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Humans tend to regard as ‘right’/of-value/impressive that which validates their own perspective, sometimes shamelessly.
Making HN comments assigned reading without also adding http://n-gate.com would sound quite irresponsible, if it were more than the one specific thread the article refers to.
> Tesla finally launches a product as advertised. Hackernews, based on Youtube videos, reverse-engineers a spacecraft down to the metallurgical level and then sagely debates the maintenance characteristics of an aircraft that exited service before any of them learned to read and none of them have seen in operation, mostly derived from blog posts by people they're pretty sure knew a guy.
Making HN comments assigned reading without also adding http://n-gate.com would sound quite irresponsible, if it were more than the one specific thread the article refers to.
Making HN comments assigned reading without also adding http://n-gate.com would sound quite irresponsible, if it were more than the one specific thread the article refers to.
is it me or others also see that CAPTCHA and "loading" thing on main page?
Edit: Or, as another comment proposes, it could in fact be due to the referrer, and we're being had.
Making HN comments assigned reading without also adding http://n-gate.com would sound quite irresponsible, if it were more than the one specific thread the article refers to.
Oh yes, n gate is pretty awesome! Any clue who runs it?
$ whois n-gate.com
This getting upvoted and rising toward the top of HN reminds me of Hesse writing about academic/intellectual elites and winning the Nobel prize for it. Magister Ludi wasn’t his best novel, but it was the one that felt most self-gratifying for the voting body. Humans tend to regard as ‘right’/of-value/impressive that which validates their own perspective, sometimes shamelessly.
Making HN comments assigned reading without also adding http://n-gate.com would sound quite irresponsible, if it were more than the one specific thread the article refers to.
I remember chuckled reading n-gate, until I read a rant about Monica[1] on n-gate. Monica, i think, is an awesome app to keep in touch with your best friends and family. N-gate said it's just an app that makes you creepy because you stalk your family and your best friend. Can't find the n-gate link though.
This getting upvoted and rising toward the top of HN reminds me of Hesse writing about academic/intellectual elites and winning the Nobel prize for it. Magister Ludi wasn’t his best novel, but it was the one that felt most self-gratifying for the voting body. Humans tend to regard as ‘right’/of-value/impressive that which validates their own perspective, sometimes shamelessly.
You are right, yet, I believe there's a lot of wisdom and value in the comments here. Quite often I tend to read the commends before the articles/posts themselves.
Making HN comments assigned reading without also adding http://n-gate.com would sound quite irresponsible, if it were more than the one specific thread the article refers to.
is it me or others also see that CAPTCHA and "loading" thing on main page?
For the most part I think they are right, though obviously I am still here. I think that says something about me.
Some of these people do things like do a redirect based on the referer.
Try following one of the links at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jwz.org . Done because "Hacker News is a steaming cesspool and I don't have time or desire to deal with their bandwidth demands, so I just block them."
This getting upvoted and rising toward the top of HN reminds me of Hesse writing about academic/intellectual elites and winning the Nobel prize for it. Magister Ludi wasn’t his best novel, but it was the one that felt most self-gratifying for the voting body. Humans tend to regard as ‘right’/of-value/impressive that which validates their own perspective, sometimes shamelessly.