king_jester

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by king_jester 12y ago
Chromecast is a little different from a box like this. Chromecast is about bridging the gap between the Android phone/tablet and the TV as a display. These boxes are more about directly targeting that TV environment as its own ecosyste
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by king_jester 12y ago
I'm not saying that they have to constantly spend time justifying themselves, but it is important to look critically at the work a company does when it claims to be feminist. In regards to the tilt campaign, I don't see how that c
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by king_jester 12y ago
So what was the goal then? It seemed like a legit campaign that was raising actual money. How does one reconcile their company as feminist with how that campaigned operated?
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by king_jester 12y ago
It is really taxing for women to have to deal with the spam, though, and that can really burn users out of even using the site. Too many messages and too few messages are both problems for different (sometimes overlapping) groups of people.
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by king_jester 12y ago
> As a feminist company, that wasn't fun for us to be associated with, but there was little we could do about that. I don't see how your company could describe itself and feminist while also making a campaign that relies on som
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by king_jester 12y ago
Without generics I don't really see how that's feasible, since the Android framework leverages that feature of Java so heavily.
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by king_jester 12y ago
Usually you use the current gender identity pronouns.
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by king_jester 12y ago
> On the other hand, "staying in a bad marriage" is a misnomer - there's not really such a thing as a bad marriage so much as selfish participants. When one more both of the partners refuse to work towards a better marriag
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by king_jester 12y ago
> marriage is a contract, forsaking all others, so long as you both shall live Not everyone views marriage as a contract or as something that cannot be broken ever. The legal status of marriage in a jurisdiction != how people feel about
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by king_jester 12y ago
> I think it will only be a distraction to people who like to participate in stupid controversies. Unless they start donating to ISIS or KKK, the only source of controversies will be trolls and "journalists" trying to make a qu
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by king_jester 12y ago
Perhaps this is a concession so that people who do not want to work with BMI do not have to by default. As minikites says, on a personal health basis BMI isn't very useful so folks may want to skip it altogether.
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Software devs in the US are apparently well paid and in high demand - are people that racist they they wouldn't hire black devs? Of all lines of work, I have the impression that IT is one of the most open and socially conscious fi
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by king_jester 12y ago
> The big problem isn't oppression. It's a problem, but it hasn't been the main one for a long time. The big problem is the poverty cycle. The poverty cycle IS a part of the continuum of oppression for black people. Econom
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by king_jester 12y ago
> API/Platform fragmentation is the big problem. Supporting multiple APIs and gracefully degrading to older versions is much harder than being able to scale your UI. Apple has been pretty good with keeping customers devices as curre
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Well, even if one has nothing to worry about personally, it's just tiring and demotivating to see all those broad accusations all the time. sigh You do realize that when people talk about men as a class, that isn't the same t
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by king_jester 12y ago
> To be honest, the one I perceive (as a straight, white, middle-class, educated male) larger is the misandristic one. As a person who strives to be good and helpful to every human being equally, regardless of race, gender, orientation o
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Does Android really not provide an auto upload of snapped pictures to the cloud? I was under the impression that they did this way before iCloud even came up. First it was to Picasa or some place, then to the google+ place somewhere.
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Maybe another way to look at this is: instead of creating a startup to serve veterans or single mothers–why not create a startup that can employ veterans AND single mothers? An even better question is, why aren't businesses and st
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by king_jester 12y ago
> We've seen "ruin porn" on here, the whole water issue (where having a service turned off for lack of payment somehow got cast into something greater). The water issue is much greater than just a few people experiencing w
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by king_jester 12y ago
Did you even read the full results of this study? Only extreme BMI categories had strong correlations for increased risk of death and mostly for those who didn't have a chronic health condition at 50 already: "Among all men and wo
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by king_jester 12y ago
> being overweight is almost always extremely unhealthy and a major cause of many illnesses This is not true whatsoever. Weight and health have only limited correlations, to say that being overweight means you are unhealthy is ludicrous.
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by king_jester 12y ago
These kinds of things are very common for fat people. A lot of sites and forums that are frequented by fat people tell these kinds of stories. This is Thin Privilege[1] is a popular one on tumblr where people mostly submit their stories abo
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by king_jester 12y ago
Some still do, I guess it largely depends on the company. Each company I've worked at the last several years were 9-5 or 10-6 with lunch break in the middle somewhere.
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by king_jester 12y ago
> I learned this because I have a phone running 2.2 that if I let it upgrade to Google Play Services, and then upgrade all the other stock apps on the phone that want to use it (YouTube, Gmail), leaves me without about 10MB of space on t
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by king_jester 12y ago
It's not Google Play Services so much as most app developers won't even bother with doing the app submission process for Amazon, which to date is a PITA (clunky web interface, smaller user base, waiting for someone to review your
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by king_jester 12y ago
A lot to respond to, so I'll just make it brief. How to handle someone who has transition is well covered on the internet. Also very common on the internet is bad faith arguments that fret over whether they should or should not accept
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by king_jester 12y ago
> I feel that's white-washing the record, when I think my intent was clear and honest. I was asking for how to deal with this, not stating a preference. Instead I'll apologize here with a clarification of intent (as I've d
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by king_jester 12y ago
> I haven't downvoted you but let me explain why others have. You're making politically controversial statements and essentially accusing anyone who disagrees with you of being a bigot. I am not accusing anyone of being a bigot
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> I was aware from the news that Bradley Manning had issues with gender, but wasn't aware he had changed his gender association. There is a lot to unpack in this statement. First, you should absolutely edit this to change the name a
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Is this a largely solved problem around the issue, or a solved problem in and around the community? That a community has solved a problem is no different than the problem being solved (unless of course you don't believe in the val

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