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by tankbot 14y ago
They're both about public shaming for sex acts.
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by tankbot 14y ago
Wow, I really want to ad hom here because you obviously didn't read the article or listen to the original (and excellent) WNYC Radio Rookie piece, but I'll resist. This isn't about a girl or a case. It's about many girls (and boys) and
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by tankbot 14y ago
Funny, I was just thinking about this the other day in the context of why it's seldom mentioned when various parties heatedly discuss environmental issues. Seems like the earth literally being on fire would come up more often in rants abou
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by tankbot 14y ago
Heard this on NPR last night on the commute home. The piece is a powerful and very coherent analogy relating modern "slut shaming" to the classic The Scarlet Letter. It's heartbreaking to hear about kids making bad decisions in an effort t
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by tankbot 14y ago
> It does not necessarily, or even probably, signal a sea change in the way people think about OSes. I think this is a true statement and I agree completely, but only because Joe Averageuser doesn't think about OS's _at all_. I think th
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by tankbot 14y ago
From the piece: "It won’t be revolutionary, per se — many have already entered the smart watch space" Anyway, I would buy this. I stopped wearing a watch when I got my first cell phone back in the late 90's but recently (last year) started
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by tankbot 14y ago
Running corners too wide into oncoming traffic or trees is a concern, but not more than with cars, etc. If you're driving too fast, you're driving too fast. I don't see that it's more of a concern with this vehicle. I assumed the same as
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by tankbot 14y ago
You seem to be stuck with the idea that this would be like correcting a traditional motorcycle in a bad turn. This is not a human knee-jerk reaction to overcorrect we're talking about, it's a computer that is constantly making minor correc
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by tankbot 14y ago
That was my first computer, with that awful beige Radioshack shoebox cassette player. Oh, the fun days playing Artilery for hours and hours :o)
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by tankbot 14y ago
> But those are both issues inherent to two-wheeled vehicles, and adding gyroscopes won't solve either. Did you see the part of the video where they pulled the bike sideways with another vehicle and the gyros kept it upright? If the gy
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by tankbot 14y ago
Technically it was irony, and the only sentence that wasn't obvious was the second. In this situation there is no risk to being taken at face value so Poe's Law is meh . However, this does tell me that my phrasing needs work. Ever notice
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by tankbot 14y ago
It seems natural that these sorts of things would appear, especially around a community like HN. But what's the point? HN is already a community because of HN. Isn't this like the programmer who wanted to create a standard to unify the n
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by tankbot 14y ago
You could always just read the (admittedly not that great) piece which precisely explained all of that. In a sentence: Nicholas Negroponte, who started OLPC, dropped off a bunch of Xooms that run Android in a couple of villages where the ki
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by tankbot 14y ago
It's obvious, and you can too tell. I'm not worried about the comment being misunderstood, there are thick people everywhere and the Internet is no exception. Besides, this is just a friendly discussion forum, it's not like I'm Jonathan S
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by tankbot 14y ago
Most of your response seems to be an off-topic rant against frameworks and new technology, and you're certainly not wrong on those points. But what I find interesting is the on-topic portion, where you basically say this: "Social programmi
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by tankbot 14y ago
Remember when McDonalds got in trouble for putting "Over a million served." on their signs? Or the scads of other businesses that the SEC routinely cracks down on for similar announcements? The criminals at Netflix should hang for this cr
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by tankbot 14y ago
The floating Social Media Integration Station covers the words of the piece on Safari.
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by tankbot 14y ago
Maybe cocaine? Who snorts weed?
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by tankbot 14y ago
Thanks for posting this, I didn't want to spam the comments with the whole man entry (haha, "man entry"). I'm just super curious where the nasal/plants thing comes from or even how it works. Is this going to be on the next episode of Taboo
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by tankbot 14y ago
NAME sex - have sex SYNOPSIS sex [ options ] ... [ username ] ... DESCRIPTION sex allows the invoker to have sex with the user(s) speci- fied in the command line. If no users are specified, they are tak
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by tankbot 14y ago
This is a very interesting philosophy I would like to hear more about. I suspect it is different for coding? It seems like tracking down all of the connected logic bits would be difficult after writing deliriously.
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by tankbot 14y ago
Micah, though traditionally a male name, is sometimes given to females. There is no reason to assume there was a sex change, maybe she got married or just changed her name.
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by tankbot 14y ago
This caught my attention too. 125k people seems low for just the Bay area alone.
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by tankbot 14y ago
What. Are. You. Doing. Here?!?!
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by tankbot 14y ago
Thanks for the info, you confirmed my suspicions. I wonder what they'll come up with, it's an interesting problem.
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by tankbot 14y ago
I think our argument is over 2 separate issues (see below) which is causing confusion. I agree with you that approach and tactics should be malleable. But I maintain that commitment to core beliefs needs to be strong and unwavering. I'm a
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by tankbot 14y ago
> That doesn't mean that he abandoned his values. This was exactly my point. The parent was suggesting that MLK compromised on his stance but presented only evidence of a change in tactics. I agree completely with your other assertions
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by tankbot 14y ago
Well articulated, but super thin. MLK changing tactics after failure is not evidence of wavering resolve or belief, only a recognition that those tactics were not effective. This is a straw man. And with respect to "art and martyrdom" - T
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by tankbot 14y ago
Haha, I knew it as soon as I hit reply. My apologies, corrected. :)
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by tankbot 14y ago
True. I almost didn't include Lincoln because of this. But even if Lincoln hated black people outright (highly unlikely), history remembers him (somewhat incorrectly) as a believer in human rights. In reality he was probably just trying

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