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by Uhhrrr 11y ago
I think you would be a dick to send that joke to /u/ekjp, and it's a bit crass for a dinner party, but it's well within bounds on a pseudonymous forum called "Jokes". Now, I think one could make the argument
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by Uhhrrr 11y ago
What's wrong with the jokes? Ellen is a grownup and a public figure. Jokes come with the territory. No one is seriously comparing her to Hitler.
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by Uhhrrr 11y ago
It's very much like GamerGate. There is an attempt to deflect an overwhelming amount of legitimate criticism by pointing to a few trolls and characterizing all of it as "racist and misogynist".
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by Uhhrrr 11y ago
I would love for sama to clarify this.
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by Uhhrrr 11y ago
Yeah, and now that I think about it, culture/techlevel is going to cause huge variance in GINI anyway.
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by Uhhrrr 11y ago
This is just amazingly tone-deaf on Reddit's part. I don't even read IAMA regularly and I knew Victoria was well-liked. What is Ellen Pao paying attention to if not their highest-profile subreddit? Did she have no transitional pla
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by Uhhrrr 11y ago
I don't think the questions were overly disrespectful. It's an Ask Me Anything, not an Ask Me Respectful Things. And it's not the first time someone has called him a shakedown artist or mentioned his out-of-wedlock child.
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by Uhhrrr 11y ago
Interesting question. Would this mean that more genetically homogeneous countries like Japan and Iceland would have lower GINI coefficients?
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by Uhhrrr 11y ago
The problems are 1) You can't tell whether someone is "just asking questions" in good faith or not. 2) Dismissing a horde of people all raising the same problems with one's beliefs as "sealions" is a tempting s
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by Uhhrrr 11y ago
Yes, it's not well-formulated, unless the intent was to pretend the cases against 5 and 6 are as clear as the case against 1.
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by Uhhrrr 11y ago
Maybe you've had the fortune to not have met any really manipulative people. Julia seemed pretty plausible to me.
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by Uhhrrr 11y ago
I think he was going for a take on mitochondrial Eve, and what could happen given current/future technology. But I agree, the racial purity hopes and dreams of the seven Eves would have been obliterated about two minutes after the seco
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by Uhhrrr 11y ago
I read the whole article and didn't see any figures on how much they make in tips - only that tips were "meager" and "frequently skimmed". Given that these women aren't doing this for love, I have to imagine th
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
Or running it.
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
Yes! Someone should make a fan edit of the Baroque Cycle, or just a List of Best Bits. The cannon duel and most of the L'Emmerdeur parts would go in there.
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First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves(nealstephenson.com)
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Ballad of a Pencil Junkie(beltmag.com)
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
Even if the implementation turns out to be lacking, the goal is good: > As customers adopt modern applications and next-generation cloud technologies, they need an OS that delivers speed, agility and lower resource consumption. I know th
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
But C's the new hotness! It's blazing fast!
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
I'm talking about the effort the sender has to put into encrypting.
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
>When I receive a GPG encrypted email from a stranger, though, I immediately get the feeling that I don’t want to read it. This is an interesting case where a barrier to entry makes discourse less valuable. Perhaps the barrier makes peop
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
Yeah, I'm familiar with GamerGate (it is currently my favorite internet drama), and I have trouble figuring out what Bernstein is talking about.
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
I think it's not worth talking about them at all - IMO the journalist reaction to the scandal is most interesting. There's still no disclaimer on Nathan Grayson's articles and guys like Devin are playing 'See No Evil&#x2
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
I'm sympathetic to GG, but that name stuff is too close to dox for my taste.
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
I would say not disclosing something that's clearly a potential conflict of interest is scandalous. That Devin, a writer for TechCrunch disagrees is... interesting. Illustrative.
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
Direct link: https://thezoepost.wordpress.com/ Yes, this is what first implicated Grayson. I'd say its primary purpose was to get people to avoid her, but any interested parties can read the whole thing.
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
The initial scandal was that Nathan Grayson had been friends with the relatively unknown developer of Depression Quest for a long time, to the point of getting thanked in the credits of the game. He then plugged it, here: http://
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
The journalist involved in the initial scandal worked for Kotaku, a Gawker site.
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
It's from a time when it was common to offer cigars as rewards for playing carnival games. If you missed the target or milk can or whatever, "close, but no cigar!".
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
Yeah - I avoided it for a long time because of its reputation as a paperweight, but it's a great, multilayered, witty book. And it's unencumbered by copyright, so there's little reason not to give it a go.

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