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by pyre 9y ago
Don't you understand? Since the "SJWs" are wrong, any action taken against them must be right!
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by pyre 9y ago
I know. I like how the response from the project has gems like this: > Protip: you won't because you can't.
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by pyre 9y ago
You're saying: > no context as to whether or not those things were the metrics by which her performance was being measured But per the blog post: > Based on the positive feedback from my one-on-ones and how well I was tracking
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by pyre 9y ago
Well, the other issue is that if they are constantly barraged by trolls trying to offend them on social media (just because they find offending people to be funny), then it could be more of a "if all you have is a hammer, everything st
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by pyre 9y ago
> The fact, for example, she dismisses PRs or code reviews because made by > white males. Or the blog post on her first deliverable, rewritten by a > white male. I really feel like you are injecting your own issues i
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by pyre 9y ago
This just reminds me of this: http://dilbert.com/strip/1997-09-10
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by pyre 9y ago
Most of these sites don't want you to navigate away from their page. They would rather you can share without leaving their site (i.e. a dialog pops up that allows you to create your Facebook "share" post, and submit it).
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by pyre 9y ago
Customer support of costly. Why do you think that many companies raise artificial barriers to getting in contact with support (e.g. burying their support line deep within their site in a non-obvious location). Even then the support that you
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by pyre 9y ago
Maybe she was confusing "radical libertarians" with "radical liberals?"
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by pyre 9y ago
> under the current system law enforcement are usually more dangerous to the workers than anybody else :( The system forces them underground and to take more risks, but I'm pretty sure that the cops aren't usually the ones
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by pyre 9y ago
This logic falls down: 1. If the police catch every child sex trafficker selling on Backpage, then there won't be anymore posting to Backpage. The ones left will either get more savvy, or already more savvy and weren't using Backp
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by pyre 9y ago
One of the big issues is that as soon as you delve into content-censoring, then the law makes you liable for everything (from child abuse to libel). The law takes an all-or-nothing approach. For example, think about what YouTube would be
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by pyre 9y ago
On the other hand, Facebook could design their social media widgets in a way that doesn't require the user to send a GET request to Facebook unless the user actively clicks to share.
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by pyre 9y ago
It seems that the largest issue with your previous job is a lack of coding standards/discipline. I think that this point: > the weakly-typed/dynamic nature of JavaScript itself which doesn't scale well to larger server-si
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by pyre 9y ago
The "super copyright" comment has less to do with their ownership of the copyright, and more to do with the rest of the context about the owners not being able to exert copyright claims due to fair use. (This of course is predicat
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by pyre 9y ago
I realize that the amicus brief isn't part of the decision, but it was just including it for reference.
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by pyre 9y ago
> put yourself in the shoes of the person being ripped off No such person exists. If a physical item is being rebranded, then the item must have been purchased from the original manufacturer. This means that they got money for it, th
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by pyre 9y ago
> On Tuesday, March 14, 2017, Microsoft issued security bulletin MS17-010,[7] which detailed the flaw and announced that patches had been released for all Windows versions that were currently supported at that time https://e
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by pyre 9y ago
I'm referring to the case where that woman posed as a high school student and drove a girl that her daughter didn't like to suicide via cyber bullying. They tried to charge her under the CFAA for violating Facebook's ToS agai
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by pyre 9y ago
The US Justice Dept. tested that theory (violation of ToS is a violation of the CFAA) in court, but it didn't fly. The judge correctly pointed out that this basically gives companies carte blanche to make something a Federal crime vi
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by pyre 9y ago
From the article: > In this picture, ALMA observes the hot gas of the lower chromosphere of Betelgeuse at sub-millimeter wavelengths — where localised increased temperatures explain why it is not symmetric. I'm guessing the "
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by pyre 9y ago
Doesn't seem to work anymore, but there was this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5192656
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by pyre 9y ago
Apologies, but I'm not claiming that you think that there is no amount of evidence that can satisfy a claim against a powerful person. My issue was that the claim: > When it involves rich or powerful people, the ability to get ma
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by pyre 9y ago
> A good faith investigation by a journalist with six sources, three on the record, could certainly be viewed as due process. But @sillysaurus3 basically said that there is no amount of evidence that could satisfy "reasonable doub
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by pyre 9y ago
> claim of sexual harassment is as equally damaging now as being called a communist was in the 50's I dispute this very much. For example, you have people like Chris Brown that can turn their girlfriend into a human punching bag..
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by pyre 9y ago
> how many of them are going to have homes worth well more than their mortgage with rates so high they can't afford to make payments Don't you mean the other way around? Homes worth less than the mortgage?
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by pyre 9y ago
> of course glass can bear that alright Perhaps not in the 1920s though.
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by pyre 9y ago
It's at the end: > The whole industry switched to a new standard for the ripe California olive. > "It has to be heated to 240 degrees. And only a can would tolerate that, physically—you couldn’t do that with a glass jar.&
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by pyre 9y ago
> However, if this is your personal pet peeve then you should provide all of your developers / contributors with a plugin, script or other utility that formats their code to your standards. http://editorconfig.org/
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by pyre 9y ago
Totally. I entered an address I don't care about, and it just kept asking me for what is essentially a marketing profile: - Is this a personal email address? - Please enter 10 more email addresses that you use (i.e. are associated with

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