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by batemanesque 13y ago
you might be interested in MetaSynth ( http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php ) & Izotope's Iris ( http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/iris/ ) which basically offer the con
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by batemanesque 13y ago
ah yes, because trying to be decent & inclusive to persecuted minorities is the comparable to supporting an obsolete browser - yr analogy is a perfect illustration of the grotesque intersection between the Valley & bigotry. also, &q
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by batemanesque 13y ago
I'm sure this is interesting from a statistical point of view, but does the tech scene really need yet more reinforcement of a binary view of gender?
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by batemanesque 13y ago
guess it's time for HN to wise up to the fact that investors aren't just benevolent gods handing out opportunities from above
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by batemanesque 13y ago
using "teh Internets" on yr front page is a great way to put off anyone who doesn't subscribe to calcified "geek culture"
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by batemanesque 13y ago
West Africa is my favorite country.
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by batemanesque 13y ago
nah, you're right
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by batemanesque 13y ago
problem w/ that is that regardless of how good yr intentions are, you can't prevent unconscious bias from coming into play.
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by batemanesque 13y ago
exactly. fill the most solipsistic company in the world w/ self-exalting geeks & you're bound to get more than a few creeps who don't understand social boundaries.
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by batemanesque 13y ago
I agree that it's unlikely Google as a whole would decide to read/use confidential data. on the other hand, the idea that someone w/in Google might abuse their position is completely plausible. if we know that people at the N
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by batemanesque 13y ago
this kind of seems like a way to advertise the conference, but well done anyway
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by batemanesque 13y ago
given that so many people don't have any access to housing at all it seems somewhat myopic to criticize the fact that construction generally aims for efficiency rather than beauty. the dome looks nice but is stuff like this really a vi
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by batemanesque 13y ago
this isn't the evil at Disrupt I thought he was going to address.
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by batemanesque 13y ago
it's the misogyny, not the pornography, that's problematic here.
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by batemanesque 13y ago
in any case, the guys at Hacker News have now hidden this thread & the other one about TitStare, so we can all pretend the problem's gone away.
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by batemanesque 13y ago
trying to debate this guy on the merits is absurd - he's not some misguided IQ guy but, as you'll see if you look at his other comments, a hardcore racist. blocking is the only productive thing you can do here
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by batemanesque 13y ago
a white supremacist w/ 1865 karma: congratulations, HN!
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by batemanesque 13y ago
are you fucking serious?
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by batemanesque 13y ago
if the Brazilian government is so concerned w/ civil liberties, maybe they should focus their attention on addressing rampant police brutality & overreach rather than geek-pandering gimmicks like this.
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by batemanesque 13y ago
exactly. I find it problematic that they seem to think calling someone names is completely impermissible but citing a white supremacist forum's guidelines is not.
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by batemanesque 13y ago
this is great. wasn't really expecting his research to have contributed anything meaningful to science when i was halfway through the article
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by batemanesque 13y ago
the meaningless boosting around here is fucking weird - negative feedback is crucial to stuff getting anywhere. calling anything besides praise 'disappointing' is the best way to create a completely ossified creative field, i.e. t
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by batemanesque 13y ago
and describing all this as the same 'agenda' is grossly simplistic & undermines attempts to reinforce civil liberties. there may be broad trends but they're not driven by a unified entity, and given that the scope of NSA
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by batemanesque 13y ago
meaningless reification of 'the internet'... the current secrecy debate is no more about the internet than Watergate was about tape recorders
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Goodnight room/goodnight Zune/goodnight management over the moon(engadget.com)
1 points by batemanesque 13y ago|0 comments
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by batemanesque 13y ago
given that we don't yet know the full range of nutrients the human body needs to function, it'll be completely impossible to live off Soylent & stay healthy in the long term. it's really that simple.
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by batemanesque 13y ago
loving that some mod changed the headline from "A cheaper alternative to Soylent?" to "Nutraloaf", thereby removing the satire - wouldn't want to offend our investor overlords. of course, there's no record of t
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by batemanesque 13y ago
I'd like to think that most people on HN don't worship business so much as to exalt even those based on dishonesty & intellectual incompetence.
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Nutraloaf(en.wikipedia.org)
21 points by batemanesque 13y ago|69 comments
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by batemanesque 13y ago
the part where a guy who has no idea what he's doing got an absurdly positive response for a product that's nothing new at best & dangerous at worst

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