yes_its_giles

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by yes_its_giles 17y ago
you're making the same assumption I disagreed with two comments ago. to me, getting banned is not the negative part of the experience. the negative part of the experience is the bad habit of coming back to engage in more fruitless conversat
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by yes_its_giles 17y ago
Yeah, exactly. It's a dysfunctional pattern. I enjoy it, but I really think there's a systemic tendency to dysfunctional patterns here. That's inevitable with any social software, so you have to plan for your dysfunctions. Look at Stack Ove
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by yes_its_giles 17y ago
I said I liked being banned. Why would I want to change something I like? It's a reminder to avoid getting into arguments with people who pay no attention to logic and have weird, arbitrary loyalties to systems which present no actual usefu
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by yes_its_giles 17y ago
PPS, nothing against you, giraffes guy, I just re-read my sentence and it seemed a bit harsh. I'm just saying that a web site that makes a person unhappy is not a good thing for them to be part of, and as someone who comes back repeatedly,
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by yes_its_giles 17y ago
Just create a new account. I get banned all the time. This is my third account. You can't take it personally. It's either some person being wrong about you or some automated system. Who cares? I love it when I get banned, it means I won't b
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by yes_its_giles 17y ago
hey, for what it's worth, I commented on this blog post, when it originally went up, saying that it's better to be the change you wish to see, HINT HINT, which means (in other words) I think it would be cool to actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT T
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by yes_its_giles 17y ago
seriously, what's with you guys? I lost 75 pounds in 6 months. I couldn't have made my blog post about that more Hacker News bait than it already was. I know a lot of you saw it. and still the ratio of people talking about it to people doin
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by yes_its_giles 17y ago
I just wanted to say, because I did a bunch of blogging recently about how you can drive traffic deliberately by picking fights, and did it while driving traffic deliberately by picking some fights: in the past I was getting these occasiona
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by yes_its_giles 17y ago
You people on Hacker News need to figure something out about me. I don't address the obvious objections, because they're obvious. I just solve them and move on. This objection is so easy to solve it's not worth talking about.
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by yes_its_giles 17y ago
Yes! I shall call it "Viaweb." (Just kidding.)
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by yes_its_giles 17y ago
Yeah, it's the Four-Hour Work Week thing. All you need is a business model which requires neither time nor energy and you're fucking DONE. So many lazy thinkers on a site like this. I never said I was starting businesses that require time o
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by yes_its_giles 17y ago
Starting a new business is hard. It takes time and energy. Question your assumptions. They're wrong.