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I get the impression that Amy Fleming doesn't want to do what she's doing. There's so much bullshit picture-painting that my brain goes into skim mode and fails to find any of the …

When my father was growing up, teenagers in the towns around were self-organizing and played baseball on their own, the guys from this town against the guys from that town. All sum…

Skimming the comments on that post, a lot of the people there seemed rather like dicks when talking about other people's unhappiness. I have to wonder how unhappy they themselves a…

I didn't grow up on Star Wars, even though I was the right age to have at least seen ads for the third one. I don't remember it being an unusually big deal where I grew up -- no mo…

How far are we from having the will and ability for it to be common to use safer languages than C/C++/Java/etc.? A long time ago, it didn't seem pragmatic to write in, say, ocaml, …

Do you remember whether your epiphany seemed to stem from something, or just happened?

I guess we gain perspective. We have the stereotype of old people being cranky and stupid (like I come from the era of cd-rom cupholder jokes, faxing images of floppies, etc.), but…

I found it dismaying to know programmers who believed in creationism because they work with stuff that is so evolutionary. Now I kind of get that you have to come to something with…

For someone who follows HN somewhat, I really don't keep up on any current cool-and-hyped stuff. I'll just see websites become more and more useless with three-stripe icons for men…

I also didn't realize how much I was shaped by my awful upbringing. I just thought I'd get away and that I was a rational person and everything would be all right.

Even before selling the current pills, I've seen mentions from the mid-1800s of how something horrible would happen to someone and it would be lamented in mere economic terms, lost…

When I need a reminder that I'm not like most people, I just need to look at how something in human psychology means that being the president / prime minister / dictator's son/brot…

I wonder what the various dreams even are for what to do about snow -- embedding something in the lane marker paint or who knows what. I rather hope that individual vehicles for ev…

I imagine there would be tickets given out for asshole behaviour.

It's very interesting to consider: What commonality, common interests, etc., in a group would be healthiest and best in some way for humans and maybe humanity?

It's interesting to see what someone's primary identification is -- member of a family, of a city, a religion, a nation, a species, lifeform of a particular planet, and so on. Unde…

To me that's harsh because I grew up rural, and was outside some, but...so isolated. There was only so much time you could stand outside trying to make up games by yourself in that…

All of the beers-and-foosball culture definitely troubles me. It feels so...frat boy to me, and I was never a frat boy.