srbloom

It was already the case that no one reads the article before commenting. Soon it will be that no one writes the article either.

Seems like you need your accountant since you can’t count to three

This is super freaking cool. I'm curious how you feel about Austin vs Bay Area in terms of general quality of life, culture, things like that?

Would you have argued that the American civil war was recent in 1940?

Maybe all of these victims can get their wish of Wikipedia notoriety on a page called “List of victims of Wikipedia article scams”

Self-defense is violent, yes

You can drive to 8 national parks and monuments in half a day from SF.

Accurate. On one hand, we didn't want to fuel the fire, but on the other, that inflammatory article forced the attacker to reveal their hand. So it was actually to our benefit, strangely enough.

I think two key parts of what you said are "most people" and "normal people". This normativity is taken for granted here. Preference for terse messages is ultimately a matter of taste and I've yet to see evidence that one belongs to a clear majority.

"current" is more precise than "actual"

I like to think of dog training as programming an emotional computer. There are lots of similarities (breaking up problems into smal steps for one) and the payoff feels just as great.

Unfortunately it seems the lectures have been taken down.