Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: I would rather drink piss like Bear Grylls than log in with Facebook
Yeah, but you're probably the only one who's account is connected to both of those and some other places you've been at various times. Or? (I don't really know what I'm talking about.)
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: I would rather drink piss like Bear Grylls than log in with Facebook
Me, but they have your data anyway cause of your ip. It's more so that they won't suddenly start posting my spotify playlists or whatever.
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars
But why did people leave cities to begin with? Street crime was an important factor.
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: BBC confronts Facebook troll
The situation is analogous to the difference between the immune system of someone with limited exposure to all the normal diseases of western civ (f.ex. theo-facists, nazis, white supremacists) and someone brought up with sterilized everything and an instant antibiotics cure if he sniffs once.
EDIT: Not saying that murderous leftist radicals can't do damage, but the west's left has mellowed.
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: Over the Hill at 35
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: Over the Hill at 35
He's british though, movement of college educated professionals from london to new york creates very little (if any) downward pressure on wages, working conditions etc. Movement from Bangalore to New york, on the other hand, might.
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: Waking up at 5am to code
This is a great idea. Probably doesn't require any groundbreaking technology either. Dear internet, please make this.
EDIT: An iphone app that let's people call and text each other as their profile name (anonymously) would probably lower the barrier to sign up for something like this.
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: The Rise of the New Groupthink
What makes you think the bathroom practices are unrelated to communism? It's called totalitarianism for a reason...
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: The Rise of the New Groupthink
Why are you being so unpleasant? Viewing a desire for bathroom privacy as reactionary is characteristic of the whole set of ideals related to the
new soviet man.
"Who needs a "1"?
The voice of a "1"
is thinner than a squeak.
Who will hear it?
Only the wife...
A "1" is nonsense.
A "1" is zero."
--Soviet Poem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Soviet_man#Selflessness
EDIT: And yes, the unrealistic dream of building a society of new soviet men is central to the failure of communism. Hayek's criticism of a planned economy is valid but a hypothetical society of very altruistic people could make it work much, much better than it ever did in practice.
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011
CAVEAT: I'm only familiar with Marx from second hand sources.
I'm inclined to give Chomsky the benefit of doubt here. As a small l libertarian I can totally relate to the idea of ruling elites who falsely claim to share your ideals but are actually in politics for money, sex and ego stroking.
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: Nerds and Male Privilege
Helianthus is right. There's something about nerd culture that makes an inflexible and dogmatic adherence to the current intellectual fads very common. Curiously, the most hilariously unpc writers I've read do or have done computer stuff too.
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: Man with multiple degrees fails standardized test for children
The tone of this post is horribly condescending, I feel embarrassed for you. This is the kind of stuff I read HN to avoid.
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why
How many average human lifespans is 1.6 billion hours?
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: Norway: an Eden with wifi
Nope, that "we could buy sweden" stuff is just embarrassingly boorish nationalism, or a joke at the expense of boorish nationalists. Everything being equal (and it pretty much is) Norwegians will be marginally richer than swedes and danes as long as the oil money lasts. Marginally being the operative word. (I'm Norwegian)
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: The Best Of Nigerian Music
I don't know how to flag posts, but if I could, I would.
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: How to lose time and money
You missed the point of the essay, playing cards or watching tv is compared to spending money on luxuries and doing busywork is compared to investment. The first two probably won't respectively take up ALL your time at the office or bankrupt you because they are both obviously BAD FOR YOU (in excess). The latter two can be perniciously compelling, even though they might respectively bankrupt you or waste all your time, because you're more easily fooled (by yourself or others) into thinking they're worthwhile.
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: Innovation is almost entirely absent
If the big companies don't have to pay for the mess they make, that's not a free market maximum. It's the typical incestuous government/corporate elite exploitation of the masses.
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: Why do Programmers get paid less than Project Managers or Business Analysts?
I think they shouldn't (upvoted all of them for balance) the analogy is valid and ought to be obviously so. Programming is not the only industry where the best "craftsmen" often make less than the "middlemen", that's a very common pattern.
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: Why You Should Move To Berlin
I see. The brits could probably get agreement X that allows norwegians to live in Berlin although they aren't EU citizens.
Selvik
|
14 years ago
|
on: Why You Should Move To Berlin
Norway's not a member of the EU but it's still part of Schengen. I bet the right to live in Paris/Berlin/Amsterdam/etc. will remain yours irrespective of what happens to UK EU membership.
