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811.
by chc 9y ago
"If you don't shut up, I'm going to kick your ass" is still a pretty clear outright threat despite containing the word "if."
812.
by chc 9y ago
I don't think anyone would accuse Dan Brown of being a very fancy writer, but in my experience, most people who hate his work actually hate it for the stories. Dan Brown's stories seem to have the same problem as rushed newspaper
813.
by chc 9y ago
I think "Be humble" would be a better one-line version. They're basically about not believing oneself superior to others.
814.
by chc 9y ago
If your workplace uses Ruby, people there should probably be familiar with Aaron Patterson (AKA tenderlove). He's been a prominent Rubyist since Rubyists had any prominence.
815.
by chc 9y ago
There are obviously better ways to judge a public servant's performance than a handful of decontextualized numbers — but unless you're going to force people to take a test before they can vote (which, umm…), what criteria are bes
816.
by chc 9y ago
I'm not pointing to the worst actors in a group of people and saying they represent the whole. I'm pointing to whether this group of people actually thinks these actions are "the worst." The evidence (e.g. https:/&
817.
by chc 9y ago
If I were to tell you that an unarmed black man was shot by police, and that most people in one political party thought this was bad and most people in the other political party condemned people who protested the shooting, do you think yo
818.
by chc 9y ago
Nobody's "pretending" they aren't being punished — they were found not guilty, so there legally isn't even anything to punish them for . Instead, they're being treated for self-professed insanity. I think that
819.
by chc 9y ago
There already are well-known alternatives to many causes of carbon pollution, so I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to draw here.
820.
by chc 9y ago
AFAIK, no. I don't know of any case law that says the reason you were unaware of the patent is relevant; just whether the infringement was "willful" — one component of which being knowledge of the patent.
821.
by chc 9y ago
The entire point of the patent license is that they can't sue you for violating any patents that cover the library you're using. So it's at least a bit over-broad to it puts all the power in their hands.
822.
by chc 9y ago
It's actually a common policy when it comes to patents. If you are found to infringe on a patent and it can be shown that you knew about it, the penalties are much harsher. This is one of the many reasons people consider the patent sys
823.
by chc 9y ago
As far as I can tell, nobody in this thread "picked up the banner of identity politics," and I can't find anyone arguing that "gender is 100% a social construct" either. Those seem to have been brought up exclusivel
824.
by chc 9y ago
I agree that there are more important issues in the world, but it doesn't make this unworthy of attention. You don't have to care about it, but if you're going into threads about transgender people trying to convince other pe
825.
by chc 9y ago
People say "veggie" for "vegetarian" in English, too. I'm not sure why anybody would pick on that.
826.
by chc 9y ago
They said they didn't have any choice in how it was prepared, and the restaurant picked "well-done" — but yes, I would call that a success for Impossible. Just because Umami Burger prepares the burger poorly doesn't mean
827.
by chc 9y ago
You don't need to be familiar with or pay attention to this stuff, but you can't both reserve the right to ignorance on a topic and take a stance on the same topic. If you don't want to pay attention to what's going on
828.
by chc 9y ago
Regardless of what you think of people identifying as muffins(??), it's pretty unreasonable to equate such a flight of fancy with transgender people. There's a growing pile of evidence (such as the OP) that mental perception of ge
829.
by chc 9y ago
The wearing-green detail was actually deliberate. We have pink and blue for girls and boys, respectively, but there's no good reason for it. In other times, pink has been the boy color and blue the girl color. Has the world gone mad? I
830.
by chc 9y ago
What you're describing is the traditional view of gender dysphoria, and the thing is that treating it that way has been a massive failure in much the same way as gay conversion therapy. The data presented above suggest an explanation
831.
by chc 9y ago
Both prepositions can be true. Imagine a society where adults under 5'5" were called Shorties and had to wear green clothes all the time and greet people with "Halloo!" It would simultaneously be true that height is biol
832.
by chc 9y ago
It's not news, but it's still fairly new and developing information. We have mounting evidence that gender identity is somehow deeply encoded in the brain, but we don't know how or why — this is just more evidence to suggest
833.
by chc 9y ago
I get spam follows from bots with no posts all the time. It's generally pretty easy to tell who will turn out to be a real person or not — they'll have random, super botty names (Svetlana Nakamoto with the handle jonesdevin), or t
834.
by chc 9y ago
The thing here is that they're not using any of AWS's proper server offerings. There's no EC2 or Lightsail or even RDS. There is no thing or concrete group of things that you can point to and say, "There, those are my se
835.
by chc 9y ago
I am not familiar with how these sorts of things are commonly interpreted in South Africa, but the it doesn't sound like that from a reading of the text. Why do you think it would extend to referring to a person with the wrong pronoun?
836.
by chc 9y ago
For anyone who thinks this is a legitimate concern, just click through and read the full text of the bill. It's like one page long and has zero mentions of pronouns. All it does is extend the same protections to gender identity that al
837.
by chc 9y ago
Would you see the same irony in any other whistle-blower writing this article? I don't think most people see whistle-blowing as equivalent to breaching individuals' privacy. One is defending the public from wrongs done by powerful
838.
by chc 9y ago
It's not your speech being dictated, per se; it's about being polite. Like, there's nothing stopping me from hurling fanciful insults at everybody I meet, but I also wouldn't blame other people for considering me wrong t
839.
by chc 9y ago
A world where poorly designed software denies you access to your property because you are an "edge case," and humans who could help just shrug and defer to the computer? I don't know, it sounds to me like a dystopia that some
840.
by chc 9y ago
So if you order one death, it's a crime — but if you issue a blanket order for thousands of deaths, that deserves the protection of society? Surely the problem with plotting someone's death is not that it's thinking too small

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