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by revdinosaur 14y ago
I'm sorry but you're incorrect. Getting "offended" by a sexual joke is not unusual, nor does its normalcy matter in this situation. What they did was create an unwelcoming environment around them by engaging in locker room-level humor. I pe
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
I think it's fascinating that every single instance of this argument, in this and related threads, posters conveniently decide to begin tracing the chain of events that lead to the firing at the tweet--not the jokes.
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
How were the accusations false? It seems they were making jokes that made another human being uncomfortable and they took action. One of the two men involved even posted in this thread and admitted that they were making the jokes.
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
I agree that the first of the Tropes vs. Women laid out some pretty standard feminist theory applied to game culture, but if she's not rocking the boat by doing so, why all the death and rape threats? Also, the idea that criticism or commen
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
For a lot of people I think the GPIO pins, the killer little GPU and ability to expand from the USB ports that differentiates it from the other low-cost ARM boards. The closest competitor I can think of is the BeagleBone which is great but
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
There is a product aimed at doing just that: http://filabot.com/ Closing the loop and attaching the output of the Filabot directly to a 3d printer wouldn't be too difficult.
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
Until just now.
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
This is a great game and it's well-suited for the iPhone format. It took me a few minutes playing the "Frenzy" mode before I realized I could use both thumbs (duh). How are you liking Unity compared to Obj-C?
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
I take issue with the suggestion that there is very little education going on, specifically with regard to Adafruit. The tutorials on the site do not go into complete depth when discussing every project they post but the content they produc
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
The use of the term "thought crime" may have been deliberate, but that does not make it apt. I was in no way claiming to know what the author believes or thinks, only what their words have to offer--which I was summarily disappointed with.
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
I was merely describing the analogy as misogynist, but if you wish to extend the label to the speaker you have every right to attempt that. If we are to discuss the rhetoric of my comment, though, I think that weasel words such as "thought
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
Not white, but thanks for dismissing my comment with a link.
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
What is your improved description for the remark describing girls as "not overly ugly or attractive yet still wanted to be the center of attention" besides casually misogynist? I am genuinely curious. Since when does a (seemingly) objective
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
There's a casual misogyny to the premise that ignores the face that plenty of teenage boys do/did the same things for the same reasons.
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, retweets by users with private accounts are not added to that count.
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
It would be easier to "act like it's ... true" if that statement weren't so damn objectivist. It's a non-ideal language that runs most of the web. There's an incredible nuance to that truth that makes it difficult to say that it's "garbage"
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
I think there's also a broader implication that "homeless people" are so different from "normal" people that their input is some sort of gem that this young man went out of his way to discover for the rest of us. There are a saddening numbe
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
Presumably to keep traffic in their ad corral? The more nefarious version of not linking to the source is placing what looks like an outbound link that goes to another article on the site.
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by revdinosaur 15y ago
What if someone finds a box of photos containing some of your children in their underwear and scan them and trade them around the internet? Not all photos online were intended that way by the person who took them. To assume this is very con
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by revdinosaur 15y ago
Maybe not you personally, but think of the NOW scandal going on right now. Information about people's mobile contact info is valuable to a number of organizations in ways not immediately apparent.
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by revdinosaur 15y ago
I think there has been a lot of regression on the side of us progressives who are so afraid of being rhetoricians that we actively scuttle our own causes with poor choices of language. There are very few politicians on the left trying to be
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by revdinosaur 15y ago
The rhetorical shift needs to be greater, conjuring up different images than cages and locks. People put locks on things they own, they don't necessarily want to support people who can bypass them. I think things need to go in the direction
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by revdinosaur 15y ago
Heh, I find myself doing almost exactly that. Funny thing is I usually browse HN for posts about task management. I really get satisfaction from checking things off and definitely benefit from prioritizing myself, but does anyone here have
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by revdinosaur 15y ago
Conflating the notion of people being offended by nakedness in certain images and people reacting to offensive statements is not helping your case. It's a pretty good strawman to get past people not paying much attention to your block of te
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by revdinosaur 15y ago
It's because the major record labels already chose their strategy when they became record labels. They exist for the purposes of managing and licensing IP and suing those they believe are infringing. Bottom line: what do they want fresh tal
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by revdinosaur 15y ago
Ektar is an incredible new stock. That and their new formula 16mm Ektachrome have really impressed me as of late.
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by revdinosaur 15y ago
Actually, her behavior (and narrative) is similar to that of "sovereign citizen" types who imbue all sorts of psuedo-legal meaning to the U.S. Constitution and what they think it allows them to do. Not all sovereign citizen groups are viole
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by revdinosaur 15y ago
At the rental house that I use, I hear that the Arri Alexa gets more traffic than their stock of REDs. It makes sense that a powerhouse in the industry like Arri would be able to cater to moviemakers better than a newcomer that showed up ma
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by revdinosaur 15y ago
Or Metroid! The reveal of Samus's identity at the end of that game was a little bit gender-bendy for me as a young man.
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by revdinosaur 15y ago
Inches? I'm not that impressed. (I kid, all the best to this young man.)

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