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by ceol 13y ago
Consider me one of those people. I used to be on here all the time, but now I've only been checking here maybe every few days. I'm tired of seeing "outrage tourists" (thanks tptacek) and frothing adolescent anger.
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by ceol 13y ago
Those two things aren't equal in the slightest. "future time orientation is superior " versus "the ability to drink water from your cupped hands without drowning yourself is normal ". > In other words, you are
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by ceol 13y ago
Actually, the point is that lots of cultures are collective-oriented, while we as a culture like to favor individualism (even though we are extremely collective in our own ways.) This is called "cultural bias"; it means that, shou
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by ceol 13y ago
Kind of proves their point, right? The way your culture views something is "obviously a positive trait"?
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by ceol 13y ago
Students represent their school, so no surprise a top law school would crack down on students spouting shit on Twitter, certainly when they also mention the school in their tweet.
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by ceol 13y ago
> Don't you think you're taking this a tad too seriously? Those words echo through my head every time I click open one of these threads on HN. It's like suddenly the rich white guy is getting oppressed, so we're obv
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by ceol 13y ago
Ah, the POTT method. Perhaps it's part of the HTCPCP?[0] [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_P...
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by ceol 13y ago
He didn't make a bug report. He didn't specify how he could post to other peoples' walls. All he said was that he could, and that he already broke the ToS by using it on another person's account. This was his original re
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by ceol 13y ago
It's the general public's opinion about "hacker", not just the media's. Connotations change. Everyone here knows "hacker" to mean "someone who finds a simple solution to a complex problem" but ev
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by ceol 13y ago
Your replies in this thread have been piss poor, anti-corporation, anti-media, hyperbolic shitposting. Please take it back to /r/technology.
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by ceol 13y ago
Not between two test accounts or two accounts that belong to you (work and personal, which you are allowed to have.)
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by ceol 13y ago
A very specific message board, it seems like. /r/netsec is having no trouble understanding it. Which leads me to believe most people commenting are not doing so with an actual understanding of the situation, and are instead viewin
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by ceol 13y ago
He could have made test accounts with appropriate privacy settings. He could have just told the security team, "Your server does not validate permissions when posting to walls, so if you change this specific HTML form value to anyone e
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by ceol 13y ago
It should be written 0.0.1[::-1]
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by ceol 13y ago
The US will never have a decent mass transit system due to its sheer size.
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by ceol 13y ago
I don't see how he can say, "Well I moved stuff to a CDN and changed hosts off of a shared server and greatly reduced my CSS file size, but surely it was the fact I changed languages that caused my page times to increase!" No
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by ceol 13y ago
> Thats a huge stretch and abuse of logic IMHO. Don't build roads because criminals and terrorists will drive on them. Just thought those two sentences were funny being right next to each other. Let's be honest here, though:
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by ceol 13y ago
Comcast, AT&T, and other service providers comply with government requests for data.
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by ceol 13y ago
Let's just end it here, because nothing I'm saying seems to get across.
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by ceol 13y ago
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sandwich%20Ar... 2. A person who, in real terms, is unskilled, and cant see it, despite thinking they have a 'talent'. The person often makes in
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by ceol 13y ago
It's a phrase, which is something the Oxford dictionary acknowledges and defines. His use of scare quotes only excuses him if someone else had used that phrase before him; instead, he's the one who brought it up. It's quite o
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by ceol 13y ago
You were using their job title to evoke the image of a certain type of person in a negative way. That is very much shitting on them, whether or not you care to admit it. It's quite literally how stereotypes are created and perpetuated.
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by ceol 13y ago
Oxford doesn't recognize the phrase "Sandwich Artist". You aren't abiding by the rules you hold others to. That's not even touching the fact that dictionaries do not define words; they record their usage. As such, t
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by ceol 13y ago
I've done work for the kinds of retailers who have coupon code boxes, and most of the time, the only reason it's on there is because the default WordPress plugin/Joomla template/eCommerce solution has it there. No one ev
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by ceol 13y ago
http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/spellcheck/american_english... You might want to rethink some things.
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by ceol 13y ago
You have two comma splices in your comment. It's really bothering me, because it ruins your entire argument. I mean, you might as well have wrote everything in Latin! You are stupid and wrong. I am the arbiter of the entire English lan
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by ceol 13y ago
Exactly . Pointing out that problematic elements exist in a piece of media does not mean that piece can't be enjoyed! Just that one should be aware of those elements and understand why they are problematic.
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by ceol 13y ago
...which oppresses female sexuality. Saying it's the fault of religion doesn't help solve anything. It's individuals who decide to interpret the Bible in ways that harm women, just like other individuals can consider themselv
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by ceol 13y ago
I really appreciate your reasonable argument, but if the past few weeks have been any indication, there isn't any room for that here. HN has gone from interesting tech discussions to extremist, us-vs-them political rhetoric, and anyone
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by ceol 13y ago
Highlighting this for importance: “When I returned to France to treat genital mutilation, I was amazed that they were never tried. The medical literature tells us the truth about our contempt for women. For three cen

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