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Such a smart person who can "see it all" does not know that lawyers are paid by the hour so they have a pervasive incentive to take any case (even incluing lost ones) and milk those cases for as many hours as possible, since this earns them more money? Rest is "old man angry at the clouds" material.
TFA quotes Lao Tzu: "The wise man knows he doesn’t know. The fool doesn’t know he doesn’t know." I'd add the wisdom of Bokonon[0] to that sentiment: "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. " I'd point out that "Hacker News Disease" as defin…
> the author wants to paint this as essentially the arrogance of the tech elites. Clearly you didn't read the second paragraph of the article: > In fairness, this particular problem isn’t by any means endemic to Hacker News. It occurs at the crossroads where a bunch of smart people meet general tech industry discussion. I’m sure there are plenty of places that suffer from Hacker News Disease (and they probably had it…
Actually, I did. In fact, your quote is specifically referring to tech discussion websites, as it explicitly says:
It occurs at the crossroads where a bunch of
smart people meet general tech industry
discussion.
Entertaining read. But find the perfect discussion group then.. its quite a challenge, I gather. Disease symptoms aren't just endemic, but do we actually have 'disease-free' places anywhere on the web?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=STEMlord "STEMlord ...a pejorative term for a particular kind of person who has studied in these areas at university or works in these fields who holds a pretentious, condescending attitude to anyone who has studied in any other fields, particularly the Arts and Humanities. They typically believe themselves to be more "intelligent" and "rational", while generally remain…
That said, I think while amost everybody knows someone like that, I believe that it is often the opposite and many devs should be enouraged to be a bit more forthcomming.
I think the "disease" is common in fresh graduents of university in general.
No, you can't inoculate yourself from stupidity and ignorance. This applies to the author as well.
Original article by user matmaroon in 2009:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100824103317/http://mattmaroon...
Spurred by their own comment in the original thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=586154
And first posted to hn by matmaroon also in 2009:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=588752
Sort of unrelated to the digging - the comments in the original thread on warner / lessig are pretty well balanced. Very little to no prescriptive law talk, which is the only law talk worth attacking from the perspective of the authority and knowledge of law and its application. There's nothing at all wrong with speculation around the outcome of dmca notices, using whatever legal knowledge you can dig up. It's not legal advice to either party. This goes doubly so in 2009 when all of this was much less understood. Seems like a pretty bad example case for the OP (OP).
Such a smart person who can "see it all" does not know that lawyers are paid by the hour so they have a pervasive incentive to take any case (even incluing lost ones) and milk those cases for as many hours as possible, since this earns them more money? Rest is "old man angry at the clouds" material.
> as I mentioned before, the attorneys in question are not retarded. please don't use terminology like 'retarded' in your article, we should be moving away from this as a whole
> We’re going to have to inoculate ourselves against Hacker News Disease and work on meaningful solutions together. No, you can't inoculate yourself from stupidity and ignorance. This applies to the author as well.
Stupidity is a perjorative term for an abundantly natural and ubiquitous state. Its results may be frustrating, but accepting the profound intellectual limitations of oneself and others is essential for emotional well-being.