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by omonra 14y ago
Look - I get the security implications. But I (personally) consider the probability of it happening x potential damage to be insignificant when compared with convenience offered.
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by omonra 14y ago
Yep - this I can certainly agree would make host country angry. For a story that somewhat parallels what the French did (but a WHOLE different level) check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramil_Safarov
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by omonra 14y ago
Meta advice - there is no need to turn every discussion into one about Iraq war. On the actual statement - I disagree 100%, but we're talking ethics, so rational arguments can't go very far :)
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by omonra 14y ago
What term do you then reserve for intentional murder?
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by omonra 14y ago
I guess it's more useful to more people around the world than Instagram. So there's one benchmark :)
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by omonra 14y ago
As a user of the app, I don't care about any of them. As far as I see it - it's perfect. For example - them having my addressbook means that I don't have to set up any contacts. While I wish there was a desktop service, its lack is just tha
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by omonra 14y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to call it evil - death happened due a miscalculation, it was not intentional. I think intent matters if we call something evil.
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by omonra 14y ago
Exactly - I believe that school kids should also suck it up and learn to speak properly (I will not shy away from this nomenclature) early, rather than wait for college (and what about the majority who don't make it there?) where an English
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by omonra 14y ago
Yep :) There is a very good essay on the topic by David Foster Wallace that someone linked to in the comments. I was pleasantly surprised that he makes exactly the same points as myself (albeit much more eloquently). Do check it out.
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by omonra 14y ago
But it's somewhat misleading. Do rich black people give their children distinctively Black names? I actually looked up names that richest AA gave their kids: Michael Jordan - Marcus, Jeffrey, Jasmine Byonce - Blue Ivy Carter Sean Combs - Ju
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by omonra 14y ago
Thank you - I really liked the 1st video. "A native-AAVE speaker will use SE when speaking to me, even if their preferred dialect at home is AAVE, so I don't get exposed to it." I actually wonder if two black guys who can speak AAVE but wan
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by omonra 14y ago
To be fair, people who speak ebonics do not want to sound 'white'. So both sides are doing this on purpose.
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by omonra 14y ago
Could you share with us "videos of articulate, smart, (preferably math/science-based discussion in AAVE)"? Perhaps this is the missing link for us sceptics - we associate it with poor uneducated individuals. Ie - by definition, if someone w
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by omonra 14y ago
"but this is not the opinion of, among many notable others, the Oakland school board since 1996." Yes - and they've been considered a joke because of it since 1996. The decision was "derided and criticized, most notably by Jesse Jackson and
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by omonra 14y ago
Your argument seems to rest on the premise that teaching them in Standard English will imply that ebonics is wrong. And that is somehow bad. I, meanwhile, just don't care. The world will not care about their feelings - and the earlier they
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by omonra 14y ago
Unless these kids are going to be reading books written in ebonics, perhaps they don't belong in higher reading groups? Same works for Spanish speaking kids - if they don't speak / understand English, they would be placed in remedial classe
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by omonra 14y ago
Is it just me or is the entire article premised on this sentence: "If we admit there are structural barriers to entry, and a culture that actively discourages and women and men of color from participating, then it logically follows that tec
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by omonra 14y ago
Cool :)
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by omonra 14y ago
I am not sure that 3 white collar crimes should be punishable by life sentence. Why not amend the law to only cover violent crime? For stealing of socks, maybe just have sentencing guidelines that take into account how many socks the offen
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by omonra 14y ago
I don't know if you are serious or are being sarcastic. Assuming the former (rather sad state of affairs), this short interview with Steven Pinker should explain why a society where people fear retaliation for voicing 'outrageous' views is
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by omonra 14y ago
I was a VP at Morgan Stanley - it is simply a title that is bestowed on all more-or-less competent front-office employees who've been with the firm for about 5-6 years. Ie - there are thousands of them. Investment Banking hierarchy: Analys
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by omonra 14y ago
I see another simple fact - the author does not feel comfortable posting his views under his name because he fears retaliation. And that's a problem.
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by omonra 14y ago
TLTR: Everyone driving faster than you is an idiot and everyone driving slower than you is a moron.
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by omonra 14y ago
Since the author accepts that these things are not sexist, but rather inappropriate - can the title be updated? Or why not call them racist, evil, etc?
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by omonra 14y ago
I am not convinced that males are incapable of understanding whatever it is that Etsy's clients want. After all - we don't look for programmers who are doctors for medical programs, etc. I'd actually posit that in majority of cases (ie all
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by omonra 14y ago
You know, if she wasn't such a publicity-seeking hypocritical douchebag, I'd take your point. However, her pattern of behavior clearly shows that to be the case (she was tweeting sexual innuendos while at the conference ). So I think her M
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by omonra 14y ago
I'd like to see some numbers on how having 500% more female engineers made Etsy ship a better product - which is what I imagine customers ultimately care about. The idea that diversity is good for its own sake in every possible situation is
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by omonra 14y ago
While you don't think she overreacted, I don't think everybody else overreacted. I guess everybody got what they deserved. Happy now?
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by omonra 14y ago
So 80% of the comments here mention the Reader and yet you surmise that most people don't care about it? Regardless of what your personal relationship to the Reader issue is, you might consider the possibility that THIS product is axed afte
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by omonra 14y ago
I am not convinced that Iceland did the wrong thing - given the alternatives. Perhaps the foreigners who irresponsibly lent the money should be the ones bearing the brunt of the burden, as opposed to citizen-bystanders. So far Iceland appea

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