Please quit judging upward. How many thousands of years have geniuses been hounded by those with smaller brains? How many great sorcerers, magicians, electricians and plumbers have been lost because of this thing where people think they have the right to speak confidently and negatively of men who are of higher caliber?
Maybe geniuses are kooky because of how outnumbered they are by irrational people? Or something else like that.
I don't like to defend a jerk anymore than the next person but I can play the devil's advocate here.
If he's a 10x developer he's going to be a genius. A genius is a person who sees the world in shades of grays. He can't help it. If he's of that caliber then it's built into how his brain works. The comment about him being both a 10x developer and someone who sees in black and white is generally off. However, if he's looking at the work of an average person or even just an above-average person, he will ten to be able to see stronger shades of grays than other people because of his high aptitude. This is possibly why he appears to be someone who sees in black and white.
Overall the author of the article borders on anti-intellectualism... which can easily veer over to anti-semitism.... the frequent opponent of Linus Torvalds.
The artifacts left in the ground will be around longer than the one put through your laboratory. The one left in the ground will be around for thousands of years. The one brought into your lab will be around for hundreds of years or less.
What you say is only so certain. You dont seem as quick to innovate as others. Why not put a building on top of it and add to its shelter? Everyone will react poorly to eminent domain. So what? Think about the variables.
Check out what I did in one commit several years ago. Maybe you can get a multi-million dollar idea from it like others have (meteor, app.js, etc)
Somehow people could change the internet to suit this project to fix everything. Single files of jquery on disparate servers that connect to one frontend could transform the web and undo the big problems.
I would like to comment on this but my account was killed. I said something in favor of the German ethnic group in a comment thread. I guess it was deemed too right of the far left attitude on HN.
As a German-Jew I feel like I've been unfairly bullied. I was just trying to level the world out. If you're a mod please fix my account. I have a good geopolitical understanding to provide to this thread, but what's the point if my account is dead or I make a new one and get it killed?
My account was ruined because I posted some things about politics that were right of center. I am a totally normal and good person. If you are a mod please take the time to restore my account, thanks.
Reasons to move are complicated. It's a mixture. When people make life choices they reasons are usually quite multi-faceted. Given this truth, it's important to examine all of the reasons and quantify them accurately without pushing your (anti-European, pro-European, or whatever) political agenda.
I'm going to risk my karma here by challenging readers with the contrary. Think long-term, value tradition, and our future as people.
The world says certain things. If I repeat these things, I put my own reputation at risk, even though I am just carrying a message.
Geeks are not finding their brides. They are not forming families and the average IQ is going down as a consequence. The women are not being taught to be helpers to the men enough, so much so that geeks are not successfully courting.
IMO, this is one of the most dangerous problems facing the world, because it means that in the future there might not be as many geeks.
I am generalizing for the people who don't have families because they see Germany being handed over to foreigners in the future. You do not agree with my opinion? That is fine.
But it is not xenophobic to say that people want to keep German families German. Did you know that China has less than a million immigrants in the entire country? Maybe it is time you respect your people, too. Your group of 4 sounds like some xenophile party.
With this article we have the sexual relations of Germans strewn about and we are expected to just sit back and let the whole world morph the demographics of a nation they aren't a part of. I don't agree with it.