becausepc

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Mozilla Festival: Co-Creating a Feminist AI Alliance for Climate Justice(schedule.mozillafestival.org)
7 points by becausepc 2y ago|7 comments
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The Censorship of Cosmology – Institute of Art and Ideas [video](iai.tv)
1 points by becausepc 2y ago|0 comments
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by becausepc 2y ago
> He's not helming javascript in any way or form or even contributing to the standard to my knowledge. Brendan may not be helming JavaScript anymore. But he was very active during critical standardization period. For example: 2009:
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Marc Andreessen: I regret not doing more to support and defend Brendan Eich(twitter.com)
37 points by becausepc 2y ago|55 comments
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by becausepc 3y ago
Typo: his name is Parker Conrad, not Patrick.
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by becausepc 3y ago
Social Radars podcast: https://pod.link/1677066062/episode/3ad4c8281658c6cac78f4353... Transcript: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/637e441f17ae0f45578bb...
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Patrick Conrad shares his Zenefits story(twitter.com)
4 points by becausepc 3y ago|2 comments
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by becausepc 3y ago
I hate wars, and I would love to see peaceful resolution. But we have a war already, most recently started by Hamas in October 7th. The sad reality is that civilian casualties are unavoidable in a war. Horrendous civilian casualties during
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by becausepc 3y ago
I am defending no one. Grandparent comment was asking for OP assertions that I find biased. Deir Yassin quote was a one such assertion. Extremely well researched - books have been written about it - but presented in a very biased manner. Pa
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by becausepc 3y ago
> Iran had the means to bombard Israel, but they are not doing I was not talking about bombardment. I was talking about means for genocide and extermination. Out of your examples, only USA and Russia have the means. Iran is not there yet
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by becausepc 3y ago
Point (2) provides a helpful framework for evaluating various assertions about the war. It doesn't exempt Israel from criticism. However, the original post extends far beyond mere criticism; it seems more aligned with a propaganda narr
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by becausepc 3y ago
The entire article seems quite biased. Using footnotes after every sentence doesn't necessarily indicate a well-researched piece. I won't delve into recent events due to the challenges posed by the fog of war effect. A clearer exa
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by becausepc 3y ago
The “woke” angle was raised later on. JT brought up it up: “It was JeanHeyd who called Rust out for having no Black representation among Rust conference speakers. Rightly so, as both the Rust organization and the conferences had little to n
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by becausepc 3y ago
Details from the RustConf leadership: https://twitter.com/wifelette/status/1662938961248129025 Seems to be the case of some influential toxic person(s) in the Rust Project. They can’t even be named apparently. (Ye
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by becausepc 5y ago
Calling the story "eviction dispute" is quite an understatement. They served 4 years jail sentence for sawing huge hole through tenants' living room and forging threatening letters as if they were coming from tenants. The st
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by becausepc 6y ago
It's wrong to make everything to be about race and gender. It's racist and sexist to do so.
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by becausepc 6y ago
Thank you dang! I appreciate your service, even after having my comment above to be flagged :) Is there a way to let you know about similar sharp edges, in order to avoid writing offtopic comments like mine?
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by becausepc 6y ago
> most people are not SJW This is true. However, few active people are enough to poison the discussion. Examples: * erasure of gendered language from source code comments * "master" branch controversy * BLM banners in numerous
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by becausepc 6y ago
At least "folks" is a real word. "Folx" is unquestionably the result of the language war: https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-folx/
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by becausepc 10y ago
Yes, the comment was not nice (comment is now dead). However, I've stopped watching the video because the presenter's English accent was not easy on my ear. The problem reminds me about "Founders' Accents" article: