supervacuo

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by supervacuo 11mo ago
Hi! I tried to apply but I was getting an error message on the form (didn't find any extra info in the API response either), tried contact form. Is there an email I could send an application to? -- c@<my HN username>.com.
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by supervacuo 12y ago
Hard to tell, but I hope you're not saying this has been a good thing. Locking up kids for being poor and stifling dissent are hardly noble goals.
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by supervacuo 12y ago
An omnivore eating less meat is good for all the reasons being vegetarian is good - it's not all-or-nothing. That more-vegetarian-than-previously omnivore calling themselves vegetarian is helpful to other vegetarians in that it raises
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by supervacuo 13y ago
Getting the 40-hour week took a revolution in France, Mexico and Russia, an incipient revolution in the UK and Chile, industrial action in Australia, Portugal and New Zealand... If you really want to argue that the 40-hour work week was the
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by supervacuo 13y ago
Where on earth did the author find this revisionist nonsense? The 40-hour work week was won after a bitter decades-long fight by workers and unions against business owners. The idea that Ford bestowed it upon a grateful staff to improve cap
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by supervacuo 14y ago
> Sure, but we shouldn't be outraged over Swartz being prosecuted. WTH not? It was pretty outrageous. I'd be interested to hear your argument that he deserved even 6 months in prison for copyright violation. > If a crime is not repo
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by supervacuo 14y ago
> I think Jeff was trying to push back against this idea with his post If you want to make the point that suicide is bad, find a way to do it without insulting a recently-deceased campaigner, especially if a) you have very little person
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by supervacuo 14y ago
I think your first sentence perfectly illustrates my point: > There are laws which may or may not be levied against us in certain situations. Evidence (including Swartz's case) strongly suggests that this discretion leads to an unjust r
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by supervacuo 14y ago
> So respectfully empathize with him, and point out your differences about activism. There's no moral problem with being slightly irreverent to someone in such a strong position: Atwood is apparently financially successful and has a lar
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by supervacuo 14y ago
"Dealing with suicidal thoughts" and "scaring off potential activists by being nasty" are two separate activities.
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by supervacuo 14y ago
Sure. But "respecting Atwood's grief" was outweighed by "challenging his dangerous ideology", especially since (as he says in his post) he'd never met Swartz. Don't think his suicidal thoughts are relevant to his chosen topic of noble activ
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by supervacuo 14y ago
"The law" isn't some monolith, though -- it's defined by every institution (every person?) enforcing it, and every decision made in carrying out "justice". It's a crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to port-scan Google. Are you rea
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by supervacuo 14y ago
> I am neither sure that Aaron Swartz intended to engage in civil disobedience This is an interesting point: I would develop it to talk about _levels_ of disobedience. Like Andrew Auernheimer, I think Swartz knew he would get "in troubl
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by supervacuo 14y ago
mcherm is right about what I meant: a hopefully-not-controversial statement. Sorry for being unclear.
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Perhaps Jeff Atwood Should Stick to the Code(supervacuo.com)
29 points by supervacuo 14y ago|29 comments
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by supervacuo 14y ago
It makes me so, so happy that someone else picked up on this.
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by supervacuo 14y ago
"No politics" is like absolute zero: a state unreachable because of the nature of the universe. In fact, "no politics" is in itself a very political statement; you're calling for a libertarian foreign policy attitude by saying that it's pos
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by supervacuo 14y ago
So your biggest problem with VIM is that pseudo-VIM plugins for other software aren't implemented very well? Right...
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by supervacuo 14y ago
If you like graphs: http://www.facebookstockvalue.com/
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by supervacuo 14y ago
Surely the only take-away from this is that McDonald's is a terrible place. Didn't we all know that already? It's still helpful to try and do as much damage as possible with this story (ideally getting some money or at least an apology for