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This post for me contains deep wisdom: https://dhemery.com/articles/resistance_as_a_resource/

A few resources for learning how to draw. Books: * Fun with a Pencil by Andrew Loomis (everything Loomis is great) * Perspective made Easy by Norling * Christopher Hart's books (fr…

I miss Ezra as well, he was a great example of someone who moved things forward just because he cared. Ezra also put way more effort and passion than anyone could reasonably expect…

Nice site, it's fun to look around! I threw a curveball at it: http://prosecraft.io/library/mark-z-danielewski/house-of-lea... It would be interesting to see if Prosecraft would ev…

When I was starting to learn chess I liked the London System. It was easy to memorize and helped me get a footing in how to think about chess.

You're not living unless the winter weather almost kills you when you're walking the dog!

Meh. Yes, sure, by statistics. But those rates come from neighborhoods that most likely don't have a lot of six-figure salary tech workers in them.

Have you never been to Chicago? Pretty nice town.

> the entire world's Not the entire world, just those currently running it. Education is the great leveler thus access is restricted.

Well I'll be damned. Yes it is! Thank you!

There's a game from the 90s called Hyperspeed by MicroProse that I wish someone would do a similar writeup on. I freaking loved that game and I can't find it anywhere now.

I do art on the side and came across Shibasaki's videos maybe a year ago. I agree with others on the thread, he's a wonderful man. One note: if you are inspired to try watercolor a…

BAT sounds to me like just another form of airline miles or cryptocurrency?

I am not a fan of PornHub because I feel that many of their practices are unethical. That said, as with so many other controversial topics, keeping things legal is ultimately bette…

Your insight and the comments in the Github thread all back up the same point - the current economic model is not set up to empower or distribute wealth to the little guy. I think …

Any stack really if you have a well-gelled team that knows how to communicate and collaborate well together. If you don't have that as your starting point, things will be hard. Rai…

It’s true that they may have extended him a genuine invitation. It’s also true that he may have overthought it. But that is kind of the point of the story, no? After you endure eno…

Have you ever been discriminated against? And on a consistent and ongoing basis? When people are after you all the time, you start to learn the warning signals.

I’ll stick my neck out here and say that my assumption is that you’re a white guy like myself. If you don’t know, many non-white people get asked that question all the time. That d…

I think you misunderstood. The point is that it's not in his head - he knows his Indian colleagues are trying to figure out his caste. Non-Indians don't have a caste so he knows it…

> The dialogue here seems foreign to me. Playing a coy game where you realize someone is trying to infer something about you so you dodge the question. It's weird to imagine that p…

> I would appreciate if people can let me know what's wrong with this comment. I didn't downvote your comment but I will venture a guess. It sounds like you are condoning and/or po…

There were a lot of insightful comments when the lawsuit mentioned in the article was first announced. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697827

Seeing this made me remember the iPod Shuffle. That was also a nice product.

I always took it in a different way. Prince is speaking to that human thing in all of us that wants to experience something greater than what we currently are. Prince's music is ve…