wonderzombie

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by wonderzombie 13y ago
other (non-bullied) politicians Is this how people are co-opting the term "bullied" now? To describe criticism of prominent people in public life? C'mon. Condoleeza Rice served in two presidential administrations. She is no
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
...which are all rational ways for people to optimize their time. And lo, it works sometimes. So what you're really saying is that even though this is a fairly well-optimized use of people's time and effort, it's illegitima
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Why wouldn't people take action which has even a small percentage of success when it requires negligible effort and little time? It seems utterly rational to me. Likewise, moderate physical exertion (read: effort and time) for a lo
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
I can barely use my Moto X one-handed (e.g. standing on a bus). I must be one of the only people on the planet who a) does this and/or b) does not have monstrously large hands. :P
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
We failed him? How overwrought can you get? He wasn't incarcerated, executed, sued, or tried for a crime. He lost his job. As we're all fond of implying here, there's no right to employment, let alone the right to be a CEO. D
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
"Keeping marriage as it's been" is a post-hoc rationalization, to attempt to disconnect the anti-gay-marriage crowd from a religious argument. Go read the Bible that's used to justify this crap and write up a compare&#x2
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Good grief. You do far more harm to your position by invoking a practice part of a century-long campaign of terror against a racial minority. Free speech doesn't mean freedom from criticism. It means the opposite, actually. And we as
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Um, how could his actions not suggest intolerance? He contributed money to a campaign which essentially persecutes a minority. In what universe is that not bigoted? "He didn't mean it" is a ridiculously flimsy defense.
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Social censure is the most powerful way to adjust norms. You're much more likely to listen to a friend calling you out on something than anyone else. And it sends signals to other people with a similar bent, suggesting that certain beh
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
The "BS" in "BS religious reasons" is the tell. There are huge swaths of the Bible the religious set is happy to set aside when it's convenient. Go read Leviticus for a start. It says more about Christians than it
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
It's not about "winning." It's about what kind of world we want to live in. Evidently enough people don't want to live in a world where a bigot is the CEO of an organization that ostensibly espouses freedom and equa
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Lynching? Please. There's no legal right to be a CEO. Nobody's bringing this guy up in front of a congressional committee. He exercised his constitutional right to donate money, and everyone else exercised their constitutional r
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
And yet the US, EU, et al, still sent their Olympic teams to Sochi. I remember hearing something about how companies are usually pretty happy when people call for a boycott because it means it's a vocal minority and nothing organized.
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Um, it's wrong, but only because of the particulars of this example, in that the board is probably racist. And to close the loop on your example, it would be open season on the board once public opinion caught up with them. I think you
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
I don't accept this as "redefining marriage." For one thing, the definition has changed throughout history. "Redefining" is a talking point engineered by bigots when the fact is that gay marriage affects straight ma
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
There're any number of reasons why someone might visit those countries. When you put up $1K towards a political campaign whose raison d'etre is to deny gay people the right to marry, it's rather well defined what the expectat
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
He expressed his views publicly. They are subject to public criticism. It's absurd to characterize any form of criticism, especially something relatively mild as this, as a witch-hunt. Anti-gay bigotry is socially unacceptable. Honestl
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Here in the US we're in the middle of a debate about what views are socially acceptable and which are not. The tide is turning against views and policies which disadvantage gays as a category of people simply because they are gay. Thus
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Of all the reasons to keep Vim, Vimscript is the one I'd least expect to see on a list! The obtuse nature of Vimscript and clunky Ruby/Python interop are, IMHO, a huge wart on an otherwise fantastic editor.
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
"Do you really decide whether you'd learn a language by looking at its website?" Kind of! Irrespective of Erlang's site, a well-maintained, informative, and newbie friendly website is often a signal. Maybe it's not
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Did you research this, or are you relying on casual observation? There's going to be heavy selection bias here if you're in the software industry but not involved in traditionally female-dominated professions. Anyway, if the shoe
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
> (If I'm wrong about being unable to migrate the data, please let me know.) IMAP has been supported since '07. Takeout support was added last December. Exporting contacts to CSV has been supported for as long as I can remember
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
What worries me more is people who believe the world is going to end in their lifetimes. How can we plan for the long-term future, as a species, with that kind of worldview?
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Thanks for those numbers. So they're the numerator, right? Then what's the denominator? It seems like that's tough to figure out. But I want to say something like, how many PCs were sold up until the release, and with what OS
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
With respect, I think the disconnect for you is that you're trying to generalize across a rather diverse group. There's nothing inherent to the definition of not-gender-binary that suggests "and prefers not to identify public
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
It's not sad because "frighteningly representative" is purely subjective. I don't even know where to start disagreeing with you because you've failed to say anything about how. If you believe in the right of self-de
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Unless you intend to go around feeling up people's crotches -- which, even setting aside the absurdity, is an incomplete solution -- it's probably a lot simpler to just call people what they want to be called. Do you also refuse t
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
It looks great, but I don't have nor do I want to pay extra for a VPS just so I can install Node, of all things. Contrariwise my host supports installing Wordpress with a single click. The End. This post is just more tech hipsterism. I
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
"evade one's own accountability for one's relative lack of success does not." — this is it, in a nutshell. Those who earned deserve it. Those who didn't done. How do you know whether someone earned their success? We
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Who's suggesting you need to police everybody? Think of it like being an ally or a spotter, not an enforcer or inquisitor.

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