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Can't tell if no-tech education is actually better, or just the result of the pendulum swinging back the other way.

“Don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eUmxGqsuKmY

With the appropriately-tuned hate-filter you wouldn't get to defend your idea and have a discussion, you would just be de-platformed.

Why doth [the suppression of uncomfortable opinions] never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

From the other responses here, I like the 'its the guns' answer the best, as it has likely led to police treating every interaction as a possible life and death scenario. This is likely to be it.

But, there's a possible other culprit too, that I never noticed before the recent divisions in the populace due to politics, and that is the politization of policing. Now, I could be conflating cause and effect here, but wouldn't it be interesting if the reason we are culturally nervous of the police is that we have been told to be that way by mainstream influences. Just a thought, and I'm happy to have it all backwards.

The difference, of course, is that it may be under oath, and you can purjure yourself before congress.

That means what you think you know from things you read in the media might actually not be as truthy as what is said when someone has to sit down before a body that has the power to criminalize dishonesty.

And its an important tool for government. There are very public scandals that the people want answers for. You may say it fits nicely with the expectations of office that elected officials might get to the bottom of things that may effect large groups of their constituents.

On the far end of the scale, if you always answer, "Would you like to help us carry this heavy stuff down these stairs?" with "No, in fact I would loathe that, but I will comply in order to maintain the social bonds that are necessary to sustain my chemically-driven life functions for the long term."... then that will be problematic for your relationships.

I'm like you, I say yes often, and I'm honest about how excited I am to do it... but it comes at a social cost.

Sometimes its better to fake it and be nice, even when you're bad at faking it.

I worked for a small web-consulting agency for 3 years that allowed me to be a part of everything from the sit-down consultation with the client, to the estimation of engineering effort, to the design/build, and to the demo and support of the production version. Its not a given to have this access and you generally have to ask for it, but it is available to you if you ask.

Pros: I learned how to listen to customers, create proposals that tend to close, and upsell... all while being able to build the end product. This has helped me to close a good number of side projects after I moved back to working for larger companies.

Cons: The challenge working as an engineer in these small firms is that your resources are limited to the budget of the customer, which can be too small to do top-notch engineering work. You can generally find the balance without sacrificing too much quality, but you will never be completely satisfied with your work-product.

I guess if you insult one commenter you get downvotes, but if you insult half of the population no one bats an eye?

Cornfielding good discussion looks terrible on you HN. Please stop.

Ha, right, no upgrade needed in that version... but eventually I did upgrade and recommend it to others, due to the generosity of the honor system they put in place in that version. Loved the software. Wait, maybe that was Winzip. Both were great.

They closed our small, remote office of 20 people. Work going overseas to the (now) main development office in eastern Europe, where salaries are 1/3 of ours (not even SV wages).

Ended up getting paid more at a new company, so it worked out.

Or more abstractly: influencers and followers. What makes them trolls, exactly?

Also, no surprise things die down after an election, since it’s not the hot topic anymore.

I want to know more...

I’m not comparing it to the cost of renting, I’m simply saying that when I sell my home for $200,000 having bought it in the 1970s, at best it will be nearly break even.

I think once you factor in property taxes for all of those years, it’s pretty close to a wash.

Can you elaborate on your reasoning?

See, now this lends some credence to the idea that the oils can have any (medicinal or other) effect at all... which up to this point I found highly suspect.

It’s a great new meme opportunity, and you’re on the ground floor. Get in while you can.

"Resource Limit Is Reached"... Wow, this guy really practices what he preaches.

But, seriously, why not use Blogger. Operates at Google scale, absolutely free.

I'll probably setup a Slack channel for those interested in talking more about this. I'm not part of the program yet, but very interested in it, and I'd be happy to meet you if you have similar interests. btwelchy_gmail

I saw your work on Reddit earlier today[1], nice.

I was thinking of building a mobile app to track movement and show this same data. Can't decide if its a passing fancy or not, so, maybe just a free idea for you. :)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/5m5tj9/cou...

The biggest lump sum I received was for selling a house we had purchased as a hud repo. After fixing it up, we got a nice profit, plus we didn't have to pay capital gains taxes on the profit since we had used it as our primary residence for enough years.

I believe I know more people who make good, consistent money from on-the-side real-estate transactions than people who make 5-figure yearly bonuses.

Another way to say this is that the normally-presumed cause/effect relationship is actually backwards here. I.e. If you aggregate the outputs of industry over a long enough period, higher wages cause higher productivity and not visa versa.

This is a fun thought-experiment.

In this question I saw one of the classic agnostic lines of thought which is "If there is a God, why would he care about us at all? Why would he care what we think, say and do? We can't be the center of the Universe. We can't be the focus of all creation. That's just hubris."

I love this question, because its humble, searching, sincere. Why does God want our praise? He, or any deity, is far far above it. Why go through all this trouble creating this elaborate mess just to talk to a bunch of specks of protein. None of it, none of Christianity made sense to me. The purpose behind it all. Its just stupid.

But there it was in Ephesians 2:7, God's reason. I was relieved because it is a selfish reason. I couldn't stand the idea that God is just love love love... it was just giving and getting nothing in return. And it didn't reflect the Jehova of the Old Testament. But Ephesians says he did it for the glory. Who's going to be the witness of that? What peer-group or other beings would God point to and say "There I did it, I'm amazing."? I have no clue. However, this is so refreshing to me, because it shows that God is possessive and jealous, and very much like us, who were "made in his image".

But, I have to agree with agnostics... humans are far from the center of the universe. God is. Its his game. His strange, fearsome, terrible, wonderful work.

Great question honestly. Apparently this is an outcome that is greatly valued by Jehova. That's the best I can do. Eternity future is almost as vaguely addressed as eternity past.

In the specific case of Jehova, Eph 2:7 addresses this question: "So God can point to us in all future ages as examples of the incredible wealth of his grace and kindness toward us, as shown in all he has done for us who are united with Christ Jesus." -NLT

I'm not so sure. Business and recreational travel, which I'm guessing is most of Lyft/Uber's business, accounts for a very small portion of all travel. This however, attempts to unlock business in all point-to-point travel... which is monstrous.

I would certainly join if the network effects were similar to that of Facebook and hitching a ride was a simple affair.

Yes. If you Google "slack ycombinator", you'll see the original title in the results (as of 12:26 PST). Edit: also, as another commenter said, it was merged.

"We're not monkeys."

True, but we are often driven by biological influences that cannot altogether be considered "reason".

>> it's not "dishonorable" to fight for segregation or for limiting opportunity based on race

Fighting for advantages, being the disadvantaged, is simply the other side of the coin, behaviorally, from the advantaged holding on to their advantages.