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by adrienne 10y ago
Many people have abusive parents. And no one owes their parents (or anyone) a relationship.
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by adrienne 10y ago
The fact that tech believes in visionaries - in people who are unique such that their shitty behavior must be excused, for years , so that their "work" gets done - is the main problem with tech, frankly.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13361752
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by adrienne 10y ago
He ignored his real responsibility to her for many years. He stole from Wozniak. Whether they achieved reconciliation or not is irrelevant to my point; we forgive people for the wrongs they've done to us for all sorts of reasons, but
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by adrienne 10y ago
Yes - that's very typical for US companies, because they're afraid of being sued. It definitely shouldn't be read as cold or uncaring on the part of the people responding to you; the worst that can be said is that they were p
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by adrienne 10y ago
Yeah, ask Lisa Brennan-Jobs about his "kinder side". Ask Steve Wozniak. He spent his whole life throwing people under the bus and using them to get his way. He was a manipulative, terrible human being, and it's frankly zero s
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by adrienne 10y ago
Anyone whose workflow is InDesign-heavy or Illustrator-heavy is shit out of luck, though; there is no reasonable replacement for either, and especially not for InDesign.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Yup. Agreed. Wasn't specifically replying to you, but to the "call the police" people.
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by adrienne 10y ago
'Respond like this, and you couldn't be more offensive if you said "You're too emotional, my dear: let me correct you with the firm hand of reason." In throwing around accusations of logical fallacy in such a sensit
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by adrienne 10y ago
In fact, in the United States of America, the Supreme Court has ruled several times that police do not have a duty to protect citizens from crimes. For instance: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics&#x
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by adrienne 10y ago
Nitpick: "trans" (short for "transgender") is an adjective which modifies the noun "woman" (or another noun, of course!); hence, "trans woman" (or "trans man", or "trans person") s
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by adrienne 10y ago
I loved my Lenovo W700, which was 17 inches. I keep thinking i should actually replace the keyboard and battery and put it back into service as a secondary machine. It was fantastic , but they stopped making the W7xx line several years bac
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by adrienne 10y ago
Americans pretty universally mean maize when they say 'corn', fwiw.
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by adrienne 10y ago
God, divorce the poor woman - whom you clearly think of as property anyway - and let her find someone who isn't misogynist.
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by adrienne 10y ago
"away from civil society"? Really? Jesus christ, i'd say homeless people are significantly more civil than a lot of Hacker News commenters.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Hah. You got downvoted for that, of course, because Hacker News.
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by adrienne 10y ago
No, it would only be impossible to do business ethically under those circumstances. Which, in fact, it is .
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by adrienne 10y ago
You did make some pro-feminist statements in this thread, and i upvoted them even! You also, a week and a half ago, called me a "deeply unhappy person" and suggested i was crazy. Not sure what to make of that.
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by adrienne 10y ago
What makes you think i want to talk to someone who has gross opinions about women? Fuck that. Got better things to do. (It's pretty clear you're implying that i'm a man-hater or some similar sexist bullshit. I have no idea wh
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by adrienne 10y ago
Oh, you mean people will whistleblow on the good guys ? That's very true, and an unavoidable hazard. "unamerican activities". Oh, you're one of those. Okay, sorry i wasted my time on you. Bye.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Oh yeah, a whistleblower hotline - because that's going to be useful under a Trump presidency. And yes, government contractors mostly don't do unpaid work, but what good is "yearly ethics training" when you're al
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by adrienne 10y ago
HN commenters wouldn't just find a way to excuse it; they'd find a way to monetize it. They'd jump all over themselves about it, too.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Both my examples did in fact mention "unpaid", but there are plenty of others. Unions would give us leverage against management asking us to do illegal or unethical shit. They wouldn't be able to just say, "Okay, won&#
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by adrienne 10y ago
Unions aren't just about salaries, they're about resisting all sorts of unfair management bullshit. And developers may be "professionals" (that's kind of a loaded fucking word; carpenters are professionals too, and
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by adrienne 10y ago
I've literally seen different HN commenters say some variation on "maybe some people are just not valuable enough to keep alive" three times today .
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by adrienne 10y ago
That contractual requirement is unconscionable in and of itself, of course! But that's a different problem.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Oh, this took barely any time or energy at all! Picking through D'Souza for citations to back up my arguments, that'd be work . And really unpleasant, at that. Y'all aren't worth that.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Oh, no, that's certainly not safe to assume. I have plenty of actual issues with D'Souza's writings. But i don't choose to engage here at HN in ways that would actually take up my time and energy, because why would i bot
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by adrienne 10y ago
No, of course we shouldn't. But Dinesh D'Souza thinks the rules are different for him. He lies and commits fraud. It does, in fact, matter what you get convicted of . Fraud & campaign violations sure as hell speak to credibil
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by adrienne 10y ago
Nah. Here in the US they just pass laws to suppress voters and rejigger districts until they're guaranteed wins. Much less work for them.

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