My job is to watch dreams die
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My job is to watch dreams die
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#2Both interesting and depressing. No matter who you think should ultimately take the blame for the housing crash, it's easy to forget how many people other than just the homeowners are affected by this crap.
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#3Tom Waits should put a melody on that.
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#4There's a Hollywood blockbuster waiting to be made out of a story like this (as noted in some of the Reddit comments). Something along the lines of Fight Club (grimy house scenes, top-notch monologue) or Lord of War/Up in the Air (someone doing a toxic job but good at it).
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#5Interesting, but hacker news? Come on... if I wanted general news, then I'd go to Reddit.
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#6Since i m not going to read it, can somebody please post a tl;dr here: http://tldrplz.com ?
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#7Looking at a beautiful albeit narrow slice of something can hurt you (even though it feels good) because you fail to see the larger picture (which may not be so pretty). It introduces a bias that may lead you to incorrect conclusions and bad decisions. Enjoy the craft, but be wary.
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#8Interesting, but hacker news? Come on... if I wanted general news, then I'd go to Reddit.
HN is mainly aimed towards insightful stories about "hacking" any system that is not tuned properly and still has room for improvement in order to be more close to our desires.
Entrepreneurship is the main way to hack society and its systems (I put most politicians in the "those that cannot do, teach" department). But the first step in fixing a system is to find out about its issues. From this perspective, this is very much an on-topic story on HN.
See also the meaning of "hacker" written by pg: http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html .
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#9Interesting, but hacker news? Come on... if I wanted general news, then I'd go to Reddit.
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Re: My job is to watch dreams die
#10Interesting, but hacker news? Come on... if I wanted general news, then I'd go to Reddit.
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is way more of a 'tugs at the heartstrings' type of thing than gratifying intellectual curiosity.
Did anyone not really understand that it's rough for people to lose their houses?