LaGrange

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by LaGrange 13y ago
Platform screen doors are silly, faulty, expensive and pointless. I mean, the rest of your comment stands - I don't know of anybody who got hurt on my street, but that's probably because my street is only open for cars between 8 a
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Ozone, duh. On a more serious note, it's probably an awkward way of saying "fresh air", i.e. not smelly.
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Or, consistently with the persona in the article, it’s actually Satoshi claiming not to be Satoshi. (Mind you, as much as a bitcoin-hater as I am, I find doxxing him distasteful. And I’m not even a total anti-doxxer, I just don’t see any ju
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by LaGrange 13y ago
It’s not the first time this comes up in a popular internet discussion, the website is pretty famous. I suspect they know about the issue.
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by LaGrange 13y ago
You should read more than a headline. She explicitly says that her mother and sister live in Pakistan. I'm being a bit harsh here, but in this case being quick to comment on the issue without reading through the entire thread can actua
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Please note that when she says about different culture she doesn’t mean even she respects it, in any other way that you might „respect” a bully. It’s not about destroying her connection with family, it’s about avoiding violence against her,
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by LaGrange 13y ago
See the "I don't want my family to get in trouble, they're gonna kill me if they find out that I did something at the airport.” comment later? Think it’s a hyperbole? Well, it’s not.
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by LaGrange 13y ago
While we’re all for disruption here at hacker news, the International Socialist Revolution variant of it seems to not be as popular in these parts. (Un)fortunately, depending on whether you consider previous implementations the best possibl
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Egzactly — the reason to use WhatsApp is that you’re pretty much guaranteed that the other side of the conversation sees your emoji, photos, videos and similar. The client-side unity is a feature. We didn’t grow a standard on that side on
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by LaGrange 13y ago
I work in the corporate world. Only thing I use a Microsoft product for is running games. I do have Excel installed on my Mac, but haven’t touched it in ages (though this is mostly because things I deal with polarized themselves between „
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by LaGrange 13y ago
You could say "good morning" in a demeaning way, if you used a certain tone. It depends on specific culture, but usually there's certain very obvious (I have aspergers, so if I can see them, everyone can) protocols of interac
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by LaGrange 13y ago
This is your data. Yeah, the quality of this data is rather poor. This is not a time when you can count on balanced, slow research. That will be something historians will hopefully eventually do, but meanwhile people have act on what they
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Quite a few black people use the term „nigger” between themselves, and I know at least one couple that adopted „asshole” as an affectionate term. Not to mention completely ridiculous yet popular terms like „pumpkin”. Just because some peopl
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by LaGrange 13y ago
> Babe is an endearing term. No it’s not. It’s only claimed to be by the users for plausible deniability, which actually makes it extra-bad. > Yes, you're overreacting. No, they’re not. But the three people jumping out and scream
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by LaGrange 13y ago
> This fails to address for countless nuances and by default simply stating "You're white, ergo you're instantly privileged." is just false and dishonest. That’s not what modern (that is intersectional) feminism says.
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by LaGrange 13y ago
You are not expected to feel „white guilt”. You are expected to acknowledge the privilege you have, to avoid its abuse, and to avoid perpetuating that state (though of course keeping awareness of the costs and benefits of such actions - n
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by LaGrange 13y ago
The snarky parent was probably trying to say that „theft protection” might be a better term.
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by LaGrange 13y ago
In fact I’d say that the harm to the trust in your parent that comes from such censorship pretty much outweighs the risk of reading stuff. It’s important to know what the kids do, but that’s to be achieved by having real contact with them
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by LaGrange 13y ago
In the warsaw circle countries, we had a joke (and I say it as a fairly hardline socialist) that „communism heroically solves the problems it created”. Sounds like the case.
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Let me guess, you’re a privileged white rich male unwilling to acknowledge your privilege who can’t imagine a less privileged person would ever stand up to them? I didn’t give you the etymology, I gave you the encyclopedic definition. Which
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by LaGrange 13y ago
"Politics (from Greek: politikos, meaning "of, for, or relating to citizens") is the practice and theory of influencing other people on a civic or individual level." For someone who supposedly hates politics, you seem to
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Because that’s strike-breaking. Because you don’t need many strike-breakers to break a strike. I don’t think it should be illegal (barring corruption, of course), but I do think it should be scorned.
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Neither do you see the lottery winners rioting.
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by LaGrange 13y ago
> How meaninglessly proletarian and small minded. How meaninglessly privileged and small minded. > France, where free market competition is second to politics and special interests. As it should be. Free market is like a wind, and som
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by LaGrange 13y ago
"infinite 'free' labour” We used to call that „slavery”. There’s ethical considerations to AI, and treating it as a potential source „free labour” is one of the reasons I believe humanity shouldn’t be allowed to play with mat
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by LaGrange 13y ago
You don't have to lie to manipulate. That's the scary beauty in that piece: it's almost certainly sincere, but it doesn't stop it from being manipulative and misleading.
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Actually, that's a pretty common, normal line of thinking, often summarized as "those things happen to the other people". Even the declared love of psychology is quite usual, as is the dismissal of "normal". Sweet
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by LaGrange 13y ago
"You're personalty can't handle a psychopath mine can.” You actually come off like someone who claims that they had grown up around airplane pilots and therefore can handle gravity. It’s actually unlikely you can. "I wou
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Those are indications, not definite diagnosis. Think about it the way you think about symptoms of many other illnesses. They often start with „tiredness, lack of concentration, bad mood, weight change…” So being a pathological lier means th
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by LaGrange 13y ago
There’s an old psychiatric joke: there are no healthy people, they’re just not diagnosed yet. I’m not a psychopath, but I have high levels of social anxiety and probably high functional Aspergers. Every situation I didn’t rehearse in my hea

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