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Actually that is the whole problem, I don't have time for doing something offline.
So what would be some hobby offline, something which takes me far away from my computer and the Internet. I think I can pick something up from this thread.
2) I think you do not get the concept of Offer HN.
"Government needs money to run. They have to develop infrastructures and pay salary of public servants. Also they have to provide welfare to under privileged and subsidies to student communities and such. They cannot just print infinite number of notes so they have to take money from the current cash flow. The cash flow here means things like purchases, salaries, revenue, real estate etc. Now, to do that they have to decide how much to take from whom. They cannot take a fix amount as not every mode of cashflow would be viable with that fix amount. So they decide how much to pull from where. Thus on income we have income tax. But that too is not fixed. You pay depending upon the size of your income and nothing else. Thus ideally, the rich pay more and poor pay less. On the other hand, you have things like sales tax, where the government takes a fixed percentage of all the sales made by a company.
In short the government takes some amount of your money each time you make a transaction... well most of the times. But rest assured, your money comes back to you. The government gives it back in terms of infrastructure or services or carnivals or social security or things like that."
I know this is not perfect, nor is it what happens in the real world. But this is what should happen I think.
Really? Is the bottom half really that dumb? Or people just choose to ignore things which are not immediately of there need. I completed that book and though it was a great read, I wouldn't say I know much more than a person who has a CS degree.
You see, on HN we try to explain what we are saying and don't take much on face value. Also a two word comment is usually replaced by an upvote.
When you submit something to HN, it is judged, no matter what. HN people are analytical and like to break things and analyse the system.
1) There is no karma system so there is no ranking based on quality. You can say that the number of likes can be considered as karma, but that does not rank comments or links.
2) Though people there can be considered civil, not all of the comments are particularly interesting. I come to HN as 80% of the conversations make me go "OMG, I never thought of it that way". That didn't happen here. But again I just looked at a small sample.
3) I don't care how many members you have, you may have 10 or 10,000 the question is, how many of them are actively contributing at least mediocre quality content. Judging by the profile pics I see, it cannot by more than 40 and that too is a conservative count.
Please do that, some people are dying to see some of the stuff that goes under the hood. Of course things like hell banning may not be released, but some of the ranking and "ask" page stuff would be awesome to look into.
The effect this question has on people is because they remember some information which most of the users today don't know as they have never used that technology. So what technology of today will become so obsolete that you would remember your age?