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by pkinsky 10y ago
Because said tyrant wishes to avoid a coup by the armed forces/defections to the rebels/etc?
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by pkinsky 10y ago
That is not true. Our legal system views some lawsuits as themselves being illegitimate attempts to silence people by forcing them to defend against frivolous, meritless lawsuits (see SLAPP). It does not view lawsuits as SLAPP-worthy merely
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by pkinsky 10y ago
I do enjoy watching people quote one of Gawker's favorite lines back at them.
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by pkinsky 10y ago
Freedom from speech isn't freedom from consequences. Gawker can publish what they like, and when they break laws against revenge porn they can be sued.
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by pkinsky 10y ago
All I see are slippery slope arguments claiming that, next time, Thiel might go after someone who didn't unarguably deserve it.
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by pkinsky 10y ago
Gawker posted revenge porn, not leaked memos proving the CIA created crack. I don't see this as a particularly slippery slope.
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by pkinsky 10y ago
>He added: “It’s not for me to decide what happens to Gawker. If America rallies around Gawker and decides we want more people to be outed and more sex tapes to be posted without consent, then they will find a way to save Gawker, and I c
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Ask HN: Taking a week off to decompress in and around SF, any tips?
11 points by pkinsky 10y ago|13 comments
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by pkinsky 10y ago
I imagine a chain of events something like this: 1) Some shady anonymous source (someone incentivized to see Theranos fail) provides them with some hints. 2) Being good journalists, they follow up and find that something sketchy is going on
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Video: https://twitter.com/mirikramer/status/718545053732446209
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Thanks for the link. Neoreaction seems superficially similar to Marxism, in that it makes some interesting criticisms but would probably lead to millions of deaths if actually implemented.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Corporations aren't _good_, they just have goals that doesn't entirely intersect with those of the government.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
I really like the idea of moving somewhere outside the US with better work-life balance norms, such as the fabled 6 weeks of vacation mandated by Germany. Has anyone done this?
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by pkinsky 11y ago
> So when you look at the roster of Silicon Valley CEOs and see row after row of white, male faces I'd question your visual acuity: it's white, asian and indian male faces, not white male faces.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Her blog post talks about living off of a single bag of rice plus free food at work because she couldn't afford to buy groceries. Do expensive booze deliveries not count as groceries?
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by pkinsky 11y ago
You should try to evaluate candidates based on their portfolio, resumes, etc. If after doing so you still don't know enough to evaluate them properly then sure, give them a take home test.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
>No, it was, in fact, not prevented from being published. The first two sentences of the article are "I launched a book this week and I went Indie with it. Indie means I released it on Amazon via Kindle Direct Publishing." Prev
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by pkinsky 11y ago
> I absolutely think that private organisations can effectively ban something without government intervention. I just don't think that happened here. Oh, absolutely. To be honest I'm not terribly interested in the specifics of
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by pkinsky 11y ago
I see a few people pointing out that the book wasn't really banned, in the sense that it was not published as a direct result of government intervention. But is this really a meaningful distinction? The book was prevented from being pu
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by pkinsky 11y ago
I'm guessing that, if unplugged, they continue to run off battery power and send an alert to the nearest homeland office.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Personally I think it's just a consequence of overly simple models of the world, not something more nefarious.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
What falsifiable predictions does critical race theory make?
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Do white-passing gay people not get to have a say in diversity issues? I really don't like this trend of painting everyone with white-ish skin as a homogenous oppressor class. It's pretty clear to me that a diversity department th
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by pkinsky 11y ago
It's a department at a company. You're not allowed to say that 'people of ethnicity X will never be given a leadership position'. That's blatant racism.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
It's not always fun and games: I'm Assyrian (a middle eastern, ethnically Christian ethnicity). When the first news reports of ISIS ethnically cleansing Assyrians in areas under their control came out, prominent members of social
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by pkinsky 11y ago
>Probably not that much. We need defense force, we don't need to "police" the world (which really means imperialism). We don't need nuclear capabilities. It's not us you'll have to convince of this, it'
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by pkinsky 11y ago
I think railguns are better at sending dumb payload masses, there's a fairly high amount of electricity pumped into the rails and IIRC the military ones have a sort of plasma muzzle flash effect. Cubesats tend to be lightweight and sma
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Someone has done a proof-of concept for this at a Russian press conference, by which I mean that they buzzed the VIP table with a drone carrying a large-ish dildo (which I assume weighed about as much as a small explosive payload). https:&
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Maybe, but a more secretive backdoor would probably not be used as often (to avoid risk of discovery).
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by pkinsky 11y ago
It does. I used it to block twitter's new 'moments' icon, for example.

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