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Richard James Geib
Personal blog · rjgeib.com/thoughtsphilosophywriting
Richard James Geib writes Richard Geib, a personal blog at rjgeib.com about philosophy and writing. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Richard James Geib's posts on George Orwell being shot, Bertrand Russell's 1962 letter to Oswald Mosley on communism, a le Carré–Rushdie–Hitchens exchange, and Windows system sounds.
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Welcome to the personal webpage of Richard James Geib of Ventura, California. On this site one can find inspirational verse and prose, as well as information about myself and my past. For over twenty years this has been a creative space for me to work out my thoughts and make sense of my life.
What Hacker News says?
Russell wrote a good essay on his thoughts about communism and Marxism as a non-Marxist socialist. [0] e.g. Some lines of note > The theoretical doctrines of Communism are for the most part derived from Marx. My objections to Marx are of two sorts: one, that he was muddle-headed; and the other, that his thinking was almost entirely inspired by hatred. and > I am completely at a loss to understand how it came about t…
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on “Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley (1962)”Submitted Rousseau VS Voltaire as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOn a similar note George Orwell got shot once in the Spanish Civil war. This article documents his thoughts on it - http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/soldiers/george-orwell-shot.h...
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on “Getting shot by a handgun”Speaking of le Carré, you might enjoy this exchange between Rushdie, Hitchens and le Carré in The Guardian: http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/burning/le-carre-vs-rushdie.h...
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on “Roald Dahl – the storyteller as benevolent sadist (2010)”Windows used to make a sound when shutting down too... This page has the files for the default system sounds for Win95. https://www.rjgeib.com/about-me/sounds/sounds95.html You can see that there was a sound when the trash was emptied or when you receive a new mail. This was really a different, simpler time. Imagine an open space where each computer make a sound each time you receive an email, even with a good spam…
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on “Ask HN: Why dont operating systems make sounds anymore”