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by benched 12y ago
Today, I learned just how trivial people believe gay rights are. I'm actually surprised by it. That's much sadder to me.
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by benched 12y ago
It has proven to be a much more popular opinion, at least on Hacker News, than I ever would have thought possible in 2014.
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by benched 12y ago
Ok. Sorry. We'll all use the exact right level of rhetoric from now on.
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by benched 12y ago
The Hacker News community wants to discuss this story much more than the Hacker News mods want to allow it to be discussed. They think they've reasonably allowed the community to discuss it "enough", already, so they're
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by benched 12y ago
I don't think you and so many others would say the same thing if the issue was inter-racial marriage, today. Is it really so hard for people to get a little bit ahead of the progress curve for a change, instead of digging in and dr
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by benched 12y ago
Really? Is there a rash of this sort of thing going on that I don't know about? Or is it pretty much just Brendan Eich right now, reaping the consequences of expressing bigotry publicly?
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by benched 12y ago
I'm sure I wrote what I did on purpose. Thanks for the invite, though!
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by benched 12y ago
Oh for fucks sake. Whether or not every Christian is pro-life doesn't change what I said, but thanks for the tangent. Every Internet argument can use more pedantic tangents!
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by benched 12y ago
Do you even know that you are playing meaningless word games, of the form, "This statement is a lie" or "atheism is a religion"? You really think that "In order to be tolerant, you have to tolerate intolerance!&quot
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by benched 12y ago
"Sure, you could say it's a human rights issue." Are you sure you don't want to give this possibility a little more weight? Maybe a lot more weight? I mean, what if it is a human rights issue? Of course not, that wo
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by benched 12y ago
I like to think of this issue in the most specific terms possible, rather than the most sweeping and abstract. If, for just a moment, you can set aside the bluster, it's just one guy named Brendan having a chance to evaluate whether it
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by benched 12y ago
On a scale of 1 to 5, how strong of an argument do you believe you're making right here? That an individual assuming a position of high leadership being pressured to leave that leadership position, is equivalent enough to people withho
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by benched 12y ago
Aw. And to think, you could have just thanked him!
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by benched 12y ago
"for his political views" In this case, you cannot speak generally like this. In this case, it really matters exactly what those political views are, not just that they are "political". And that's why there was such
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by benched 12y ago
Half of the people in this thread are deeply confused about the relationship between civil rights and popular opinion. The latter is a perception of the former, not the cause or definition.
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by benched 12y ago
I have no idea what you're saying, so I'll just add to my point. Did authority originate as 'the people' purposefully vesting some of their power into one or more leaders, in order to organize society more effectively? O
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by benched 12y ago
The entire concept of authority is inherently suspicious. It's so easy to confuse it for people with advantages using their advantages to enjoy their advantages.
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by benched 12y ago
Eh. I think a lot of this is in your head and can be got over. It sounds nothing at all like my experience.
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by benched 12y ago
It absolutely does have the same status for those who are on the right side of the argument (the one that will certainly be vindicated by history). The people who are in the right don't have to wait until the slow people catch up, in o
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by benched 12y ago
I'm liberal, and I believe society should be as permissive as it can stand to be with regard to behavior, choices, and the kinds of lifestyles we can create. But I'm not an idiot. Abortion is perhaps the only thing you could have
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by benched 12y ago
We're entering a time (finally, I hope) where people don't care why a person is a bigot, or whether they're only a bigot in "private", whatever that means. I can see how this could be problematic as well as you, but
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by benched 12y ago
I found this to be the most interesting page: http://iac.com/about/leadership One group. One dream. To own a bunch of random websites, together. edit: With the help of Chelsea Clinton and Michael Eisner!
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by benched 12y ago
Long time Microsoft and Windows app developer here. I just thought somebody should point out the obvious: that this is not even remotely unusual for a Microsoft app on a Microsoft operating system. You're just describing the normal arc
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by benched 12y ago
If it wasn't for the money, I'd think these guys were just clueless. Billions excuse much.
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by benched 12y ago
Why don't we call television networks advertising companies? Because it isn't a cultural signal for "I am sophisticated" on tech message boards.
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by benched 12y ago
Not in the slightest. You're being highly selective in what you focus on, and deliberately phrasing your description of the situation to spin it that way. You're just short of begging the question.
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by benched 12y ago
I despise UI that gets in my way. It's even worse if it's for my own good.
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by benched 12y ago
I didn't downvote you, but if I had, it would have been because "neuronal activity" seems like a strawman here, and I'm not sure where you got that idea. I would have started with synaptic connections myself.
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by benched 12y ago
In exactly the same way that heroin substitutes for many healthier goal-seeking behaviors in the junkie, Facebook seems to give many of my former friends a social fix, such that they seek other forms of interaction much less now. That inclu
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by benched 12y ago
Pretty awesome policy for a discussion board. I know I'm looking forward to the next 10,000 "citation needed" comments!

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