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by lotso 10y ago
Would you tell Ta-Nehisi Coates or James Baldwin to take action instead of writing about their experiences? Writing is a perfectly fine way of taking action. We don't even know what the writer does in his spare time. He might be doing
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by lotso 10y ago
>At the end of the day, I think the only way to get past this is for everyone to be color blind. Sure, but let's acknowledge and then fix the systematic oppression in our country and implicit bias inherent in our people first.
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by lotso 10y ago
Why is HBO Now and HBO GO run on different services? Really curious about this.
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by lotso 10y ago
Have you read about the sophistication of Russia's doping program? Its unprecedented.
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by lotso 10y ago
> Shouldn't it be up to Theil when and where he outs himself instead of blog like Valleywag doing it for him? Agree, but it isn't illegal.
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by lotso 10y ago
The Hogan lawsuit has nothing to do with libel or slander.
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by lotso 10y ago
> http://www.villagevoice.com/news/conservative-facebook-inves... Look, I agree Gawker crosses the line time to time and is seen as a garbage blog by many people. What's worrisome to me is that Thiel has orchest
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by lotso 10y ago
Definitely agree that Jezebel and many other publications in general don't give provide enough perspective of feminism and LGBT issues from PoC (for what its worth, I'm a PoC), but I disagree with the fact that Gawker does not pro
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by lotso 10y ago
How can you be Team Thiel and have these opinions when Thiel financially supported the person who made the acorn videos? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe
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by lotso 10y ago
>It is a blog designed to shift the Overton Window for Jon Stewart's fanbase into normalizing extreme political agendas. Like Jezebel being pro-feminism. What an extreme political agenda!
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by lotso 10y ago
Is this really a worthwhile discussion? Seems like you are just playing devil's advocate for the sake of it.
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by lotso 10y ago
>Scale these days is a solved problem, there is nothing they are doing scale wise that I can't do in a couple weeks using AWS. Excuse me for being blunt, but this to me seems like a statement someone would make who has never worked
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by lotso 10y ago
Providing more compelling forms of communication is incredibly valuable to society.
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by lotso 10y ago
Here's a question. Why do we need to record everything we do digitally? It's not like we record our conversations when people hang out in person. I'd argue it's stupid that we archive and collect every meaningless conver
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Website Meant to Connect Neighbors Hears Complaints of Racial Profiling(nytimes.com)
1 points by lotso 10y ago|0 comments
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by lotso 10y ago
There was a point where Palantir became the most prestigious place to work out of school.
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by lotso 10y ago
As a minority, I think it is incredibly valuable to see people like me succeeding. >HN is one of the most respectful communities in tech I've frequented. I don't think I've ever seen a thoughtful discussion here when the t
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by lotso 10y ago
Here's one for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat I'm sure if you Google, you can find much better explanations than I am able to provide.
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by lotso 10y ago
> Can anyone point me to a link where anyone (other than a feminist) has said this? Seems odd to tie this to being a feminist. I would hope all commentators on HN are feminists. What is your definition of a feminist? > There has never
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by lotso 10y ago
I think that's irrelevant. It's part of the product, is an intentional feature that has value, and is not even an uncommon feature (exists on Instagram DMs.
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by lotso 10y ago
I think this is a valuable feature for users of the product. Some users like this feature. If you don't, just use another product. Not everything needs to be a philosophical debate.
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by lotso 10y ago
Would be interested to how efficient local governments are compared to the federal government. I think you could argue that people are less involved in local governments, so it is easier to control them or corrupt them. John Oliver's p
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by lotso 10y ago
> One person's wealth does not come at the expense of another's. Not sure I agree with that. Even in the US, we can point to slavery or even more recently discriminatory housing/zoning laws. I'm sure someone with more
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by lotso 10y ago
Ha, got eerily accurate results. Some funny ones as well, but interesting tech.
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by lotso 11y ago
>Uh, any company that sells niche or upmarket offerings of commodity products, for one. I.e. Apple, Tesla, a bunch of watch manufacturers. SMS to iMessage?
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by lotso 11y ago
Rdio tried this. >That $3.99 will buy you only so much. Rdio says the service, called Rdio Select, will include two components: 1) Pandora-like streaming radio stations, without ads, and with the ability to skip ahead as often as you wan
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by lotso 11y ago
Guessing they'd make more money off of people ordering products through any echo device than they would on their own hardware?
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by lotso 11y ago
If you read the article, you would realize that you're assumption of how things actually happened is wrong.
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by lotso 11y ago
I think you may be unfamiliar with Snapchat because Snapchat has some of the richest of interactions of any messaging or social network. You're literally communicating to your friends with videos and photos. The only thing that could b
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by lotso 11y ago
I've definitely found Yahoo Answers often useful. I'd argue Yahoo Answers is probably more helpful for the average person than Quora.

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