Sword_Monkey

Article gone :(

I think you should just accept how other people want to discuss things on the internet. If you can't handle the mainstream then find a niche were your own brand of 'intellectual' discussion is enforced by nazi moderation (don't take my Godwin's law descent as a bad thing, nazi-like moderation can be a good thing).

If Hacker News is evolving into something you don't like, then find somewhere else to discuss things. You have no right to complain that the place you've settled in isn't to your liking when you're on the internet. The reason why you don't have that right? Because you can just go the fuck elsewhere, seriously move on, settle somewhere else, see if it's to your liking, if you don't fit in don't whine about it, just move on again. Petty stuff.

You seem to know your way round words so I'd advise freelance writing. Submit a few articles to a few places that are relevant to your interests and fairly current. Naturally taking time to get a feel for the style on the site. Make sure the editors are aware that you're giving them free stuff as a good will gesture and are available for more content if they need it. You should be able to get to $300 this way fairly easily, but it may take some time for responses, and a few rejections if people don't like your writing, but eventually you'll get a few gigs, maybe some steady ones, for monthly, weekly articles.

If you think you can write something good enough (and it's not that hard to be better than 90% of the target audience) then it'd be a nice quick way of getting the cash.

That's hilarious.

If someone else is cc'ed in then people feel pressure to reply as they aren't just ignoring one person, there's a whole other person expecting a reply. Even if that person is someone they've never met, or know of.

I got defeated by the paywall. What's the jist of the article?

personality =/= birthday

Am I missing something here?

This is not a satisfactory experiment, at least from the article, which may be making the wrong conclusion from a study that doesn't make that claim itself.

The problem is that the Yupno could have a divergent mental makeup from other races. Or that early in their formative years Yupno kids replace the intuitive number line with the Yupno number system by way of example. The study's evidence is based on testing adults, and then makes conclusions on whether we're born with the knowledge or learn it young. You can't make that conclusion with that data set.

The premise may well be true, I won't knock it, but the article's claim is flawed. What may well just be a cool anthropology study on a divergent culture is possibly being warped into a sensationalist headline.

This is so dumb. If a business wants it's latest idea/product to be kept on the down low then you should just respect that. Don't get all high and mighty about it. A business is entitled to keeping its projects under wraps, its how they stay ahead of their competition. Otherwise other companies can just come in, develop their own version and even beat the other company to the punch. Imagine if video game studios had their projects leaked from day 1, or a big tech company. They'd find themselves surrounded by competing products as soon as they launch, if not before.

Sign the damn NDA, it's doing you no harm, and if it is, don't sign it and don't take your employer's money. (and grow up)

Looks like it drew influence from Thunderbird 2 to me, as well as Serenity.

Make a website offering a free service that a moderate amount of people would use/could be convinced to use. Monetise via ads, and bam passively fund yourself for a few months whilst the site rises and fades.

Amount of income depends on site design (probably quite good), type of subject site tackles (how much scope there is for a visitor checking the site to see related ads that they would then go on to click).

For instance a week or so ago one guy came along with a passive site that gave away simple, free gift certificate templates. He was getting a few hundred dollars every week. Not enough to live on, easily enough to just feed him, could be replicated for more income.

This is your busking. Dirty dirty ad revenue from sites that do stuff the common man would take hours doing themselves.

This is what I was thinking, and since this guy said it, I gave him an upvote. Now I'm not sure if I'm making a mockery of the system or falling for it...