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by ForrestN 10y ago
Yes. I would add that, at least in present cultural conditions, most people who are not cisgendered men or women are not treated well, are chronically misunderstood, and experience traumatic alienation from their surrounding culture, and ev
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Some of my trans/genderqueer friends go through long periods wherein they change their preferred pronouns, so when I don't know someone personally I try use "they" whenever I can in deference to the complexity of trans&#
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I don't know what Chelsea Manning's pronoun preferences are, but I have plenty of friends who prefer "they," which also happens to be the gender-neutral singular pronoun in English. For example: "Someone came by ask
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It is also possible to care deeply about privacy, to be frustrated to no end by this area of policy under the Obama administration, and to still have voted for Hillary, say. The problem with a two party system dominated by a president is th
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by ForrestN 10y ago
I am gay and the premise that criticizing Thiel for working out his issues by destroying a company is somehow homophobic is very problematic. And anyway, I'm not confirming or denying. I want him to.
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Such a waste of an opportunity! "If the public fully understood your reasons for supporting Donald Trump, they would be shocked and despise you." "Your successful persecution of Gawker provided meaningful catharsis related to
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by ForrestN 10y ago
In the last two months I've become substantially more credulous that the U.S. might lose the competition to make autonomous vehicle progress fastest. I don't know how exactly to weight the relative likelihood between countries, bu
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There are cultural and legal dimensions here, though. Will some countries prefer partial autonomy/incrementalism in legalizing autonomous cars? Will some people feel more comfortable getting used to autonomous cars while they are still
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Universities are non-profit organizations that have a responsibility to maximize the social benefits of their work. Helping rich people does not merit public subsidy.
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The problem is misleading the public about the nature of the information gathered and the shady ways that the information is sometimes used. If Facebook were only gathering information necessary to improve the experience of its users, and w
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Ironically I'm a vegetarian for just these reasons. I don't say that because I'm perfect (I am not yet fully vegan, for example) but because I do take ethics seriously. Maybe we do rationalize too often, but shouldn't we
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by ForrestN 10y ago
Apple, for example, seems quite committed to competing on the fact that they do not do this...
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There must be many HNers who work at Facebook. Anyone willing to make a throwaway account and tell us how it feels from the inside for Facebook to be one the wrong side of so many ethical issues? It just seems like in so many dimensions the
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by ForrestN 10y ago
Ill will (disguised as principled disapproval) from a community you identify with is a bit sad, to be honest.
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Note to self (and eli_gottleib): never afflict the comfortable (read: wealthy technocrats or wealthy technocrats-in-training) with the truth!
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If your point is a philosophical one about the nature of knowledge then we have gone far afield of the comment you were responding to. The leader of Breitbart has publicly announced a strategy to change the United States' political and
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by ForrestN 10y ago
Steve Bannon, of Breitbart, has spoken and written about his desire to tear down civic institutions within the United States and use Breitbart as a platform for the new wave of White Nationalists. The evidence is quite clear in the case of
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by ForrestN 10y ago
Sorry for the downvotes, you're exactly right. The far right in western countries (being directly funded in some cases by The Kremlin) realizes that propaganda has long been and remains an effective technique to swing elections. The re
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Ask HN: Trustworthy resource for choosing the right stack for a given project?
2 points by ForrestN 10y ago|1 comments
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Unfortunately any assumptions built into an immigration business are likely to be upended soon. I'd wait at least a year before trying to solve this problem because the regulatory environment could break your resulting startup.
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I am a hacker and a part of this community and have been for many years. My little family is gay and mixed race, and because I work for a non-profit relies on the government for health insurance. My in-laws are brown people living in a host
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by ForrestN 10y ago
I guess people didn't get the memo
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I flagged this post because supressing political speech systematically, and even ignoring it, is actually active political discourse. Politics is not and never will be a separated topic, it is inextricable from everything we care about. Thi
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I think I got part of my answer: it seems that many people on HN do not interact much with those of us who are now in immanent danger. Reading the delusional apathy, ignorance and disdain in the replies here I'm even more concerned.
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Ask HN: Why are there no discussions related to the Trump Administration?
11 points by ForrestN 10y ago|25 comments
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No. More people voted for Hillary Clinton. And the Electoral College is constitutionally enshrined to stop candidates like Trump. From wikipedia: James Madison argued against "an interested and overbearing majority" and the &qu
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by ForrestN 10y ago
You're right, I mispoke. He was appointed to head the EPA Transition, which is different. Edited now. And I agree, it's not just Trump. It is his administration and his party. All the more reason why YC must repudiate Thiel.
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Is there a kind of "political correctness" that refuses the acknowledgment of facts and likelihoods that sound similar to irrational dismissal? Does that kind prevent people from hearing the following things which I think most peo
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Describing myself as gay. After so much self-torture it's one of my favorite parts of my identity now.
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by ForrestN 11y ago
Thanks— I suspected as much. I'm in LA but even the prospect of finding events like this is very smart. Cheers.

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