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siderea.livejournal.com is a personal blog at siderea.livejournal.com about economics and culture. Since 2013, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Classism in America”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link siderea's essays on social class, the 'asshole filter' idea, and software as specifying the behaviour of inanimate objects. The class essay is repeatedly recommended as a starting point.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Classism in America7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2016-01-30
- What Software is Made Of5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-11-01
- The Asshole Filter5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-01-22
- The Asshole Filter3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-11-28
- Breaking down the difference in economic class and social class in America3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-14
- What Software is Made of2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-03
What Hacker News says?
No. Here's a good resource if you want to read up on how class works in the US: https://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html
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on “Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare”Submitted Classism in America as a story · 307 points
HN discussionIt's the easiest thing in the world to set up an Asshole Filter where you only get to interact with people who are willing to transgress the boundaries you set. https://siderea.livejournal.com/1230660.html Now, sophisticated consumers of minimum requirements will know that these aren't necessarily meant to be taken seriously and that ignoring them isn't really transgressing boundaries. But that's still filtering out…
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on “Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements”Submitted What software is made of as a story · 68 points
HN discussionThis post on social mobility. It really made me think about where I came from and how different it is from my wife and why we are comfortable in different situations. More specifically, the post explains the difference in Social Class and Working Class and how we often conflate those two things when in discussion. We often talk about “lower”, “middle” and “upper” classes, but the author proposes that those are actua…
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on “Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?”Submitted The single most dangerous foolishness that can beset an organization as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThe first link in that blog, siderea[0] is exactly where I first learned about social class. Definitely worth a read. [0] https://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html?format=light
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on “Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education”Submitted The Archipelago of Weird (2005) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionAnd there's the danger that by having your requirements too tight you've inadvertently created a asshole filter[1]. >An asshole filter happens when you publicly promulgate a straitened contact boundary and then don't enforce it; or worse, reward the people who transgress it. [1] https://siderea.livejournal.com/1230660.html
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on “You Only Need 50% of Job “Requirements””Submitted What Software is Made Of as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt's entertaining how far we in the states go in denying we have classes. Some years back a blogger tried to cook up a taxonomy of our class system. Since we don't have words to describe them he adopted archaic Indian terms instead. Brahmins are the NY/CA elite, Vaisyas are the Trump voting worker caste, etc. https://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/castes... Other writers have recognized and described…
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on “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)”Submitted Class(American) as a story · 4 points
HN discussion"Class" http://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html?format=light or a Slate Star Codex summary: "Staying Class" http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/30/staying-classy/ About the differences between economic class and social class. An example question to consider: why are electricians and plumbers less respected than university professors even though they often make far more money?
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on “Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?”Submitted The Asshole Filter as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> But if it did that, there might be target architectures where the code that would need to be generated to check for that case would have a 300% performance overhead See my sibling reply down-thread. You don't want the compiler to automatically insert the check; but neither do you want the compiler to assume you want to not insert the check. You want the compiler to error out until you tell it whether or not you wa…
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on “The Problem with Friendly C”Submitted Trump Supporters lie on one side of the two Human Morality Groups as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt puts a damper on attention in general, but the attention that is less dampened is precisely the unwanted attention. Think about it. A considerate well intentioned person might mistakenly overcompensate and give too little attention to female colleagues, while an inconsiderate person who doesn't care about gender politics will keep doing what they were doing all along. The result is that the ratio of unwanted/want…
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on “A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women in tech”Submitted Economic Class vs. Social Class as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm reminded of Siderea's excellent essay: "What Software is Made Of" https://siderea.livejournal.com/1241996.html > A computer program is a specification of the behaviors of an inanimate object. And since inanimate objects, definitionally, do not have behaviors of their own, every single one of those behaviors specified in a computer program – and every single aspect of every one of those behaviors – has to be deli…
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on “Ask HN: How do you overcome decision fatigue in software development?”Submitted What Software is Made Of as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere's a good discussion on this: http://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html?format=light
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on “Everybody Thinks They're Middle-Class”Submitted The Asshole Filter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYour story is another fantastic example of how social class is culture, and that money alone isn't enough to advance from one social class to the next, you have to be able to put on the performance of the higher class as well, which is something you simply have to learn. I highly recommend this piece about social class in the US: http://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html?format=light
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on “What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school? (2015)”Submitted Breaking down the difference in economic class and social class in America as a story · 2 points
HN discussionExtremely strict regulations can function as an asshole filter[1] where only people who intend to bypass the rules somehow get involved in bidding. [1] https://siderea.livejournal.com/1230660.html
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on “Why Are Canadian Construction Costs So High? (2018)”Submitted Where Geek Girls Come From as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis "theory of jerkodynamics" as you call it was actually fleshed out in this great post: http://siderea.livejournal.com/1230660.html > ...If you unwittingly have been repelling non-assholes, you will get the impression that everyone is an asshole, because you're still surrounded by plenty of people, but everyone left – that is everyone you come into contact with – is, in fact, an asshole. > ...An asshole filter is…
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on “How to Tell If You’re a Jerk”Submitted Where Geek Girls Come From as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's because they are middle class. If they were upper class or working class, they would not think of themselves as such. Income does not determine social class. Do yourself a favour and read the essay on class linked to elsewhere in this thread: http://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html?format=light
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on “What’s Behind the Ballooning Upper Middle Class? Education”Submitted Chocolate Ice Cream as a story · 2 points
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