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by foolrush 13y ago
The notion that gender issues can exist outside of technology or culture is ridiculous, and an undercurrent that haunts many HN posts. Silence, via shaming or suppression by a privileged status quo, perpetuates the prevailing stigmas and on
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by foolrush 13y ago
Absolutely fair point. I would be interested to hear from the LGTB community within Mozilla as to where the consensus is on this move.
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by foolrush 13y ago
Actually, Mr. Eich's “silent” support of legislation that discriminates against individuals is precisely the type of societal friction that Foucault hinted at. It is everyone's business. The sooner the culture makes an othered min
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Greg Costikyan's GDC14 rant(docs.google.com)
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Bill Gates, Regular Guy(thebaffler.com)
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5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus(m.theatlantic.com)
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The Germ Theory of Democracy, Dictatorship, and All Your Most Cherished Beliefs(psmag.com)
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by foolrush 13y ago
Any HNer have any context on this?
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by foolrush 13y ago
Almost on. Given that the RGB image is likely not tagged with colorspace information, the colors represented are a direct byproduct of the primaries of whatever display you view them on. That is, if your display happened to have the origina
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DHS uses email intercepts to question US citizen about her sex life(papersplease.org)
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by foolrush 13y ago
A tad of a chicken-egg dilemma there. While I can only speculate, I'd surmise that the Inuit are / were well aware of their contextual circumstance and designed accordingly, and quite likely iterated on the design.[1] The issue I
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by foolrush 13y ago
"Then you have companies with secrecy, like Apple. I think this advice would be terrible for them (I have never worked there, and am open to correction). They can't dog food it widely due to the internal silos, and they certainly
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by foolrush 13y ago
The issue here is that it cleaves toward designing for the audience you have, as opposed to the audience you seek to appease. Often, the design goals might exist on an alternate axis. Random people offering random opinions amounts to random
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Take Useless Classes: Advice From a Sage Hen(tsl.pomona.edu)
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by foolrush 13y ago
Ignorant idiot here will assume the role of First Person That Finds This Interesting But Has No Real Clue What It Means title. Could someone outline loosely what the implications are of this in layperson's terms? Thanks.
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Why App Developers May Be Selling Their Souls To Apple and Google(forbes.com)
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by foolrush 13y ago
“I am not arguing about wealth, I am arguing about hope, happiness, and fairness. If I work harder and receive more there is a form of symmetry work = money = food, shelter, happiness.” However, this hypothetical loop you outline is clearly
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by foolrush 13y ago
I did originally. I worried the HN crowd would have frowned on it. Something to be said about the negative impacts of surveillance society on the censorship of the self I am sure. ;)
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by foolrush 13y ago
“/end rand” ISWYDT Edit: I do find the Randian (or more likely “rant” typo) discourse somewhat polemic. You merely substitute dysfunctional fundamentalist / absolutist system A for fundamentalist / absolutist system B. Having
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by foolrush 13y ago
“But what are the objective criteria that make iOS's design truly better?” There is no such creature as objectivity in design. It is all privileged vantage. When I was a young wee art schooler, we had a professor who made this abundant
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by foolrush 13y ago
We need a flag called “Downworthy.”
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by foolrush 13y ago
It is a simple fact that the burden of funding many cultures has fallen upon the individual as opposed to the corporate sector since the great depression[1]. It doesn't require much of a cognitive leap to understand that a healthy, edu
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Shameful Profiling of the Mentally Ill(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by foolrush 13y ago
It would be a heck of a coup if it was the same gamut. One can dream...
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by foolrush 13y ago
Agreed. The cult of buffoonery should have long stopped using gendered pronouns decades ago. Let’s also hope the world-changing-software manages to avoid treating every person as a customer.
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Did Cars Save Our Cities From Horses?(nautil.us)
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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot's prison letters to Slavoj Žižek(theguardian.com)
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by foolrush 13y ago
It might help to borrow a smidge from Foucault's History of Madness. What impact does labelling have beyond a purely descriptive belief? Is there an ideological conflict between what is mad and what is not? The simplest example that co
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Aesthetic evolution by mate choice: Darwin's really dangerous idea(m.rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org)
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by foolrush 13y ago
I am still rather surprised at the number of HN folks that believe we can somehow detach the socio-political / cultural / gender aspects of society from the technological choices. The notion that HN should only focus on the “tech

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