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by zorpner 8y ago
These look different, but the US is simply taking advantage of the set of rules that allow rule-writing.
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by zorpner 8y ago
It turns out that the language of social justice isn't just a set of magical incantations by which you produce controversy, and attempting to concern troll by cargo-culting that language is pretty much always obvious.
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by zorpner 8y ago
mostly just looks down on emoji as a frankly immature way to communicate. When you see something popular that you don't understand, the answer is never that people are stupid/immature/etc. It's that they have incentiv
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by zorpner 8y ago
what were your consulting fees for this service? Keep this ad hominem nonsense off HN, please.
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Software Freedom Conservancy Guide on GPLv2 Irrevocability(sfconservancy.org)
2 points by zorpner 8y ago|0 comments
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by zorpner 8y ago
This is a strawman -- many, many people were aware that this change did not enable sync for existing accounts, and were concerned regardless. Matthew Green does an excellent job articulating all of the reasons why this is a terrible change
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by zorpner 8y ago
As predicted by this comment (and others) on the bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=840866... None of the actual underlying issues have been addressed in the last five months. I would
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by zorpner 8y ago
Given that the popup sitting in my Gmail window currently says "Update now / Update in 1 week" I think you're being a little optimistic.
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by zorpner 8y ago
The right to free speech is not the right to a platform.
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by zorpner 8y ago
As always, the people fighting against codes of conduct manage to explicitly prove the need for them.
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by zorpner 8y ago
A/UX had a tool like this called Commando (you can see it in the third screenshot on this page: http://toastytech.com/guis/aux3.html ).
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by zorpner 8y ago
Sense of purpose. A huge part of life satisfaction is doing something that actually matters. Truly, and it's changed my life for the better. I'm unclear, however, on the relevance of this statement to the extant startup scene --
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by zorpner 8y ago
Truly, it is a simple document that no one has ever been confused about the finer points of. The implications for bankruptcy proceedings, estate law, injury liability, and chain of title are all so straightforward that everyone knows them
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by zorpner 8y ago
Depends on pay, right? If you are offering employee #1 market pay, why would you give them 10% equity? Because this is how you get good people. If you want to offer them what they could get by working someplace else, they may as well wor
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by zorpner 8y ago
When you signed the loan for the mortgage, you made a business transaction with the bank. Looked at through this light, there's a strong ethical argument that no agreement was made, as very few single humans are informed enough to ha
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by zorpner 8y ago
Most of these people only know about the Dragonfly project because of previous leaks. I would agree that there are productive leaks, and unproductive leaks, but getting mad at leakers/the press in a general sense is shortsighted.
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by zorpner 8y ago
You called another human being a 'thing', and then corrected it to '"person"' (with the quotation marks). And now, of course, you'd like others to follow the rules . You disgust me, because you are disgu
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by zorpner 8y ago
1. Amazon uses good ML techniques, and they don't work. A good friend of mine worked on the recommendation engine ML side for AMZN until fairly recently. His review was that it's worse, and more expensive, than having hired peo
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by zorpner 8y ago
We are discussing politics, in every single post here. When people say we shouldn't, they're saying they want things to stay the same.
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by zorpner 8y ago
See neighbor comment from someone who actually knows of what they speak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17184043
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by zorpner 8y ago
Right now, people in Saudi Arabia are being arrested for protesting in 1990: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/25/saudi-arabia-a... In the US, people who gave their information to the government
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by zorpner 8y ago
Of course they are. Otherwise why would they come and work for you? Hostile interviews select for candidates without other options.
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by zorpner 9y ago
You have already taken a political stance -- that the common welfare of the labor force is of no concern to you.
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by zorpner 9y ago
Reminder that we can, and should, hold Facebook employees, who hold literally all the power , responsible for this. If you worked at Facebook past mid-2017 (because that's the only time I know you should have known about it -- reall
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by zorpner 9y ago
There's got to be a better term than "reverse virtue signaling" to describe how the use of specific terminology (outside of a legal setting) like "pernicious", "females", or "virtue signaling" in
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by zorpner 9y ago
Choosing the status quo is still a choice, in this case in favor of the inherent class structure of capitalism.
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by zorpner 9y ago
I can't fault them for taking pride in their work, even if I vehemently disagree with the result of it. Then yes, you can. Your argument, applied broadly, has you applauding the pride of IBM engineers who developed systems to assist
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What happened to Cory?(docs.google.com)
18 points by zorpner 9y ago|9 comments
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by zorpner 9y ago
it's usually the most capable people with that cash available (because they had more earning power in the past) It's far more typically because of inherited wealth, which has no bearing on ability but is quite often misinterpret
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by zorpner 9y ago
The next steps towards standardization began when Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft came together to define and support the sitemap protocol in 2006. Then in 2007, they announced that all three of them would support the Sitemap directive in rob

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