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Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"

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Re: Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"

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Post by grosales »

mwexler wrote: post #110

Out of 101 comments, no one mentions that this site is hosting an illegal copy of an artist's work? I mean, sure, the whole book is great... but shouldn't we be having a bit of respect for someone's intellectual property and not linking to it? If Gorgorat.com has permission to print the book, or it's now in public domain, then I'm the first to say link to that pup... but I didn't see anything on the site to say this.…

I'd have to agree with you on this. I read this book last year (got one of my coworkers to read it too) and I was so surprised at how awesome it was that I got "What Do You Care What Other People Think ?" and "Tuva or Bust". Both are really good books because you get to learn more about Richard Feynman and the way he thought about different things ("Surely" is a unique gem though). This particular chapter prompted my attention and by trying to find references online, I ended up at gorgora.com. I didn't want to reference a place I was not sure of so I did not. In hindsight, I should have written a blog post about it. Fortunately, according to whois the site will soon be down (unless my intuition is wrong about what "pending renewal or deletion" means).

Re: Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"

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Post by travisp »

aerique wrote: post #127
mwexler wrote: post #110

Out of 101 comments, no one mentions that this site is hosting an illegal copy of an artist's work? I mean, sure, the whole book is great... but shouldn't we be having a bit of respect for someone's intellectual property and not linking to it? If Gorgorat.com has permission to print the book, or it's now in public domain, then I'm the first to say link to that pup... but I didn't see anything on the site to say this.…

The author's been dead for a while.

Ralph Leighton is not dead, and the copyright is Feynman and Leighton.

Feynman also has two children. Surely he is allowed to have his children benefit from his work after his death.

Re: Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"

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Post by [deleted] »

wallflower wrote: post #78
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not in the slightest. At the risk of destroying my chances of ever getting into YC (hi JL, PG, RTM et al!) I had astonishingly great luck with asking attractive women if they wanted to make out with me last Spring. Seriously: "hey, let's make out!" or "would it unduly offend you if I asked you to make out with me?" You're probably better off asking this sort of thing after conversing with them for a bit so you don't…

The shock & awe opener http://www.rsdwiki.com/index.php?title=SHOCK_and_AWE..._The_...

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Re: Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"

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Post by noarchy »

travisp wrote: post #132
aerique wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author's been dead for a while.

Ralph Leighton is not dead, and the copyright is Feynman and Leighton. Feynman also has two children. Surely he is allowed to have his children benefit from his work after his death.

> Surely he is allowed to have his children benefit from his > work after his death.

For how many generations?

Re: Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"

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Post by jhollandsworth »

ErrantX wrote: post #109
char wrote: post #9

The entire book (Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman) is amazing and hilarious. I highly recommend it for the HN crowd.

It's a wonderful anecdote, but where to begin.. I was pretty hopeless at the whole dating game till I read The Game and started to try it out; it was a brilliant read. But the bare truth of it is that it doesn't actually work all that well. Oh yeh sure you can be a PUA and grab some fairly shallow girls - but it's a bit boring to be honest (and your success rate is fairly low - you "win" by asking lots of women). The…

When reading any of the PUA stuff, you have to realize that the common threads are simply communicating effectively, having confidence, breaking out of your shell, and simply displaying YOUR personality in a fashion that makes you attractive.

I think the issue with a lot of people blindly following the advice and material is that they understand the science but don't understand the delivery. The things you learn here should help you out in ALL facets of life that involve social interaction. Mold them to fit your needs and you'll be set. Sounds like its worked for you!

Re: Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"

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Post by delano »

noarchy wrote: post #134
travisp wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ralph Leighton is not dead, and the copyright is Feynman and Leighton. Feynman also has two children. Surely he is allowed to have his children benefit from his work after his death.

> Surely he is allowed to have his children benefit from his > work after his death. For how many generations?

Until the content enters the public domain.

Re: Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"

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Post by darien »

delano wrote: post #136
noarchy wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Surely he is allowed to have his children benefit from his > work after his death. For how many generations?

Until the content enters the public domain.

Even as Congress continues to extend copyrights in order to prevent Disney characters from entering the public domain.

Re: Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"

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Post by timwiseman »

noarchy wrote: post #134
travisp wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ralph Leighton is not dead, and the copyright is Feynman and Leighton. Feynman also has two children. Surely he is allowed to have his children benefit from his work after his death.

> Surely he is allowed to have his children benefit from his > work after his death. For how many generations?

You touch on a good point. I think our copyright term in the US is far, far too long. But, until the copyright term is changed, it is the law and we should respect that, especially since most of the audiance on this site makes their living through IP of one kind or another.

Also, for this particular book, remember that the coauthor is alive, the primary author died fairly recently(1988) and this book wasn't published all that long ago(1985). So even if you agree with me that copyright terms are far too long, this one would probably still fall within one reduced to a reasonable time frame (I personally think the right number is around 25 years from first publication).

Re: Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"

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Post by timwiseman »

araneae wrote: post #66
jerf wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you upset because a man said it? "Math is too male and we need to come up with more female ways of teaching it" is a pretty standard feminist idea. In fact, replace "math" with a wide variety of things. Recall he's not working under modern PC strictures, not that he necessarily would have subjected himself to them anyhow. He gets to say it directly, not cloak it in endless verbiage. That said, I actually disagree…

I think that "math is what it is" is a false statement, at least in the way you intended it. The way math is represented is not at all inherent to mathematical structure (i.e. left to right, the characters you use, etc.) and I'm sure many procedures we use to solve math equations could be done in different ways (long division vs. short division, for example). It is possible that the way we represent math and the way…

If such a system could be created then it would be invaluable. It would help open up mathematics to literally half the population. That would help more advances to be made in mathematics, and it should be trivial to translate from one system to another once the two systems were created.

With all that said, I do not think it is true. I very much doubt anything about our approach to mathematics is inherently gender biased and as a current grad student in math I find the gender ratios in the classes I am taking are biased towards males, but only minutely. (5 males, 4 females in my Comp Func Theory class for instance, 6 males, 5 females in another I am taking).

While our representation and symbology is of our choosing, the concepts of mathematics are what they are and we must approach them on their terms if we hope to make progress.

Re: Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"

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Post by grinich »

mwexler wrote: post #110

Out of 101 comments, no one mentions that this site is hosting an illegal copy of an artist's work? I mean, sure, the whole book is great... but shouldn't we be having a bit of respect for someone's intellectual property and not linking to it? If Gorgorat.com has permission to print the book, or it's now in public domain, then I'm the first to say link to that pup... but I didn't see anything on the site to say this.…

Hackers and Painters is actually available on Scribd in its entirety.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/47180/Paul-Graham-Hackers-And-Pain...

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