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by jccc 11y ago
Is the choice of the type of work done being made by employers or by women? (Asking sincerely, not as critique.)
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by jccc 11y ago
Would it help HN readers if I clarified that the first line in my post above ("Indians are actually being nationalists...") is a QUOTE of the preceding comment? Those are not my words -- I am responding to those words.
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by jccc 11y ago
I don't think anyone thinks that he meant that. The Internet hate machine on this issue has been driven almost entirely by that very thought. Andreessen's even been forced to say, "To be clear, I am 100% opposed to colonial
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by jccc 11y ago
I am not making the point that he didn't literally say what people are choosing to assume he meant. I am making the point that the assumption people are making about what he meant is wildly unfounded, and is mainly useful for justifyin
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by jccc 11y ago
Indians are actually being nationalists for telling poor little Mark to go fuck himself and his idea of a cheaply done monopoly. ... which is still different from being in favor of or somehow defending colonialism (leaving aside the not
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by jccc 11y ago
Then criticize him on that basis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11073021 The exercise in measuring charitability is merely academic in this instance. If we value having any kind of meaningful discussion then does
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by jccc 11y ago
Which interpretation is at least as uncharitable as the one that thinks he said India should have remained a colony of Britain? Any other (more sane) interpretation might be a really, really profoundly stupid statement, as well. I don&#x2
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by jccc 11y ago
Even when dealing with people I don't like and with whom I almost 100% of the time disagree, I've found it much better to try first to understand what the person was actually trying to say before jumping reflexively to the most un
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by jccc 11y ago
I have no position on this. Please disagree with Andreessen about that, not with my objection to wild misinterpretation of him. I have zero qualifications to have an opinion on the question you raise.
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by jccc 11y ago
FYI it was socialism that held back the Indian economy during the 70s and 80s. Which is exactly what he says he meant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11072752
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by jccc 11y ago
I don't particularly like the guy, but is there a campaign of deliberate misinterpretation going on? Yes, probably a really stupid thing to say, and perhaps wrong for many reasons. No, he did not say India should have kept Britain as i
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by jccc 11y ago
The statement was made Wednesday night, U.S. time: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/695084493825273856 Do we have reason to believe Assange knew about the decision beforehand? Moreover, do we have reason to be
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by jccc 11y ago
It's a done deal: https://twitter.com/AP/status/695260597533962241 UN says Sweden's foreign ministry was informed last month.
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by jccc 11y ago
AP: "Sweden's foreign ministry says U.N. panel concluded that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's detention is 'arbitrary'" https://twitter.com/AP/status/695260597533962241 A U.N. off
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by jccc 11y ago
AP confirms: https://twitter.com/AP/status/695258621454741505
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by jccc 11y ago
Note, unintentionally -- When an influential voice on HN albeit unintentionally spreads false and damaging innuendo, then says he should not be challenged, what is the appropriate way to say that, yes, in fact he should be challenged? (Hi
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by jccc 11y ago
For whatever it's worth: > albeit perhaps unintentionally You've clearly said you do not believe the journalists have committed crimes, which means your calling them "assistants" to Snowden unintentionally perpetuat
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by jccc 11y ago
With absolutely sincere respect, given your credentials and your role on this forum, I will ask you to answer for what you say when it -- albeit perhaps unintentionally -- entails false innuendo.
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by jccc 11y ago
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/prosecuting-glenn-greenwald/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/12/peter-king-glenn-gr... https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/
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by jccc 11y ago
In a discussion about the legitimacy of the government's pursuit of Snowden you point out that it has a very reasonable interest in parts (a) and (b). But if recent whistleblower prosecutions are a guide, it quite obviously has a stron
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by jccc 11y ago
You must be aware that people actually have called the Snowden journalists collaborators who should be prosecuted, that this was in fact a major issue in how the story has been received. Why would you call them "his informal team of as
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by jccc 11y ago
It's not crazy to think that the USG might want to relieve Snowden of that role. The argument has been made that a crucial difference between Snowden and other recent whistleblowers is his relative freedom to participate in ongoing c
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by jccc 11y ago
Does the USG also have an interest in (c) the ability to prosecute and punish Snowden in such a conspicuous and forceful way that anyone else in a position similar to his would be frightened enough not to take any action similar to his? Sn
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by jccc 11y ago
You can easily read the article as being self-aware of this possibility. It seems to me to encourage exactly that kind of awareness.
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by jccc 11y ago
I very much doubt that he thought the Internet was invented by Gore in 1997. Expand your time scale to the level of the point he's making, and yes it did just arrive.
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by jccc 11y ago
I don't believe he's implying causation, though the word choice might carelessly suggest it. He means canary in the coal mine.
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by jccc 11y ago
Members of the band Tool convinced many people to go hunting for Ronald P. Vincent's "Joyful Guide To Lachrymology," on the study of therapeutic crying, by making the inspirational book a part of their origin story. Fans now
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by jccc 11y ago
This is about Lennon/McCartney-written songs, which is just about all of them.
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by jccc 11y ago
you still get to chose who your peers are, and whose opinion you value Is that any less influenced by self-approval, and the approval of others?
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by jccc 11y ago
ultramancool wants a desktop email client. Many people strongly prefer to do email on the desktop outside of a Web browser. (Fellow FastMail user here. They're really great.) EDIT: Well, I see her/his comment about Webmail albeit

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