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by grantheaslip 16y ago
As far as I'm concerned, in any country with a separation of church and state, any group that opposes the ability of gays to marry is no friend of the gay community. They may have made some token gestures, but that doesn't change their core
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
On the same line: "Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation." I might not word it quite as nicely, but this is stuff that I would say face-to-face. I'm not really an abrasive person when it comes to most topics, but
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
I definitely see what you're saying, and that's a very good analogy. I guess the difference for me is that Wagner's music and anti-semitism were two mostly separate things -- his music wasn't being used to promote his prejudices. On the oth
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
Comment threads on HN aren't always about exactly what the article was about. I tend to see the article as a conversation starter, not a rigid, immutable topic. Sure, some people might disagree with what I wrote, but I don't think express
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
I know that this comment section isn't supposed to be about the church itself, but I can't help but be baffled by the way people are able to separate analyzing SEO optimization from the fact that the church itself is a fundamentally terribl
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
I'm not convinced this is a real problem though. I don't think I've ever thought to myself "man, hitting this unsubscribe link is so annoying, I wish there was a better way!". Plus, why keep all of these emails in a label when you can just
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
The vast majority of the time it's a one or two click process. A few sites require you to log in to change your email preferences, but they're few and far between. The one exception I can think of off the top of my head is MTV Networks, who
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
It's actually somewhere between IE7 and IE8. Obviously still not good, but we're not talking about IE6 here.
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
> There have always been shitty buildings that don't last, because poor people also need homes. (Haven't read the article yet) That's probably where his mistake came from. He's judging the buildings of the past by the ones that are arou
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
Don't get me wrong, the stories themselves are perfectly appropriate for HN, it's the comments (many of them very highly rated) that worry me. Comments like: - "Anyone surprised he hasn't 'disappeared' yet?" - "I have a conspiracy theory th
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
1. The belief on HN that the WikiLeaks release was a responsible thing to do, and will produce a net benefit because, you know, OPEN=GOOD and SECRETS=BAD! Here's my thoughts: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1949234 2. The belief that
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
I come to HN for the tech stories, not for completely ill-informed, conspiracy-theory-laden political speculation. I get that it's not my place to say what HN should or shouldn't be, but some of the nonsense I've been seeing recently, espec
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
The simple-minded open=good mentality is thin enough when it applies to technology, but it just plain falls apart when you're talking about diplomacy. Let's be clear: What Assange and WikiLeaks are doing is incredibly irresponsible. They're
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
Advertising for what? Other content that's also supported by advertising? Someone has to be paying for something at some point in the chain for advertising to make sense.
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
> A surprise domain-name seizure without notice only makes sense in emergency situations. Do you think that the police give the owner of a store filled with pirated DVDs a chance to make their case? No, they seize the stolen property an
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
Again, this isn't your decision to make . These companies may be acting in a way that you consider counter-productive (and you may be right), but that doesn't give you the right to take their content in a way that they haven't allowed.
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
I consider people who live their lives leeching off the work of others degenerates and scumbags, and those who defend them idiots (especially because, in the long run, they're not acting in their best interest). I use civil language talking
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
This isn't about freedom of speech, it's about freedom to sell stolen and counterfeit goods. You're trying to turn this into something it's not.
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
Are you saying that if we stop paying for content, more is going to be produced? For music, it's possible that it could be true (though I don't completely buy it) because of concerts and the fact that music is pretty low-budget, but if nobo
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
I hate to say it, but looking at the list of sites that were blocked, good riddance: http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-sea... Sites like these are the scum of the internet, run by the scum of the earth. I'm not fami
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
But "normals" just aren't always going to do that. If Wordpress installations automatically updated without any user intervention, then maybe it would be better, but I still think it's dangerous to get non-geek friends to use a self-hoste
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
But then it's not self-hosted, and really isn't substantively different than using Posterous, Tumblr, or really even Facebook (provided that Facebook exports notes).
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
We're never going to convince regular people to run their own Diaspora server. I mean, look at this: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Installing-and-Run... Even Wordpress is increasingly becoming a huge liability for someone who
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
I'm not 100% sure this is still the case, but I recall not being able to buy apps on iTunes using gift card credit a year or two back. I got the impression it had something to do with the way that software is taxed in Canada (Ontario specif
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
This is one of the most scattered and unreadable articles I've seen in a while. It took me two passes to figure out what exactly Gillmor was trying to say. This is yet another example of someone whose life revolves around the "social media"
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
He's pretty much made a career out of making inflammatory statements about companies whose fans get riled up easily. It's not a result of ignorance, it's a result of calculated attempts get hits on his articles (I think he's more-or-less ad
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
It's possible to be a good tech journalist without having coded something yourself (though that's not to say that Dvorak is a good journalist). Sure, it would probably be an asset, and a lack of technical context can make people write some
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
I'm using the latest 10.2 beta release. It's actually a marginal improvement over the official 10.1 package in the Ubuntu repositories. I'm using a Lenovo X201 with a common Intel graphics chip (I think it's referred to as "Intel HD Graphic
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
Agreed. I use 64-bit Chrome in Ubuntu 10.10 and it's unusable. I'm not sure if it's better in 32-bit, but there's frankly no way I'm going to compromise on my browser choice purely because of Adobe's incompetence. It usually freezes or drop

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