vajorie

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by vajorie 12y ago
How come no one even bothered to remove his full address and ssn from the records?.. On the other hand, even the very names of people who approved and drafted the documents are removed.
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by vajorie 12y ago
This is a good read and the ideas in its background apply to a number of issues, one of which being the perceived helplessness you have mentioned. http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/WarZoneChaptIIIE.htm... Fo
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Ask HN: Where to look for non-profit jobs?
8 points by vajorie 12y ago|8 comments
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by vajorie 12y ago
> BECAUSE you have government sticking its nose where it shouldn't (I'd say, it shouldn't stick its nose anywhere, but that's another story). Comcast is the second largest lobbyist in Washington. Your argument, even t
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by vajorie 12y ago
Gotta adore the whitewashing priorities.
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by vajorie 12y ago
Psst, > It also records details about visits to a popular internet journal for Linux operating system users called "the Linux Journal - the Original Magazine of the Linux Community", and calls it an "extremist forum".
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by vajorie 12y ago
> These sexual harassment cases do more to hurt women than help them IMHO. It reinforces the viewpoint that women are seen as a liability. Let me translate what you just said: if someone harasses you at your workplace and elsewhere, an
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by vajorie 12y ago
> Functionally, laws don’t matter here. Their existence, and their content, are not predictive of the NSA’s behavior. Rate this comment irrelevant. Not new and definitely not a reason for inaction.
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by vajorie 12y ago
> The only place I have encountered any willingness to set aside a conspiracy of wide-spread, omnipresent male power that ruthlessly exploits female powerlessness is the Men’s Rights Movement. The author should think about taking some cl
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by vajorie 12y ago
> The H1Bs aren't being hired by A-list companies. H1B is a type of visa, it cannot be hired. > They're getting hired by old, slow, cheap, mostly non-tech corporations who won't compete on either quality of work or wage
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by vajorie 12y ago
Yes, race and ethnicity are socially constructed and are fluid. No, however much you try to whitewash it, 70-30-3-4-5 is as shitty as it gets outside of legalized segregation.
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by vajorie 12y ago
Who was that guy with that bigass beard was? You know, the one everyone in tech takes lightly and treats as the butt of the joke? He keeps owning your asses as you keep ignoring him. The one who advocates open hardware. You know.
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by vajorie 12y ago
> I cringe every time something vaguely related to feminism or gender equality is posted here. I'm not sure if I should flag it or not, though. Sarcasm? I mean, you just said you can't tolerate anything related to gender equali
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by vajorie 12y ago
Nope it wasn't. Cute political commentary on experiments on animals though.
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by vajorie 12y ago
I simply hate editing Wikipedia articles. Too many restrictions, too many rules, too much bureaucracy to go around if someone doesn't like your edits. I detest doing substantive contributions. Too much control and too much conservatism
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by vajorie 12y ago
> What if it crashes into me? First world problems. Literally.
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by vajorie 12y ago
Awww, it's okay boy, you'll survive even if gender is not fixed the way you thought it were and even if your gender becomes irrelevant.
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by vajorie 12y ago
Hmm, so, not a single comment about how absolutely none of the issues raised by @nrrrdcore are addressed by neither github (whitewashing it all) nor these folk (one of which threatened everyone who questions him with a lawsuit). And none of
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by vajorie 12y ago
... and didn't harass the employee.
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GitHub sexism investigation failing(twitter.com)
10 points by vajorie 12y ago|0 comments
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by vajorie 12y ago
By either compiling & installing it with -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS or waiting for the security fix to be backported by ubuntu devs. http://heartbleed.com/
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by vajorie 12y ago
> the tech community proved itself remarkably intolerant this week when it forced the . Are.. you.. kidding.. me?... A - I think lgbti I employ should not be allowed the same rights as my other employees B - We want equal treatment under
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by vajorie 12y ago
> I have a family to take care of so losing my job would be a pretty big deal. I wonder how you'd feel if your company hired a CEO who would want to take away your spouse's benefits because [insert arbitrary reason here]. There
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by vajorie 12y ago
seems u listened the first part. also, seriously, learn critical thinking.
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by vajorie 12y ago
I think you all need to check this informative link out: https://medium.com/technology-and-society/cb596ce5f27 ["Everyone Is Getting Turkey’s Twitter Block Wrong Turkey isn’t trying to be North Korea, China or Ira
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by vajorie 13y ago
We seem to keep finding ways to fuck up the earth for pretty useless and unnecessary reasons. I lol'd at our obvious dumbassness.
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by vajorie 13y ago
I changed my email address at my bank. They still send emails to my old address (and to my new address). They have no idea why and how. I'm pretty sure this kind of "thing" will happen to many others, with the difference that
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by vajorie 13y ago
The link OP has posted has nothing to do with the HN headline s/he used.
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by vajorie 17y ago
thinking is a doing as well?
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by vajorie 17y ago
allow reader to upvote while reading the item in the same window the item is opened...

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