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by dreww 15y ago
since you're being deliberately obtuse, i'll spell it out for you on his behalf. WILL USERS STILL LIKE IT, WHICH IS WHAT GETS DEVELOPER SUPPORT, NOW THAT IT COSTS MONEY?
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by dreww 15y ago
ask any woman how often she considers her personal safety navigating the world. consider how often you do it.
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by dreww 15y ago
keep telling women what to do because you know better, i'm sure that will end the sexism really fast
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by dreww 15y ago
i guess the advanced high school was so advanced they still had recess...
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by dreww 15y ago
your faith in the police to protect women is almost charmingly naive.
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by dreww 15y ago
the daily life of most women is filled with navigating a hostile space that may break out into sexual violence at any time. having an obsessed troll on the internet following you around, or threatening you before you show up to a conference
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by dreww 15y ago
empathy will fix it. you are illustrative of the problem because you are a) ignorant of what harassment is really like b) apparently unwilling to imagine it and c) BLAMING THE HARASSED
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by dreww 15y ago
TBH i think the email method mentioned up-thread is more awesome, but wtf do i know. you could do that more quickly, it would seem to me.
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by dreww 15y ago
Here you go, Sergey: "You're being a dick."
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by dreww 15y ago
i like the site. i would prefer a more passive indicator, that indicates my status in a less strident tone.
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by dreww 15y ago
i read it as making fun of knee jerk anti-new-language types, as in, all their arguments are pat and repetitive. maybe that's just my perceptual bias, but perhaps also the greater context of hacker news that you point to in your comment. i
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by dreww 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com apparently.
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by dreww 15y ago
"For one, it begs credulity that someone who has filed patent applications dealing with cryptography had never heard of Bitcoin until I asked about it. That would be like a journalist claiming he never heard of Twitter." this is a baseless
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by dreww 15y ago
(IANAL) more than likely, yes. see US vs. auernheimer for a recent example. the complaint is here: http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/fil... The complaint indicates that AT&T's publicly accessible endpoint is a p
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Bit Music | Analysis of 1-liner C Music(256.bz)
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by dreww 15y ago
so... you give it your location? from your cellphone? sounds pretty anonymous.
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by dreww 15y ago
don't you ever question the strange phenomenon of these giant inhuman corporations manipulating us to the point where we choose one as a team, adopting our allegiance to them as an salient feature of our identity? they don't give a fuck abo
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by dreww 15y ago
such a good service - hope the project continues to receive the kind of stewardship it has gotten thus far. if you haven't tried it, you're missing out.
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by dreww 15y ago
have you used either one? because you'd understand why acquiring assistly is more attractive.
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by dreww 15y ago
It's true that OnStar's TOS is awful, but the author leaps to several inflammatory conclusions that, to me, seem unjustified. The most obvious one is when he mentions the boilerplate about a part of OnStar being sold, and then theorizes tha
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by dreww 15y ago
they're both smug - what's confusing to me is why anyone who is not a major shareholder of these enormous corporations has feelings about these relatively boring narratives.
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by dreww 15y ago
MIT - not a school known for its English or Journalism programs.
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by dreww 15y ago
this stack is... interesting. but the real problem, i think, with what he's saying, is that it is basically "i refuse to learn anything new that is not tightly bound to what i already know". it's true that the laughter is unnecessary, and t
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by dreww 15y ago
if groupon is losing money on every customer, adding more customers actually exacerbates the cash flow problem, and every time those customers buy a deal, groupon goes farther in the hole. they use the cash to pay their oldest debts but eve
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by dreww 15y ago
Remember "Dabblers and Blowhards" http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
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by dreww 15y ago
it's increasingly clear that groupon is essentially a ponzi scheme with some graphic design. can't wait for the post mortem documentary a la "the smartest guys in the room".
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by dreww 15y ago
thanks for your response - do you have a link to any data that shows the outcome of holding the basket of goods fixed? i will try to find some as well, just thought you might have some data handy.
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by dreww 15y ago
i don't think you can really make an argument that the GDP graph given in the google link is applicable to what i said. but if you can, i'd be interested to hear it.
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by dreww 15y ago
living standards have improved despite the rich getting richer. Citation needed. Please explain how the living standard in the US can have improved if real wages have fallen. Oh wait, the answer is an incredible increase in consumer debt.
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by dreww 15y ago
check out item no 3. on this list, which is AWS lessons-learned: http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-u... see also: http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-... and: http://techblog.netflix.co

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