AkThhhpppt

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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Even their specific design is pretty close to some old Mann hardware ( http://www.glogger.mobi/userpub2.php?username=mann&i=201... , which I've linked to...well, it's "below" currently). Never knew about that list; time for an archive t
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Even then: http://www.glogger.mobi/userpub2.php?username=mann&i=201...
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
...How? I mean, there's prior art all over: Steve Mann ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann ) has been doing this kind of thing since the '80s!
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Because they don't own enough paper books to be afraid of bookshelf collapse yet?
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Knock yourself out; I'm not in the US, I don't even know which side proposed it. I was just pointing out some benefits other than increased commissions, ones that could be observed from the scrappage scheme we had a few years ago.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
You're getting downvoted because you've just rephrased the "if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear" argument. Here, have a counterargument: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565&#3... ;
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
I'm not in the US. Over here, the idea of a car worth driving costing only 100 euros is ludicrous, and was so even before the local scrappage schemes took plenty of 10-years-or-older cars off the road. (100 euro cars used to be found; peopl
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
And air quality, and road safety. That kind of scheme is an incentive to lower the externalities of motoring - older cars burn more fuel, produce more pollution, and have less safety features.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
"Very likely to be" - yes, definitely. "Doomed to be" - not even nearly. There are blog communities I've been a part of that knock HN comments out of the ring, with zero friction to comment (a name and email address are required, but that e
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Trying to tell people pulling this crap is wrong isn't doing something?
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
If you need any ammunition to get it looked at more intently, here: http://www.identityblog.com/?p=1201
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
No, the 40 hour week was fought for - before there was ever a software industry. The 8 hour day and the weekend are union accomplishments.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
a) Not speaking German. b) Is there a job in Germany they can and will do? c) I'm in Ireland. There are currently >2 Spanish co-workers working within 20 feet of my desk.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Because obeying the (spirit of) the law is so incredibly onerous?
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
There is the slight issue that no matter what energy source we use, we need to reduce energy growth. Postulating a meagre 2.3% growth in energy use forever, we'll get the surface temperature of Earth to the boiling point of water in 450 yea
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
I refer the honourable commenter to Jumpcrisscross' comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3787375 , wherein they point out that to currency traders, Bitcoin's vulnerabilities have been known for a hundred years.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
It's all endurance hunting; it's a question of how quickly the prey is exhausted, not how long the chase goes on. See the difference between spotted hyenas (endurance) and lions (ambush). http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/an
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Um... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_hunting
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Ok: her colleagues disrespect her enough to ignore her request for them to stop doing something that makes her uncomfortable. Doesn't matter what the behaviour is, it should at least be addressed. Basic issue of respect for one's co-workers
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Yes, but satire has to be done well to work (see unalone's "We want" comment for an example). Auto-responding "that's what she says" isn't.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Whose definition, though? "It is argued that sexual objectification is a form of sexism" - http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Sexism
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
http://fuckyeahdisingenuousliberal.tumblr.com/post/180255328... *Yes, people are so sick of "but I'm being ironic" there's Tumblr memes about it.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
This is a comment to print out and keep handy to staple to people-who-don't-get-it's foreheads. Thanks.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Oh, well played. (",)
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Well said. And sorry for jumping up and down at you; hot-button issue, misunderstood your tenor.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Asking you to think about the makeup of your audience and to take their feelings into account is such an onerous task? We're not asking for Thought Police, we're looking for some bloody _politeness_. I, for one, advocate innovation in humo
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
And your qualifications for being able to make this decision for us all are? They wouldn't stop using the bot when she asked them to because it made her uncomfortable. It's been pointed out in these comments that she could have sued this co
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
We'd all like to think that. Unfortunately, there's a pretty widespread tendency to tell people who bring -ism issues to attention that they're Doing It Wrong, You Should Do It This Way That Wouldn't Upset Me Instead. So while they might be
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
And if that complaint results in the rule "no bots on IRC," she wins. She has co-workers who are ignoring how their thoughtless behaviour is impacting her, even after she's told them. She'd be entirely justified taking it to HR, but instead
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
So the one "funny" bot should be wasted on TWSS, which one of the team actively objects to? (And it is a waste: markov chain bots can provide moments of startling poetry. ",)

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