scoobyyabbadoo

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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
What is the business model here? Is user data monitized for profit?
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
While the comment was about the 1980's maybe this Los Angeles times article from 2008 can shed some light, though I'll dig up some more sources if you like: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
>Sure, I will try to unpack my thoughts. >You go after Jewish people as a class, rather than specific institutions controlled by Jewish people, which I think is bad faith argumentation. If you criticized Israel, for example, or some s
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
>Many white Americans have slavic blood Is whiteness a social construct or a genetic one?
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
>HN mods are not here for justice Is the polite and free discussion of ideas not justice?
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
I'm a lesbian...
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
Good point, those are private, but I go in with the paper version of their review in that case and they sign a document at the end which states we discussed everything in the document during the meeting.
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
>The community has You and your alt account do not make up "the community". Since I make comments related to the articles and discussions then I am way more a part of the HN community than you are. Anyway, I invite you and your
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
Mr Stallman said in an email that Marvin Minsky probably wasn't a rapist.
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
No one bats an eye about Brendan Eich because he did nothing wrong
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
I just don't have 1-1s with anyone I manage. Don't want problems for having 1-1s with women, don't want discrimination accusations for having 1-1s with men. No one can accuse me of anything if everything happens in an open of
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
What evidence of bad faith are you referring to? Interesting how you and "other people" going through my comments have no actual objections to the content of what I say. Hard to have a productive conversation when all you have a
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
Please assume good faith and discuss the topics directly. What is it that you find debatable about my comment? I've always made good faith efforts at productive conversation whether someone agrees or disagrees with me on something
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
THat's great. Software piracy raises the costs of software for non-pirates
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
But Disney seems to have all the franchises that everyone wants to see. Add to that the major broadcasters are also pulling content, it's not just Disney. NBC, ABC, CBS are all pulling their content from Netflix and creating their own
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
Yeah it is very peculiar how the British elites was able to establish the Mandate for Palestine to give Jewish people their own state but haven't been able to establish something giving British people their own state even after it was
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
>I'm quite fond of the idea of a decentralized currency that nobody has the ability to actively control becoming popular. That would act as a hedge against abuse of power by both governments and corporations. Precisely what Satoshi
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
Not surprising at all. I often follow the first few weeks of a MOOC but after a bit I am satisfied and don't feel the need to push through all 13-17 weeks of material. Isn't that a success? I certainly learned a lot along the way
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
I clicked your links and don't see any replies from you to those comments.
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
I liked this. Reminds me of an essay I can't find at the moment from a Microsoft manager during the 80s working on their large excel development team. They studied how communication costs in large teams go up as the number of team memb
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
OK, maybe you shared my account with someone who can downvote, it doesn't matter. If you have something to reply to my comments, you can reply to me directly with what you disagree with and why, I have always engaged productively with
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
I noticed the sudden drop of points in my comments score in the past hour, which I must deduce is you going through and downvoting all my posts? Please remember the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
Oh yeah? Next you'll be telling me video game studios make up a tiny fraction of the workforce!
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
I'm glad your mom is still alive though
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
I would not even call Netflix a success story until they can prove they will retain customers when the currently most popular content is being pulled
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
I suspect that the LGBTQ people in these cases must have really done something that broke the law in these cases. In the news just the other day there were TWO gay lawyers who defended a gay person PRO BONO who murdered two kids in a school
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
Same here, just makes me think who has connections to get themselves declared fact checker. Can you imagine how awesome it must be to have major media outlets coo about how whatever you the fact checker says should not be questioned?
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
I've been receiving threats through social media for a few months now by anonymous trolls. Kinda sucks because I never know when/if they are going to start a harassment campaign in real life. I've seen them do it to others, i
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
Care to give any example of this happening?
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by scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
And why make China come here to steal your IP when you can just ship it to them directly?

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