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by zorpner 9y ago
Google's philosophy is to "put users first and the rest will follow" [0] Amazon wants to be the world's most customer centric company. [1] I would recommend you judge everyone, but particularly corporations, by the eff
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"Only read things that someone else is paying to make you see."
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by zorpner 9y ago
If you're ever looking for a toaster, check out Dualit (the classic, not whatever cheap plastic one they peddle to price-segment). I use mine every day and interface-wise, it's pretty much the most satisfying moment of every day.
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by zorpner 9y ago
It should be noted that this is an explicit strategy by proponents of the status quo, to make any discussion of the topic so toxic that the topic itself becomes banned. It's possible to moderate a discussion forum to avoid this, but
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In an email exchange shortly after the election, Yarvin told Yiannopoulos that he had been “coaching Thiel.” “Peter needs guidance on politics for sure,” Yiannopoulos responded. “Less than you might think!” Yarvin wrote back. “I watched th
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by zorpner 9y ago
Upvoted because this advice directly makes me money ;)
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The point of the donation was a bet, to receive government favoritism in the event of election. Is that non-obvious?
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I highly recommend this 1995 Wired article about Ted Nelson and the history of hypertext: https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/
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by zorpner 9y ago
You may find that people who wish for companies to be toxic to white women and people of color in the name of growth are inherently inflammatory.
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The Tor Project Defends the Human Rights Racists Oppose(blog.torproject.org)
96 points by zorpner 9y ago|122 comments
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Good for them for breaking with e.g. the Virginia ACLU over this, just doubled my recurring donation. Direct calls for violence by heavily armed mobs are not protected speech or assembly.
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I'm not worried about the Nazis. (drawing counter-protesters spoiling for a fight) Take for example the recent 'March on Google' the normalisation of violence against Nazis Ah. Well, it's now quite clear where y
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by zorpner 9y ago
Sorry, where in any of your examples are the people waving Nazi flags saying they're Nazis? I'm unclear on why you keep bringing up red herrings when the issue is actual Nazis marching together here, in America, right now. These
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by zorpner 9y ago
Once you have established that it's ok to ban Nazis, then all you need to do to silence your opponents is brand them as a Nazi. No, that would require everyone to be a credulous idiot -- people have thrown Nazi around as a pejorative
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by zorpner 9y ago
Well, there's no need for pointless hypothesizing about what might happen, because this is actual Nazis . It's not "[just] people with a different moral or ideological framework" -- it's people who are declaring t
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When ISIS or Nazis are in power, you will not have the right to free speech without being subjected to state violence, regardless of how you kowtow to them now. The paradox of tolerance applies directly to free speech.
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The site is a hate site for neo-Nazis. In the wake of the recent Nazi march, they were kicked off their previous registrar (GoDaddy), then off Google, and settled on Cloudflare. A lot of folks (myself included) assumed that CF would allow
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by zorpner 9y ago
Good. I get that HN is not into this, but this employee stated, bluntly, that they don't believe many of their colleagues should be there because of their sex. Every peer review, every no-hire, every interaction , is and should be s
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by zorpner 9y ago
Perhaps more interestingly, the author does not appear to understand engineering. This guy gets it. It's a deep temptation to abstract engineering away from humanism, but the idea that code can solve problems is an immature understa
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Short-term rentals aren't housing.
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Valerie Aurora and Leigh Honeywell: The Al Capone Theory of Sexual Harassment(blog.valerieaurora.org)
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If you enjoy this, I also highly recommend "Filming Othello", a similar video essay. Will be available hopefully in higher quality on the upcoming Criterion release of Welles' Othello, or right now on Youtube: https:/&
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Bay Area job growth is being constrained by a lack of affordable housing(mercurynews.com)
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A good read today, and includes some interesting discussion of Jefferson's moral role given his slave ownership: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/07/03...
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by zorpner 9y ago
Dan, the purpose of the relitigation is the same as it is everywhere else online -- to make the topic itself so toxic that it can't functionally be discussed (this works particularly well on HN because of the flamewar detection). The
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by zorpner 9y ago
StackExchange uploads anonymized data dumps to the Internet Archive annually: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange To the sibling comment -- as far as I know, no one's ever seen those tweets. You can get con
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by zorpner 9y ago
You don't sound particularly interested in understanding the perspective of others, but in the event that you are, this is a remarkably good analogy that may help you understand the reality of the situation: http://ask.metaf
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Ah, gotcha. My apologies, not always easy to gauge intent!
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Having a problem and addressing it is different than having a problem and not addressing it for years (and yeah, I might ask an ex-Zenefits prospect how they felt about that). Is that unclear or difficult to understand?
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Nah. I like working somewhere where ethics are taken seriously. If you've been working for Uber for the last couple years (in an engineering role, and not visa-restricted), you need to have an answer for why you've remained somep

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