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eelliott | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has anyone learnt to love art?

I'd love to know what drugs you tried, and your fav Kanye songs. I like his old stuff more, even the early mixtape stuff before college dropout, when he was a bit raw and battling his ego openly.

eelliott | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has anyone learnt to love art?

Hey mbrock,

Thanks for your great reply. I think I might read about Van Gogh and try to understand him now. I saw some of his paintings at the MET, my girlfriend was blown away but I was pretty meh at the time. Perhaps I can understand more from his words

eelliott | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has anyone learnt to love art?

I'm not sure if it's my 'interest' but the art that seems to interest me most is that with some kind of stated science/anatomy/geometry/clean lined architecture

eelliott | 8 years ago | on: Y Combinator Fall Tour 2017

It may surprise you to know countries outside the us have stable corporate laws. I'd hasten to add there's nothing stable about the us right now and I'd be reluctant to incorporate or HQ there

eelliott | 8 years ago | on: Y Combinator Fall Tour 2017

Do you still require foreign start ups to incorporate in Delaware? Doesn't that undercut boosting the local economy argument

eelliott | 8 years ago | on: Firing expected of Google employee who penned controversial memo on women

That's arguable. Do you mean the right to free speech as found in the US Constitution doesn't extend to the corporate sector? That's true, SCOTUS agrees thus far.

Does some right to free speech not sourced in law, but perhaps morality or elsewhere, or even rooted in democracy, extend anywhere? I think that's well arguable.

eelliott | 8 years ago | on: Firing expected of Google employee who penned controversial memo on women

I've noticed some people on Twitter, including Susan Fowler and Kara Swisher, saying free speech is only a protection against government intrusion and doesn't apply in the corporate sector. That seems to be mirrored in this article.

The only thing I'd say is that those people should think carefully. Denouncing and shrinking rights such as free speech and normalising their role as negative rights when it is convenient to do so will work against their agenda, and is in common with how people like Trump view other rights

eelliott | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Should I release my Computational Human library?

If I was you, I wouldn't want to help the drug companies without getting paid. But I would be interested to see how what you've written could benefit not for profit researchers?

I don't know much about the field, but if I was you I'd probably email Professor Eric Grimson at MIT and see if he has any suggestions how your library could be beneficially shared. He seems pretty nice and into this kind of stuff.

eelliott | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there any site outlining the key security concerns for web apps?

Thanks but that doesn't really cut through the noise. It's not really for dummies, it would be nice if there was a good UI site with simple explanations and solutions. I'm sure this will be decried as trying to simplify something which can't/shouldn't be simplified but it seems otherwise web developers largely stay ignorant

eelliott | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you grow from 100 to 1,000 users?

Hey cool idea, I've subscribed.

One feedback - when you press Subscribe it opens a new tab to take you through the Mailchimp flow. Considering there's not much value on the landing page, I think it's better to stay in that tab.

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