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by zorpner 10y ago
How many people are afraid to speak out here, despite disagreement? What, with the horrible consequence of being downvoted looming over them? Probably a lot fewer than are afraid to speak out about charismatic abusers who have threaten
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by zorpner 10y ago
The whole point of this type of abuse stemming from authority is to make the abused discredited, typically by recruiting people into one's defense (and, in fact, Alison cites a specific instance where she was recruited into defending).
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by zorpner 10y ago
"As contrast see" someone who wasn't abused state that they know he's a nice guy? That's not convincing to anyone who doesn't disbelieve victims by default. The idea that people who suffer abuse are in the wro
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by zorpner 10y ago
Would it be fair for YC to make decisions based off of the HN comment logs of YC applicants? They explicitly do this.
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by zorpner 10y ago
Yup, failure to understand the simplest aspects of public discourse and narcissism to the point of putting one's own desire to spout a bunch of violent racist crap above any consideration for how it might impact people you want to work
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by zorpner 10y ago
Because they're so repugnant that they make reasonable people question why anyone would be willing to tolerate, let alone defend him. He's freely declared himself so reprehensible that it impairs his ability to lead any project
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by zorpner 10y ago
People with more resources win more lawsuits. Do you believe that this is because they are more frequently wronged?
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by zorpner 10y ago
No, it will be because a plutocrat decided to fund a lawsuit unrelated to his reason for disliking them (and apparently influenced the process of that lawsuit with the aim of destroying Gawker to the detriment of Bollea), and abused the inh
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by zorpner 10y ago
An important reminder of exactly what conduct, on Gawker's part, people are defending. This is a lousy strawman. It's possible to both find Gawker abhorrent and think that Thiel's conduct is deeply unethical.
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Major Google AdWords Changes Announced(searchenginejournal.com)
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Albert Yale's (RIP) Telnet Scripting Tool.
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by zorpner 10y ago
They mention they Standard Plaza weather beacon at the beginning of the story -- we actually have one here in SF! The lights at the top of the south tower at One Rincon Hill turn red for warmer, blue for colder, green for rain, and amber f
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by zorpner 10y ago
Well done -- excellent resolution.
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by zorpner 10y ago
What we really need to bring back is the BeBox Geekport: http://www.hardwarebook.info/GeekPort
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by zorpner 10y ago
More specifically, an organization that's willing to burn a huge amount of credibility in order to avoid a tiny investment in an already-profitable (cf pg on ramen profitability) business whose proprietor doesn't fully conform wit
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by zorpner 10y ago
How can people who practically control this industry understand the internet so poorly? They've consistently failed to understand even the basics of community moderation here, permitting a cesspool of racism, bigotry, and "merit
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Is Big Data Taking Us Closer to the Deeper Questions in Artificial Intelligence?(edge.org)
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Even late in Her Career, Jane Jacobs Made Predictions That Are Coming True Today(citylab.com)
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by zorpner 10y ago
What structural guarantees have you embedded in your corporate structure to ensure that data won't be rendered inaccessible if you have to shut the system down due to acquisition or lack of funding?
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by zorpner 10y ago
Social/political issues are not orthogonal to technical issues -- in fact, the belief that they are orthogonal is fundamentally conservative (protective of the status quo).
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by zorpner 10y ago
I think the overall point should be that no way is clearly up -- it seems obvious that corporations shouldn't be forced to act unprofitably, but not only does that often reinforce systemic racism (in this case), you end up with e.g. in
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by zorpner 11y ago
Because Google routinely undermines their partners through internal productizing (see e.g. Flintstone/OnHub), and Google has a large self-driving car program. There's a clear path from there to a Google(/Alphabet)-owned ride
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by zorpner 11y ago
Yeah, this definitely isn't going anywhere. I do look forward to idlewords's writing about it, though.
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by zorpner 11y ago
I haven't seen many people arguing that News Genius shouldn't be permitted to exist (except perhaps on copyright/derived work grounds, which given their implementation is quite arguable), just that it's not a good idea a
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Resources on Diversity in Tech(modelviewculture.com)
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by zorpner 11y ago
So what's your proposal for how to restrict the speech of others so they're unable to call for people to be fired? I'd be even more interested in your proposals to require everyone to be admitted to privately owned stores an
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by zorpner 11y ago
Are you joking? The new title would barely be an improvement over a blank line. At best, it's poorly written clickbait (who is "he"? Why do we care?), but really it doesn't even qualify as a "title" except f
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by zorpner 11y ago
It's a real shame that a bunch of people were tricked into reading an excellent piece of long-form journalism because someone singled out why it might interest them. The HN front page has a context, and the new title is completely inco
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A Script to Block News Genius from Annotating Your Website(motherboard.vice.com)
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Thoughts on LambdaConf 2016(alissapajer.github.io)
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