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by hbags 13y ago
You owe Merritt an apology No way. Meritt clearly attempted to shame her for writing about something that, for whatever reason, she didn't confront immediately. He's a censor. He's shaming her for protesting outside his de
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by hbags 13y ago
No. what Merritt said that if you don't say something right there and then you should never be allowed to say anything. He's an asshole and a bully. If a victim doesn't protest withim his designated free-speech zone he does
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by hbags 13y ago
I'm not dumb enough to try to change the stripes on a proudly bigoted jerk like Meritt. I just want anybody who sees his spew to know that his opinion is not the only one. I want any human who is harassed to know that if they share th
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by hbags 13y ago
Meritt absolutely made blaming statements. Even the most charitable reading of his post is him complaining that she decided to make clickbait. He tried to shame her and degrade her for having shared her story instead of doing something els
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by hbags 13y ago
I think it's absolutely disgusting that you criticize the victim for documenting what happened to her. It's despicable and downright fucking evil that you basically accuse her of sharing her story solely because she wants attentio
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by hbags 13y ago
I sincerely doubt that a company as unethical to the bones as Uber would ever consider firing them.
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by hbags 13y ago
Has it ever occurred to you that maybe you lack empathy for the challenges faced by women in Silicon Valley because you're a white male whose local culture is globally famous for being tolerant and inclusive? You haven't experienc
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by hbags 13y ago
I've been involved with several country/region specific immigrant entrepreneur conferences. For example, the famous video of Guy Kawasaki speaking about the Art of the Start was filmed at TiECon, which is run by The Indus Entrepre
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by hbags 13y ago
Such a simulation would reveal a lot about the creator's beliefs, and essentially nothing about reality.
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by hbags 13y ago
"The company uses more than uses more than 10,000 physical servers to manage user content, along with Amazon Web Services." source: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/10/23/how-d..
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by hbags 13y ago
why don't you move to a more reliable hosting, like AWS? As a fairly heavy ($x00,000/month) user of AWS, this is the funnniest and most-misguided thing I've read in a long time. AWS is horrible . It's extraordinaril
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by hbags 13y ago
DRM is not slavery.
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by hbags 13y ago
> you should not be okay with DRM. It's as simple as it's: DRM is the form of slavery. Sorry Ivan, but voluntarily agreeing to access encrypted content is not comparable to slavery.
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by hbags 13y ago
There's a difference between using legal tax structures to reduce (or eliminate) your bill, and simply not paying your taxes.
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by hbags 13y ago
I've heard of other scenarios where the government prevented competition, but they nearly all boil down to the same core: the constituents want X, but some sort of market failure is occurring (or likely to occur) and a temporary market
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by hbags 13y ago
"Is anybody else genuinely annoyed that sites such as angel.co use these as legitimising signals of worthiness?" Absolutely. AngelList is all about institutional brands, and that's kind of sad. Teams are summarized by where
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by hbags 13y ago
The government regulations aren't there to create or protect monopolies. They're there to control monopolies that were likely to occur anyway, so that the monopolists can't use their position in an overly extractive manner.
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by hbags 13y ago
I strongly suggest that if you're going to espouse these opinions, you do some math first. In this case, I suggest you model rural America's density, and the cost to lay down a wire, or fiber, or whatever in a town, along with all
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by hbags 13y ago
For future reference: there is a small downward facing arrow that can succinctly express your opinion.
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by hbags 13y ago
Can't we both agree that corporations and governments abuse their power as a matter of fact? All people and institutions that have power sometimes abuse the power. Sometimes the abuse is knowing, sometimes it's accidental. This
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by hbags 13y ago
Absolutely. Corporations do nothing but good. They bear no responsibility for their purposeful misuse of the funds. And government does nothing but bad. Swear on your stack of Ayn Rand books that the world would be better if we had more c
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by hbags 13y ago
There's an over proliferation of all conferences, and this includes niche conferences. The answer to her headline question appears to deviate from Betteridge's law, in that she concludes that some of the initiatives help women.
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by hbags 13y ago
Punditry is not journalism. Journalism is not punditry. That said, I find it morally repugnant that 001sky seems to want to quash the right of either to engage in public speech, simply because said speech calls some entrepreneur's cre
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by hbags 13y ago
If the companies didn't want you to do this, then they wouldn't let you do this. They do not want you to do this. What your friend did is considered to be a form of return fraud and abuse. The industry term for it is 'war
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by hbags 13y ago
Every Libertarian I've ever met believes in contract law, and that essentially ANY penalty can be attached to willful violations of contract. Under a Libertarian regime, the whole thing would've been simpler, as no theory of justi
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by hbags 13y ago
If I'm understanding that correctly, every node would experience peak traffic of around 50mbps, and constant traffic of at least 10mpbs. It's not clear to me what happens when you have nodes that lag (and that would certainly be
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by hbags 13y ago
I'm such a person. I've been active with BTC, I've mined and traded (both to a nice personal profit), but I think BTC is a loser. I invested in BTC the same way I invested in one-hit wonders like Zynga: very temporarily. Pe
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by hbags 13y ago
Yes! The point could've been made honestly, but Thiel used several different 'how to lie with charts and statistics' techniques instead. My respect for people naturally declines when they've gone out of their way to dec
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by hbags 13y ago
The PreCheck program isn't just a fee; it's a rather thorough background check. And being approved for it doesn't actually guarantee lower scrutiny, as PreCheck'd travelers remain eligible for the random high-security s
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by hbags 13y ago
It probably depends on whether you believe guns are more likely to create liberty or destroy it. There are some very reasonable arguments that guns destroy more liberty than they create, and thus it is liberal to be against tools that make

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