Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 8y ago
Interesting that this post was utterly buried. It hit the first page at most an hour ago, but now it's at the bottom of page 12.
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
I think you misunderstand. Whatever extra appeal you have to potential partners from having other people who "chose you (among others)" may be effectively negated because you're unwilling to abandon those others for the new
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> It's not hyperbole. If you're not allowed to hold a job because you're female, how is that much better than slavery? You serious? Just to point out a few of the glaring problems with your position: 1) you're essent
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> If you can't call it marriage, the group denied that right is second class, full stop. People can use different terms to distinguish between different things, but that doesn't necessarily make any of those things "second
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> women being [...] barely better than slaves. That's unhelpful hyperbole.
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
>> he's honest with potential partners about being in an existing open relationship then the pool of women willing to date him evaporates > I believe already having one or more lovers makes you much more attractive since the f
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> Now, is the rest of the statement true? No, clearly not. There are a lot more problems with the paragraph than can be solved by a simple substitution. The root problem is that it's very hard (almost impossible) to make statements
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> Just for the record: GamerGate was 100% founded on harassing women. The "ethics in games journalism" thing was only ever a front to build popular support, which unfortunately worked. I'm happy to post more details if you
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> Not trying to be cocky, but why is affordable housing a right in a capitalist society? Genuinely curious. Because, in the West at least, society isn't capitalist uber alles .
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> To be fair they haven't screwed up LinkedIn. I think they will let GitHub grow with their resources. I'm not sure if LinkedIn could be any less "screwed up" than it was when Microsoft bought it.
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
FYI, it_learnses, you've been shadowbanned for 7 months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15570335 All your comments start out hidden, but I vouched for this one so it's visible.
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> That's the literal reading at least. However since CoC violations are filtered through basically one person, personal biases will weigh heavily in how the rules are applied. Yeah. To me, that part of the explanation read somethin
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> If there is no muck to be raked, then you should be in the clear. This argument seems equivalent to the idea there's nothing to fear from surveillance if you have nothing to hide.
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> why do we need to formally state that we should be decent human beings? That's problematic phrasing. "Decency" is subjective and sits too high up on the pyramid of abstractions. Decent people disagree on what being dec
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> What a nightmarish reality to live in. You can’t trust your own parents, friends, neighbors, etc. I think you missed my point. That's inaccurate and not what I intended to communicate. My point was that Chinese can complain abo
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> except there is nothing socialist/communist about Chinese government except brand name and it can hardly weaken brand which is just running thw orst version of capitalism, EU is way more socialist/communist than China Tell th
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> Capitalism weakens socialist/communist governments. Tell that to China.
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> You're right, it may not have been proven but based on the amount of coverage and writing on it, there must be some truth behind it. There has also been lots of coverage of Obama not being a natural born American, and thus an ille
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> It's the new Soviet internal passport system. China already has that, the Hukou, and has for some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> How do normal Chinese people feel about the things that go on? That can be really hard to find out. Chinese culture looks down on people who criticize their own group in front of outsiders. So it's bad to truthfully criticize yo
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
Seattle mostly. If they built HQ2 here, I'd expect that recruiting would switch to be for jobs at HQ2 (and get a lot more successful, since no relocation required).
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> It would be a really fast and effective way to create diplomatic tension for a third party who stands to gain from the breakdown of communication. Assuming they can keep their involvement secret, which is not a given.
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> So logical conclusion is it is case of self-shooting in the foot - Us spy equipment malfunctioning etc A logical conclusion, not the logical conclusion. I think this comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=171
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> I don’t think most people realize outside of tech circles that Amazon will mostly bring people in rather than hiring locally Why do you say that? Amazon seems to recruit pretty heavily around me, which is far, far from Seattle and SV.
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> Dupe: The previous one seems to have died on the vine. This one has more comments and votes.
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
Would that fail because your sever can't provide the right cert? You'd probably have to install a custom root certificate on your machines that you https ad blocker could use to forge certs.
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> For example, US is still on 110V despite all the disadvantages. Could go into that? IIRC, 110V is less efficient but it's also less dangerous, so maybe it's more of a trade-off. But your point stands. I've read that th
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
When we're talking about something being "entered into a political race," I don't think it is. In reality, this is about the same as running a dog as candidate for mayor.
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> Whether the two are equivalent depends on the transaction costs of the two models. I don't think we're not talking about exact, feature-for-feature, cost-for-cost equivalence. Both these systems have the same or similar &quot
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
Adbusters Magazine is the epitome of style over substance.

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