Hacker News Reader

HNHacker News

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by Err_Eek | Hacker News Reader

Full thread

Err_Eek·

This reminds me a lot of that "wear sunscreen" chain mail

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen

These folksy wisdom thingies, especially from accomplished people, come off as patronizing to me.

View on HN

Advice #1: "• Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even offend you. See if you can find the truth in what they believe."

I will make sure never to get myself in a land war in Asia

Why? Are you American? The European powers have won many land wars in Asia over the centuries.

Nothing in recent history; you're probably thinking of the colonizers, there was a much bigger power and technology skew back then. And I'm mainly thinking of India there; they only really managed to colonize Hong Kong in China for example.

disclaimer: not a history buff

In China you have Macau, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tianjin and Kunming were all either explicitly or implicitly under the control of European Powers and those are just the one's off the top of my head, then you have Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Borneo, Myanmar, Singapore (the list goes on and we are only in East Asia) that were all under Western control until the 20th century

Actually I'm European. Though on European powers winning land wars in Asia -- I think it's a question of what are the boundaries of Europe, both in time and in space. And Kevin Kelly was wise not to get into that debate.

Majorly in 19th century, when the west industrialized first.

Advice #0: "Sometimes if it sounds like bullshit, it is bullshit"

Here's a full refund.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com