Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — leocgcd

leocgcd

HN member
Joined
Tue, May 28, 2024, 11:10 AM UTC
HN karma
26
Public activity
15 items

About leocgcd

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #43190098

    Why do you talk about these things like you "can't." You obviously can. You made the post. Losing karma is engagement with your post. I would like to think the truly right-wing-- i…

  2. comment
    Comment #42644030

    I suppose I take for granted the interest in underground, counter-culture, Berlin-esque experiences. I genuinely cannot imagine someone preferring "Vegas-style" clubs in NYC. Your …

  3. comment
    Comment #42373623

    Rule of law also allows for banality of evil and bureaucratized, monopolized violence. I've seen some other arguments against sympathy in this thread (the murderer was wealthy hims…

  4. comment
    Comment #41732327

    >Are you seriously arguing that art is doing more for the world at large than the IT industry? Come on... Yes? Art has been made for at least 17,000 years, it is a fundamental expr…

  5. comment
    Comment #41732136

    This is some kind of bizarre reflexive libertarian outburst to my comment that had little to do with the role of government. Firstly, lots and lots of people use government-enginee…

  6. comment
    Comment #41729183

    Amount of art knowledge isn't subjective, it's a testable and verifiable metric. And the idea that all subjective tastes should be equally valued is a relatively recent invention f…

  7. comment
    Comment #41184860

    >I simply made an appreciation and then explained how I got to it. It was never meant to be convincing, it was just meant to be out there… WHY am I wrong in approaching the subject…

  8. comment
    Comment #41182341

    Would you stand in front an astrophysicist PhD and tell them their degree is worthless because you can’t see dark matter and supersymmetry? Would you stand in front of an archaeolo…

  9. comment
    Comment #41179006

    You seem to really have very little education, perspective, and experience regarding art. When you have very little education, perspective, and experience, your opinions are irrele…

  10. comment
    Comment #40809338

    Joke or not, you're still demonstrating that you're naive about the scope of brand strategy. The majority of brand management work is not material that is shown to the public, it i…

  11. comment
    Comment #40809108

    Thinking that TV spots are the limits of brand strategy is just kind of naive. You think iPhones are a superior product... Why? Other phones have more RAM, better screens, more cap…

  12. comment
    Comment #40808580

    Charismatic founders are PR lol. Steve Jobs was a market strategist. >To be tech was to stand against the corporate types who milked people for money without offering real value. P…

  13. comment
    Comment #40808560

    Marketers necessarily sell something that doesn't exist because part of their job is creating that thing. Theranos is an example of a failed project through and through, but even s…

  14. comment
    Comment #40808294

    Sort of a vapid piece. The optimism and buy-in that excited people about tech from the debut of the iPhone until fairly recently was a function of PR and technology marketers-- lik…

  15. comment
    Comment #40609872

    i think papers like this reveal the benefits of domain-specific methodologies. a scientific paper is a bad choice for historiography. art historical texts are usually much more con…