Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — dropit_sphere

dropit_sphere

HN member
Joined
Wed, Dec 18, 2013, 7:17 PM UTC
HN karma
1,040
Public activity
513 items

About dropit_sphere

My evil alter ego

If you're not familiar with this man's story, you should be: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Price

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #34521354

    The reverse, however, could also be true---how did you get all those fireable white females in the first place?

  2. comment
    Comment #34491800

    >No culture is static, indeed, the dodo would agree

  3. comment
    Comment #34431619

    This is a great discovery! Have you tried tying developer pay directly to these metrics?

  4. comment
    Comment #34283429

    lower-priced housing often has unacceptable attributes simply by virtue being lower-priced , as crime rates and schools are worse.

  5. comment
    Comment #34238872

    https://twitter.com/extradeadjcb/status/1609972258725892097

  6. comment
    Comment #33820380

    I feel like the qualifications should just be "competent Civilization player" or something. Actually I think...a lot...of jobs could be filled that way?

  7. comment
    Comment #33664586

    >Second, nothing useful taught by religion actually requires religion itself. This hinges very much on your definition of "useful;" if you don't believe in God or the resurrection …

  8. comment
    Comment #33523045

    caveat emptor...

  9. comment
    Comment #33453580

    I love Alastair MacLean's stuff! What was it called?

  10. comment
    Comment #33251820

    lol holy shit you guys are a rough crowd

  11. comment
    Comment #33009218

    it's "rational" if you don't factor in the complications

  12. comment
    Comment #32101900

    This is more a disagreement about fact than it is a threat. "Take care of your body or else it will grow weak and sick" has a directive and a warning of consequences---is it a thre…

  13. comment
    Comment #31899030

    Really is insane. Started dating a girl with Type 1 and started researching it. There's a group in Oakland called the Open Insulin Foundation doing some good work: https://openinsu…

  14. comment
    Comment #31508544

    There are some assumptions here: - you made marines - they are accessible to a-moving banelings without having to go around terrain and/or through tank fire, marauders, mines It's …

  15. comment
    Comment #31508043

    This (or, the experience you're looking for) is available now , by using compositions more suited to it and adjusting your play, but it does require departing from the meta (which …

  16. comment
    Comment #31278130

    lolwhat, replicated w/Linux and Chrome just now.

  17. comment
    Comment #31104608

    I certainly sympathize, but I'm not sure what this has to do with land tax. If cities can't efficiently provide infra to certain building patterns, they should either reduce their …

  18. comment
    Comment #31050079

    Economically advantageous sprawl, though---or it would have to be, to meet the owner's goals of not being a financial burden. I think the idea is that in that situation the owner s…

  19. comment
    Comment #31050058

    >They could recognize that joining NATO is a ultimately the choice of the states that choose join NATO, and respect that. It is that simple. Empirically, it's not!

  20. comment
    Comment #31050029

    Eh...you won't find a nicer guy than Charles Murray, or less of a Stormfront nazi than Curtis Yarvin, but both are basically unmentionable. In both cases no one objects to their pr…

  21. comment
    Comment #25827492

    "Engineer" sounds like kind of a moving target. The only "real" engineers design...engines. So it's worth asking what the actual value is of "engineering." In my mind, there are tw…

  22. comment
    Comment #25692078

    A world governed by patch notes. Hoo boy.

  23. comment
    Comment #25077415

    >Out of curiosity, do you believe the NYTimes should have the right to censor its own comments section? No, no I don't, not as a "comments section," anyway. To an extent, NYT is ri…

  24. comment
  25. comment
    Comment #24950506

    Hmm, I will have to keep this in mind.