Cushman

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by Cushman 14y ago
We could talk all day about the various sociological explanations, but there is one very clear economic incentive for the salary taboo: It enables companies to pay employees as a whole much, much less. Doesn't need much more explanation tha
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by Cushman 14y ago
Easy. Trivial, even. I set up a small organization with one goal: Get kids to smoke weed. Pick a handful of communities in the legal states: Wealthy, suburban districts that went blue, but narrowly. Send a couple of guys to each one with te
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by Cushman 14y ago
Yes? How did you assume a check worked?
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by Cushman 14y ago
What do you say when Apple does the same thing? "Well, crap," I imagine.
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by Cushman 14y ago
As I read it that was 18:24 yesterday in PST, or 02:24 today in UTC. The use of "today" may just be sloppy dating-- or it may reflect that it was today for most of those affected.
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by Cushman 14y ago
The simple explanation is that, legally speaking, "do whatever you want with it" does not necessarily entitle you to do whatever you want with it.
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by Cushman 14y ago
It's just a little bit ironic that you can't express your opinion that an internet celebrity is overexposed without name-checking another internet celebrity.
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by Cushman 14y ago
That require is a smoking gun for sure, but I'm not too sure about the copyright claim. It's their copyright on the API in the first place, and there are a limited number of ways to wrap an API in Ruby. It's sleazy to cut and paste code w
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by Cushman 14y ago
Thanks for taking the time, I appreciate the thought-out response. I completely see where you're coming from, and I hope I didn't sound too critical of you personally. I do just want to comment on one tangent: > However there was no one
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by Cushman 14y ago
I included them because they are facts, unlike the idea that men are inherently violent or women inherently nurturing. But sure, keep guessing.
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by Cushman 14y ago
And I'm not sure how that's supposed to matter. We are all of us predisposed to live in caves eating roots and nuts and anything we could kill with a pointy rock, but somehow we got past that.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I'm saying that on the day you're born somebody flips a coin and if it comes up tails you're about 15 times more likely to wind up in prison. I don't really care why that is. It's not the world I want my kids to grow up in. Let's not give
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by Cushman 14y ago
So, seriously, what are the "large differences" you infer from these statistics? That women tend to be harder-working, while men tend to be more dishonest? I mean, I'm not saying you're wrong.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Half of Americans are women. Half are men. Give or take. 83% of Congress are men. 60% of college graduates are women. 91% of inmates are men. 84% of single parents are women. If you think all that's left of ten thousand years of systemic di
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by Cushman 14y ago
Maybe not meaningless; the common Westernized pronunciation does sound closer to Ghandi than Gandhi.
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by Cushman 14y ago
It might be more accurate to say that mainstream feminists think the idea of "equity feminism" is a made up concept promoted by anti-feminists to try to devalue second- and third-wave feminism. I wonder why they think that.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> Radical gender feminists took over feminism and alienated women. Bullshit. The third wave took over feminism and included homosexuals, transgender and transexual women, and men . Anyone who feels alienated by feminism is being lied t
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by Cushman 14y ago
> But her argument was also that according to the original .net magazine article; every woman fears being raped all day every day. I contend that this is a sensationalist statement. The source for this claim, if I understand it, is th
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by Cushman 14y ago
Could you be a little clearer on what you're hoping I'll take away from those comments? In case it wasn't clear, the gender of commenters isn't that important to me here. There may be people on both sides of the fence, but there aren't two
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by Cushman 14y ago
I ain't touching the whole argument over form, but this: > Laura's not the only person who's expressed this view. Many people in the comemnts have agreed (and disagreed) I think gets at precisely the point. Your average HN reader, the o
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by Cushman 14y ago
How about writers? If that's too cheap a shot, I believe most professional musicians began learning their instrument as children, though I struggle to find a source for that belief.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Think a little about what you're saying here. For example, the dictionary definition of atheism is a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods. However, many religious people believe that atheism is a conscious rejection of an existing
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by Cushman 14y ago
> What is exactly wrong with taking pictures of clothed people on public places without their knowledge? Serious question: You're a man, right? Go take a survey of your friends about this. I'll bet you find a strong difference of opinio
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by Cushman 14y ago
It bears some similarities to the ontological argument, but it's not fundamentally grounded in ontology. It's based on the hypothesis that simulation is possible, which is testable in some sense. Say we cook up a little Earth simulator, and
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by Cushman 14y ago
> It just strikes me as tautological. Pretty much, yeah. There's as much value in it as in any kind of metaphysics, I guess; it makes it easier to get on with being an ape despite the creeping feeling that being an ape doesn't mean anyt
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by Cushman 14y ago
It gets a bit metaphysical, but consider how many more possible universes there are in a universe which is likely to generate a recursive simulation than in one which is not. That is, the probability that the probability of being in a simul
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by Cushman 14y ago
I think it might be heading down the wrong path to talk in terms of "rational beings" as atomic units rather than in terms of energy (or rather information) balance. Remember that you do live in a simulation of the universe so compressed
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by Cushman 14y ago
That's pretty much the claim, right? Not that this will determine whether or not the universe is a simulation, but that it may determine that it is-- or at least probably is. Simulationism is predicated on the hypothesis that we could const
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by Cushman 14y ago
Not at all, sorry for piling on :) I swear there were no other replies when I commented.
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by Cushman 14y ago
The path part of the URL is encrypted along with the rest of the request. Only the DNS lookup (i.e., the hostname) is in the clear.

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