and the other fails, that reveals who understands both positions, and who doesn't. Of course they can
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by xlnt 19y ago
I didn't mean to be, although certainly a programmer could be any of those.
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by xlnt 19y ago
I agree that yelling at children doesn't help. But I'm wondering if you would debate with a child, or try to persuade him with good ideas, or would use some other sort of approach that isn't yelling or persuading?
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by xlnt 19y ago
Yes I agree with that, I was just pointing out that they invest more than the $15,000 per company.
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by xlnt 19y ago
What if the other person is just being an idiot? What if you think he's not capable of understanding? What if he's a child? What if you think he's trolling? Is better argument still the way to go?
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by xlnt 19y ago
Of course there is something you could do. People aren't static. So what if the people who like you came here, and the ones who didn't stayed there? If you say good enough things everyone will like you and it will be a mute point. Sure it'
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by xlnt 19y ago
We don't need a second type of voting, just let us unsave stories later.
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by xlnt 19y ago
yc has time and effort to lose in addition to money. not the end of the world, but they do have a limited amount of those. i agree yc has less to lose than a big VC investing other people's money, but it does matter to them whether they are
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by xlnt 19y ago
remembering the name of everyone interesting works less and less well as the site gets bigger.
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by xlnt 19y ago
good point. it's very weird to not trust your own judgment about whether a startup is interesting, but to trust your own judgment of whether others see something in it. understanding what others see is actually harder than just looking at i

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