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by etjossem 10y ago
Submariner article. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by etjossem 10y ago
Fortunately, the same elected legislators who have the ability to pass universal healthcare also get to make changes to patent regulation. If they want to be fiscally responsible, and notice their budgets are losing tons of money to the Epi
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by etjossem 10y ago
> taking -free of charge- one sick poor person for every 10 healthy ones that enter the system. This is a very rough way to put it, but it's a fantastic idea. Policymakers call this universal healthcare.
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by etjossem 10y ago
> Build an opt-in society, ultimately outside the US, run by technology. Balaji Srinivasan is being considered to run the FDA. If chosen, he is expected to radically weaken its regulatory power, purportedly in the interests of promoting
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by etjossem 10y ago
Yup. It isn't even monospace. It is someone's idea of what monospace looks like.
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by etjossem 10y ago
From a recent Bugzilla entry: "REALLY ought to register 'moz' with IANA as well. Otherwise it might pop up as a 'real' protocol declaration in the future and we might have a conflict. We can just reserve the prefix
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by etjossem 10y ago
This reminds me of when PayPal ran all those billboard ads for Braintree in the Bay Area. I can just imagine the meeting where the team decided how they were going to look: Product: "We need to engage more with our developer custo
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by etjossem 10y ago
Because this isn't just a response, but a piece of long-form content which stands well on its own. We generally use submissions for those. Comments are a great venue for short-form replies, but not for multi-page analyses of an interes
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by etjossem 10y ago
In this case, it's simply a quote from a counselor Manning spoke with, describing the moment when Manning first identified herself as female. [1] This situation is typically referred to as gender dysphoria - the mismatch of sex assigne
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by etjossem 10y ago
I would argue Snowden's approach - working with the most reputable news outlets in the US to release only what was necessary - serves as a good example of ethical whistleblowing. Nonetheless, the intelligence community wanted him arres
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by etjossem 10y ago
A downvote, whether it's because of tone or message, is a way to say "this comment has no place here." Enough of them concentrated on one message will censor it from everyone else's view. All I ask is that we be careful
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by etjossem 10y ago
> Feeling female and actually being one are two very different things. Feeling female can be an early indication that you are a woman. > I do not deny that gender dysphoria is a clinical diagnosis, but that does not mean we should ena
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by etjossem 10y ago
I am not on board with categorically downvoting incivility, even on that last bastion of civil discourse we call HN. While we may feel uncomfortable hearing from someone who is upset, it's hard to deny that we notice them more - and th
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by etjossem 10y ago
You betcha. From "Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of the 12 July 2007 aerial weapons team or AW team video", a statement by Manning to the US Army: The video depicted several individuals being engaged by a
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by etjossem 10y ago
The volume of downvotes and hate comments you are getting for standing up on this issue is disturbing. I hope some of those commenters eventually reconsider whether the acceptance of disrespectful pronouns on HN is truly the cause they want
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by etjossem 10y ago
That is a fair way of looking at it (and consistent with prevailing definitions). However, Manning strongly suspected wrongdoing, made herself aware of it, and leaked a video in which it was blindingly obvious. She doesn't fall under y
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by etjossem 10y ago
I just took that part out, after thinking about it for a little bit. Our default pattern of speech is to choose "he" or "she" if we know one of these pronouns is correct, so the use of singular-they is nearly always deli
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by etjossem 10y ago
I'm well aware, which is why it's totally inappropriate usage here. Chelsea Manning's gender and pronoun are arguably among the most well-known in the world, since she has very publicly made them explicit! The only reason any
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by etjossem 10y ago
When it comes to prescriptive definitions for words in the English language, I trust the concurrence of Merriam-Webster and Collins a bit more than I'm willing to trust your word. You won't convince me otherwise. If you feel a whi
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by etjossem 10y ago
> If Chelsea doesn't like it, well, she can take it up with the dictionary. On her behalf, let's call up Merriam-Webster. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbi... The only correct us
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by etjossem 10y ago
> This can't be reconciled with saying Manning's actions were justified without post-hoc rationalizing. > Then clearly the meaning of words mean nothing to you. I'm not sure you understand the meaning of the post-hoc fa
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by etjossem 10y ago
That's more like it! Naturally, the answer's no - there's plenty of material the public doesn't need to know about, and which could compromise ongoing operations if it were completely transparent. Sources who want to eth
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by etjossem 10y ago
Manning has felt female since 2009 and possibly earlier. While on leave, she was incredibly comfortable with this gender identity, "trying to blend in as a bored woman looking for something interesting to do even though I was actually
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by etjossem 10y ago
> If I were to murder 100 people randomly should I be absolved because it turned out one of them was a child molester? You sound ridiculous. Let's get to the real question. > So because there happened to be something bad among th
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by etjossem 10y ago
"They" can be used in the singular, and many communities use it in that manner frequently! Merriam-Webster has a great piece on this. [1] [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbi...
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by etjossem 10y ago
Chelsea Manning is a woman, and suffers from gender dysphoria. The Army has made quite a few mistakes in the aftermath of the leak, but "turning him into a 'woman'" is not one of them. If anything, they have no idea how
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by etjossem 10y ago
> no idea what was in any of the information being leaked After watching journalists get annihilated by an Apache missile strike, there is not a lot of room for confusion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0
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by etjossem 10y ago
Chelsea Manning brought us video footage of Baghdad airstrikes with civilian and press casualties. The motive was clear-cut: she wanted to expose hidden truths about the war in Iraq that might convince the American people it was no longer w
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by etjossem 10y ago
He's counting on something that definitely won't be there if there's the political will to cancel Social Security. ;)
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by etjossem 10y ago
Not what we mean when we talk about basic income. Basic income means "everyone gets a check for $1000 a month, regardless of how old or young they are, or whether or not they work." Social Security means "everyone gets a chec

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