dawnbreez

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by dawnbreez 4y ago
That's a bit more accurate, though it still sweeps a few edge cases under the rug. Choosing phrases and words that more clearly express what you mean is a good thing. Communication is hard enough under normal circumstances, and on topi
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
This sounds like you're conflating biological sex (i.e., having both breasts and a penis) with gender (i.e., person IDs as female). I understand why; they use almost the same terms. However, it is important to note that, if you are des
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
The trick here is that we're looking at dogwhistles. To someone outside the theater of culture-war this takes place in, this looks like a series of perfectly ordinary statements. Of course sex is binary, and that statement doesn&#x27
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
I mean, I agree with you, but that's kind of a non-sequitur? The reason I want control over my software/hardware is not the same as the reason I want to own a firearm.
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
I guess you don't have the context of what the commit message means. "Leftoids" is a derogatory slang term for people who aren't politically right-wing, and deleting the CoC like this while kicking everyone else out and
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
I used to have something similar to this, as a teenager. I pretty quickly realized I was drawing arbitrary lines delineating things that I found cool as being better than things other people found cool, treating other people's inte
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
I'm pretty sure it also got bad initial response because of their pricing plan. I have no idea why Google thought it was a good idea to charge both a subscription fee and a purchase fee per game in a world where services like Game Pa
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
It's really funny hearing someone ask if this is the hand-off to the new generation, when the fact is that furries were working on the internet well before anybody else cared. Furcadia came out in 1996! [edit] Oh, right, I should expla
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
I'm...not sure why it would be embarrassing? People have things they're interested in that aren't related to work, and besides, the suit-and-tie image of the workplace is deeply rooted in a load of nonsense (nonsense which ou
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
Another useful feature of the horizontal desktop design is that putting the monitor on the case brings it closer to a comfortable viewing level.
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
If I had a gun to the head of everyone in town, and everyone in town mysteriously agrees to sell their labor for free, does that mean that cost of labor is fair? There are circumstances outside of the price which affect the fairness of the
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
But why not? Why shouldn't there be a process for renegotiating a contract? Especially in cases like this, where the employees are still producing things for the management--I would understand if you were renegotiating JUST on an e
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
Shit is not a social construct. A human being can produce shit without the cooperation of any other human, no matter what language that human uses to describe it. Bathrooms are a social construct; we had to all agree that it's not
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
Games SHOULD be a solved problem. There is no good reason for us to have to reinvent the wheel over and over. There are compsci white papers that neatly solve all of the big problems games run into. But games are not a solved problem. There
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
I'd argue that's part of what makes it work. You can get ten people into one meeting room (or one zoom call) and still be able to talk to each other clearly.
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
I mean, you can call it IP theft, I can call it wage theft. The article quotes one of the devs as saying they had "unpaid milestones", which reads an awful lot like the "major publisher" he didn't want to name for l
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
"The workers are easily replaced" and "Their compensation is fair" are two different statements.
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
A website is a social construct because it can only function by the agreement of everyone involved (i.e., we all agree on how to parse HTML). The individual site may be constructed individually ( maybe ) but it can only work if the societ
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
...in a lot of the cases I ran into early on, the rust compiler literally told me what to change.
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
Not wanting to be scammed is not gatekeeping, in the same sense that not wanting to be defrauded is not gatekeeping. Also--you say that other gamers are happy with microtransaction-heavy games, but that begs the question: Is it because of
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
I would not be surprised if the ads are placed at the current price tier, honestly. It wouldn't technically be lying; they're delivering a cheaper tier with ads, and a more costly tier without ads, just like they said they would!
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by dawnbreez 4y ago
Netflix says it lost 200k subscribers--but I have to wonder, is that 200k people who were paying for a subscription, or is some percentage of that number actually people who were sharing an account, stopped watching when Netflix started thr
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by dawnbreez 5y ago
Begging the question, what part of the Apple app store prevents a bricked phone, and why would that not be a feature of non-Apple stores?
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by dawnbreez 5y ago
I'm primarily concerned with the study, since A) that's the topic at hand, B) it involves technology and privacy, which I care about, and C) people keep comparing this to pentesting, just like last time, and I also care about secu
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by dawnbreez 5y ago
As I understand it, from a legal standpoint, storing it for operational purposes is equivalent to storing it for any other purpose. Also, even if you only store the information for 24 hours--how many users are on Hackernews in a given hour?
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by dawnbreez 5y ago
One of the biggest issues with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is that it was never designed for a world where Siivagunner[1] exists. On a fundamental level, it was built on the assumption that everyone involved can litigate--which mea
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by dawnbreez 5y ago
I am making the argument that a company that already has lawyers on retainer for this occasion is not suffering the same harm that someone who does not have a lawyer on retainer does. Similarly, someone who can't afford a lawyer at al
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by dawnbreez 5y ago
> am i missing something? i don't see anything about research or studies in the original email. That is, in fact, the entire problem. The researchers doing the study lied about who they were and where they were from (in another case
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by dawnbreez 5y ago
Not a lawyer, but I'd imagine the most useful point to make is that the researchers misrepresented their identity while sending these threats. Lying about who you are while trying to sue someone is a pretty big no-no.
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by dawnbreez 5y ago
As has been pointed out elsewhere: "Consent" here is the correct term. This was a study, and studies are supposed to gather consent from participants before they start (barring certain very specific examples).

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