CathedralBorrow

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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Wait, I thought we were talking about kindness after they pulled the plug and backtracked on everything. How am I being taken advantage of if I read that letter and think "Well, good for them to finally realize things and take the righ
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Fair enough, thanks for clarifying. Now, when you say that you read their comment that way... did you truly read it that way? Do you actually believe that brown9-2's position is that everything that is said in marketing messages is tru
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
What's the penalty for looking too kindly at somebody in this context?
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
What exactly is true? That remote working is always better in all conceivable scenarios and that anyone saying anything else is stupid and wasteful and probably smells too?
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
This seems weirdly combative and aggressive. The original question was "I don't know why people think Slack is a remote working tool" so I'd say a legitimate answer would be "Well they say so themselves in their mar
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> Obviously we won't decide who is "right" here in a forum. Is there any debate to be had about that anyway? From what you've written here, you are right and everyone who thinks otherwise clearly hasn't thought t
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Effort, time, unlearning workflows and re-learning them in Firefox, etc. Switching costs would probably have been a better term to use.
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Are you including the change cost here, which will be many times higher for most of the population vs. HN? Even if I thought that Firefox was a better choice, I'd recommend to my friends and family to keep using whatever they are using
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
What was the "other side" of leftpad? As far as I remember, the broken system wrought havoc, not the developer who chose to withdraw his modules. I don't think the developer's reasons are much relevant when discussing ho
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
In what world is this human interest piece an attack on Elon Musk? Is any non-fawning coverage a hit piece?
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Yeah, what a weird "solution" to be okay with. Wonder if they'd be as okay with repeating a workday because their hours weren't logged due to a system error.
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Everyone can look at a pen stroke and identify the color. Can you say the same about a photo and identifying the file format?
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> Ok, first of, why should I (as an institution) care about the people unable to fulfil the conditions of my test? Maybe you (as an institution) care about all your students?
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
If it doesn't matter if you miss a hire or not, why would you be going through the effort of buying a large fancy salmon and shipping it to the candidate? You could just not do that and not care about the ones you miss since they don&#
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
If all publishers, persons and organizations are censoring everyone who is not allowed to use their platform/property to express whatever they want... then it seems to dilute the meaning of censorship into nothingness.
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> what I am trying to say is that if someone believe he was transphobic, then it would be enriching of the conversation if they took care not to use the fact that he is making that distinction as an argument for that statement Yes, I thi
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> Agree or disagree with that I believe it is (still) important to be able to express that concept without being transphobic I fully agree with this. But if he is viewed as transphobic then surely that falls flat?
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Where are you drawing that line, I'm really curious. Can you put me live on Zoom in your house so I can talk about things I like? If not, are you participating in censorship?
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
I dont know, I'd say the front line of the battle is things like transgender persons having 9x the suicide rate of the general population. Is that a war that looks won to you?
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> And we all end up worse off. That's a bold and simple claim about complex interactions. Can you support this position at all or is it more like a conviction you have?
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
I respectfully disagree that "we should" do what you would prefer to happen. Contact tracing is not a privacy issue here.
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Iceland does not have the Patriot Act or anything like it, so I'm not sure how that's relevant here.
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Ah, thanks. Iceland is whatever you call the opposite of that. Grandma very rarely lives with her family, she lives by herself -- hopefully with her partner -- until she is unable to and then moves into a system that ranges from living-alon
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
To be fair, the app was released at the tail end of the infection curve so there wasn't much pandemic to affect anymore. Could be useless, but I don't think this was a good test to generalize with.
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Iceland has done quite fine through this with contact tracing as one of the main tools in the toolbox. I think a blanket statement of "not needed" needs something more behind it.
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> multi-generational homes Can you clarify what you mean by this?
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
I don't think this kind of comment is obligatory, really.
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Couldn't these two situations be viewed as the same thing? You can hide information just as well by surrounding it with misinformation.
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> Dicks are easy to ignore Deleted comments are also easy to ignore. Deleting your comments regularly might be construed as a dick move by some people, but as you say, dicks are easy to ignore.
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by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
I regularly run an extension that first edits, then deletes all my comments.

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