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by nollidge 13y ago
Your more astute social justice commentators tend to point out that everybody is racist (and sexist and transphobic and and and). Including people of color against their own race, because they are not immune to the constant messages that
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by nollidge 13y ago
Nope, it doesn't, but does mean you don't have some particularly common ones!
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by nollidge 13y ago
My go-to icebreaker is "so, how do you know {party_host}?" Then share with them how you know {party_host}. That establishes a few things: 1) Instant connection - we both know {party_host} 2) You learn a detail about them (occupati
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by nollidge 13y ago
But how could that possibly work for a document that's edited in a browser? What file format would such a document be stored in when there's no local editor available for it?
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by nollidge 13y ago
Man, I don't know. I feel for this guy, but not every computing tragedy is the software's fault. The author never says what he expected would happen when he moved stuff out of the Google drive. I learned along the way never to mak
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by nollidge 13y ago
That stuff is never going away. "Death of PCs" doesn't mean the complete disappearance of them, just their death as a dominant consumer item. Professionals and prosumers will never stop needing PCs, and they're the ones
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by nollidge 13y ago
You can prove somebody wrong without making them feel like an idiot about it. I love being wrong, personally.
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by nollidge 13y ago
I believe they're referring to syntax, in which case, Go is rather unlike the others.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Only useful reply in this whole thread.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Search function is kinda weird. From my journal, under Update Your Journal, I searched for "space quest", and my game wasn't one of the five listed, but there was no scroll bar or way to expand results. So I went to Browse an
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by nollidge 13y ago
Not fish per se, but we sure as hell are descended from underwater dwellers.
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by nollidge 13y ago
You don't need to bring fuel, assuming there's wood around you to burn.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Trying to buy with credit card, and get a message from Stripe saying "you passed an empty string for iovation_blackbox", as if that means something to me. EDIT: Nevermind, just had to pause Ghostery. Not sure what script was messi
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by nollidge 13y ago
That you shut yourself out of the conversation on social inequality because you don't like the words is childish and callous.
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by nollidge 13y ago
The definition I provided, the first definition listed for the word in that particular dictionary, does not say anything about privileges having to be granted by anyone. It's like peeving about "color" vs. "colour"
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by nollidge 13y ago
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/privilege > 1. a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most Regardless, even if I and others called it "cronut", that doesn&#x
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by nollidge 13y ago
Can you increase the contrast of the font? I can barely read gray-on-slightly-darker-gray, particularly at that size.
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by nollidge 13y ago
So, you're saying that women need special treatment as the more delicately nurtured sex? Uh, no, he's not saying that. The issue is that women, generally, are already treated differently than their male co-workers, and they s
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by nollidge 13y ago
What the fuck is so "horrendously offensive" about the obvious truth that some classes of people have advantages that others don't?
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by nollidge 13y ago
Really? Everything? Despite the fact that 90% of writing on the web (like 90% of everything else) is crap?
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by nollidge 13y ago
AdBlock's pretty good at handling this stuff too.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Alternatively, I could just not read Quora.
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by nollidge 13y ago
It's definitely a lot easier to use those when I mouse left-handed (as I sometimes do due to pain in my right shoulder).
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by nollidge 13y ago
Serious question: how can they tell if you're tethering if you're on an unlocked phone?
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by nollidge 13y ago
Or Ptel (PlatinumTel) - $40/month unlimited everything, except first 250MB data at 4G, 3G thereafter. Or $50/month for truly unlimited. Also a T-mobile reseller, I believe. EDIT: http://www.ptel.com/plans EDIT2: A
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by nollidge 13y ago
I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek. You're absolutely right that supposed "benefits" might have unforeseen tradeoffs. In this case, having some sort of pseudo-Lamarckian inheritance could possibly be a detriment due to energy
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by nollidge 13y ago
Yep, that's more or less what I was driving at, but I was being a bit more coy.
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by nollidge 13y ago
I don't see why it's a paradox. Lots of things would offer fitness - why can't all animals talk? Why can't plants move? Surely these things would offer greater Darwinian fitness.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Where's the "debate"? Seems like they agreed with each other.
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by nollidge 13y ago
On the contrary, if a half-dozen different people don't misinterpret your point on a widely-read Internet forum, you probably didn't say anything worthwhile.

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