throwaway420

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by throwaway420 10y ago
> More than 40 Twitter users sent similar strobes to Mr. Eichenwald after they realized they could trigger seizures, he tweeted Friday. I'm not suggesting that these people shouldn't be charged with some sort of crime, regardle
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by throwaway420 10y ago
A lot of comments about this on Ars Technica are about debating whether flashing lights or an image can ever be an assault or not. I think it probably can be, and examples like "shining a laser into a pilot's eyes" are some t
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by throwaway420 10y ago
a) Red pill? Gamergate? What's that stuff? Certainly nobody should ever google any information and do their own research and make up their own mind. b) You'll notice that in my responses I didn't say that women weren't b
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by throwaway420 10y ago
a) Where did I say that women aren't experiencing harassment on some gaming communities? In fact, I explicitly acknowledged it. Your post is kind of pointless virtue signaling or something. b) I just pointed out that it's just gen
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by throwaway420 10y ago
* Disappointing that the false meme about some gaming communities being hostile to women because they're women was promoted in this article. Some gaming communities are very hostile to newcomers: but it's not because you're a
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Mayer got a multi-hundred million dollar compensation package to sign up with Yahoo and run them into the ground, but somehow the narrative here is that a man is being paid more than a woman?
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by throwaway420 10y ago
You make a valid point about defiance. The Overton window and the timing of ideas is something that I've thought about a great deal and I'm not going to dispute that. The real answer is that like most people I don't have &quo
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Stunning observation, but thanks for proving my point. If my professional identity was on here, I wouldn't feel comfortable saying politically incorrect ideas.
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Sure, out of a population of a billion on Facebook, if even .1% speak their minds that's still a lot of people. That doesn't really negate my point that most people are silenced most of the time. Also, who those people are is impo
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by throwaway420 10y ago
> Without names attached, people’s words become either mean — or meaningless. The complete opposite is true. The true meanlessness in society is the bland echo chamber on places like Facebook where everybody parrots the politically corre
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by throwaway420 10y ago
I wonder if a younger Bill Gates would have supported heavy taxes on his company's computer software that allowed 1 accountant armed with a spreadsheet to displace the jobs of, I don't know, maybe a dozen experienced accountants u
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by throwaway420 10y ago
I find the logic presented in this article to be ridiculous. If markets for healthcare can't exist, why is medical tourism a thing? But enough about that, let's proceed. Yes, if you just got hit by a bus you have no ability to com
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Yeah, less than 24 hours after a video of a woman asking Alexa if it's connected to the CIA goes viral and Alexa refuses to answer, we get a fun, light-hearted PR distraction piece about poop.
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by throwaway420 10y ago
* The article makes some great observations about energy levels. I think you can definitely run a company more productively if employees had more leeway about picking their own hours as long as the job gets done. Anecdotally, I'd get f
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Not a huge fan of outright bans, and think this is probably the wrong priority for India to focus on. (I understand this is just Delhi) Air pollution is huge right now. And sad to say, people pooping in streets and rivers is still a major p
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by throwaway420 10y ago
What does criticizing air pollution have to do with prejudice?
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by throwaway420 10y ago
I honestly don't think he hates anybody but the 10-15 year old audience he has to continue to pander to for years and years on end.
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by throwaway420 10y ago
I think there's fair room for critiques on this implementation and their methodology for selecting priority. If more than a small number of protesters brought up these kinds of rational arguments, I think many on the right would be far
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by throwaway420 10y ago
I read it and I believe your interpretation is false. It DOES NOT allow minority religions in while excluding the rest. It does instructs the applicable departments to simply prioritize people facing religious persecution. Prioritizing peop
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by throwaway420 10y ago
How is this bringing people together? The email advertising this movement repeated false claims about the government banning people on the basis of religion. Spreading hysteria and fear and inaccurate facts is not the way to win the argumen
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Interesting that the executive order doesn't block anybody on the basis of religion, yet they continue to repeat this false claim.
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Were you applying at large companies or smaller startups?
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by throwaway420 10y ago
a) 5-6 years ago, devs loved them and were building all kinds of creative software on top of their platform. Twitter got too greedy and wanted to have it all and squashed that. Don't know if they can somehow get devs to trust them agai
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Thanks for your thoughtful response and attempt to provide logic and reason. I respect that. Just to quickly reply to some of this though. > both you and the media would need to possess the truth. Since that is clearly not the case, you
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Most sites probably should move to https, and it is easier to do it these days. However, not all sites would technically need this. If you have a small blog for instance where you want to show off a few pics of your garden or baking or some
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by throwaway420 10y ago
That last sentence wasn't too precisely worded so I can understand your response...but when I said "so many voices here" I was more thinking about the media entities who were so adamant that there's nothing to see here t
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Supposedly, somebody filed a FOIA request to get info on the DC police's investigation into these allegations and despite previously saying that their investigation hasn't yielded any proof of a crime, it turns out that the police
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by throwaway420 10y ago
> It's good to see this analysed This article is just a great description of the network of people discussing the idea, not an an actual analysis of this theory in light of Merkel's actions. We can't know what the intentio
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by throwaway420 10y ago
We can't know for certain what's going on there, but you will notice that some people are desperate to declare that this has been "debunked" without there being any sort of investigation.
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Is she deliberately trying to "Hitlerize Europe" or is she just somebody whose heart is in the right place but repeatedly making poor policy choices? Regardless, she's running Europe into the ground. We can't know what M

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