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by aisenik 2y ago
> Worse, on the other side, outraged people abused the term nazi to call out anybody that had a bad behavior. But there is a huge difference between being an asshole and being ready to commit genocide. > Eventually it means the word n
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by aisenik 2y ago
consumer fireworks (1.4g) cannot blow up like this, by design and regulation. fire marshals can and do enforce this at points of sale & distribution professional fireworks are also regulated to minimize mass-explosion risk. if fireworks
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by aisenik 3y ago
The problem isn't search, though, it's the financialization of attention and the utter perversion of search into a mass-manipulation and surveillance economy. Plenty of people, perhaps with a belief that advertising is fundamental
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by aisenik 7y ago
Most of those haven't been discussed because they were just accepted as normal until very recently. gay and trans panic defenses are still allowed and used, today, in much of the usa
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by aisenik 7y ago
>in my city alcohol may be consumed in most parks this is true and it is my experience that most places consider restaurants and such a place where a member of the public can be charged with "public intoxication," though to my
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by aisenik 7y ago
I think generally in society we've accepted a structure in which the people with more power (e.g. higher in the org chart) are ostensibly responsible and accountable for the actions of those under them. This is largely the same concept
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by aisenik 7y ago
denver but most places do have bars and serve alcohol in restaurants, which counts as public consumption of alcohol
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by aisenik 7y ago
>Nobody is arresting you because you're a transgender woman. This is just false. Even in 2019. Prison abolition is a thing. We can do better, but it requires more humanity than your comment displays.
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by aisenik 7y ago
My identity remains unwelcomed behavior, and though the focus on my identity is entirely predictable, it is included to highlight my experiences as an unwelcomed member of society not as my experience as a trans woman.
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by aisenik 7y ago
Your quote is exactly what I was responding to, but I would say my point is that solutions have externalities and if you provide a framework for social exclusion it will be used against the people least able to support and protect themselve
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by aisenik 7y ago
public alcohol usage is very much legal. we manage it by providing regulations on dispensing/selling alcohol. in my city alcohol may be consumed in most parks and in the majority of municipalities it is legal to serve alcohol in public
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by aisenik 7y ago
you've jumped to a conclusion, that also denies agency to people, that i don't share. i believe strongly in accountability. which is why i believe, as a society, we must hold ourselves accountable and that means facing the hard tr
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by aisenik 7y ago
because of this: everything that sucks is the result of a system we've designed. these people are victims of social views and policy as much as me. they aren't "hardcore drug use" they're people with a serious illne
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by aisenik 7y ago
as a transgender woman I'm very consciously aware that I am considered by many the dregs of society -- worse than the drug addicts shitting on your streets. this is not a rational belief and it's not going away. it's this fun
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by aisenik 7y ago
Okay, so, guys. People literally think i'm a child molester. People like my dad. People like the two guys who assaulted me for absolutely no reason, in public, while no bystanders did anything whatsoever (as a trans woman, i'm g
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by aisenik 7y ago
I'm a transgender woman. Applying your thought process seems to me, inevitably, to mean I can't live in society. I work downtown cooking for a bar (despite my deep involvement in tech as a child/teen and early work programmin
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by aisenik 10y ago
Anecdotally, it's similar to caffeine. Nicotine on its own has proven a mild stimulant with minimal addictive effect. I like it, I want it, but mostly it is not something I think about.
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by aisenik 12y ago
No, not directly. If you're logged into iCloud, Documents and Data sync is enabled, the app uses iCloud documents, and you don't save the file locally, the file is saved in iCloud. As far as I recall this is how iCloud has always
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by aisenik 12y ago
How many hyperbolic, bad faith posts about Yosemite are going to be made and voted to the top at HN? (This is the third I've seen this week, and they all make extremely negative insinuations based on incorrect assumptions and the shall
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by aisenik 12y ago
I've been using it on my iPad 3, which is functionally slower than the iPad 2, and it's fine. The biggest annoyance is the password screen animation doesn't really work at all, and I'm sure other animations aren't a
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by aisenik 12y ago
This is the sort of thing I'd expect them to implement in the black-box baseband processor. I doubt it'd be exposed to the host at all, though a little bit of sigint might do the trick.
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by aisenik 12y ago
No patent issue, just AT&T and money. The patent issue is a DoD-connected company forcing Apple to abandon P2P and break the end-to-end encryption. Not unlike what happened with Skype, though quite a bit more hostile.
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by aisenik 12y ago
Putting HomeKit behind MFi is a barrier, but hardly one that should put Nest off the platform. The majority of their installed user base uses iOS. I kind of expected my Nests to last me 10+ years, but now I'm left wondering if I'l
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by aisenik 12y ago
"Interesting" that they're avoiding supporting HomeKit. But given that the majority of Nest owners own iOS devices, it sure feels like a slap in the face. Supporting HomeKit would allow Siri integration, but I suppose Google
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by aisenik 14y ago
That's just not the same at all.
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by aisenik 14y ago
I don't think I'm truly overestimating the utility of the data so much as eliding over the massive engineering and labor required to extract useful information out of it. But that is probably Google's core competency. I don't think Google's
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by aisenik 14y ago
Maps gives google a ton of information, and it's fresh. Remember that our information is their product. They can see which areas are experiencing growth, which businesses are getting increased demand, travel patterns, etc. They can see wher
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by aisenik 14y ago
It's common for companies to pay for retail shelf space and placement.
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by aisenik 14y ago
It's fake but that's probably a reasonable amount for a rich person whose spouse has multiple sclerosis. Those are therapy dressage horses.
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by aisenik 14y ago
There are cameras on anything that can accept packages over a certain size. Kinda stupid since the anthrax came in an envelope, but you know, anything to support the panopticon. edit: I could be wrong about the above, I haven't found anythi

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