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Violent Acres
Personal blog · violentacres.comculturephilosophy
Violent Acres is a personal blog at violentacres.com about culture and philosophy. Since 2007, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A personal blog covering relationships, dating, money and debt, and startup experience. HN commenters link posts on dating as competition, 'fuck you money', getting out of debt, and the Google/YouTube API trap.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
You Decide - Freedom or Servitude
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-26
What Hacker News says?
Yes, me too. Reading tip: http://www.violentacres.com/archives/345/adventures-in-volun...
Comment linking /archives/345/adventures-in-volunteering-part-2/
on “The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap)”Submitted Most People Are Depressed For a Very Good Reason as a story · 35 points
HN discussionI am done with talking about relationships. Since you brought up Violent Acres on the other post, I merely add that someone has put my thoughts into prose more eloquently at http://www.violentacres.com/archives/100/dating-is-competiti...
Comment linking /archives/100/dating-is-competitive-manipulation/
on “Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist”Submitted College will kill your entrepreneurial spirit: A 9 year old's foray into startups. as a story · 17 points
HN discussionYour assumptions about my relationship are pretty deeply unfounded--I've never been forced to visit her family, nor do I hate her friends, nor have I ever been forced to visit them. There's no "whipping" involved--I'm every bit as free as I care to be. It's not a question of power at all--we don't seek power over each other so much as we work hard to keep our autonomy while sharing our lives together. It's difficult…
Comment linking /archives/497/happily-ever-after/
on “Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist”Submitted Two Phrases That Destroyed American Culture [2006] as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYou guys all have your own definitions of 'fuck you' money, but for me this one has the best ring: http://www.violentacres.com/archives/41/fuck-you-money/ Some kind of collector is trying to extort money from her, so she, well, I don't wanna ruin it. But she uses the money in a very creative way.
Comment linking /archives/41/fuck-you-money/
on “Dilbert and Bogart On “F#(& You” Money”Submitted Improving Your Credit Score for Dummies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionViolentAcres actually had a good post about this a couple years ago: http://www.violentacres.com/archives/32/drastic-measures/ Part of the problem is that when you're in debt, you get stressed, and when you're stressed, you tend to get tunnel vision and not see all of the possible alternatives. But the alternatives are out there. There are immigrant families that come here with nothing, sleep on sacks of rice in the…
Comment linking /archives/32/drastic-measures/
on “How Americans Get Out of Credit Card Debt”Submitted Human Nature Makes People Assholes; Not the Internet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI was confused because I thought violentacrez was some how related to the now-defunct mommy-blogger-hating blog http://www.violentacres.com/ Just a coincidence, I guess. And that just goes to show you the danger of writing anonymously on the Internet, the next person to use the same nickname as you might be a drama-causing pedo. Does anyone know if there's some source for "violent acres / violet acres" that they're…
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on “Reddit Readies For ‘Inter-website War,’ Major Subreddits Ban Links to Gawker”Thanks for sharing the update! Perhaps scrolling the screen up and down a few zillion times will serve as a virtual means to rub up against you and hopefully have some of the "luck"* rub off on me. I've also been enjoying stuff on Violent Acres (clicky: http://www.violentacres.com/ -- also tripped across via HN just yesterday). Somewhere on there, she talks about voluntarily going homeless so she could pay off her c…
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on “Thanks HN: Goodbye, Golden Handcuffs (updated)”
