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by ygaf 9y ago
When you're making a snarky retweet it should occur to you you're still using the internet. If you only planned to hop online to output headlines, that is what you do (hop on, hop off). Clickbait is getting a backlash.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Multiple downvotes for acknowledging replies, wow. There's some real clowns out there.
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by ygaf 9y ago
He means the articles themselves didn't change.
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by ygaf 9y ago
So identity politics is when you try to make other people invalid. That's a more radical definition than the one(s) in wikipedia, thanks though.
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by ygaf 9y ago
I wouldn't ask about single words/concepts without wiki'ing first. It's when even wikipedia leaves me blank that I pray for the interpretation of a HNer (or stackexchanger etc). Wikipedia says identity politics is people
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by ygaf 9y ago
I still don't understand what identity politics is. (as opposed to politics)
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by ygaf 9y ago
Key paragraph: > Like the boy who cried wolf, the Twitter mob crying "SHAME!" becomes easier to dismiss the less precisely it positions its crosshairs. To move the needle on gun control, public outrage needs to remain focused o
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by ygaf 9y ago
I read it in the "committed to an asylum" sense. And that it must be Tim Berners-Lee talking, until you see the source.
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by ygaf 9y ago
People lost their shit over him IRL?
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by ygaf 9y ago
This is not analogous to OP without the additional detail that communication skills are 'clearly needed' in the job.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Yeah I think HN forgot to be charitable today.
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by ygaf 9y ago
I absolutely appreciate your post for exposing the threadbare premise of the video.
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by ygaf 9y ago
TLDR: National identity is only as old as... nations themselves. Wow! The rest of the video constitutes a bait and switch (nationalism is bad mmkay).
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by ygaf 9y ago
You believe in responsibility, but the tenants (OP's hypothetical ones) have failed the responsibility that got them into their housing. At that point, to allow the tenants to stay is giving them the home freely.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Normal people don't rewrite "harassment" in a CoC as "reinforcing systemic oppression". (They might a few years from now) In fairness, FreeBSD say at the end they lifted material from another CoC (geekfeminism), alt
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by ygaf 9y ago
If the actual thing was summarized, it wouldn't be political. Instead it's sesame street time where we learn about systemic oppression.
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by ygaf 9y ago
>Do people really need to be told what not to do and say like that? There isn't any evidence of it. On the other hand the language in the CoC itself is evidence that it comes from busybodies.
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by ygaf 9y ago
I'm writing a CoCoC before he attempts another CoC.
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by ygaf 9y ago
>I regret that it is necessary to have to make explicit what seems fairly obvious. I don't think it was (necessary). Given the incident where someone tried to get a github user 'fired' from a project for 'transphobia&
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by ygaf 9y ago
Agreed. It also makes me think, at a glance, you're teaching gunners how to do more damage. But I have no idea how shootings play out.
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by ygaf 9y ago
I assume you already avoid google products, because they know where we are all day regardless of video.
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by ygaf 9y ago
It's a type of pride that I can barely remember having. I think as westerners we don't feel a threat to our country's reputation when outsiders are criticizing it, we trust that our country is perceived to be generally good n
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by ygaf 9y ago
The main thing is having a warped perspective.
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by ygaf 9y ago
The hypocrisy of the Chinese having a word? Of westerners using a Chinese word?
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by ygaf 9y ago
What is more wrong - a parent physically abusing their child when they feel like it (bear in mind the parent is also taking care of said child)? a parent bound by society reduced to moaning at their child (think kids under 10) hoping to con
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by ygaf 9y ago
The way I remember it, Facebook removed customisation, giving users one good page design. In Myspace people had to think about what tiled wallpaper and brutally large sound file to include in their page. Seconding everything shafyy said.
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by ygaf 9y ago
You popularized it on this page, where no one else mentioned it.
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by ygaf 9y ago
I'm conflicted. You've brought me back to something I was thinking. We - americans for sure - judge people not rationally but according to their outward threat to ourselves. I won't deny that anyone can get addicted to a subs
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by ygaf 9y ago
It is pejorative (as you know). I could've used a pejorative that didn't have 'drug' in it, for all it matters to this thread.
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by ygaf 9y ago
I don't like your bottom line. Tell me how many fewer Portuguese people are affected by the crimes and pressures of druggies, not how many fewer of the criminals themselves have accidents. (one of the replies to that article says that

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