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Arthur Chu: How Gamergate gave the geek community a bad name(salon.com)
5 points by zorpner 12y ago|0 comments
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by zorpner 12y ago
it has precisely nothing to do with the content Do certain types of content set off the ring-voting detection more frequently? The type of content likely influences how it's shared and how people respond to it, which would affect ho
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by zorpner 12y ago
In fact, it was: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/527890332206510080
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Andy Baio: 72 Hours of Gamergate(medium.com)
17 points by zorpner 12y ago|0 comments
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by zorpner 12y ago
I continue to want a fitness monitor that's just a nice-looking watch strap, that I can put on my watch that I already like. I suppose that would be a pretty niche market, though.
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by zorpner 12y ago
Ok, I understand you now. My experience has been working with devices which, while potentially dangerous, are voluminous enough that we can't have individual relationships with every end user. While we'd be offering warranties&#
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by zorpner 12y ago
It's like you didn't even read my post! Of course many of us who have worked in hardware have had issues with bad parts. The idea that this justifies bricking a piece of hardware when the driver on the controller system is upgra
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by zorpner 12y ago
I'd much rather our devices be bricked than risk someone getting hurt. The idea that these are mutually exclusive options is almost comically naive, particularly coming from somebody who claims to have designed critical systems.
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by zorpner 12y ago
Yup, good call. It's generally cheaper during surge, but more expensive if not. I have a ton of credits still so I'm less price-sensitive for it.
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by zorpner 12y ago
If you're going to use a taxi, use the Flywheel app -- it gives you the hail-without-talking-to-someone, see-where-your-car-is-on-a-map, and pay-through-the-app features of Uber/Lyft without surge pricing. Availability is fairly
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by zorpner 12y ago
Being impoverished doesn't just mean that you spend more time (and money) to get the same things[1] -- it means that the amount of effort you spend worrying about things that the non-impoverished take for granted reduces your ability t
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The Honey Hunters(blog.longreads.com)
1 points by zorpner 12y ago|0 comments
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by zorpner 12y ago
Nice! Whenever I see rolling shutter photos on flickr/etc I always think about this old page where a fellow built a long-distance camera from a flatbed scanner to get the effect intentionally: http://www.sentex.net/~mw
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by zorpner 12y ago
...relative to the income level (top 1 percent) and poverty rate (0 percent) of NFL players, the domestic violence arrest rate is downright extraordinary. You've really misrepresented the article.
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by zorpner 12y ago
The most charitable interpretation I can think of is that he went to a panel at a conference to give career advice to women (which has its own problems) and gave them advice for an ideal world instead of for the real world, which also happe
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by zorpner 12y ago
not knowing how terrible the conditions and pay are, and that they will never be able to pay off their 'debt' to the traffickers The fact that this is clearly not true in this article may be another way in which it's heartw
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by zorpner 12y ago
Are you joking? The article is classic "fuck-you-I-got-mine" woman-to-woman sexism that completely ignores, as a trivial example, the comparable ratios of women to men in education and training that falls off in the workplace. Th
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by zorpner 12y ago
While not impossible, it's less common for someone (who is nearly always female) to be abducted as a child, forcibly addicted to heroin, then sold into kitchen labor. Yes, if this article were rewritten word-for-word to reference prost
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S.F., Oakland at forefront of U.S. minimum wage movement(sfgate.com)
3 points by zorpner 12y ago|2 comments
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by zorpner 12y ago
Great idea! Framing is an incredible hassle for exactly the reasons you describe. Would be cool to partner with small artists to pass out discount codes on physical cards they could include with rolled & shipped art. For the future --
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by zorpner 12y ago
Removing "suicides" and leaving "kill you" makes it sound far more like Betteridge link-bait than the original. Also, it's pretty disrespectful to the author to remove words at random from their chosen headline bec
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by zorpner 12y ago
You have an incoherent mental threat model of this. Those two systems are functionally identical to the end user to which they are being sold, but one is vulnerable (in this specific way) to the actions of other customers with the same ser
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by zorpner 12y ago
(Compared to, running the same software on the same hardware using a single OS). I don't think so. If you had been running an OpenBSD instance on hardware as a single OS, you would not be vulnerable to having your system's memor
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by zorpner 12y ago
Andy Baio wrote a small piece exploring Ello's funding and hypothesizing that their bluster about not selling your data/running ads is worth about as much as Livejournal's was: https://ello.co/waxpancake/
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by zorpner 12y ago
In the case of a network interruption, a command could become truncated with potentially destructive results.
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Cloud Server Reboots(status.rackspace.com)
68 points by zorpner 12y ago|39 comments
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by zorpner 12y ago
Heh, you should see some of the systems that orgs I work with still have running. Just checked on one of my favorites: $ uptime 07:26:20 up 3280 days, 16:23, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 $ cat /etc/issue D
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by zorpner 12y ago
Don't be fatuous; you knew exactly what he meant. Pretending to be an idiot makes you look like one.
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by zorpner 12y ago
I've been recently reading up about the subject ... Look online and you'll find countless stories... Your cognitive biases are being exploited by people with an agenda.
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by zorpner 12y ago
This is insultingly nonsensical from the TSA. The reason they list might be a reason not to require dosimeters, but it's certainly not a good reson to prohibit it. And it's not a good reason not to require it, either, since

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