citrusynapse
citrusynapse on Hacker News
Do you see the irony in your first statement?
Or have you already resolved to believe that person is your "some people"?
You are going to get a lot of people telling you that you're a libertarian nutjob. Even here, which touts itself as a bastion of internet privacy champions and "experts".
But you, you're walking the walk. Asking the hard questions and accepting the consequences. There is only one way to make things change.
Don't let any little pedants tell you "how your daughter is going to grow up", either. Or that they somehow know how she'll feel about you.
FWIW: my kids have SSN's and that is just as dangerous as what you've chose.
It starts with "I can assume what this person is about to say". Because you can project how the conversation will go (You're in "good company" - family, friends, hackernews colleagues - you are all used to linguistic shortcuts as well)
The reality of what they say differs from how you imagined it. Maybe it was close, but they participated new information, so now you feel the urge to contribute as well. Add your own perspective.
You are now suddenly in an arms race with the other person to find the "correct perspective".
"What I'm hearing is, there's a vacuum in the market for giraffe re-cabling services."
But those are a man's most intimate treasures, you can't have other people basking in your curated radiance.
No, he's too busy making genuinely useful comments. Why don't you try it?
Those are quarks, judging by their observed behavior of self-assembling into Unicode for the bacteria emoji.
And within epistemology and your process of "verifying" there are hundreds of contemporary schools of thought from Wittgenstein to Chbosky.
I have astoundingly profound whiplash from reading your comment before reading the article, then coming back to your comment again.
If you're anywhere near El Cajon I know a guy that'd teach you for free/some odd work around the shop
Lurkers make the best commenters, because they only come out of the woodwork for something they're passionate about.
It's all one big ecosystem, and I quite like this corner of the reef
Steven King's lesser known From A Buick 8 is a surprisingly good slow-burner that has one of my favorite depictions of extradimensional creatures to date.
"Remember to buy our official chargers. Here are some ads from third party sponsors."
Holy hell this hit hard.