shakingmyhead

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   by shakingmyhead 4y ago

   It’s not your work unless it’s identical is not how existing copyright law works so not sure why it would be how these things should be treated. Not to mention that moving around copies of the dataset itself is itself making copies that ARE
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   by shakingmyhead 6y ago

   I think his principled stance that his contributions to an open source project have to include holocaust jokes is not very compelling or principled.
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   by shakingmyhead 6y ago

   I suspect he doesn't want to face the fact that it was maybe a bad idea in the first place. It's hard to own up to mistakes. I've been there.
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   by shakingmyhead 6y ago

   It's where you claimed you couldn't remove it because then people would make more demands of you. That's the gutless part. Hiding behind a hypothetical. Glad I could clear it up. Also this is my first hacker news account not
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   by shakingmyhead 6y ago

   except you aren't being asked to remove everything that offends anyone, you are specifically being asked to remove this one instance of holocaust imagery. You are hiding behind a slippery slope fallacy to avoid doing this. You can remo