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Re:Show HN: I Made an Open-Source Laptop from Scratch by koverstreet on Thursday January 23, 2025 @01:21PM (#42806449)
Discipline and obligation refer to things that materially matter to the people around us, and to society - not rote memorization of pointless facts.

And intelligence is just as much about identifying and applying effort towards useful goals - your "if you're so smart" is anything but.

Re:Show HN: I Made an Open-Source Laptop from Scratch by makerdiety on Thursday January 23, 2025 @02:13PM (#42807023)
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Re:Show HN: I Made an Open-Source Laptop from Scratch by koverstreet on Thursday January 23, 2025 @03:09PM (#42807570)
I think that's a poor way of framing it.

If the work is genuinely worthwhile, and the people who do it are respected, there will be people to do it.

Teaching people to suffer through work without any apparent reason - that's something capitalist society wants, not liberal democracy.

Re:Show HN: I Made an Open-Source Laptop from Scratch by makerdiety on Thursday January 23, 2025 @03:40PM (#42807841)
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Re:Show HN: I Made an Open-Source Laptop from Scratch by dang on Thursday January 23, 2025 @03:56PM (#42807970)