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Comment · 6 years ago
The fact that society isn’t perfect doesn’t dispel my point.

It’s easy to dispel any argument by hand waving and saying “but look at all these other problems therefore you’re wrong!”

I stand by the assertion that 60/70 years ago western society had a more unified sense of what is right and wrong.

No doubt there were some major missing elements of that but the point stands.

Comment · 6 years ago
People don’t care because he’s “a bad guy”.

That’s where we’ve got to.

Trouble is people aren’t brought up with an understanding of how things should be in a fair and just society. They’re brought up with some mucky mixed up perception that the world is some mashup of Hollywood and what the media says.

There’s no moral compass for society any more.

My personal take is he’s some sort of weird Russian asset and he’s a net negative for our way of life but I still think he deserves the full protection of the law at every single stage. He shouldn’t be sold out and abandoned by society.

It sounds twee but my mother brought me up to care about other people, the less well off and to care about what’s right and justice for all. I think “we’ll theres an awful lot of people in this world who didn’t have my mother. What did they learn?”

Comment · 6 years ago
I’d like to see a plain text browser with javascript and minitel / teletext style graphics.

Maybe it could be good for accessibility .... the concept of making modern websites into plain text just doesn’t work very well (I.e Lynx).

Comment · 6 years ago
How is that even allowed/possible?

Quora is the one site I actively choose never to log in to.

Comment · 6 years ago
It’s fiction, not a documentary.
Comment · 6 years ago
I heard about a body found in the woods because some unusual plant was growing, germinated from a seed inside their stomach.

Probably apocryphal but hey.

Comment · 6 years ago
How to get clients.

Or put another way, how to have a business.

The hardest question of all.

As Paul Graham says sell something people want.

Comment · 6 years ago
Lots of things matter but nothing matters without relationships.
Comment · 6 years ago
Sometimes it takes writing software and modifying it to even discover what your idea is.

It’s like painting.

Comment · 6 years ago
>> No one knows the right answer

Hmmmm. Be careful about this. Lots of people do know the right answer.

Youth energy and enthusiasm count for a lot, especially backin the earliest days of computing like when bill gates got started. That was because adults knew very little.

> Experience is only loosely correlated with age

These days age and experience count for a lot. Lots of older people have incredibly valuable answers to common challenges in competing and business.

Comment · 6 years ago
I’d respect Reddit more if it simply said “Reddit on mobile is only available via our app”.

At least then I wouldn’t feel in a world of sleazy manipulation.

Comment · 6 years ago
Please list specific actual links where people say that classes are better.

I love hooks.

Comment · 6 years ago
That’s what The Simpsons episode is about.
Comment · 6 years ago
I would have thought giving a customer a faster than spec product isn’t a terrible sin.
Comment · 6 years ago
These giant companies employ/stockpile vast numbers of elite programmers who they don’t really need.

So they build other things. Nice work if you can get it.

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