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by cooper12 9y ago
My point was that you're misunderstanding public accommodation. It only protects against discrimination on specific factors, of which political ideology is not one of them. Private businesses still have the right to deny service to tho
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Sorry, Nazi isn't a protected class.
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by cooper12 9y ago
Don't you know? If you don't give a platform to people calling for genocide, you're the intolerant one.
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by cooper12 9y ago
As they should. It's important in Trump's America to demonstrate that this kind of open bigotry still isn't acceptable and that a civilized society will not provide a platform for literal Nazis and their hateful rhetoric.
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by cooper12 9y ago
You can see some of the covers here: http://www.joeorton.org/Pages/Joe_Orton_Gallery13.html
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by cooper12 9y ago
What... it's not having accessible apps that is forcing them to not learn how to read and write, but rather a lack of access to education and the means to obtain that education. Low-skilled workers are almost always less-educated so of
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by cooper12 9y ago
Same in this thread. Suddenly, the free market's ability to govern itself is a horrible thing.
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> Writing by hand is amazingly flexible Once, as an exercise I attempted to transcribe my Statistics notes into LaTeX. I was perfectly capable of inserting the proper math notation, but I never realized how versatile layouts can be so ea
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by cooper12 9y ago
By the way, the male equivalent of "née" that you're looking for is "né".
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by cooper12 9y ago
Not the dreaded "C" word! Thank god capitalist countries have such outstanding human rights records.
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by cooper12 9y ago
> only seem to focus on "community' building, as if that was anything to do with code We got a live one boys! It takes a special kind of self-denial to adamantly say that community has nothing to do with code on a hosting site
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by cooper12 9y ago
> The act of joining together particular character combinations into more aesthetically pleasing forms is common and very old practice. Yep, the ampersand symbol "&" originated as a ligature for et , Latin for "and&qu
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by cooper12 9y ago
I think they're referring to media incompetence and biases in general rather than the difficulty of subjects. For example, if you follow conservative news, you'd think that pride parades were naked men playing with dildos and hump
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by cooper12 9y ago
If they're planning to make a voice recognition system, why are they using example statements that are clearly taken from novels? [0] That's not how real people talk. They use a lot more slang, a lot more stopping and starting, fi
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by cooper12 9y ago
There's a yuuuge difference between having valid criticism of the news and just dismissing it because it's "fake news". Let's not validate infantile 140-character rantings now.
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by cooper12 9y ago
Well by your reasoning they never should have been allowed inside in the first place, and I agree. However, it's too late for that. We could just nonchalantly observe that the town asked for it, but that would be cruel towards the town
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by cooper12 9y ago
I think the bigger issue not given enough attention to is that the town is dying in general. If young people are leaving in droves and business are closing left and right, that's not the sign of a healthy town at all. From the article
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It's done on purpose. This is what we call clickbait.
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by cooper12 9y ago
Lo, the scourge of anti-intellectualism reaches HN! Looking through their comment, the only word that one would consider "big" might be "erstwhile". Even if they used big words, why use that to attack them instead of con
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by cooper12 9y ago
Like always on stack exchange, the accepted answer is not the best one. The other answers are better in that they explain that our numeral system has a different origin and development from our alphabet. Not all languages have two cases for
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by cooper12 9y ago
Oh...
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It's disingenuous because it reduced a social issue to that of particle physics. It's like me assaulting someone and saying "wow, they sure couldn't handle a collection of atoms exerting momentum on their face", or
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by cooper12 9y ago
I don't think they were forced. Google is based in the U.S. where it is legal to photograph people in public, yet Google still blurs the faces of those on sidewalks. That and things like license plates seems to me to be them preemptive
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by cooper12 9y ago
My point is that it's such a minor aspect of an otherwise edifying talk on photography. Certainly not something to demand firings for.
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by cooper12 9y ago
Sure, take it from the chief of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's integrative medicine department: "Jobs's faith in alternative medicine likely cost him his life.... He had the only kind of pancreatic cancer that is tr
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by cooper12 9y ago
Meh, saying "five people would have been fired!" is too hyperbolic for my tastes. If you click through to this other HN post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14671047 ), you'll notice they don't use
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by cooper12 9y ago
Jeez, even after the wealthy man died from curable cancer, his cult of personality persists. (or should I say "reality distortion field") This isn't the main keynote at WWDC, but rather is just a panel, so I don't see wh
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by cooper12 9y ago
Wikipedia is actually developing that natively currently as well: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards .
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by cooper12 9y ago
I respectfully disagree that vernacular makes contributions somehow substandard. It's still language and still affords a full range of expressibility. You're only saying that because in your mind you connote English with "pro
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by cooper12 9y ago
I don't get why you're putting English on such a high pedestal. It's just another language, and a very annoying one for those taking it up as a second language due to its lack of internal consistency. If you care so much abou

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