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He was in many respects. However, that offends delicate sensibilities here and so down goes da the vote.

I appreciate your comment. Yeah, it's sincere and rambling, but at least it's an interesting slice of a stranger's life. HN can't or won't enjoy something like this.

I'm guessing "Chinatown"

Hacking the hackers

I know what's up. That why I made the comment. It's more about what is said than the actual content of the statement itself. If I did the above, and someone made a stink, I'd hit '…

Just exploit the identity-political zeitgeist that's overtaken universities lately: claim yourself genderqueer, non-binary presenting as male. With the right incantation, the organ…

We tech workers can really take the keys to the kingdom, if we want. In fact, I don't think any group of people has had access to so much potential power as an industry ever in hum…

While state/referential transparency/immutability are important (and great features), they're more associated with pure FP. Purity is not a necessary precondition for a language to…

I believe you, but this really reads like something on /r/thathappened.

Conal Elliot's paper on the subject is a really good starting point: http://conal.net/papers/beautiful-differentiation/beautiful-...

True. Same thing with Velos. What a piece of shit that is

370k is pretty good change. What do you do?

Yeah, reading that just made me sad. That's some next level everything-that-can-be-done-in-life-has-to-have-some-monetary-ROI-on-it, kind of bullshit.

This is more of a historical survey of the idea UBI than a mediation on why it's good/bad thing. I get the arguments he makes from the perspective of the revolutionary Left. They a…

Already did. Thanks!

What can I say about this article? I recently moved here, like many other people in tech. I didn't come for the draw of nature--which I love--but for a higher paying job and a chan…

Great, you cite Joel Spolsky. Good for you. But you didn't address a single point that I brought up beforehand. The original point, if I recall, was that mechanical labor will, at …

From http://www.etsy.com/about.php : > "Our mission is to enable people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers. Our vision is to build a new economy an…

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics employment data on IT sector employment ( http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag51.htm#workforce ) the number of IT workers is relatively small …

When you say: > "This will create wealth. Wealth will mean that art, health and relaxation will be in high demand." Yes, I agree to an extent. But I must ask, wealth for who? Certa…

I should clarify. My emphasis should have been on issues of power, rather than size. Governments happen to be large institutions for sure, but the power to realize a breakup of mon…

As it stands, only an entity as large and powerful as the government is capable of busting up said combines, cartels, and monopolies. My question is this: if officials at all level…

I can vouch for Philadelphia. I live right across the river from it. The city itself is really is a hole. There is rampant crime and the infrastructure is literally crumbling. Nort…

Thank you for the historical context. I did not know that.

Fine, I understand where you're coming from. Consider though that by very fact the conquistadors received funding from the crown, must in some way, shape, or form, have reflected p…