DanBC

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by DanBC 6y ago
> Is this enough of a reason to not hire someone? 1) Yes, when most of the job is public facing. 2) That's emphatically not only what he's accused of. He's accused actions in the workplace while carrying out his official
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by DanBC 6y ago
> He didn't do anything criminal, Not breaking the law is the bare knuckle minimum standard that we expect. Imagine going to a job interview and when asked about your achievements you say "well, I didn't break any laws&quo
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by DanBC 6y ago
Let's pretend for a moment that he is autistic, and it's the autism that causes him to say stupid stuff. This means he has a disability, and when people with disabilities are at work we provide a reasonable adjustment for them to
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by DanBC 6y ago
> or anything that touch on him running the FSF. Can't you see that a position that requires public speaking requires someone who is good at public speaking? Someone who doesn't continually cause misunderstanding because they&#
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by DanBC 6y ago
> I know he's widely regarded as a blunt/offensive speaker, I find it genuinely odd that people can say this, and recognise that he's in a position that requires skill in communication, and not feel that there's a mis
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by DanBC 6y ago
> Are we really at a point where a pronoun is persecuting people Chosing to reject someone's identity is persecuting them, yes. Luckily in England the courts agree and transphobes who refuse to use people's correct pronouns oft
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by DanBC 6y ago
I feel like you're stuck on the reference to the guidelines. People are combing the guidelines with other things RMS has said about the word "they". RMS has spent several years railing against "them"/"they
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by DanBC 6y ago
All buildings that allow access to the roof should have suicide nets or tall fencing. You should compare rates in those factories with similar sized factories in the US -- as far as I can tell the rates are similar.
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by DanBC 6y ago
> It was a joke my friend. Can you explain the joke? What was the set up? What's the punchline?
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Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy(youtube.com)
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by DanBC 6y ago
I forgot to mention why I posted this. It's the first mention of "spaceship" in Hansard (the UK record of speeches in parliament). > If there are no conscripts, where is the Service to get store clerks and pay section cle
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A coronavirus variant tore into an English island – and the world(reuters.com)
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by DanBC 6y ago
> As for what happens to the calves, they can't drink all the milk modern cows produce. Also they become big cows. Half of them do not become big cows because male cows don't produce milk. We kill the male calves. > Afaik we
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by DanBC 6y ago
> The issue is that you're coming in with guns blazing, [...] it does violence to the thread. It's frankly a bit weird that you think the claim that [we should eliminate people who we see as inferior] doesn't do this.
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by DanBC 6y ago
Dang, this is yet another example of you making a comment to someone who is responding angrily to a person saying abhorrent things. Your continued defence of polite but disgusting comments pushes out people with different backgrounds, and
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by DanBC 6y ago
> No motive for the suicide was established. Turing was in good spirits These are common misunderstandings of suicidality. Suicide often doesn't have a clear motive. And people who end their lives are often described as being in go
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by DanBC 6y ago
UK kettles are normally about 1.5L to 1.8L
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ROGD is scientific-sounding veneer for unsubstantiated anti-trans views(growkudos.com)
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by DanBC 6y ago
> If it's performed as an abortion would that still be considered genocide? People with Down's aren't a national, ethincal, racial, nor religious group so strictly speaking it doesn't count as genocide under internati
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by DanBC 6y ago
Possibly that's true in the US, but it's completely false in many other parts of the world. In England there's a bunch of stuff that has no police involvement. Debt or tenancy are the two biggest areas.
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by DanBC 6y ago
> EDIT - your link says "These days, it is rare to obtain planning permission to build right up to the boundary" Not all structures need planning permission. Someone can build a 2 metre wall right on the boundary. https:/
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by DanBC 6y ago
Property disputes cause huge amounts of distress and financial cost in England, partly because ownership of boundaries is unclear. Some people spend years and tens of thousands of pounds arguing over that 1 foot strip of land. For the othe
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by DanBC 6y ago
Assuming for a moment that he didn't say it: that just shows that he's incompetent at communication. Since that's an intrinsic part of his job it shows he's not suitable for the position. If he'd ever showed any sig
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by DanBC 6y ago
Where does this idea that all law is enforced by police come from? Why is it so prevalent on HN?
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by DanBC 6y ago
No. Homeless is a term that includes rough sleepers, people in hostels, people who are sofa surfing, people in emergency accommodation, and in some places people who are vulnerably housed. Unhoused is more specific than homeless. https:&#x
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by DanBC 6y ago
> It makes for interesting threads. The threads are not particularly interesting because people make the same suggestions over and over again.
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by DanBC 6y ago
This is a lot of words to defend someone when you -as you say - don't know what he said nor what he meant. The fact that many people in open source don't care about Stallman's defence of eugenics says a lot.
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by DanBC 6y ago
> Downs syndrome is a horrible condition that greatly impacts your quality of life. People with DS frequently report greater life satisfaction that people without DS. The problem isn't DS, it's how people with DS get treated by
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by DanBC 6y ago
That's a deficient understanding of law in a society that uses case law.
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by DanBC 6y ago
https://www.aclu.org/legislation-affecting-lgbt-rights-acros...

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