ajamesm

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by ajamesm 10y ago
Al Capone was a gangster. Does that unfounded accusation also inflame your sense of justice? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 'Innocent until proven guilty' concerns the court system, but not the rest of civil society. If someone throws up all t
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by ajamesm 10y ago
It makes sense that a porn ring would question the role of government in society. How to be taken seriously, step zero: proofread
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I didn't mean that it's a third-rail issue, but rather that different communities (and the individuals within) can have completely different standards of what constitutes "misogyny" and it's better to have discussio
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by ajamesm 10y ago
> Imagine Tor published a policy document stating: “The Tor Project proudly advances drug-use by creating and deploying usable anonymity and privacy technologies so people around the world can circumvent local drug laws.” "Imagine&q
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by ajamesm 10y ago
"misogyny" meaning... being a misogynist? being labeled a misogynist? a documented history of sexual harassment? being a man raised in Western society? using misogynist language? the "B-word" or the "C-word"?
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by ajamesm 10y ago
> Unfortunately, there's no rulebook conference organizers (or their Greek choruses on message boards) can consult to say when rejecting a speaker is a good idea or not. It's a judgement call. There is! if they bothered to wri
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by ajamesm 10y ago
> If they are going to insinuate things about what he said, they should mention exactly what he said or did. > The fact that they don't somehow tells me there is not much there to go on. FWIW organizations will often refuse to di
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by ajamesm 10y ago
kratom:opiates :: vaping:cigarettes?
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s/doesn't support your language yet/is vaporware/
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by ajamesm 10y ago
This article makes it seem so easy to leap in and take a crack at it, but it seems like Step One is to either not value your own autonomy or to not rely on a wage. I'm not a professional mathematician (recreational learner, at best) an
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Change $190 to $500k and I think you just described venture capitalism!
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by ajamesm 10y ago
A JS REPL is definitely faster for zero to Hello World... how about to standing up a toy blog on a local stack? What's the comparative effort vs. PHP?
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by ajamesm 10y ago
It's easier to get up and started with PHP, which attracts people new to coding. I don't have any contempt for them. It's a language with a very low barrier to entry. I have INFINITE contempt for professional programmers wh
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Why did you name your website "Warcraft 3 clan"?
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by ajamesm 10y ago
My gripes aren't due to a lack of effort, LOC or money, but completely silly product visions. I have plenty of contributions I could make, but they're all about -50,000 LOC and they won't get merged.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Classifying employees as "growers" or "showers"? The author's a dick, either way.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
The sluggish browser, outdated mail client, useless Hello integration, and misguided Pocket bundling have done more to "brand" Mozilla for me than some new vector art.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I'm also experiencing the same (also using HTTPS everywhere). Disabling the extension doesn't seem to work. If you get a solution, please let me know.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
That's a shame, I heard Scalia's been dead for a while.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
What you just described is basically unionization.
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proximity to good food is necessary, but not sufficient, for healthy meals. People's consumption choices are also informed by (for example) whether they have the skills to cook the food that's available to them
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by ajamesm 10y ago
As a developer, I'm trying to meet deadlines with good-enough code. I'm not stupid and I certainly understand why someone would develop a general deployment strategy, and then each case can be described as a set of parameters. Ag
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Because the parent comment made the original assertion, and that's how the game works. "The earth is flat, prove me wrong!" no thanks. Also, your second link is literally 642 pages, please point to the relevant part.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Oh, you "suspect" that. How conclusive! Look at the data, and quit the horseshit about "these people" and their misguided priorities. Food deserts. Lead paint poisoning. Lack of access to healthcare. http:/&#x2
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by ajamesm 10y ago
"white privilege" is the relative advantage conferred by appearing white or having white heritage. Nobody (certainly not society at large) thinks that white people have a birthright to success. actually, lots of people subscribe
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Kindly explain to me how I am misreading this article: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/teens-baltimore-poorer-health... "DR. ROBERT BLUM, JOHNS HOPKINS URBAN HEALTH INSTITUTE: Well, first of all, just to put t
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Or even small challenges. There are so many little fixes to be made, bureaucracies and applications that could be streamlined or informational asymmetries that could be smoothed. Even someone applying for food stamps has to jump so many hu
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by ajamesm 10y ago
<sarcasm>can't see how <i>that</i> would be illegible</sarcasm>
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Okay, except I was already writing Python scripts to deploy, so now I'm where I started off except I have one additional engineer yelling at me for not doing things The Ansible Way. This is the exact problem the article was describing
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by ajamesm 10y ago
"Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website." then ctrl-W it is, please learn to render plaintext

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