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by intslack 13y ago
It also tires me that the all of the opposite side is being labelled as "homophobic bigots," just look at the extremism in this very thread with comparisons of Eich to the KKK. Growing up, my deeply religious immediate and extende
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by intslack 13y ago
They are legally the same in Connecticut and other states. Not all, but in some. But it's not equal in the "institutional" sense so we should just redefine marriage in states instead of building civil unions with the same fra
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by intslack 13y ago
>because they believe financially supporting Proposition 8 is prima facia evidence of homophobia And they're wrong. >without actually having any knowledge of Brendan's beliefs I'm going on Mozilla employee's reacti
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by intslack 13y ago
I'm sorry that you feel I'm being an apologist for bigots, but I have no evidence to suggest that Eich is himself a homophobe. We all know about the donation, obviously, but that in and of itself is not evidence of his "anti-
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by intslack 13y ago
Marriage and civil unions embody the same legal rights in the US (at least, in the states that they were created so far), at issue is some people beliefs that marriage as in institution should not be changed. And I don't agree with tha
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by intslack 13y ago
I used the modifier "perhaps", which was followed by acknowledgment that we don't know his beliefs (because he won't talk about them except in person.) Brendan is (or was at the time of donation) ignorant, there's n
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by intslack 13y ago
Again: Believing that marriage can only be between a man and a woman, because marriage has a religious connotation to them, is not bigotry. It's a stupid fucking belief, and it leads to seperate but equal bullshit, but it's not ho
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by intslack 13y ago
I'm not saying you should respect his beliefs. I'm saying you should stop calling him a bigot because you don't know what he actually believes, and don't have any evidence that he's homophobic. All we know is that h
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by intslack 13y ago
How is it valid? Have you talked to him personally about his beliefs? He's offered to share them with anyone he meets in person.
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by intslack 13y ago
>Opposing gay marriage is a sign of bigotry and hate, by that fact alone. No, it is not. One can actually have empathy with gays and believe that marriage can only be between a man and a woman. I don't agree with those beliefs, but
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by intslack 13y ago
More likely his (assumed) belief that marriage can only be between a man and a woman stems from ignorance and his religion instead of bigotry or hate. And while that doesn't negate the harm that his donation caused: please stop compari
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by intslack 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification, haven't been following this very closely and didn't read Mozilla's statement in response (it wasn't very prompt.)
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by intslack 13y ago
>That neither Eich or the board thought of this ahead of the time does, actually, suggest they're not up to the job. This is SIMPLE STUFF. Evidence suggests that they've been spending months fighting a battle pertaining to pick
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by intslack 13y ago
FVEY PSYOP (previously dismissed as tinfoilhattery when reported in places like The Guardian[1] or elsewhere over the years) has been revealed in The Incercept's reporting on Snowden documents[2]. As for legality, the important parts o
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by intslack 13y ago
The "Big Data Backlash" isn't anything new: Nassim Taleb's conversation about it in his last book, in which he presents a mathematical proof that noise-to-signal increases exponentially with data, is scathing. "Big
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by intslack 13y ago
You're esentially asking why he shouldn't be publically bullied out of a position in which he's the most qualified because of his (assumed) belief that marriage can only be between a man and a woman (a belief that the majorit
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Beware the surveillance reform Trojan horse: what's not in the new NSA laws?(theguardian.com)
4 points by intslack 13y ago|1 comments
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by intslack 13y ago
http://www.google.com/patents/US8630897
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by intslack 13y ago
PLOS blog post on this paper: http://blogs.plos.org/biologue/2014/03/25/flies-fly/
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Obama is cancelling the NSA dragnet. So why did all three branches sign off?(theguardian.com)
3 points by intslack 13y ago|0 comments
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by intslack 13y ago
Note that there are two proposals here, much like good cop (Obama Administration) and bad cop (House Intelligence Committee[1]), but both leave broader §215 authority intact i.e. business records not to mention §702 and Upstream collection.
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by intslack 13y ago
A URL bar that doesn't feed every website you type out to Google or whoever your autocomplete provider is. Mozilla is staunch about seperating the Awesome Bar (which autocompletes locally) and the Search Bar.
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by intslack 13y ago
A big takeaway is in the second point: >By publishing yesterday’s Huawei story, the NYT obviously made the editorial judgment that these revelations are both newsworthy and in the public interest, should be disclosed, and will not unduly
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by intslack 13y ago
http://above70k.blogspot.com/2014/03/why-startlingly-simple-... Also Goodfellow's theory becomes even more unlikely if it's true that the programmed change in direction occurred 12 minutes before sign of
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by intslack 13y ago
Could you explain to us why the US government is partaking in exact same tactics that they tried to drag the Chinese through the mud with? Hypocrisy seems to be the name of the game here: spying on attorney-client communications, pwning sys
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by intslack 13y ago
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/03/20/inside... https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1094...
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by intslack 13y ago
He's made the suggestion to companies so that they would make software free which were/would have otherwise been proprietary. I wouldn't say he likes it though. There's the video of Brian Aker trying to antagonise rms at
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by intslack 13y ago
>which has been credited as reasonable No it hasn't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7431715
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by intslack 13y ago
On the contrary, your self-deprecating swipe is easily countered by searching 'dotcom' at the bottom of the page. The popular consensus seems to be either a) great marketer or b) self-serving scumbag, definitely short of 'her
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by intslack 13y ago
Brewster Kahle of archive.org ran the numbers last year as well: https://blog.archive.org/2013/06/15/cost-to-store-all-us-pho... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuqlWHQKlooOd

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