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Not totally damning, but 10 seconds more would reveal that "lynching" is named after his younger brother: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lynch_(judge)
OK, but the younger brother moved away from the area that would be called Lynchburg even before it was named that. The town is not named after the crime and the crime is not named after the town.
I genuinely expected this article to contain a single sentence that read, "stop reading hacker news at work".
Don't tell me how to live!
Are there any tools that allow you to enforce such things as 'internet only in the afternoon'? I would pay a ridiculous amount of money for a router that could disable access to certain websites according to time based or usage based rules and something equivalent for my phone. I would build it myself but I'm always just too damn distr...
Quit HN
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Mario is finite, bounded. The edges are clear. You pay once, and there’s no other way for Nintendo to extract money from you. No single player is a mark. There are no whales. In Mario you can not only see the end but get there. My favorite games to play on my phone are those made by Square Enix. Final fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, lots of classic remakes. They range from $6.99 to $20.99, which made people ba…
> Once again, cheap is better than free. Pay a few dollars and never get bothered again by ads or pay-to-play, but most importantly, you don't feel like you're being manipulated by a never-ending game that starts to feel much more like work than play. But old school/classical ff games always have that grinding and levelling part where it also feels more like work than play. Games from before were also designed to be…
Admittedly off-topic, but why add unnecessarily ignorant asides (in the first sentence to boot): "...I lived on the grounds of an old estate down in central Virginia, next to a town called — terrifyingly — Lynchburg..." ...when a 10-second Google search reveals the less-than-terrifying reality: First settled in 1757, Lynchburg was named for its founder, John Lynch, who at the age of 17 started a ferry service at a fo…
Presumably to create mood and context for his story. He's telling a story not publishing a research paper, a little creative license is appropriate.
This is more honest when it doesn't involve an unrelated (especially negative) connotation.
If I had two points to up-vote a story, I'd give it to this story.
I have always been in the fight to maintain attention. I can remember cutting the wires to a radio to maintain focus, studying for school. For me the question I ask is, "How do I work on the Internet, but not be sucked down the addictive ^attention^ sucking black-hole?". This article is looking for this balance. [0]
[0] I also note, pg updated his article "Disconnecting Distraction" noting the techniques he thought would work, do not. http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not totally damning, but 10 seconds more would reveal that "lynching" is named after his younger brother: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lynch_(judge)
OK, but the younger brother moved away from the area that would be called Lynchburg even before it was named that. The town is not named after the crime and the crime is not named after the town.
And yet, the crime is named for the brother of the man that the town is named for.
Pardon the metaphor, but you're hanging on a pretty thin thread.
Also note that burkaman was pointing out the irony of an insufficiently researched (and churlish) accusation of insufficient research.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
OK, but the younger brother moved away from the area that would be called Lynchburg even before it was named that. The town is not named after the crime and the crime is not named after the town.
> The town is not named after the crime and the crime is not named after the town And yet, the crime is named for the brother of the man that the town is named for. Pardon the metaphor, but you're hanging on a pretty thin thread. Also note that burkaman was pointing out the irony of an insufficiently researched (and churlish) accusation of insufficient research.
So guilt by association is a thing now?
