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toadstone | 15 years ago | on: Graduated with a Major in Startups

Yeah, there totally should be a class on how, as an slightly above average programmer, to use open source projects representing man-decades of work by geniuses and millions of dollars in corporate investment to avoid any technical challenges and slap together a website in a few weeks.

toadstone | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Palantir or Facebook?

What are you talking about? Palantir isn't reinventing government or finance, they are making extremely niche data analysis tools for the intelligence services and trading tools for wall street. If those institutions crumble, Palantir has no customers.

toadstone | 16 years ago | on: The MIT Guide to Avoiding Burnout

I went through cmu miserable. It's fine, suffering brings out the best in me. But I like that poem, and the thought that someone actually jumped does not ruin it for me. To jump is to escape, and that poem is a sweet reminder that you have that right.

toadstone | 16 years ago | on: Peace.facebook.com

Well, they aren't campaigning for peace ON Facebook, so I don't see why you think this is about equality in facebook itself. I don't see why equal in rights and opportunity is nebulous either. If you look at one of the contrasts on peace.facebook.com, Israel and Palestine, it's pretty obvious that the two populations are not equal in rights or opportunities and that this is the reason for the current strife in that region.

toadstone | 16 years ago | on: Peace.facebook.com

Equal in rights and opportunity, ok? I'm not proposing the kind of enforced universal mediocrity that I know you hacker news ubermensch are paranoid of. Of course everyone wants peace. The oppressed want a peace that is an end to injustice. The oppressor wants a peace where the oppressed will just shut up and take it.

toadstone | 16 years ago | on: Peace.facebook.com

I'd rather see a campaign for equality. That's not so bland and gets more to the heart of the matter.

toadstone | 16 years ago | on: I'm 20, brilliant and totally lost

I wasn't being flip. His head is full of mush and delusions. He is unsatisfied with his academic success, girls, and hobbies because they do not cast him as some kind of mythic hero. He needs to get rid of that illusion. Throwing himself into the army or a startup company would just be feeding it. Once he stops doing things only to aggrandize his self-concept, he might find something he actually finds interesting or beautiful and from that will spring endless energy.

toadstone | 16 years ago | on: What would it take for the people to buy back Congress?

The people do not currently vote in their own interest. Having them give $3/mo as well as their vote will not solve this. This project assumes that people are well informed enough to know whom to support. They are not, and that is why a campaign well funded by special interest is more effective at getting someone elected than giving the people what they need.
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