DashRattlesnake

13 ms·

91.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> We have responded to the article based on the information presented. > There is nothing to imply human rights have been violated. If such information is presented im sure people will respond in kind. What are you talking about? The
92.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> HN is full of baronets arguing in favor of the modern social order -- because while they're not real aristocrats, they're not peasants. I think that's very on point. While HN is a technology site, it's also one for
93.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
>> Urbanization fundamentally has been engineered to create "wage slaves" > Suppose someone was born out in the forest, and there were no cities, no societies, no technology. Would you call that person a sustenance slave?
94.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Most employers will never truly respect their employees, ever, under any circumstances. Employees aren't people, they're a "human resource", a cog in the corporate machine as interchangeable as any hardware. More so
95.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
So what's the backstory? The only thing the page says regarding the shutdown is: > We will be shutting down the Threadless iOS App on June 5, 2017.
96.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
I liked this one better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7baalgg9ZDE It sound like it was from Reading Rainbow.
97.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
A Tumblrism gets a wikipedia page?
98.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> ad-blocker-blocker-blockers An ad-blocker-blocker-blocker is just an ad-blocker.
99.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> in hopes of either a significant payoff or at least experience that will anyways lead You're moving the goalposts. It's not about whether they have equivalent opportunities, it's about whether they're slaves . Th
100.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
That's some website, forcing me to enable javascript so I can use their "totally necessary" custom scrollbar </getoffmylawn> Anyway, that's interesting. Thanks!
101.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> I think there might be some conflation between this story and the article posted. Yeah. My sense is people are angry at what the OP described, and their anger has clouded their judgment. They're twisting ambiguous stories like l
102.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> You understand that you are now complicit in her abuse, yes? You understand that you are an accomplice to this crime? FFS, you literally know next to nothing about the situation. Why do you feel like you're in a position to self
103.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
>> My great aunt, before she passed, had a suitcase in her closet with lots of cash in it to survive the coming collapse of society. > This in itself is poor preparation because it assumes the currency will still be worth something
104.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> In hammocks from Brazil you sleep diagonal to the "axis" of the hammock and your body is almost rod-straight. Can you find a pic demonstrating what you mean?
105.
by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
I was thinking of getting one of these, but now it's only a matter of time before they remove Android compatibility.
106.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> Was, not is. I believe that's an important distinction. It is, but it's yet to be seen if this kind of dramatic behavior is behind the project's leader. It was all very dramatic and still very fresh. An apology is only
107.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> but its opinion pieces are quite liberal The WSJ? What are you talking about? It's opinion pages are famously conservative.
108.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
I've heard its newsroom is even more liberal that the NYT, but it's very professional so it's hard to tell.
109.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> The company probably wanted to cut costs and picked cheap foreign workers that didn't perform. The majority of the time, that's the only reason why they're relocating the work. If you have to pay foreign workers equival
110.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> It seems that China's workers can make Macbooks and iPhones with high precision and low tolerances according to Apple's specifications. Isn't Apple's high-precision manufacturing highly automated to a level of expen
111.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> revolves around a payphone out in the middle of nowhere It was a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_phone_booth
112.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
However, the forwarding database is apparently pretty easy to get access to. Junk mailers will query it and update their list with your new address.
113.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> but ambient chatter is wonderful I respectfully disagree. Maybe it's OK if the chatter is indistinct and unintelligible, but if you're in an open plan office it's likely that some of the chatter is from your neighbors.
114.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> I agree. I have plans to create a site with animated gifs explaining from the most basic things in computer interface. I remember my family's first Mac (an SE) came with a bootable disk with some simple interface tutorials like th
115.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> Bernstein told the author not to mention their prior conversation in his complaint. No, he wanted to the author to restate his complete complaint, rather than merely reference previous confidential statements.
116.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> It's to do with the fact that reading out ads in my home is super creepy, despite — in fact, because of — the fact that the ads aren't targeted to me. IMHO: Reading out non-targeted ads in my home: annoying Reading out target
117.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> the problem is that if you plant a seed you often get a wild type apple with a totally random flavor profile IIRC, it's even worse than that. You will almost always get a wild-type apple with an often inedible flavor profile or
118.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> Is this the same Dan as the author of qmail? I feel I cannot use that software anymore in good conscience Me too. I'm immediately switching back to sendmail and rot13 encryption, two technologies unstained by any connection, no
119.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> The closing quote: "The legacy I'd like to leave behind is basically a set of benchmark data that can be used by future weapon physicists." That's a misleading selective quotation: here's a fuller quote: > W
120.
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> or it is in a place where an 85 year old man can carry a 40lb chest. I know some AT thru hikers that old, but I don't think their packs were that heavy, and the load was better distributed/more ergonomic. Say it's filled

More ›