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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>The author's point is that the so-called great innovators of today--Apple and Google are cited--are really doing nothing to innovate the workspace, despite having plenty of opportunity to do so. Somehow I suspect that this "in
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Eyerolling politicized nonsense. So what if they are out in the suburbs? This weird, near-religious attitude about where people live gives off a really bad odor. Not to mention "isolated from the communities they impact"? What? Pe
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>Even more so when it extends beyond our comfort zone. I hope you're not under the impression that rhetoric like "the low-grade but unrelenting sense of hazard that is a woman’s experience of merely moving through the world&quo
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>No sense in doing complicated mental gymnastics here. Yeah, it's such a hassle trying to understand people who hold different opinions from yours. And reading their own words? Bor-ing! Better to just vaguely handwave some half-reme
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I'm sure her movies are great, but in what universe is this relevant to HN?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
More like "don't take things at face value, unless those things were provided by groups I support politically."
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
You're kidding, right? Wanting to have accurate information is sexist now?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
In the case you describe, "they" tend to be a) propagandists and b) poorly-informed people robotically repeating the last political meme those propagandists spoon-fed them.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Wait, people are still flogging politiczed misinterpretations of this study? IIRC, this study found that under the majority of circumstances women are treated better than men on GitHub; you have to hunt around for an obscure corner of it to
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
No, they really aren't. If I told you I don't like clowns, would you accuse me of being sexist against men, because most clowns are men?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
What alternative system would you propose?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Not to mention all the worst speech-policing neo-Puritans that San Francisco has to offer.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>mansplain Please don't use sexist language on HN.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Gizmodo? Really? PrisonPlanet or AlexJones weren't available?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
It depends on if you are expressing politically approved opinions and attacking politically approved targets, of course. I'm surprised there's any need to even ask.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
And do they get even one one-hundredth of the publicity that the tech programs do? And is anyone who even dares to quibble with their methodology or approach subjected to media hate campaigns, as with the tech programs?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Such as? What are these programs encouraging women to become garbage collectors or construction workers or miners, and on the same scale as the endlessly hyped women-in-tech initiatives?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> We're already slathering on sunscreen over most of planet Earth. What? No, "we're" not.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
What happens when everyone wants to buy a particular car or a particular phone?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Weren't Algerians citizens of France? Anyway, if we're no-true-Scotsmaning here, there also aren't any examples of dystopian colonies run by "corporations" that weren't joined at the hip with a national governm
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Given their track record, any "advocacy" type article that appears in the news media should be considered written by someone who didn't do his or her homework until proven otherwise.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>I for one commend Eich, for putting on his big boy pants and owning the consequences of his actions. You might as well commend Soviet dissidents for "putting on their big boy pants and owning the consequences of their actions"
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
The point is that there have been plenty of purely governmental dystopias -- far more than there have been even pseudo-corporate ones like the ones you describe -- but we don't have people fretting about how we shouldn't have the
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
There's a weird sort of fear of potential corporate dystopias that just ignores all the actual government dystopias that have existed throughout history. Plenty of government colonies were dictatorships, fiefdoms, attempts at building
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I'm not saying there's any specific party you have to vote for. But if you don't vote against, they won't learn. "I hate that thing you did, but I'm voting for you anyway" translates to a politician as &qu
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
There is nothing for him to apologize for. But our masters at Gizmodo apparently require their pound of flesh.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>Way I see it, Luckey just got a lesson in the rules. Same for those actors who were fired during the Hollywood blacklist era. No problem with that, right? They just got a lesson in the rules.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> I can perfectly imagine people whose rights he wanted to take away to think he's the latter. I can perfectly imagine any number of anti-democratic, politically obsessive people who would think that way, yes. They are certainly wel
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I hope everyone here who is complaining about this isn't going to just turn right around and enthusiastically vote to re-elect the party which did it. But I'm pretty sure that's what is going to happen.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Exactly. No one said that those Hollywood actors and writers couldn't support Communism. People simply take action (i.e. firing them) based on their opinions about the issues.

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