throwawaymaroon

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by throwawaymaroon 4y ago
This sounds like the kind of thing you say when you are annoyed but cant find a good argument against the points being made.
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by throwawaymaroon 9y ago
The status quo justifies the status quo, said every market leader ever.
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by throwawaymaroon 9y ago
A bigger concern for me is the grating cheerfulness in what is a very critical article. Don't pretend you're not fighting fire with fire with this article. You're mad and you're showing it. When you say stuff like... &
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by throwawaymaroon 10y ago
as a leftist... I can only feel the left is fucked. on the other hand, I am arguing in a thread that contains that complete altrightgarbletwat banned below. on the other other hand, your aggrieved-on-behalf-of-my-lady-friends stance is just
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by throwawaymaroon 10y ago
yich. pointing out that we're an audience without legal standing, playing with pitchforks, is not harassment or condoning harassment.
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by throwawaymaroon 10y ago
That's a terrible example. Remember Google+ accounts and Youtube?
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by throwawaymaroon 10y ago
you know, I've come to like you dang. I still detest this place and everything it stands for, but seeing you chipper (if somewhat resentful about having to be chipper) towards the kind of problems that come with your job has a way of
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by throwawaymaroon 10y ago
I wouldn't describe myself as a dang fan, but egotistic? Sure, he's just a low-ranking enforcer used to shield YC from criticism, but he's just doing his job. It's not exactly his fault, as a pawn, if the overall syste
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
It would be more accurate and insightful, I think, to note that psychiatry is the attempt at a verified track record. It's not so much that it is the only game in town as it is the result of recording our attempts in a coherent fash
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
I don't think it's particular to the tech crowd, and I think it's a stumbling block even for psychiatry. The problem is that psychiatry as practiced is an attempt to solve people, and people can't be solved; or if they
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
It's pretty simple: focus on the flaws of the EFF instead of the problems the EFF points out. If you want to be against the establishment, you have to be perfect in pedigree, politics, and poise. Your arguments must not only be factu
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
The point is that you've put the criticism on the person in the situation (Snowden) instead of the people/system that created the situation. There isn't any perfect way, in the eyes of the state, to deal with a police state
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
Expressing an opinion on how protestors can best conduct themselves to accomplish their political goals does not indicate a disruption of my social ideas.
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
... until the connection pool is misconfigured or something and the writes can't get in. Touching mission critical things always has risk and those risks have to be mitigated at a political level. If the programmer is this bad at resp
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
Guide to your equity: you should assume your equity is worthless just out of the nature of startup risk. Even if it ends up being worth something, you should assume that your employer will do everything they legally can to dilute or otherwi
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
This is a straightforward way of saying the problem people have here isn't with Reddit, but with humanity.
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
There's no point pretending tech as a whole is somehow holier than government here. If only there were a similar plan for Google or Facebook.
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
How will I know if my comments have successfully been vouched for?
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
Oftentimes racism or sexism topics aren't flagged off the homepage, but subject to decreasing rank based on comment activity. Lots of comments -> likely flame wars, or so the argument goes. Vouching won't change how those topi
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
Sorry this took so long. I was rate-limited and still rate-limited before I went to sleep. >What do you find offensive about being reasonable with those you disagree with? To start, here it feels like you're trying to put words in
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
You understand that not everyone can blur between words the way you do, right? It's not something they teach people; I'm out of practice. So yes, everyone here is focused on money and not beauty and definitely not poetry. This
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
You just keep talking at him. You don't seem to understand that he's winning . Everything you're saying just slides off him. He's stated his position and believes it's confirmed by how he's been downvoted
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
The flaw in yours is that a community without poison isn't worth having (and probably doesn't exist anyway). And nothing makes people happier than seeing poison dissolved amicably, right? In fact, from a certain point of view poi
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
You're not going to get anywhere by throwing discussion questions at him like this is a school exercise. You missed his point and he's gone. Edit: Oh, don't mind me, I'm just dwelling on how you seem to be in some starry
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
We are actually very close to agreement here. I agree, it is an accusatory question. Do you see how you've reduced the relevance of Sam's motivations to whether or not discussion of them is well grounded? I'm simply saying t
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
Online discussion simply isn't the same as being in a room with someone, or more precisely, it's a type of 'room' all its own. We're not being introduced to each other by mutual acquaintances who then have to get al
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
In other words, it's a policy with no teeth, a simple admonishment? I mean, I don't disagree: I think this changes absolutely nothing. If anything it's a renewal of the old guidelines, not an addition to them. I suppose I th
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
I hope it helps to remember that this is a non-topic: it's not going to change anything, and so this thread is almost a ritual, about making appearances, saying our piece, and moving on. Gotta love community-as-immanent-voice maintena
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
This is a sensible policy only until you have to define what is and isn't substantive. Since "substantive" tends to evaluate to "it changed my mind or I don't believe it to be completely wrong," it becomes a su
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by throwawaymaroon 11y ago
What the heck is a fluidic writer doing in this haunt of logic? Wonderful to stumble across your ologies; keep churning, spurning, turning the logos as you see fit, my friend.

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