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by agpen 14y ago
Why is Pinterest such a shining example when it doesn't have a fully developed market model yet and hasn't shown a single profitable quarter? What makes it more than just another overvalued company waiting for the next burst?
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by agpen 14y ago
Congrats, you've sort of discovered bizarro-marxism but phrased it in ridiculous terms based on a poor grasp of economic realities. 1)Peasants absolutely exist. There's an enormous invisible labor force in the US that is paid a fraction of
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by agpen 14y ago
No, see, that was the "cool" thing about Vilerat. He wasn't just some Joe Goon "ironically" shouting racial slurs. He was the moderator of the "serious" discussion subforum on SA, where he frequently expressed such terrible opinions in co
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by agpen 14y ago
How else do you define a group led by royalists and other rich western expats, backed by the IMF and armed and supported by NATO, taking over the country and installing themselves as a puppet government in service to western interests? Is
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by agpen 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FAZHwOnX8
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by agpen 14y ago
Yes, why on earth would a population subjected to invasion and ongoing occupation by imperial western powers find an attack on their culture objectionable and representative of their entire daily situation? MUST BE THOSE IGNORANT SAVAGES AN
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by agpen 14y ago
Tell that to the author of that post. Oh wait....
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by agpen 14y ago
Africa would have been subjected to a bloodbath of proportions unseen in history if the white man hadn't destroyed their culture first. Examples I point to are as follows - The Zulu nation was happily destroying not only all of it's neighbo
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by agpen 14y ago
Couldn't have happened to a nicer racist apologist for imperialism. RIP Viletat
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by agpen 14y ago
"Real Actors Reading Yelp Reviews" justifies any amount of sock puppetry.
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by agpen 14y ago
"Real mass-market VR is just around the corner" is something I've been hearing since I was a little kid (I'm 30). I'll be super happy when/if it does happen, but won't hold my breath until it does. Consider TrackIR, a phenomenal gaming tec
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by agpen 14y ago
Normalizing the "ironic" use of slurs normalizes the unironic use of them as well, and further entrenches privilege as a norm. It doesn't take spending a lot of time in any nerd culture group to see that the racism, sexism, and homophobia a
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by agpen 14y ago
This is the weak link imo. The entire premise is that variance in developer preferences of environments is what leads to problems, but editors are where preferences tend to vary the most. If you're an open enough shop to not standardize s
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by agpen 14y ago
The Indian people do not passively wait for government permission to have a voice, they buy it every day with action and sometimes with their lives. Large areas of India have reduced or virtually non-existent government control thanks to t
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by agpen 14y ago
It's pretty telling that even an article trying to question the culture of unquestionable-exceptionalism is still chock-full of jingoistic language that says "if we just fix a few things we'll be the best country on earth again", as if such
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by agpen 14y ago
Bitcoins in general are really interesting as a sandboxed, time-accelerated microcosm of capitalism. You get to watch the entirely predictable boom/bust cycle, inevitable follies, manipulation and theft play out in years or even months ins
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by agpen 14y ago
Rape-culture and patriarchy are definitely major society-wide issues but they undeniably find a special welcoming home within geek culture. A culture which supposedly prides itself on merit and intelligence at first glance ought to be most
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by agpen 14y ago
When 1 in 4 men get sexually assaulted during their lives, I will start giving one iota of care about poor poor dis-empowered men.
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by agpen 14y ago
THIS is what prevents more women from going into tech fields. From academia to the workplace, IT/CS has been built into a self-reinforcing boys club. Until on a large scale it is no longer socially acceptable for geeks to treat women like
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by agpen 14y ago
Compact communities don't have to involve large populations. There are already small and medium-sized villages in Europe that have successfully converted to 100% car-free walkable spaces, and it isn't inconceivable for many existing US sub
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by agpen 14y ago
This article is more than a year old, has there been any real followup?
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by agpen 14y ago
It's utterly baffling to me to see them specifically call out editor gender disparity as an issue and then seriously suggest that a ui redesign will fix this. The issue isn't the software, it's people. People being allowed to be terrible t
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by agpen 14y ago
This post is a complete non-sequitur. You can hate Java AND hate antiquated practices. They're not mutually exclusive and there's plenty of room for more hate in this ol heart of mine.