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by srl 15y ago
> Are you a straight white male? Close. Bisexual. Good guess though. /sarcasm > If someone wants to make a point of a difference they're proud of, they'll do it themselves. Don't force it upon them! I fundamentally disagree with thi
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by srl 15y ago
> If it was a case of people shrugging it off, if this sort of thing could occur without anyone batting an eyelash... I'd have a lot more second-thoughts about my career path for one, and I'd have turned away from the start-up community
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by srl 15y ago
Take what I say with a few grains of salt - I'm one of those weirdos whose always tried to be at least a little bit different - to avoid ever becoming wholly "in". But, in my experience, othering isn't going to drive people away, not in any
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by srl 15y ago
Ugh... the reactions to these idiotic, misogynistic statements always feel overblown. Yes, sexism is a pretty big problem in the industry (and adjacent ones). But you're not going to fix it by griping about a horny 20-something saying somet
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by srl 15y ago
Oh look: a comment not critical of, but nevertheless about, colleges, is being downvoted on HN. Stop my beating heart. The current "college is a waste of money/time" trend got boring rather quickly - at this point, it's just extraordinarily
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by srl 15y ago
+1 from me. I don't actually benefit from the new behavour much more than the current behaviour (my personal usage pattern results in me wanting to always push all branches), but it logically makes much more sense. As noted elsewhere, it's
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What You Lose When You Sign That Donor Card (online.wsj.com)
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First Language's Don't Matter(bytbox.net)
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by srl 15y ago
Not that I know of. If you're anticipating a reply, you generally just have to remember to check. Conversations between individuals are de-emphasized in exchange for content and a variety of ideas. I think the effect is good.
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Filtering Software Companies Should Follow Websense's Lead(eff.org)
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by srl 15y ago
This is one of the few instances where I disagree with that attitude. The risks involved in relocating ill-studied life forms are, obviously, enormous, and it does need careful and dispassionate consideration. I'd much rather risk a mildly
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by srl 15y ago
Here's what I don't understand. How are scientific projects constantly having funding crises? The set of people who are most interested in seeing Kepler, JWST, etc. succeed strongly overlaps the set of people who have the sort of money need
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by srl 15y ago
Not so clearly after all. The harm caused by the orders may well be less than the harm caused to the social structures in the group by one or two people disobeying - or by everyone disobeying, and the group needing to somehow select a new a
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by srl 15y ago
I have to (partially) agree with you. Iran executes people for the most B.S. of reasons all the time, and we rarely hear about it, and we certainly don't get as much of it as we've been getting of this guy. That's not to say that this guy i
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by srl 15y ago
Old discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2894708 Personally, I'm happy for the repost - I was looking for this, but couldn't find it, just yesterday.
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by srl 15y ago
> posters arrogantly asserting that "women should just ask for more" I believe I remember the posts to which you're referring, which centered IIRC around posts of "what you as a woman can do to improve your salary", by at least one femi
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Overton Window(en.wikipedia.org)
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by srl 15y ago
I disagree. The FBI, DHS, TSA and so on /can/ be defeated through humiliation - you just have to keep at it until enough voters get the message for a few politicians to use "regulate XYZ" and "abolish the ABC" as mechanisms for political ga
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by srl 15y ago
An interesting feature for HN to have: when there's a paywall of this sort, link to the google redirect instead.
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by srl 15y ago
Anonymous's strategy for "defeating" the FBI etc. is to publicly humiliate them and expose them to be harmful and largely worthless[1] - that goal is better served by showing off the FBI's incompetence than by guarding their own rear ends.
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My U.S. Border Nightmare(zakhomuth.com)
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ESR on Facebook(esr.ibiblio.org)
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by srl 15y ago
> these laws will have been laughed out of the Supreme Court It makes me mighty uncomfortable how often we have to fall back on "because the supreme court" (or more generally, "because courts" - there are a lot of lower-level justices d
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by srl 15y ago
It's happened to me as stated. Back in public school, I had a friend who got banned from using the computers for several months for VNC'ing into his home computer. Because it was "hacking" - no other rationale, no complicating factors. To u
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U.S. No-Fly List Doubles in One Year(time.com)
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by srl 15y ago
> I sometimes keep track of hackers and learn of vulnerable websites and infrastructures You're on a website called "Hacker News", for starters. Am I the only one who's had to deal with related idiocy when on a public computer? (Also, u
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Words Matter(existentialtype.wordpress.com)
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by srl 15y ago
> I signed a petition against the White House's plan to put airport usage fees in place for general aviation, effectively charging pilots to talk to air traffic control. This is a Really Bad Idea (I'm happy to delineiate why in future c
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You are not special(iottmco.wordpress.com)
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by srl 15y ago
> Really, I recently had the good fortune to interview Robert Bjork, director of the UCLA Learning and Forgetting Lab... That's the source. This isn't a research paper - it doesn't need cited references to be submitted to the journal of

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