zorpner

59 ms·

541.
by zorpner 12y ago
> The Bitcoin price is falling because the Google Trends search volume is going down. This is some serious correlation/causation confusion. What do you think is causing the Google search volume to decrease?
542.
The Fantasy and Abuse of the Manipulable User(modelviewculture.com)
5 points by zorpner 12y ago|0 comments
543.
by zorpner 12y ago
Man disagrees with woman that she experienced sexism; calls her delusional. I sincerely hope you see the irony in this.
544.
by zorpner 12y ago
As you can see from the comments on the current HN thread about Github's second statement (which I think is a significant improvement on their first one), making specific statements typically only makes this worse for women in tech: h
545.
by zorpner 13y ago
After talking with a couple of the commenters in question, it sounds like some people are using "plagiarism" not to mean that he specifically stole words from her post verbatim, but to mean that he "rewrote" what she wro
546.
by zorpner 13y ago
> What if it came out that an executive at some company had donated money to the Republican Party? Then... people would be free to boycott them? The company would be free to decide, like Mozilla did, whether it's worth keeping that
547.
by zorpner 13y ago
If the two articles existed in isolation, I would be inclined to agree (though I think Jeff's is actually pretty poorly thought out -- as the man himself said: https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/273551344
548.
by zorpner 13y ago
I should probably stop replying, but again, what specific thing that happened (as a step in the process that led to Eich stepping down as CEO) do you actually want to stop? You can't just wave your hands and say you don't want pe
549.
by zorpner 13y ago
It's perhaps worth noting that there's a minor internet explosion happening right now about that article -- Shanley Kane wrote an article with the same title back in November ( https://medium.com/tech-culture-briefs
550.
by zorpner 13y ago
> Exactly which behaviours seen during that scandal do you think should have been illegal or were borderline illegal? I wish you the best of luck with this argumentative approach -- I've been trying it for weeks, and no one on the o
551.
by zorpner 13y ago
Since you talked around my question by falsely equating governmental and private action, let's revisit -- which of: People deciding what products they want to use and talking about it. Companies deciding what to do based on what's
552.
by zorpner 13y ago
The point here is that "we" did not fire anyone. Members of the Mozilla community expressed an opinion that they didn't want a CEO who had previously acted to restrict the rights of a particular group. Some expressed this b
553.
by zorpner 13y ago
I typically do the veg in bulk for the week and ice bath->fridge them, then reheat in the water bath while I'm finishing the meat, but yeah, it wouldn't work to do simultaneously (unless you e.g. wanted traditional-texture brai
554.
by zorpner 13y ago
Absolutely. My favorite is running the numbers to figure out how far out of the way it's worth going to buy cheaper gas -- for my MPG/the size of my car's tank, typically less than half a mile for a 10¢ difference.
555.
by zorpner 13y ago
Yes, this is a common rhetorical tactic used to dismiss the opinions of women when they address issues of sexism publicly. Thank you for demonstrating this disingenuous method of discourse so ably.
556.
by zorpner 13y ago
I think I know what you mean, and I disagree. It's an illusion to think that any practice (including tech) is non-partisan -- tech influences policy and policy influences technology. Every company functionally has a political alleg
557.
by zorpner 13y ago
Disrupting existing markets (not a component of all company-building, but certainly a critical piece of many YC companies) is fundamentally about political issues.
558.
by zorpner 13y ago
I'll confess I don't see the purpose of this post -- it contains no actionable information (you certainly shouldn't choose not to update your keys based on this analysis that it's somewhat unlikely for a key to leak). A
559.
by zorpner 13y ago
Whether or not you agree with it, this is the exact opposite of how an actually appropriate CEO appointee would behave.
560.
by zorpner 13y ago
Seriously. Eich not only failed to apologize in any meaningful manner (which I get is being spun by people as Integrity, Bro), but seemed to fail to even realize that the viewpoint he endorsed was so widely reviled by Mozilla's suppor
561.
by zorpner 13y ago
Are we really doing this? A public contribution to a specific cause is, of course, a statement. Now please, quote the dictionary definition of "statement" back at me to make this HN conversation complete.
562.
by zorpner 13y ago
> If someone hadn't uncovered it, would he have outed himself by publicly denigrating gay marriage? That's what his contribution was. That's literally what he did. No one is stopping you from admiring Eich, and no one is
563.
by zorpner 13y ago
I couldn't agree more with this. Regardless of Eich's views, the controversy engendered by his appointment was obvious and foreseeable. The fact that he/Mozilla didn't even seem to have a plan in place for the backlash
564.
by zorpner 13y ago
A "lynch mob" is a pejorative term because it refers to a group of people who deprive another person of both their right to a fair trial, and subsequently their right to not be murdered (it also carries connotations of innocence,
565.
by zorpner 13y ago
Corporations already extensively vet their executive appointments for their politics, personal life, and appearance. Sometimes specifically and overtly, and sometimes via social systems within the company. To think otherwise is the height
566.
by zorpner 13y ago
> an intollerant lynch mob People have a right to not be murdered. They do not have a right to be the CEO of a company. A group of people can say whatever they like, and if it puts sufficient pressure on a company that company can choos
567.
by zorpner 13y ago
That's exactly what I'm saying, that these preparations should have been made prior the announcement. His consideration for and acceptance of the role happened prior to the announcement, presumably. This should have been a part
568.
by zorpner 13y ago
This is a terrific comment, and I couldn't agree more -- regardless of Eich's personal views and how they made people feel, the fact that he and Mozilla didn't have statements, interviews, and a PR plan in place for something
569.
by zorpner 13y ago
It's true that there's a balance... maybe some kind of amplification based on the # of people. Nothing frustrates me more than a 20-person meeting with three guys talking (actual all-hands meetings to communicate critical info ex
570.
by zorpner 13y ago
Love it. A few years ago at a place I was helping out in, one of the devs had built a clock for the conference room that, at the start of a meeting, you punched the number of people in the meeting into. It knew the average company salary

More ›