"Frankly, whenever I see anti-homeless boulders or spikes I think, 'good'. We should not be going out of our way to make it comfortable to be homeless," the hacker writes. "I would know, I went to a pretty well regarded private high school in California."

"Frankly, whenever I see anti-homeless boulders or spikes I think, 'good'. We should not be going out of our way to make it comfortable to be homeless," the hacker writes. "I would know, I went to a pretty well regarded private high school in California." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21900680#21901306)

posted on December 29, 2019 07:00 AM by u/sue_me_please

u/sue_me_please 27 points at 1577603006.000000

“While some toil away everyday and lose it all, I bumbled my way into a career as a highly paid computer toucher by accident thanks to my pretty well regarded private high school”, the hacker manages to continue in the same breath.

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u/DELETED 24 points at 1577606947.000000

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u/sue_me_please 10 points at 1577653210.000000

"[Given my background, I know better than the experts when I say that the true barriers homeless people face are opioids, meth, severe alcohol abuse in that order](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20770061)"

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u/Soyweiser 7 points at 1577667100.000000

Coke is not on that list as that just makes your javascript better. (The lack of empathy to people who simply have an addiction or a few mental health problems is really depressing. And the lack of understanding it isn't a drugs -> homeless with no future, or homeless with no future -> drugs issue but a deeply interlinked problem is another really annoying thing).

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u/Whisk3yTang0F0xtr0t 4 points at 1577859686.000000

All those words and yet no evidence this OP could make it from homelessness to his current state without a head start from daddy’s private school money. I can’t wait for it to be a status symbol for these kinds of people to attempt to “prove” they can adhere to their bootstraps philosophies so they either develop empathy in the process or just die.

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