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bobthechef

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About bobthechef

HN is shadow banning me it appears. Some of my posts are only visible to me. Perhaps some of my posts are too picante for the delicate bourgeois sensibilities of the upper middle class and those either aspiring to enter its ranks through imitation or drifting somewhere within its sanitized orbit. The merchants have won.

To be sure, my posts are civil in form. Therefore, it must be the substance that offends.

Unfortunate. But I'll keep posting anyway. In the worst case, these comments shall become my personal online diary and HN will serve me by providing me with free storage. A writer stands to benefit more from his own writing that the reader anyhow.

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    I wonder how much we could reduce A/C usage by changing how we build. Contractors seem ignorant of traditional practices that used to help in part no doubt because they think they …

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    "suddenly I’m hearing a lot about “brown” identity (we’ve been reduced to a color) from white people and white dominated institutions" Even here, you're committing the same fallacy…

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    It sound like you're talking about, or at least brushing up against, prudential judgement[0]. Sometimes, the optimal move is not to seek the optimum. An obvious class of problems i…

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    The absurd overuse of AC seems like a peculiarity of the United States. Walk into an American household in the summer, and you find people watching TV with blankets or a sweatshirt…

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    The vulnerable narcissist vs. the grandiose narcissist. That is, the Hollywood-archetypal "nerd vs. jock", though I have also met some grandiose nerds in my time in addition to the…