Liesmith

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by Liesmith 12y ago
Yeah, this guy doesn't speak for persons with Autism. He's trying to make an 'autistic culture' thing, acting like his disorder is just a choice, a valid social model. Unfortunately autism is not a social model, it is a
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Yeah I read the article, and his rejection of 'people with autism' is akin to 'deaf culture' nonsense. Autism is a tragic, often crippling disorder and this guy wants it to be a culture. That's fine, he can feel how
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by Liesmith 12y ago
It's not used 'too broadly.' Autism is a disorder on a spectrum. Some people have mild autism, some people have moderate and some people have severe autism. These are technical terms. Also calling people 'autistic'
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by Liesmith 12y ago
@angersock yeah, exactly like the next batch of shitbag YC kids hiring a COO. Because apparently that's who he's trying to get employed by. It's weird that you seem to think that this crowd are shallow children and yet someho
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Exactly. These things are ugly and this is a cautionary tale for anyone looking to work for a new startup but it's also really important to keep from looking like a bitter employee who will turn on you and make you look evil if things
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by Liesmith 12y ago
@ davidw: oh yeah I don't mean that this guy actually is whining, or that he didn't get screwed by jerks. I'm just saying that you can get screwed even harder by handling things like this in the wrong way, no matter what the
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Because the individual needs something, and the startup does not. what do they care if he is pissed? He's some unemployed dude they'll never have to deal with again. Meanwhile potentially having them as a resource who will say &#x
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Of course it is, don't be naive. The people he's talking about are in a position to badmouth him right back, end even if they don't he can get a reputation for being a whiner who will turn on people who hire him the moment th
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Don't be ridiculous, If it was about revenue there would just be more toll booths.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Speeding is extremely dangerous. It's ludicrous to argue otherwise. A third of crashes (including fatal crashes) involve speeding, and the faster you are driving the more likely you are to die or fatally injure another. Also, changing
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Flip a coin.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Pretty misleading title. Yes, commercial and private planes have been shot down in the past. Yes, American commercial planes still fly through airspace where there is fighting on the ground. No, most of these places do not have access to we
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Talking to a lawyer is not a step towards a lawsuit, is a step towards knowing your options. You don't have to sue, and in fact unless there is a lot of money involved that's probably the last thing you want to do. But saying &quo
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by Liesmith 12y ago
You can't assume it's not intentional, and we don't have enough info to know if this claim is small or not. Really the only thing to do is to talk to a lawyer. You should already have a lawyer since you've got a contract
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Talk to your lawyer. Don't waste time faffing around with this. You don't have to sue them but you do need to get advice from a legal professional who specializes in this kind of thing.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
This isn't clearly written (English not the first language?) but the gist of it is actually interesting: the implication is that controversial or provocative posts get pruned from facebook (or at least buried under a view more comments
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by Liesmith 12y ago
They aren't, though. Zombies are vastly inferior in all ways (including destructive potential) to their videogame-playing foes. You shoot them down in their thousands.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
This is the attitude of a bullying victim. Bullies leave you alone if you fit in, they don't leave you alone if you don't. It's not about being awesome or resilient, it's about conformity.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
A lot (edit: all) of these are dumb correlation = causation crap. The most egregious one is the "don't win awards" point, on which all the following ones are predicated. The suggestion that you can have better performance by
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by Liesmith 12y ago
It does point to the soundcloud recording.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
It was T.S. Eliot. and the real quote is "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."
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by Liesmith 12y ago
>"How to spot the fake answers put there to fool you" == "how to see when an answer isn't even in the ballpark". That's a useful skill. That "context clues" thing suggests teaching students how to
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Thank you.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
I disagree. I am always hearing about how this or that service got compromised and stored passwords in plaintext or something, and now all those passwords are in the wild. I write really hard to crack passwords (funny little poems I made up
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by Liesmith 12y ago
these are really weak passwords. I write poems that I made up myself. In middle english. I use the letter thorn sometimes.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Except they negotiated royalties and EA didn't deliver.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
You have no idea what you are talking about.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
It is interesting how Social Services is vilified here, but her own organization's failure to help everyone is obviously because they lack the resources. This person's loathing for Social Services let her get through the day, prov
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by Liesmith 12y ago
The phrase you are looking for is making it worse. What is better about his impact on the system? He's taking something that had no middleman before and setting himself up as one. Something that was free but no longer is. He's a l
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Here's the problem: with scalpers, someone has already paid for the ticket. the venue and the act are getting money. With this guy, the whole purpose of reservations (restaurants being able to manage demand) is undermined. When people

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